Asian Games 2023 Results & Highlights From October 3: Annu Rani, Parul Chaudhary win gold medals, Tejaswin Shankar wins Silver in decathlon, Mohammed Afsal wins 800m Silver, Praveen Chithravel clinches triple jump bronze

Asian Games 2023: India Medals on October 3

That's all from our Live coverage as India bagged plenty of medals today, including a couple of gold medals from women athletes. Annu Rani and Parul Chaudhary winning yellow metals on October 3 has taken India's tally to 69, including 15 gold. Tejaswin Shankar and Mohammad Afsal clinched silver for India. While Praveen Chitharavel, boxers Preeti and Narender won bronze medals. The day started for India with a bronze medal in canoeing. We will return again tomorrow expecting more such spectacular performances, good night till then!

Men's Triple Jump Final

Official Result of Men's Triple Jump Final is here.

MEDAL ALERT! Boxing: Narender loses in Men's +92kg semis, settles for bronze

Heavyweight boxer Narender lost his bout against Kazkhstan's Kamshybek Kunkabayev by unanimous verdict. He takes the bronze medal for reaching the semis!

GOLD MEDAL ALERT! Women's 5000m Final

Parul Chaudhary takes the gold medal with a timing of 15:14.75 seconds in the Women's 5000m final! Compatriot Ankita clocks a personal best of 15:33.03 to take the 5th spot. This is Parul's second medal at the Asian Games 2023 as she won a silver medal in her forte 3000m steeplechase yesterday.

GOLD MEDAL ALERT!

Annu Rani clinches the gold medal with a throw of 62.92m! A much-needed success for the national record holder after a season full of struggles!

Annu Rani delivers when it matters the most!

A 62.92m throw and the Indian national record sits top of the chart! She is now ahead of the two Chinese by a distance of more than a metre. That's certainly the season best by Annu Rani, who crosses 60m-mark for the first time this season. One round to go, will any of the Chinese athletes replace her at the top?

Asian Games: Men's Decathlon Medal Alert

Tejaswin Shankar finished fourth in the 1500m race but he bagged a total of 7666 points to win a silver medal and also broke the previous nation record of 7658 points in the discipline. China's Sun Qihao gets the yellow metal.

Asian Games Triple Jump Men's: Bronze Medal for India

Medal Alert! Praveen Chithravel (16.68m) wins bronze medal for India in men's triple jump.

MEDAL ALERT!

Mohammed Afsal wins a silver medal in the men's 800m final! The timings are yet to be revealed

Men's Triple Jump Final

Praveen Chithravel (16.68m) and Abdullah Aboobacker (16.62) continue to third and fourth respectively after their four rounds. Two more rounds left for them to challenge the two Chinese at the front!

Women's Javelin Throw Final

Annu Ranni will be aiming for her second medal at the Asian Games 2023 since winning the bronze in 2014 Incheon. The Indian national record holder, however, is yet to cross the 60m-mark this season while China Liu Shiying will aim for the gold medal as the top performer from the continent so far this seaosn while Asian Champion Marina Sato is also in the fray!

Boxing: Men's 57kg Quarterfinal

Sachin loses to China's Lyun Ping by a split verdict (1:4) in the Men's 57kg quarterfinals and exits the medal run! Narender to compete next in the +92kg semifinals at 6:30 PM IST!

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Men's Decathlon Standings after Round 9

Tejaswin Shankar remains in 2nd place while Qihao opens up a 289 points-gap at front! Looks like Tejaswin Shankar will have to settle for a silver medal at the Asian Games 2023. All he has to do now finish ahead or as much as close possible to Yuma Maruyama in the round 10. Maruyama is 117 points behind the Indian at the third place. The last round -- 1500m -- will take place at 6:10 PM IST!

Men's Decathlon: Tejaswin Shankar finishes 5th in javelin

The Round 9 didn't go well for Tejaswin Shankar, who could only throw a 51.17m while China's Sun Qihao with 804 points as he threw a personal best of 64.41m. Men's Decathlon standings after Round 9 is up next!

Abdullah Aboobacker improves to 16.62

Abdullah Aboobacker improves to a decent 16.62 in his second attempt but followed it with a foul of his third. Meanwhile, China's Zhu Yaming has set the bar higher at 17.13m, which is also the first big jump of the night! Chithravel is holding the bronze medal spot at 16.68m, 16.62m of his two attempts

Asian Games 2023 Men's 400m Final Results

No medals from the event as Yashash P clocks a 49.39 seconds (0.02 slower than his personal best) to take the 5th spot in a photo finish with compatriot Santhosh Kumar, who clocked a 49.41 to finish 6th!

Athletics: Men's 400m hurdles Final

Two Indians in the fray as Santhosh Kumar T and Yashash P, who have been fighting tooth and nail in the domestic circuit throughout the season and take their rivalry international at the Asian Games 2023! Both of them did well during the heats

Praveen Chithravel starts at 16.68m!

That's a decent start by the Indian while China's Zhu Yaming has set the standard for the day at 16.94m!

Vithya Ramraj clinches bronze medal!

Vithya Ramraj clocks a 55.68 seconds to take the bronze medal but the national record jointly remains with PT Usha and hers at 55.42 seconds! Meanwhile, Kemi Adekoya takes the gold medal with a timing of 54.45, which is a new Asian Games Record!

Athletics: Women's 400m hurdles final!

It's the big final as all eyes are on Vithya Ramraj, who is on the brink of making PT Usha's national record all hers! We will keep an eye on the timing, it needs to be less than 55.42 seconds! Hot favourite for the gold medal though is Kemdi Adekoya, who will be looking to clock a sub-53 timing! The race is about to start!

Triple Jump: Abdullah Aboobacker starts with a modest jump

Abdullah couldn't generate enough power from the skip and could only jumps 15.39m in his first attempt. Not happy with his effort either but points out that he lost his footing during the skip!

Men's Triple Jump final

Men's triple jump final is all set to get underway as well with two Indian in fray! CWG silver medallist Abdullah Aboobacker and national record holder Praveen Chithtravel. Chithravel recorded his best earlier this year at 17.37m while Abdullah is yet to go past the 17m-mark this year as he struggled with injuries

Athletics: Women's High Jump

Rubina Yadav is among the jumpers to start with the lowest height of 1.65m and she clears the height in her first attempt, followed by a 1.70m! Her personal best is 1.81m.

Asian Games 2023 Athletics: Women's High Jump Final

16-year-old Pooja and Rubina Yadav compete for medals and will be facing stiff challenge from Kristina Ovchinnikova, Svetlana Radzivil, Nadezhda Dubovitskaya! Men's decathlon to also get underway shortly as Tejaswin Shankar will compete in the Round 9, which is javelin throw

MEDAL ALERT Squash: Saurav Ghosal through to semis, assures bronze at least

A masterclass by the Indian veteran as he closes the third game 11-3 to take the match 3-0 against Yungyu Lee. He assures the bronze medal at least but Saurav Ghosal is here for the gold! Final score: 11-5, 12-10, 11-3

Sourav Ghosal opens up big lead in third game

The India's World No. 15 is in mood to kill this game early as he pulls up a 7-0 lead! It's the forehand of Sourav that is leaving no chance for Tsukue!

Squash: Sourav Ghosal takes 2-0 lead

Sourav Ghosal takes the second game 12-10 after Tsukue showed a fight by saving two game points! Sourav needs another game to reach the semifinals!

Squash: Sourav Ghosal takes first game

Sourav Ghosal returned to the court to take the first game comfortably and pulled up a gap in the second as well against Yungyu Lee, who rallied to level the score at 7-7!

Squash update

Saurav Ghosal opens up a lead of 7-3 in the opening game. The game has been halted momentarily as the Indian is taking a medical break after hurting his knee in a fall

Asian Games 2023 Squash: Saurav Ghosal vs Ryunosuke Tsukue

World No. 15 Saurav Ghosal is on the court already and has a slender lead of 3-2 in the opening game against his inferior-ranked Japanese rival!