Asian Games 2023 Highlights, September 27: India climb to fifth position in medal standings

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:

• Shooter Sift Kaur wins gold medal in 50m rifle 3 position with a new world record score of 469.6
• Shooters Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh, and Rhythm Sangwan win gold medal in 25m Pistol Team Event
• Shooters Shift Samra, Ashi Chouksey, and Manini Kaushik bag silver medal in 50m Rifle 3 Positions Team Event
• Esha Singh wins a silver medal in the Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol Individual event
• Anant Jeet Naruka wins silver medal in men's skeet final
• Shooter Ashi Chouksey wins bronze medal in 50m rifle 3 position
• India secured a team bronze in the men's skeet event, and Anant Naruka is set to compete in the men's individual final at 12 PM
• Vishnu Saravanan wins bronze in Sailing - Men’s Dinghy ILCA
• Wushu athlete Roshibina Devi reaches gold medal match of women's 60kg Shanda
• Ramkumar Ramanathan/Saketh Myneni reaches men's doubles semifinals; assures medal

Sep 27, 2023, 7:41 pm IST

Asian Games Day 5 Live Coverage ends!

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!

Sep 27, 2023, 7:33 pm IST

Squash: India go down to Pakistan

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

Sep 27, 2023, 6:58 pm IST

Asian Games Tennis: Top seed Yuki/Ankita crashes out!

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!

Sep 27, 2023, 6:30 pm IST

Squash: Sourav Ghosal levels score against Pakistan

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!

Sep 27, 2023, 6:16 pm IST

Asian Games 2023 Handball: India vs Hong Kongs in women's Group B

India play a 26-26 draw with Japan in Group B of women's handball while Menika stars with eight goals to her name.

Sep 27, 2023, 6:09 pm IST

MEDAL ALERT!

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.

Sep 27, 2023, 5:55 pm IST

Asian Games 2023 Squash: India vs Pakistan

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

Sep 27, 2023, 5:45 pm IST

Asian Games 2023 Boxing: Nikhat Zareen reaches quarterfinals

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.

Sep 27, 2023, 5:33 pm IST

Wushu: Roshibina Devi reaches gold medal matches; assures silver at least!

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!

Sep 27, 2023, 5:05 pm IST

TT: Sreeja/Harmeet clear first round

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

Sep 27, 2023, 4:51 pm IST

Asian Games 2023 Table Tennis: Mixed Doubles

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

Sep 27, 2023, 4:43 pm IST

Asian Games 2023 Tennis: Ankita Raina out of singles medal run

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

Sep 27, 2023, 4:39 pm IST

Chess: Women's individual round 9

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

Sep 27, 2023, 4:31 pm IST

Chess: Vidit Gujarathi, Arjun Erigaisi finishes outside medal positions

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

Sep 27, 2023, 4:13 pm IST

Asian Games Squash: India beat Macao China 3-0!

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

Sep 27, 2023, 3:20 pm IST

Squash: India 2-0 Macao

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

Sep 27, 2023, 3:19 pm IST

Chess

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.

Sep 27, 2023, 3:17 pm IST

Table tennis: Manav & Manush qualified (Round of 32)

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.

Sep 27, 2023, 2:13 pm IST

Basketball: 3x3

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.

Sep 27, 2023, 2:09 pm IST

India has climbed to the fifth position in the medal standings

Anant’s silver means India will move to fifth in the standings with 22 medals including five gold, seven silver and 10 bronze medals.

Sep 27, 2023, 2:04 pm IST

Chess: Women’s individual (Round of 8)

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

Sep 27, 2023, 2:00 pm IST

Men’s Shotgun Skeet - Silver medal for India!

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

Sep 27, 2023, 1:51 pm IST

Boxing - Men’s 80-92kg - Sanjeet loses (Round of 16)

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

Sep 27, 2023, 1:44 pm IST

Cycling - Beckham through to quarterfinals!

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.

Sep 27, 2023, 1:43 pm IST

Shooting: Skeet

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.

Sep 27, 2023, 1:42 pm IST

Boxing: Shiba Thapa loses (Round of 16)

Shiba Thapa's campaign comes to an end, he loses the round of 16 bout 5-0 to his Kyrgyz opponent Askat Kultaev

Sep 27, 2023, 1:25 pm IST

Shooting: Skeet

Anant is maintaining his fine form. He's 16 out of 16 and joint top along with the UAE shooter Abdullah Alrashidi.

Sep 27, 2023, 1:24 pm IST

Boxing: Upcoming Matches

Couple of boxing matches coming up. Shiva Thapa in men's 63.5 kg and Sanjeet in 92kg. Both round of 16 matches.

Sep 27, 2023, 1:24 pm IST

Tennis: Men's Singles

India’s Sumit Nagal just took the first set 7-6 off top seeded Zhizen Zhang of China!

Sep 27, 2023, 1:20 pm IST

Shooting: Skeet

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.

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Asian Games Day 4 Schedule

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