India at Asian Games, Oct 4, live: Jyothi Vennam, Ojas Deotale win archery gold; bronze in racewalk
Live updates from Day 11 of the Asian Games 2022 in Hangzhou.

Key updates:
Athletics: Manju Rani and Ram Baboo win bronze in the 35km mixed team racewalk.
Archery: Jyothi Vennam and Ojas Deotale win gold in the mixed compound team event.
Squash: Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh win bronze in the mixed doubles event, Dipika Pallikal and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu reach gold medal match.
Live updates
Boxing: Plenty of long-range punches and clinching. Ting takes Round 1 on all five cards.
Boxing: In action now is Parveen in the women’s 57kg semi-final. She is up against LinYu Ting of Chinese Taipei. Can Parveen make it to the final?
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— The Field (@thefield_in) October 4, 2023
Abhay Singh and Anahat Singh win bronze in the mixed doubles event.
This is after Abhay Singh won gold in the men's team event and Anahat bronze in the women's team event.
Live blog: https://t.co/ZHXJdyZyEq pic.twitter.com/dvQRnRxWVP
Squash: This means that Abhay Singh and Anahat Singh have won the bronze medal in mixed doubles, along with the bronze for the women’s team and the gold for the men’s team.
Later on in the day at 3.30pm, Saurav Ghosal will be playing Hong Kong’s Leung Chi Hin Henry in the men’s singles semi-final.
Squash, mixed doubles: It is not to be for Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh who had a 3-point lead at 9-6, but the Malaysian pair won five straight points to win the match and move into the final where they will be up against another Indian pair in Pallikal and Sandhu. Anahat, especially, will feel hard done by this loss but the youngster has a long way to go and her talent will only grow. IND 11-8, 2-11, 9-11 MAS.
Badminton, Women’s Doubles R16: A pre-quarterfinal exit for the pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand as they go down 15-21, 21-18, 13-21 to Kim Soyeong and Kong Heeyong. The Indians saved three match points, but the 10-20 lead the Koreans had in the decider was always going to be uncatchable.
Squash, mixed doubles: Malaysia run away with the second game in double time as the match is now 1-game all. IND 11-8, 2-11 MAS
Squash, mixed doubles: Tensions boiling over slightly and Abhay Singh is a little frustrated but the Indians hold on to a slight lead to take the first game 11-8 against the Malaysian pair of Aifa Azman Binti and Mohammas Syafiq Kamal Bin Mohammad. They are now one game away from reaching the final.
Volleyball, Women’s Classification Pool G: India defeat Nepal 25-23, 26-28, 25-23, 25-17 in an hour and 48 minutes. Shaalini Sarvanan stood out for India with 18 points in the match.
Squash, mixed doubles: INDIA REACH THE FINAL! Or well at least one of the Indian teams. It was an incredibly tight encounter in the third game with both sides pushing each other to the limit. Lee and Wong kept close to the Indian pair but despite going to 9-all, Pallikal and Sandhu held on to the lead and secured match point to close out the match 7-11, 11-7, 11-9.
Can the other Indian team of Abhay Singh and Anahat Singh make it an all-Indian affair in the final?
Badminton, Mixed Doubles R16: The Indian pair of Tanisha Crasto and Sai Pratheek lost 18-21, 18-21 to Malaysia’s Chen Tang Jie and Toh Ee Wei to exit the competition.
Squash, mixed doubles: Brilliant comeback from Pallikal and Sandhu who looked out of sorts in the first game, but were calm and strategic in the second game to take it 11-7 and level the match at 1-game all. All to play for in the final game.
Squash, mixed doubles: Pallikal and Sandhu do well to recover from 0-6 to 7-8 but the Indians lose the first game 7-11 in the semi-final.
Wrestling: Sunil Kumar loses to Iran’s Naser Alizadeh 1-5 in the Men’s Greco Roman 87kg semi-final. He will now compete in the bronze medal match in the evening session.
Squash: India will be contesting three semi-finals today – two mixed doubles teams and the ever-reliable Saurav Ghosal in men’s singles.
Ghosal has won a singles medal in nearly every edition of the Asian Games that he’s competed in, barring his first appearance in Busan 2002. He’ll be hoping for an upgrade from the bronze won in 2018.
First up, Dipika Pallikal and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu up against the Hong Kong pair of Lee Ka Yi and Wong Chi Him.
Asian Games, Women’s Speed Relay Sport Climbing Qualification: The Indian team clocks 39.598s to finish the course - the slowest of all six teams. The fifth placed Thailand was about ten seconds faster than the Indians at 29.970s.
Wrestling: Vikas loses to China’s Liu Rui via VSU in the Men’s Greco Roman 77kg quarter-finals.
Wrestling: Sunil wins 9-1 in the Men’s Greco Roman 87kg quarter-final against Sukhrob Abdulkhaev of Tajikistan. He will face Iran’s Naser Alizadeh in the semi-finals.
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— The Field (@thefield_in) October 4, 2023
Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Pravin Deotale win India’s first gold medal in archery in Hangzhou!
The beat South Korea 159-158 in a superb final!https://t.co/ZHXJdyZ0OS pic.twitter.com/e7joRoZw87
Archery, compound mixed team final: Anything less than a perfect score and that will be the final for either team. Deotale and Vennam shot 10 each with their first arrows. So Chaewon cracks under the pressure and shoots a high 9! The gold medal is for India to win. Can they clinch it? YES THEY CAN! Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Pravin Deotale are India’s first gold medal winners in the mixed team compound archery event and only the second ever gold medal winners at the Asian Games!
Archery, compound mixed team final: Ojas Deotale shoots a 9! The Koreans shoot a perfect 40 and were are level at 119-119 going into the final end!
Archery, compound mixed team final: Joo Jaehoon’s first arrow in the first end is upgraded to a 10. Leading 40-39, the Indian pair shoot yet another 40! So’s second arrow in the second end is on the line and after close scrutiny, it is given as a 10. The Indian’s lead 80-79.
Archery, compound mixed team final: Just the start they wanted! Vennam and Deotale shoot a perfect 40 in the first end. The Koreans start with a nine each and trail by two points.
Wrestling: Gyanender loses to Iran’s Meysam Dalkhani 1-7 in the Men’s Greco Roman 60kg Round of 16.
Archery, compound mixed team final: Top seeds Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Pravin Deotale take on South Korea’s second seeds So Chaewon and Joo Jaehoon in the final.
Badminton, Men’s Singles R16: Just moments after Sindhu’s win, HS Prannoy follows her footsteps. The World Championships bronze medallist wins 21-12, 21-13 in just 29 minutes against Kazakhstan’s Panarin Dmitriy and advances to the quarter-finals.
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— Dilip Unnikrishnan (@DilipUnnikrishn) October 4, 2023
Jyothi Vennam and Ojas Deotale won two World Cup stage gold medals this season. The top seeds take on second seeds South Korea to clinch India’s second-ever gold medal in archery at the Asiad
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Badminton, Women’s Singles R16: PV Sindhu makes her way into the quarter-finals with a 21-16, 21-16 straight games win over Putri Kusuma Wardani of Indonesia. The resigning silver-medallist looked at her best today. She was moving well on the court, those smashes flowed with that classic Sindhu roar for company.
Ankle ❌, hamstring ❌, hip❌, shoulder ❌. Worth it? ✅✅. Never thought I’d wake up to this one day but it’s not a dream I think 🫶🏽🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/6iMh3ugS1J
— Tejaswin Shankar (TJ) (@TejaswinShankar) October 4, 2023
Wrestling: Sunil Kumar defeats China’s Peng Fei 4-3 in the Men’s Greco Roman 87kg Round of 16. He will face Sukhrob Abdulkhaev of Tajikistan in the quarter-finals.
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— The Field (@thefield_in) October 4, 2023
MEDAL ALERT!
Manju Rani and Ram Baboo win 🥉 in the 35km mixed team racewalk https://t.co/ZHXJdyZyEq pic.twitter.com/hSd9PtQ6wV
Athletics, 35km Mixed Team Racewalk: India’s Ram Baboo and Manju Rani combined to clock 5:51.14s to win the bronze medal. While Baboo finished fourth among men, clocking 2:42.11s, Rani finished sixth with a timing of 3:09.03s among women.
Wrestling: A loss to start the campaign in wrestling in Hangzhou as Uzbekistan’s Makhmud Bakshilloev defeats Neeraj 5-3 in the Men’s Greco Roman 67kg Round of 16.
Next up soon will be Sunil Kumar (87kg).
Archery, compound mixed team semi-final: India reach the final of the compound archery mixed team event! Vennam’s 9 in the second end is upgraded to a 10 by the jury. So India led Kazakhstan 79-78 going into the final two ends. Vennam and Deotale show the class by shooting 10s with all eight of their remaining arrows to secure a 159-154 win and book their place in the final!
Wrestling: The Indian wrestlers start their campaign at Hangzhou today onwards. Neeraj (67kg), Sunil Kumar (87kg), Gyanender (60kg), and Vikas (77kg) will feature in their respective Greco-Roman events.
First up is Neeraj in the men’s 67kg category against Uzbekistan’s Makhmud Bakshilloev.
Archery, compound mixed team semi-final: Vennam starts by shooting a 9 which sees India trail 40-39 after the first end. Deotale shoots a nine in the second end but Kazakhstan also shoot two 9s as India level the scorers at 78-78.
Archery, compound mixed team semi-final: Having beaten Malaysia in a close quarter-final clash, Jyothi Vennam and Ojas Deotale face Kazakhstan in the semi-final
Kabaddi, Men’s Group A, IND 63-26 THA: Another dominant display by the Indian men’s team. They pick up an even bigger win over Thailand, 63-26 than what they managed against Bangladesh. Again, the bench got some game time as well in what has so far looked like a well-oiled team.
Kabaddi, Men’s Group A, IND vs THA: India pick up another all-out. They’re up 53-17 against Thailand with just over 10 minutes left.
Archery, compound mixed team quarter-final: Vennam and Deotale move into the semi-final! Both the teams start with 10s with their first two arrows. Malaysia are only a point behind and they know they need to keep India under pressure. However, Binti Fatin shoots the first 8 of the match and India’s lead if now three points. The Indians shoot another 20 to clinch their place in the semi-final by winning 158-155.
Kabaddi, Men’s Group A, IND vs THA: India get a third all-out at the stroke of half-time. Dominant display by the Indians, they lead Thailand 37-9.
Archery, compound mixed team quarter-final: The Indian pair shoot two 9s while the Malaysians shoot one 9 in the second end to level the scores at 78-78. The Indians bounce back by shooting a perfect 40 in the third end to take a 118-117 lead going into the final end.
Archery, compound mixed team quarter-final: Vennam and Deotale shoot 10s with each of their first four arrows. Malaysia hit one 9 and India lead 40-39 after the first end
Kabaddi, Men’s Group A, IND vs THA: Another all-out for India. They lead 27-9 against Thailand with just under five minutes left of play.
Kabaddi, Men’s Group A, IND vs THA: Halfway in the first half and India continue to dominate. But there have been some clever and impressive plays by Thailand, including a super raid.
Kabaddi, Men’s Group A, IND vs THA: Quick start for India, as they get the first all out within the first 7 minutes of play. India up 13-2 against Thailand.
Kabaddi, Men’s Group A, IND vs THA: A good performance yesterday by the Indian men’s team in their 55-18 win over Bangladesh. The substitutes also were brought in to get some Asian Games mileage under the belt. Any of the same today?
Archery, compound mixed team quarter-final: After reaching the final of their respective individual events yesterday, the pair of Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Pravin Deotale shift their focus to the mixed team event hoping to win India’s second gold medal ever in archery today. The top-seeded pair beat the UAE on Monday in the round of 16 and face Malaysia in the quarter-finals.
At the start of play on Wednesday, India is fourth on the medal tally list with 69 medals – 15 gold, 26 silver and 28 bronze.
Hello and welcome to Scroll’s live coverage of Day 11 at the Asian Games in Hangzhou!
That man, Neeraj Chopra will be in action today. He has won gold in every major competition his sport has to offer. But now in Hangzhou, he will have a chance to defend his title for the first time. And he’s favourite to do so as well!
More medals will be in the offing – across events like squash, wrestling, boxing and athletics.
Among the pugilists, Tokyo Olympics bronze-medallist Lovlina Borgoian will also be competing for gold, while the men’s and women’s kabaddi teams continue in their redemption campaigns. The wrestlers also begin their campaigns in Hangzhou.
That, and so much more today. Stay tuned!
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