Asian Games 2023 Day 5 Highlights: Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the Asian Games Day 5 from Hangzhou. India’s medal tally has reached 25, after an impressive outing from Indian shooters. A slow start from the Indian contingent has seen them pick up the pace as several Indian athletes look to leave their mark on September 8, Day 5.
The Indian shooting men’s team will take part in the 10m air pistol final, women’s vault final will see Pranati Nayak put forward her challenge for a medal. In the Dreesage Individual Intermediate I Freestyle (Equestarian), Hriday Vipul and Anush Agarwalla will challenge for podium
Key Events
Key EventsSo three medals for India in the day, the men’s 10m air pistol team of Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Singh Cheema and Shiva Narwal won gold. Naorem Roshibina Devi bagged a silver medal in the women’s 60kg sanda event of wushu as Anush Agarwalla clinched a bronze medal in the individual dressage event, the first ever for the country in this segment, of the equestrian competition.
Indian men’s hockey team beat Japan 4-2 to register their third successive win in Pool A.
India start the second half with the two-goal lead against defending champions Japan.
Nishan Dev knocked out Vietnam’s Phuoc Tung Bui in the first bout to book his spot in the quarter-final.
Dhinidhi Desinghu, Shivangi Sarma, Vritti Agarwal and Hashika Ramachandra finish last, i.e. 8th, with a time of 8:37.58 in the Women’s 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay final.
Mohammed Khalil Maran scored both the goals as India lose to Saudi Arabia and crash out in the round of 16.
Indian men’s team dished out a consistent effort to be placed third on the chart with 86.40 points, but women’s and mixed sides disappointed after an underwhelming show.
Abhishek hands the lead to India from the penalty corner against Japan.
Srihari Nataraj, Tanish George Mathew and Vishal Grewal finish sixth with a time of 3:21.46s in the final of the 4x100m freestyle relay event.
India are two down now, as Mohammed Khalil Maran scores again for Saudi Arabia. The Blue Tigers’ defenders under fire.
India trail 0-1 as as Mohammed Khalil Maran scores for Saudi Arabia.
Here is the India’s starting XI for the match against Japan.
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Aryan Nehra and Kushagra Rawat finished 7th and 8th, with times of 8:04.06 and 8:14.01 respectively, in the 800m freestyle fast heat.
India have done well to hold mighty Saudi Arabia 0-0 at the half-time whistle.
Deepak Bhoria goes down fighting to Japan’s Tomoya Tsuboi 4-1 by split decision in the round of 16 clash.
India’s mixed doubles pair of Rutuja Bhosale and Rohan Bopanna booked their spot in the semi-finals with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Zhibek Kulambayeva and Grigoriy Lomakin of Kazakhstan.
The Indian mixed doubles pair of Rutuja Bhosale and Rohan Bopanna take the first set 7-5 against Kazakh duo of Zhibek Kulambayeva and Grigoriy Lomakin in their quarterfinals clash.
India’s playing XI: Dheeraj, Gurkirat, Lalchungnunga, Chinlensana Singh, Sandesh Jhinghan, Amarjit Singh, Rahim Ali, Rahul KP, Sunil Chhetri, Narender Gahlot, Abdul Rabeeh.
The Indian men’s team are T5 after the first round.
Individuals: T9 – Anibarn Lahiri – 65
T19 – Shiv Chawrasia – 67
T22 – Shubhankar Sharma – 68
T31 – Khalin Joshi – 70
The Indian men’s football team led by Sunil Chhetri take on Saudi Arabia in the round of 16 clash of the 19 Asian Games.
India’s Roshibina Devi Naorem will compete in the final of the women’s Wushu 60 kg, she has been assured of a silver already but she would want to bring home the gold. The men’s 800m freestyle will see Aryan Nehra and Kushagra Rawat competing for podium places.
In total, India can add five more medals to their tally. After Day 4, hosts China sit pretty at the top of the standings with 140 medals in total, including 76 gold medals. The Republic of Korea are second while Japan are third. India are in seventh place with 22 medals, two medals are assured but not confirmed which colour they would be.
India have won seven gold medals so far.
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Day 5, Asian Games schedule:
Swimming: Shivangi Sarma – W 50m Freestyle(Heat 2), V V Khade – M 50m Butterfly (Heat 5), Men’s Team – 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay (Heat 2), Women’s team – 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay (Heat 1), Shivangi Sarma – W 50m Freestyle Final(If Qualified), V V Khade – M 50m Butterfly Final (If Qualified), Men’s Team – 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final (If Qualified), Women’s team – 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Final (If Qualified).
Bridge: Jaggy Shivdasani, Sandeep Thakral, Rajeshwar Tiwari, Sumit Mukherjee, Raju Tolani, Ajay Khare – Men Team Round Robin– Qualification, Kiran Nadar, B Satyanarayana, Himani Khandelwal, Rajeev Khandelwal, Marianne Karmarkar, Sandeep Karmarkar – Mixed Team – Qualification, Asha Sharma, Puja Batra, Bharti Dey, Alka Kshirsagar, Kalpana Gurjar, Vidya Patel – Women Team Round Robin – Women Team Round Robin – Qualification.
Badminton: PV SIndhu, Ashmita Chaliha, Anupama Upadhyaya, Malvika Bansod Vs Mongolia – Women’s Team (Round of 16)
Boxing: Jaismine Vs Ashour Hadeel Ghazwan (Saudi Arabia) – W 60 Kg – Round of 16, Deepak Vs Tsuboi T (Japan) – M 51 Kg – Round of 16, Nishant Dev Vs PT Bui (Vietnam) – M 71 Kg – Round of 16.
Equestrian: Hriday Chheda, Anush Agarwalla – Dressage – Intermediate I Freestyle (Individual Final).
Football: Men’s Team Vs Saudi Arabia – Round of 16
Golf: P Sharath Urs – Individual- Round 1 – 04:00 IST, A Prashanth – Individual -Round 1 – 04:10 IST, A Ashok – Individual – Round 1 – 04:20 IST, P Sharath Urs, A Prashanth, A Ashok –Team – Round 1 – 04:00 IST, Anirban Lahiri – Individual- Round 1 – 08:00 IST, S.S.P Chawrasia – Individual – Round 1 – 08:10 IST, KH Joshi – Individual – Round 1 – 08:20 IST, S Sharma – Individual – Round 1 – 08:30 IST, Anirban Lahiri, S.S.P Chawrasia, KH Joshi, S Sharma – Team – Round 1 – 08:00.
Gymnastics: Pranti Nayak – Women’s Vault – Final
Hockey: Men’s Team Vs Japan – Preliminary Men’s Pool A
Cycling:
Shooting:
Squash:
Women’s Team Vs Malaysia – Pool B – 10:00 IST, Men’s Team Vs Nepal – Pool A – 13:30 IST
Table Tennis:
Tennis: Ramkumar Ramanathan/Saketh Myneni Vs Soonwoo Kwon/Seongchan Hong (Korea) – Semi Final – Men’s Doubles – After 14:00, Rohan Bopanna & Rutuja Bhosale Vs Zhibek Kulambayeva & Grigoriy Lomakin (Kazakhstan) – Quarter Finals – Mixed Doubles – After 14:00 IST
Wushu: Roshibina Devi Naorem Vs Xiaowei Wu (China) – Final – Women’s Sanda 60 kg