Page 27 - Sports

Our Rowers have done it again: Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur

Anurag Thakur took to his official X account and showered praise on Satnam Singh, Parminder Singh, Sukhmeet Singh, and Jakar Khan who were a part of India's Men's Quadruple Sculls team

Asian Games: 'A proud moment', says Shooter Tomar on his double-win

Aishwary was part of the Indian team which won a gold at the Men's 10 Metre Air Rifle Team event earlier today and he also notched a bronze medal in the individual event of the same category

Asian Games: Sidhu finishes fourth in 25m rapid fire pistol shooting event

The Indian rapid-fire pistol shooting trio of Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu and Adarsh Singh secured a bronze medal in the 25m rapid-fire pistol team men's event

Asian Games 2023: Indian rowers clinch another bronze, total tally at 4

Indian rowers Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar and Ashish Goliyan bagged a bronze in men's fours event at the Asian Games here on Monday. Lying fourth in the final 500metre of the 2000m race, the quartet showed superb coordination to finish third with 6:10.81s, and was pipped by China (6:10.04) by a fraction of seconds. Uzbekistan took the top spot in the podium with a timing of 6:04.96. Indian rower Balraj Panwar however missed out on a maiden Asian Games podium, finishing fourth in the men's single sculls. The 24-year-old from Karnal, who was among the top-three at the 1500-mark, faltered in the final 500m to slip to fourth place with a timing of 7:08.79s. He finished less than nine seconds behind Hong Kong's Hin Chun Chiu who took the bronze medal (7:00.55). China's Liang Zang secured the gold with 6:57.06, while Japan's Ryuta Arakawa (6:59.79) and Hong Kong's Hin Chun Chiu finished with silver and bronze respectively. With this Indian rowers have two silver and four

Asian Games: Indian 10m air rifle team wins gold with world record score

The Indian men's 10m air rifle team shot down gold with a world record score on the second day of shooting competition at the Asian Games here on Monday. The team of world champion Rudrankksh Patil, Olympian Divyansh Panwar and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar aggregated 1893.7 in the qualification round to better the world record of 1893.3 set by the Chinese set less than a month back at the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. Rudrankksh shot 632.5, Tomar 631.6 and Panwar 629.6 to aggregate the world record score. South Korea clinched the silver with an aggregate of 1890.1, while China won the bronze with a score of 1888.2.

Jay Shah lauds women's cricket team for winning gold at Asian Games

Smriti Mandhana (46) and Jemimah Rodrigues (42) played valuable knocks for India and Rajeshwari Gayakwad and Devika Vaidya also contributed with wickets apart from the quality spell of Titas Sadhu

Obtained primary goal: Stimac on reaching football round 16 in Asian Games

Stimac took to X and mentioned that the players slept in airports and then completed recovery sessions at a park in China before taking part in the event

Virat one of greats, no chance of stealing number 3 spot from him: Iyer

India outplayed Australia with both bat and ball to clinch the three-match ODI series 2-0 after winning the second match by 99 runs through the Duckworth-Lew-Lew-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method

India heading to ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 as number one ODI side

India is placed at the top spot with 117 rating points, while Pakistan sit at second with 115 rating points. Australia, on the other hand, slipped further and is third with 110 points

Asian Games women's cricket: India vs Sri Lanka Gold medal game at 11:30 am

Sri Lanka deny yet another India vs Pakistan final as the women's team beat Pakistan women's cricket team in the semifinal of Asian Games 2023 to set up summit clash with India

Indian women go down to Thailand 0-1, fail to enter knockout stage

The Indian women's football team failed to qualify for the knockout stage of the Asian Games after their 0-1 defeat to Thailand here on Sunday. Indian side fought bravely but a 52nd minute goal from Thongrong Parichat helped Thailand to emerge winner in their Group B match. India had lost their Asian Games opener to Chinese Taipei 1-2. The defeat against Thailand also ended their chances of finishing among the three second placed teams, who will enter the knockouts along with five top-ranked sides, from five groups. But India made a composed start to the match and even looked the better side, creating a series of chances. Anju Tamang came up with the first promising move for the Indians in the 11th minute from the right flank before her low cross was intercepted. Five minutes later, Manisha Kalyan too created a couple of chances in the company of Bala Devi and Dangmei Grace, but they failed to yield any result. In the 25th minute, Manisha saw her shot getting blocked by the Thai

Indian fencer Taniksha Khatri goes down in QF, misses medal narrowly

India narrowly missed out on a medal in Asian Games fencing when Taniksha Khatri lost to world No 2 Man Wai Vivian Kong of Hong Kong 7-15 in individual epee quarterfinal here on Sunday. Khatri, who won her three pool matches to qualify for the knockout round, had seven touches but her opponent was superior and sealed the issue to make the semifinals. A quarterfinal win would have guaranteed at least a bronze medal for the Indian who out-performed her teammate Ena Arora by just four points (15-11) in the round of 32. Khatri then prevailed over Uzbekistan's Shakhzoda Egamberdieva 15-10. Earlier in the pool matches, Khatri defeated Ivy Claire Dinoy of Philippines (5-1), Zolboo Ochirkhuyag of Mongolia (5-0) and Yemen's Samah Abdullah Musleh Alshami 5-1. Her only two losses were to Singapore's Elle Meihui Koh (15) and South Korea's Sera Song 35. The knock-outs have three rounds of three-minute each and the fencer who completes 15 touches is adjudged the winner. The pool matches on th

India play out 1-1 draw with Myanmar, enter round of 16 in men''s football

Riding on a Sunil Chhetri strike, the Indian men's football team held Myanmar to a 1-1 draw and progressed to the round of 16 in the Asian Games here on Sunday. They will play Saudi Arabia in the pre-quarters. Chhetri scored from the spot in the 23rd minute but it was Rahim Ali who earned the penalty when he was brought down inside the box by Hein Zeyar Lin. While Lin was shown a yellow card for his sliding tackle, the peerless Chhetri made no mistake in finding the back of the net, in what was a repeat of the act he performed against Bangladesh in the second group game two days ago. Coming off the bench, Kyaw Htwe found the equaliser for Myanmar when he headed the ball past Dheeraj Singh in the 74th minute at the Xiaoshan Sports Center Stadium. However, despite the two teams having same points, India progressed as the runner-up from Group A, as the Chhetri-led side has scored more goals than Myanmar in the tournament. All in all, it was a creditable performance from the Indians

Asian Games: Nikhat Zareen moves to next round in women's 50kg category

Zareen outplayed Nguyen in all the rounds. She did not give Nguyen a chance to fight back. Zareen dominated the game and won 5-0 in the Round of 32

Asian Games: India chess team shines in round 1 of Chess tournament

In the Men's round, Santosh beat Bangladesh's Rahman Mohammad Fahad by 1-0. On the other hand, Arjun defeated the Philippines' Bersamina Paulo by 1-0

Esports at Asian Games 2023: Who are India's medal hopes at Hangzhou?

Esports makes its debut at the Asian Games as a medal sport after being played as a demonstration sport in the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang

They have made our nation proud: Amit Shah hails India's shooting trio

India kicked off the Asian Games on a sparkling note as the trio helped India to claim their first medal. Shah heaped praise on the shooters by saying that they have made the entire nation proud

Asian Games 2023, Women's cricket: India in final, secure at least a Silver

Right-arm seamer Vastrakar had career-best figures of 4/17 in four overs as Bangladesh were bowled out for 51 in 17.5 overs -- their lowest-ever T20 score against the neighbours.

Asian Games: Nataraj misses medal, finishes 6th in 100m backstroke final

Nataraj on the back of his fine performance reached the men's 100m backstroke final earlier in the day. He recorded his season-best time of 54.71

Want to give my heart to the fans": Bezzecchi on winning MotoGP Bharat

Bezzecchi, however, regained his top spot. First, he overtook Bagnaia to claim second place and then raced into the lead when an error at Turn 4 sent Martin wide, as per the MotoGP release