Asian Games 2023 Highlights, September 27: India will continue their medal surge on Wednesday morning after adding their third gold medal and 12th medal overall on Day 3 of the Hangzhou 19th Asian Games. Follow medal updates below:


It was an eventful day for Indians at the Asian Games 2023 as the nation grabbed two more gold medals, along with three silver and bronze each, to take their overall medals tally to 22. That's all from our Live coverage from Hangzhou Asiad as we call it a day. See you again tomorrow morning before the day breaks as India continue their medal surge!
Indian men's squash lose to Pakistan in their penultimate Pool A match 2-1 as Mahesh Mangaonkar lost to Nasir Iqbal 11-6, 13-11, 9-11, 11-8

Top seed pair Yuki Bhambri and Ankita Raina crash out in the third round of the mixed doubles. The Indian duo goes down to Philippines' Alex Eala and Francis Alcantara 4-6, 6-4 (10-8). Meanwhile, Second seeds Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale won the first set against Shimizu/Hazawa 6-3!
India's No. 1 Sourav Ghosal leads by example as the 37-year-old veteran makes light work of Muhammad Wasim Khan 11-3, 11-5, 11-1 to level the tie 1-1 after two matches in the Men's Pool A. Both Indian and Pakistan are yet to lose a match in the pool as they fight for supremacy!
India play a 26-26 draw with Japan in Group B of women's handball while Menika stars with eight goals to her name.

Ramkumar Ramanathan/Saketh Myneni beat have assured a medal for India in tennis men's doubles as the pair beat China’s Yibing Wu and Zhizhen Zhang 6-1, 7-6(8). They reached the semifinals with the win and will bring a bronze medal at least even if they lose the next match.

Indian men's squash team finally lose their first match in Pool A as Abhay Singh lost the first match of India vs Pakistan. The India goes down to Noor Zaman 8-11, 12-10, 8-11, 8-11 over four games. Sourav Ghosal is up next against Muhammad Asim Khan

Nikhat Zareen continued her dominance on Asian Games debut as the two-time World Champion defeated South Korea's Chorong Bak by unanimous verdict. Despite the one-sided verdict, there isn't much to separate the two boxers but Nikhat reaped benefit of making clean contacts with her punch.

Roshibina Devi confirmed a silver medal at least as she reached the final of the women's 60kg category after defeating Vietnam's Thi Thu Thuy 2-0 in the semifinal!

Sreeja Akula/Harmeet Desai beats Macao China's Cheong Chi Cheng/Hui Li Seak 12-10, 11-7, 11-7 in the Round of 16

Indian pair G Sathiyan/Manika Batra advances to the round of 16 of the mixed doubles as they defeated Thailand’s Napat and Suthasini 10-12, 11-8, 11-3, 11-8
India's No. 1 Ankita Raina lost out in the women's singles quarterfinals to Japan’s Haruka Kaji 3-6, 6-4, 6-4

No medal success for Harika Dronavalli and Koneru Humpy too as they finish fourth and seventh in the women's chess individual. Harika won her final round match against China's gold medallist Zhu Jiner while two-time Asiad champion Humpy played a draw with Kazakhstan's Bibissara Ssaubayeva

Vidit Gujarathi couldn't win a medal for India in the chess as the young Indian GM lost to Uzbekistan's Javokir Sindarov in the men's individual ninth and final round! Arjun Erigaisi, who was already out of medal contention, won his final-round match against Bangladesh's Enamul Hossain

Anahat Singh wraps up a another comfortable win for Indian women's squash team in Women's Pool B! The 15-year-old Delhi girl beats Wai Leng Yeung 11-1, 11-7, 11-6. The victory should place India top of the Pool B ahead of Nepal, who also have won four out of their four games. The two teams have sealed their places in the knockout stages and will face each other for Pool B supremacy at 10 AM IST tomorrow
Joshna Chinappa of India easily defeated Kwai Liu from Macao, China, with a straight-set victory of 11-3, 11-7, 12-10. As a result, India is currently ahead 2-0, and the next match features Anahat Singh against Wai Yeung
Humpy and Harika's matches ended in a draw. Arjun suffered a tough loss against Abdusattorov. Vidit's game against Bilguun Sumiya of Mongolia ends in a draw. One final round left in the individual section. Vidit is the strongest contender for a medal. He can clinch a silver or a bronze if he manages to win or draw his next one.
The Indian duo of Manav Thakkar and Manush Shah are through to the men's team round of 32! They beat the Thailand team of Napat Thanmathikom and Sitisak Nuchchart 3-2 [11-8, 8-11, 11-6, 7-11, 12-10] to get their doubles campaign off to a winning start.
India's Princepal Singh, Pratap Singh Sekhon, Pranav Prince and Lokendra Singh defeated Macau 21-12 in a group match. They have qualified for the quarterfinals where they will face last-edition gold medallist China on Friday. The women will take on China later in the day in a group match.
Anant’s silver means India will move to fifth in the standings with 22 medals including five gold, seven silver and 10 bronze medals.
Indian duo of Harika Dronavalli and Koneru Humpy were pitted against each other and there wasn’t much to seprarate the two as they played out a 0.5-0.5 draw
Anant Nakura secures the silver medal in men's shotgun skeet, contributing to India's total medal count of 21. Anant, with a score of 58, finished in second place, while Kuwait's Abdullah Alrashidi, who matched the world record of 60 points previously held by India's Angad Bajwa, claimed the gold
Disappointment again for India as Sanjeet loses against Uzbekistan’s Lazizbek Mullojonov in the round of 16. That’s the end of the road for the Indian
India's David Beckham has outperformed the Kazakhstani pair of Andrey Chugay and Sergey Ponomaryov to progress to the men's sprint quarterfinals, scheduled for tomorrow.
Anant Jeet Naruka is showing brilliant form. Four hits and that makes it 30 out 30. Alrashidi is keeping pace, he also 30 out of 30. Just four shooters left now.
Shiba Thapa's campaign comes to an end, he loses the round of 16 bout 5-0 to his Kyrgyz opponent Askat Kultaev
Anant is maintaining his fine form. He's 16 out of 16 and joint top along with the UAE shooter Abdullah Alrashidi.
Couple of boxing matches coming up. Shiva Thapa in men's 63.5 kg and Sanjeet in 92kg. Both round of 16 matches.
India’s Sumit Nagal just took the first set 7-6 off top seeded Zhizen Zhang of China!
Anant against hits all four in the series. So far, that's 10 on 10 for him. After 10 shots, Anant is joint top along with the shooters from China and UAE.
3x3 basketball
Men's Round Robin Pool C: India vs Macao China - 12:10 PM
Women's Round Robin Pool A: India vs China - 4:55 PM
Basketball
Women's Preliminary Round Group A: India vs Indonesia - 5:30 PM
Boxing
Men's 57kg Round of 16: Shiva Thapa (IND) vs Askat Kulatev (KGZ) - 1:15 PM
Men's 92kg Round of 16: Sanjeet (IND) vs Lazizbek Mullojonov (UZB) - 1:30 PM
Women's 50kg Round of 16: Nikhat Zareen (IND) vs Chorong Bak (KOR) - 5:15 PM
Bridge
Men's, women's and mixed team round robin 1-1 to 4 (Indian teams) - 6:30 PM
Chess
Medal event: Men's Individual rounds 8 and 9 (Vidit Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi) - 12:30 PM onwards
Medal event: Women's individual rounds 8 and 9 (Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli) - 12:30 PM onwards
Track cycling
Men's sprint qualifying, 1/16 and 1/8 finals and repechage heats (David Beckham Elkatohchoongo, Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam) - 7:30 AM onwards
Women's keirin (Shushikala Agashe, Triyasha Paul) - 7:56 AM onwards
Equestrian
Dressage Individual Intermediate I (Hriday Chheda, Anush Agarwalla, Divyakriti Singh, Sudipti Hajela) - 5:30 AM onwards
Esports
League of Legends quarter-finals: India vs Vietnam - 11:30 AM
Fencing
Medal event: Men's team foil (Arjun, Dev, Bibish Kathiresan, Akash Kumar) - 6:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Women's team epee (Ena Arora, Jyotika Dutta, Yashkeerat Kaur, Tanishka Khatri) - 10:30 AM onwards
Handball
Women's Preliminary Round Group B: India vs Hong Kong, China - 4:30 PM
Hockey
Preliminary Women's Pool A: India vs Singapore - 10:15 AM
Sailing
Medal event: Men's Dinghy ILCA7 medal races (Vishnu Saravanan) - 8:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Women's Single Dinghy ILCA6 medal races (Nethra Kumanan) - 8:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Men's Kite IKA Formula (Chitresh Tatha) - 8:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Men's Windsurfing iQFoil quarter-final, semi-finals and final (Jerome Kumar Savarimuthu) - 8:30 AM onwards
Shooting
Medal event: Men's and women's skeet qualification phase 2, team medals and individual final (Men's: Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Gurjoat Singh Khangura, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa women's: Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Ganemat Sekhon, Darshna Rathore) - 6:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Women's 25m pistol rapid qualification round, team medals and individual final (Manu Bhaker, Rhythm Sangwan, Esha Singh) - 6:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Women's 50m rifle 3 positions qualifying, team medals and final (Ashi Chouksey, Manini Kaushik, Sift Kaur Samra) - 6:30 AM onwards
Squash
Men's team Pool A: India vs Kuwait - 7:30 AM
Women's team Pool B: India vs Nepal - 7:30 AM
Women's team Pool B: India vs Macao, China - 2:00 PM
Men's team Pool A: India vs Pakistan - 4:30 PM
Swimming
Women's 100m butterfly heats and final (Nina Venkatesh) - 7:30 AM onwards
Women's 100m backstroke (Maana Patel) - 7:30 AM onwards
Men's 200m freestyle heats and final (Tanish George Matthew, Sriharni Nataraj) - 7:30 AM onwards
Women's 100m breaststroke (Lineysha) - 7:30 AM onwards
Table tennis
Men's doubles Round of 64 (Manush Shah/Manav Thakkar) - 1:30 PM onwards
Mixed doubles Round of 32 (G Sathiyan/Manika Batra and Harmeet Desai/Sreeja Akula) - 1:30 PM onwards
Tennis
Multiple singles and doubles matches (Ankita Raina, Rohan Bopanna, Rutuja Bhosale, Ramkumar Ramanathan and more) - 7:30 AM onwards
Wushu
Men's daoshu final (Rohit Jadhav) - 6:30 AM
Medal event: Men's gunshu final (Rohit Jadhav) - 12:00 PM
Women's 60kg semi-finals (Naorem Roshibina Devi) - 5:00 PM onwards