On day 1 of the 2023 Asian Games being held in Hangzhou, India has already secured two silver medals to start out the day; one in Women’s 10m air rifle capturing and the opposite in Men’s light-weight double sculls rowing. Following their distinctive efficiency in 2018 Asian Games, the Indian contingent is aiming for an excellent higher efficiency this time on the video games.
India is being represented by a 655-member robust contingent in Hangzhou. The nineteenth version of the multi-sport occasion, which was opened on September 23 and extends till October 8, was initially slated for 2022 however was postponed by a 12 months as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
India has clinched silver medal by means of Ashi Chouksey, Mehuli Ghosh, and Ramita achieved silver within the Women’s 10m air rifle capturing. In rowing, Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh secured a silver within the Men’s light-weight double sculls class.
India’s athletes kickstart a busy day of competitors on the Asian Games 2023. The motion started with Ashi Chouksey, Mehuli Ghosh, and Ramita securing a silver medal within the ladies’s 10m air rifle capturing occasion. Additionally, Dev and Bibish Kathiresan represented India within the males’s foil particular person fencing competitors.
The day’s rowing occasions commenced at 6:30 AM, that includes Kiran and Anshika Bharti taking part within the ladies’s light-weight double sculls. Shortly after, at 7:10 AM, Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh took to the water within the males’s light-weight double sculls rowing competitors. They gained a silver medal for India. Simultaneously, Wushu made its debut for the day with Anjul Namdeo and Suraj Singh Mayanglambam vying for victory within the males’s changquan closing.
In the ladies’s cricket semi-final, India beat Bangladesh by 8 wickets. Bangladesh ladies’s cricket crew was all out for 51 in 17.5 overs. The Indian ladies’s cricket crew reached the goal in 8.2 overs with 8 wickets in hand. India’s ladies’s cricket crew will now combat for gold within the closing.
Other sports activities engagements within the morning session
The swimming occasions kicked off at 7:30 AM, that includes Anand AS and Tanish George Matthew competing within the males’s 100m freestyle heats. Over in desk tennis, India’s ladies’s crew performed spherical of 16 match in opposition to Thailand the place India’s Manika Batra was defeated by Thailand’s Orawan Paranang.
What subsequent?
For tennis lovers, matches began at 9:30 AM, together with India vs. Nepal in males’s doubles and Sumit Nagal enjoying in singles. At 10 AM, Rugby Sevens occasion begins with India dealing with off in opposition to Hong Kong China. Later, at 12:30 PM, the chessboard will come alive with Vidit Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi competing in males’s particular person rounds, and Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli in ladies’s particular person rounds.
In the afternoon, the ladies’s soccer crew will face Thailand at 1:30 PM, and the lads’s crew will compete in opposition to Myanmar at 5 PM. The day wraps up with boxing matches, together with Nikhat Zareen at 4:30 PM and Sunil Singh Mayanglambam at 5 PM.
Who else is within the Indian squad for the Asian Games 2023?
In the earlier version in Jakarta 2018, the Indian contingent consisted of 570 athletes and achieved its best-ever Asian Games efficiency, securing a complete of 70 medals – 16 gold, 23 silver, and 31 bronze. With an expanded contingent dimension, hopes are excessive for an much more spectacular medal tally.
Historically, athletics has contributed considerably to India’s medal rely on the Asian Games, accounting for 254 out of a complete of 672 medals. Once once more, monitor and discipline occasions will take centre stage at Hangzhou 2023, with India fielding its largest-ever contingent of 68 athletes in any sport.
The Indian athletics squad in Hangzhou contains outstanding athletes like Neeraj Chopra, the reigning world, Olympic, and Asian Games champion in males’s javelin throw, Avinash Sable, a silver medallist within the Commonwealth Games males’s 3000m steeplechase, and Jyothi Yarraji, a rising star in ladies’s hurdles race.
India can also be marking its presence in cricket on the Asian Games. Men’s and ladies’s illustration might be seen in soccer and hockey as nicely. The boxing crew, led by world champion Nikhat Zareen and Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain, together with the wrestling crew that includes Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia and Antim Panghal, are additionally robust contenders for medals.
The capturing squad, together with abilities like Manu Bhaker and Rudrankksh Patil, is anticipated to carry out nicely. Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu and badminton star PV Sindhu, each Olympic medalists, can even be competing in Hangzhou, alongside archery world champions Aditi Gopichand Swami and Ojas Pravin Deotale.
Hangzhou 2023 additionally supplies a possibility to safe 74 Paris 2024 Olympic quotas, distributed throughout numerous sports activities, together with archery, creative swimming, boxing, breaking, hockey, trendy pentathlon, crusing, tennis, and water polo.
