Asian Games 2018 Live Updates Day 5: India's Virdhawal Khade in Butterfly Final; Varsha Varman's Double Trap Final Underway

Shooting: The Women’s Double Trap Gold medal match is currently in progress and Varsha Varman is in the fray. She’s currently scored 11.

Shooting: The Men’s double trap qualifiers are currently in progress with India represented by Shardul Vihan and Ankur Mittal. Shadul has a score of 28, while Ankur has scored 27 in the early stages of qualification.

Volleyball: The Indian women’s team continue to be in trouble against Kazakhstan and have lost the second set 25-19. Though they did show better defense in the second set, after losing the first 25-8. They have played 8 sets so far in Indonesia and yet to get to 25 points. 

Suprita Das, Senior Journalist: 

News coming in from Indonesia is that rower Dattu Bhokanal missed locking the oar gate of his boat at the start of his race. That resulted in his boat losing balance about 1000-1200m into the race. Reports suggest India's coaches are miffed, and understandably so given that locking the oar gate is what rowers have to do right at the start of the race.

Rowing: In the women’s doubles sculls, India’s Poja and Sayali Shelke finish last in the A-final with a timing of 8:21.76.

Squash: India’s Sourav Ghosal has begun his campaign in style, as swatted away the challenge of the Sri Lankan Mohomed Shamil Mukthar Wakeel 3-0 to progress to the Round of 16.

Rowing: India’s Sanjukta Dung Dung and Harpreet Kaur have finished top in the B-final of the women’s pair event with a time of 8:30:18, but that does not make them eligible for any medal.

It is a third straight National record for Srihari Nataraj, this time in the 200m backstroke with a time of 2:02.97 to qualify for the #AsianGames2018 final with the seventh fastest time in the heats.

— G Rajaraman (@g_rajaraman) August 23, 2018

Rowing: In the men’s doubles sculls Final A, India’s pairing of Om Prakash and Sawarn Singh can’t retrieve the day after Dattu Bhokanal’s disastrous race. The pair began well and led till the 1500m mark, before falling down the standings and coming in fourth with a time of 6:50:91.

Volleyball: The Indian women’s team are up against Kazakhstan in their Pool B game and have lost the first set of their third match 25-8. Previously, India lost both their games and are bottom of the pool.

Swimming: In the Men’s 200m Backstroke event heats Srihari Nataraj finished with a time of 2:02:97 to come in on third. In another heat, Advait Page finished fifth with a time of 2:06:85. Neither are likely to make it to the final.

Canoeing: India’s Champa Mourya has finished seventh out of 10 in the semis and all 10 have made it to the final. Mourya finished the women’s singles event with a score of 176.14, while Japan’s Ren Mishima led the charts with a score of 122.62.

Here are the standings from the Men's Singles Sculls final with India's Dattu Bhokanal. Unfortunately he came in last. 

Rowing: In the Men’s Singles Sculls final, India’s Dattu is out of contention for a medal after he has quite literally given up at the 1200m mark. He is still out there while the rest have cross the finish line. Could be an injury causing this?

Swimming: After the heroics of the Butterfly heats, Virdhawal Khade has a terrible 100m freestyle heat and finished with a time of 59.11 seconds. Khade’s qualification time for this event was 50.66 so something definitely seems to have gone wrong. Possibly still tired after the Butterfly heat which finished less than 30 minutes ago.

Rowing: The Men's Single Sculls Final featuring India's Dattu Bhokanal is underway

Swimming: In the Men’s 100 freestyle event heats, India represented by Aaron Dsouza topped his heats with a time 51.50 seconds but that is unlikely to be good enough to make the cut for the final.

Swimming Update: India’s Virdhawal Khade has qualified for the final of the 50m butterfly event with the fifth-best time across six heats, Joseph Schooling tops the chart with 23.84 seconds. The final will be around 4 pm IST.

Indian men's hockey team on Wednesday recorded its biggest ever win in international hockey by annihilating Hong Kong China 26-0 in a Pool B match of the Asian Games

Golf: India’s Diksha Dagar is through with eight holes in the women’s individual round 1 and is currently leading with a -2, but a lot of the other golfers have just started so it will be a while before we get a clear picture. Other Indians in the field are Sifat Sagoo and Ridhima Dilawari with scores of +1 and +1 respectively.

Swimming: One of the first events with an Indian in the mix is the Men’s 50m butterfly heats, where in Heat 1 Anshul Kothari finished with a time of 25.45 seconds, while in Heat 2 Virdhawal Khade finished with a time of 24.09. Both topped their heats but may not make it to the final unfortunately.

Rahi Sarnobat desperately needed to try something new. Because she wanted to be back among the medals. The Kolhapur girl had to take considerable time off from the shooting range and also missed the Olympics in 2016 due to a serious elbow injury.

Hello and welcome to Day 5 of the Asian Games! After a fantastic day 4 at the Games for India where Rahi Sarnobat bagged a Gold in the pistol final and Wushu brought in four Bronze medals, India will be looking to increase the numbers on the medals tally today. One of the top contenders to do so will be Sathish Sivalingam, the weightlifting ace who is making a comeback from an injury. Also watch out for the swimming teams looking to make a mark along with the badminton heavyweights with the likes of Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu in action. Good morning and enjoy this action packed day!