Asian Games 2023 Highlights, October 5: India's medal surge at the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou will enter the 12th day with a focus on wrestling, and archery events among other sports disciplines.


That's all from our Live coverage as India ends the day with three gold medals, a silver and a bronze! Archers brought two of those gold in the team events of compound archery while Dipika Pallikal/Harinderpal Singh Sandhu became the first mixed doubles squash pair to win an Asian Games gold medal. We call it a night on that note, goodbye for now!

The Indian duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeat Singapore's Nge Joo Jie/Prajogo Johann 21-7, 21-9 to reach the semifinals. The pair confirms a bronze at least with the win! That was the last of action from Hangzhou for Day 12!

The Indian pair is making light work of the Singapore again in the second game as it's clear from the Johann/Joo Jie's body language that Satwik/Chirag has got under their skin

The Indian duo closes the first game in 12 minutes as they identified not too comfortable in dealing with smashes and attacked him more to kill the game. The Singapore duo is mostly busy defending

Brutal by the World No. 3 pair as they are schooling the young Singapore duo with barrage of forehand winners

The Indian pair is in a hurry to runaway with this match as the duo are keeping the point short with smashes aplenty!

The match is about to start and the Singapore pair will serve first!
Satwik-Chirag's Men's Doubles Quarterfinal is all set to begin as the women's singles quarterfinal match earlier on Court 2 just got over! It's the World No. 3 vs Singapore's Nge Joo Jie/Prajogo Johann, who are ranked outside top 100!

With no medal rounds left in play for the Indians on Day 12, we take a look at the medal tally for the day! India have bagged 85 medals so far and inching closer to the century! Don't go anywhere as World No. 3 pair Sat-Chi is yet to play the quarterfinal match. With PV Sindhu out, Satwik-Chirag are the safest bet to Gold Medal

That was a quick defeat for Mansi as Uzbekistan's Laylokhon Sobirova pins both of Mansi's shoulders to the mat to end the bout in the first round itself! No medal from Women's 57kg category for India!
The Bronze medal match of Women's 57kg category gets underway!

The Men's Doubles quarterfinal match between India's Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty and Singapore's Nge Joo Jie/Prajogo Johann is yet to come. The match will be played on Court 2 of the Badminton arena, which has two matches yet to be played before the Indian match!

7-time Asian Games champions India progress to the semifinals as group toppers (four wins in four games) as they defeated Japan by a big margin of 56-30. They next face Pakistan in the semifinal tomorrow at 12:30 PM IST

That's India's last medal match in wrestling! The former U-23 Asian Champion is in the hunt for her first major international senior medal as she squares off with Uzbekistan's Laylokhon Sobirova in the Women's 57kg

Antim Panghal beats Tokyo Olympics medallist Bolortuya Bat-Ochir 3-1 in the bronze medal match to clinch her maiden Asian Games medal. The medal comes after the controversy of wrestling selection, which saw her sidelined at first for decorated wrestler Vinesh Phogat following the WFI-wrestlers fallout! Antim took the Court's help to reach here before Vinesh ruled herself out with an injury! That's a long journey for the the youngster to the Asian Games 2023 bronze!

Batt-ochir was penalised for passivity after she failed to pick a point following the caution while Antim pinned her late before the hooter to take further two points!
The bout gets underway, it's a six-minute match with two rounds of 3 minutes each with a half minute break!

It's a tough bronze medal match for Antim Panghal in the Women's 53kg category as she takes on Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Bolortuya Bat-Ochir of Mongolia!

Saurav Ghosal settles for a silver medal as he loses the gold medal match to Eain Yow Ng 11-9, 9-11, 5-11, 7-11 in the Men's Individual Final!

The Malaysian wins the third game against Saurav Ghosal 11-5 to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five match! Pressure on Saurav as he can't afford to lose the next game! Score so far: 11-9, 9-11, 5-11
Saurav Ghosal engaged in rallies with Eain Yow but the Malaysian has gained confidence and is taking charge of the long affairs soon to kill the points!

The Malaysian takes the second game 11-9 as Eain Yow didn't allow Saurav a look in after the Indian rallied to level the game at 9-9! Clever backhand returns do the trick for him
Saurav Ghosal managed to open up a three-point gap at 6-3 and was looking to go further ahead with quick points but Eain Yow responds well to reduce the deficit!

Greco Roman wrestler Naveen loses the bronze medal match to South Korea's Minseok Kim 1-5 in the 130kg category. MATCHES UP NEXT: (BOUT 8) Women's 50kg category: Pooja Gehlot vs Uzbekistan's Aktenge Keunimjaeva; (BOUT 10) Women's 53kg: Antim Panghal vs Mongolia's Bolortuya Bat-Ochir; (BOUT 14) Women's 57kg: Mansi vs Uzbekistan's Laylokhon Sobirova

What a comeback by Saurav Ghosal, who first recovers from a five-point trail to go ahead at game point for the first time to take the lead and close it too! He is now 1-0 up in the best-of-five final!

Saurav Ghosal picks four back-to-back points as he started winning the long rallies. Both players have been involved in long rallies one after another, especially to the left of the court on backhands

The Malaysian picks six points on the go after Saurav Ghosal picked the opening points. Both the players are playing long rallies and Eain Yow is able to produce the winners whenever he finds the opening!

India are outpowered by China 0-4 with two more goals coming in the last five minutes of the fourth quarter. Indian women's hockey exit the gold medal run and will play for bronze on October 7

The gold medal match gets underway and the Indian squash start starts by taking the first point off his serve!

Saurav Ghosal has arrived at the arena for the final as we are moments away from the final. The duo will warm up with the rubber before starting the best-of-five games final!
Archery
Medal event: Compound women's team quarter-finals, semi-finals and medal matches (Team India: Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Gopichand Swami, Parneet Kaur) - 6:10 AM onwards
Medal event: Compound men's team quarter-finals, semi-finals and medal matches (Team India: Ojas Pravin Deotale, Abhishek Verma, Prathamesh Jawkar) - 11:00 AM onwards
Athletics
Medal event: Men's marathon final (Man Singh, Belliappa Appachangada Bopaiah) - 4:30 AM onwards
Badminton
Men's singles quarter-finals (HS Prannoy) - 7:30 AM onwards
Women's singles quarter-finals (PV Sindhu) - 7:30 AM onwards
Men's doubles quarter-finals (Chirag Shetty/Satwiksairaj Rankireddy) - 7:30 AM onwards
Bridge
Men's team final sessions 1 to 3: India vs Hong Kong China - 6:30 AM onwards
Canoe slalom
Men's kayak heats (Hitesh Kewat, Shubham Kewat) - 7:00 AM onwards
Men's canoe heats (Vishal Kewat) - 7:00 AM onwards
Women's kayak heats (Shikha Chouhan) - 7:00 AM onwards
Chess
Men's team round 7 (Gukesh D, Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, Pentala Harikrishna, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa) - 12:30 PM onwards
Women's team round 7 (Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Vantika Agrawal, Savitha Shri B) - 12:30 PM onwards
Hockey
Women's semi-finals: India vs China - 1:30 PM
Ju-jitsu
Medal event: Women's -48kg (Anwesha Deb, Navya Pandey) - 6:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Men's -62kg (Kamal Singh, Tarun Yadav) - 6:30 AM onwards
Kabaddi
Men's team Group A: India vs Chinese Taipei - 8:00 AM
Men's team Group A: India vs Japan - 1:30 PM
Roller skating
Medal event: Women's inline freestyle skating speed slalom (Shreyasi Joshi, Merlin Dhanam Charles) - 6:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Men's inline freestyle skating speed slalom (Jinesh Satyan Nanal, Vishvesh Ganesh Patil) - 11:30 AM onwards
Sepaktakraw
Men's regu preliminary Group B: India vs Thailand - 6:30 AM
Women's regu preliminary Group B: India vs Vietnam - 7:30 AM
Men's regu preliminary Group B: India vs Philippines - 11:30 AM
Women's regu preliminary Group B: India vs China - 12:30 PM
Soft tennis
Mixed doubles preliminaries, second stage and quarter-finals (Indian teams) - 7:30 AM onwards
Sport climbing
Men's boulder and lead qualification (Aman Verma, Bharath Stephen Pereira Kamath) - 6:30 AM onwards
Women's boulder and lead qualification (Saniya Farooque Shaikh, Shivani Charak) - 6:30 AM onwards
Squash
Medal event: Mixed doubles final, Dipika Pallikal/Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu (IND) vs Aifa Binti Azman/Mohammad Syafiq Kamal - 11:30 AM
Medal event: Men's singles final, Saurav Ghosal (IND) vs NG Eain Yow (MAS) - 2:30 PM
Wrestling
Medal events: Greco-Roman 97kg (Narinder Cheema) and 130kg (Naveen); Women's freestyle 50kg (Pooja Gehlot), 53kg (Antim Panghal), 57kg (Mansi Ahlawat) - 7:30 AM onwards