ASIAN GAMES 2018, DAY 3 LATEST UPDATE: End of the first quarter. India leading the match against Kazakhstan 5-0. Looks like they won't trouble winning this game.
Day 3, Schedule: Following is the schedule of Indian contingent on the third day of the Asian Games.
Archery
Men's Recurve Team Event: Atanu Das, Jagdish Chaudhary, Sukhchain Singh, Vishwas
Women's Recurve Team Event: Deepika Kumari, Promila Daimary, Ankita Bhakat, Laxmirani Majhi
Artistic Gymnastics
Women: Dipa Karmakar, Pranati Das, Aruna Reddy, Mandira Chowdhury, Pranati Nayak 2:30 PM (Qualification)
Bridge
Men's qualification
Mixed team qualification
Supermixed team qualification (All events start at 9 am)
Fencing
Women's Epee individual: 9 AM
Handball
Women's: India vs DPR Korea (1PM)
Hockey
Women's: India vs Kazakhstan 7 PM
Kabaddi
Women: India vs Sri Lanka 8 am ; India vs Indonesia 11:20 am
Men's: India vs Thailand 4 pm
Rowing
Men's singles sculls Repechages 8 am
Women's pair Repechages 7:50 am
Men's lightweights four Repechages 9am
Sepak Takraw
Women's team Regu: India vs Thailand 10:30 am
Shooting
Men: Abhishek Verma, Saurabh Chaudhary 10m air pistol qualification 8 am
Finals (9:45 AM)
Mixed team event:
Lakshay, Shreyasi Singh Trap qualification 8:30 am (Final 3:00 pm
Swimming
Anshul Kothari, Virdhawal Khade 50m freestyle heats 8:06 am
Tennis
Round of 16 (Men and women)
Volleyball
Women: India vs Vietman 9 AM
Wrestling
Men's (Greco Roman):
Gyanender (60 kg) , Manish (67 kg)
Women's: (Freestyle)
Divya Kakran (68 kg), Kiran (72 kg).
Updated Date: Aug 21, 2018 21:29 PM
Highlights
Roshibina Devi Naorem wins 2-0!
The Indian makes quick work of her opponent to reach the semi-finals of the Women's Sanda 60kg!
Naorem is now assured to win a medal, with both losing semi-finalists winning a bronze.
Artistic Gymnastics
Wrestling - Women's Freestyle 68 kg Bronze Medal
Men's 50m freestyle swimming final
India's Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan trounce Kadchapanan N and Trongcharoenchaik of Thailand 6-3, 6-1 to enter the quarter-finals of the men's doubles event.
Meanwhile, India's Sumit Nagal and Ramkumar Ramanathan battled past Chinese Taipei duo Chen T and Peng H 7-6(5), 7-6(2) to enter the quarter-finals of the men's doubles event.
Shooter Sanjeev Rajput wins India's eighth medal after bagging silver in men's 50m rifle 3 position event.
India's Sanjeev Rajput wins SILVER in shooting
India's Gyanender outmuscles Thailand's Wiratul Piyabut 10-2 in men's Greco-Roman 60kg event
Heartbreak for India’s Karman Kaur Thandi as she goes down fighting 6-2, 4-6, 6-7(4) against Chinese Taipei’s Liang En-Shou in the Round of 16 clash
Domination continues...
India women's kabaddi team registered another dominating win, this time overwhelming hosts Indonesia 54-22
Earlier in the day, India's Ankita Raina eased past Japan's Hozumi Eri 6-1, 6-2 to enter the quarter-finals of the women's singles event.
The shooting stars of India
Gold medallist Saurabh Chaudhary on the right and bronze for Abhishek Verma
Sixteen-year-old Saurabh Choudhary wins GOLD
Abhishek Verma wins BRONZE
In case if you are wondering, here's how the medals tally looks like: India at Asian Games so far
21:29 (IST)
A good day for India at the Asian Games. It started with Saurabh Chaudhary clinching gold medal in the 10m Air Pistol event while Abhishek Verma winning bronze in the same. Another shooter, Sanjeev Rajput won silver medal in Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions while wrestler Divya Kakran won her bronze medal bout by technical superiority.
Apart from that, the Indian wushu contingent guaranteed four medals for the country.
Thanks for joining with us today and we will back again tomorrow with the blog. Until then, good bye!
20:48 (IST)
Pardeep Kumar couldn't assure a fifth Sanda medal for India, as he struggled to hold off a determined Puja Riyaya, despite making a strong start and winning the first round.
20:44 (IST)
Wushu
20:39 (IST)
Wushu
One point each to Pardeep Kumar and Puja Riyaya. Time's running out.
20:28 (IST)
The last of India's Sanda contingent plays next
Pardeep Kumar faces Puja Riyaya in the Men's Sanda 70kg quarter-finals.
He had earlier beaten Mirzodalerkhon Khurshedzoda 2-0 in the round of 16.
20:16 (IST)
Women's Hockey
Udita - 1
Neha Goyal - 1
Navneet Kaur - 3
Vandana Kataria - 3
Lillima Minz - 2
Navjot Kaur - 2
Gurjit Kaur - 4
Deep Grace Ekka - 1
20:06 (IST)
Medal update
India have assured yet another medal in Wushu, this one coming courtesy of Narender Grewal.
Grewal dispatched his opponent Akhmal Rakhimov 2-0 to enter the Men's Sanda 65kg semi-finals.
19:57 (IST)
Women's Hockey
19:52 (IST)
Surya Bhanu Partap Singh wins!
India's excellent run in the Wushu quarter-finals continues as Surya Bhanu Partap Singh beats his opponent from the Philippines to enter the Men's Sanda 60kg semi-finals.
Another medal assured.
19:49 (IST)
Women's Hockey
19:30 (IST)
Wushu
Up next, Surya Bhanu Pratap Singh takes on Jean Claude Saclag in the Men's Sanda 60kg Quarter-finals.
Surya Bhanu Pratap Singh beat Abdul Haris Sofyan:flag-id: 2-1 in the round of 16.
19:16 (IST)
Women's Hockey
19:09 (IST)
Santosh Kumar wins!
Another medal is assured for India, as Santosh Kumar reaches the semi-final of the Men's Sanda 56kg.
18:53 (IST)
Women's Hockey
18:49 (IST)
Wushu
Coming up next, India's Santosh Kumar takes on Phithak Paokrathok in the Men's Sanda 56kg quarter-finals.
Kumar beat Zaid Ali Ali Wazea of Yemen 2-0 in the round of 16.
18:43 (IST)
Women's Hockey
18:39 (IST)
Women's Hockey
18:35 (IST)
Women's Hockey
Meanwhile, Indian women's hockey team's match against Kazakhstan has started. Early dominance from the Indians.
18:33 (IST)
Divya Kakran with the bronze medal
She became the third Indian wrestler to win a medal at ongoing Asian Games. In the bronze-medal bout, she beat her Taiwan's Wenling Chen 10-0 and won the medal by technical superiority.
18:26 (IST)
Roshibina Devi Naorem wins 2-0!
The Indian makes quick work of her opponent to reach the semi-finals of the Women's Sanda 60kg!
Naorem is now assured to win a medal, with both losing semi-finalists winning a bronze.
18:17 (IST)
Wushu
Up next, India's Roshibina Devi Naorem takes on Mubashra of Pakistan in the Women's Sanda 60kg Quarterfinals.
18:15 (IST)
Artistic Gymnastics
18:04 (IST)
Artistic Gymnastics
17:58 (IST)
Artistic Gymnastics
17:35 (IST)
Wrestling - Women's Freestyle 68 kg Bronze Medal
17:30 (IST)
Wrestling - Women's Freestyle 68 kg Bronze Medal
Brilliant from Divya Kakran as she has already taken a 6-0 lead.
17:30 (IST)
Wrestling - Women's Freestyle 68 kg Bronze Medal
India's Divya Kakran takes on Taiwan's Chen Wenling.
17:28 (IST)
Artistic Gymnastics
This means Dipa Karmakar cannot make it to the final as only two athletes from each country allowed in the apparatus final.
17:17 (IST)
Artistic Gymnastics
The second rotation of Artistic Gymnastics sees India drop a few ranks to 6th in Subdivision 3 after a couple of errors on the uneven bars.
17:03 (IST)
Tennis - Mixed doubles Round of 32
In an absolutely thrilling contest, the Indian duo stepped up when it was required and secured their progression to the Mixed Doubles round of 16.
17:02 (IST)
Swimming
Virdhawal Khade finished fourth in the 50m freestyle final, missing being on the podium by only a hundredth of a second. Japan’s Shunichi Nakao edged him to the bronze medal perhaps by the thinnest of margins. China’s Yu Hexin was ahead of competition, clocking 22.11 seconds to Japan’s Katsumi Nakamura’s 22.20 seconds for silver. It seemed like a deadheat for bronze but the cameras and technology ruled in favour of the 22-year-old Nakao Shinichi.
By clocking a stunning 22.43 seconds in the heats this morning, the Virdhawal Khade had broken his own National record, a full nine years after he set it at 22.55 seconds in the Asian Age Group Championships in Tokyo. Along the way, he won four medals in the 2009 Asian Championships in Foshan, China, and the 50m butterfly bronze in Asian Games in Guangzhou the next year.
He was looking to become India’s first multiple medallist in the Asian Games. India’s individual medallists in Asian Games swimming: Sachin Nag (100m freestyle gold, 1951), Kanti Shah (100m backstroke silver, 1951), Bimal Chandra (400m freestyle bronze, 1951), Jehangir Naigamwala (200m breaststroke bronze, 1951), Khajan Singh (200m butterfly, silver, 1986), Virdhawal Khade (50m butterfly, 2010) and Sandeep Sejwal (50m breaststroke bronze, 2014).
In 2012, as a 21-year-old, he was appointed Deputy Collector by the State Government of Maharashtra and returned to swimming after a good four years. Had he repeated his time from the heats, Virdhawal Khade may well have become the first Indian swimmer to win multiple individual medals in Asian Games.
17:00 (IST)
Archery update
In the mixed pair event, Deepika Kumari and Atanu Das were ranked eighth with a combined score of 1309 points and will meet Mongolian pair of Urantungalag Bishindee and Otgonbold Baatarkhuyan in the second round. If they win this match, they will most likely run into the Korean pair of Oh Jin Hyek and Chae Young Kang.
16:59 (IST)
Archery update
Atanu Das earned himself the 14th rank in the men’s recurve competition featuring as many as 79 archers. His 72-arrow total of 660 was quite below his season’s best of 676 but the 7 that he shot with his final dragged him down a couple of ranks. His first half score of 332 was followed by 328 and included as many as 26 10s.
Vishwash, 33, was the second best Indian on view today, scoring 658 for the 17th place. Jagdish Choudhary (638, 39th place) and Sukhchain Singh (631, 46th place) were their other compatriots in the competition.
16:56 (IST)
On to the women's artistic gymnastics
Dipa Karmakar was in action in the first rotation of subdivision 3, as the Indian team took on the vault.
16:51 (IST)
Tennis - Mixed doubles Round of 32
Rohan Bopanna and Ankita Raina are clinging on for dear life with the score at 7-6 to the Koreans.
16:47 (IST)
For Khade and the bronze, the difference was just 0.01 seconds. Heartbreaking indeed for the Indian swimmer.
16:44 (IST)
Tennis - Mixed doubles Round of 32
Bopanna and Raina lose 6-2 as the duo of Kim and Jeamoon make it level.
16:43 (IST)
Men's 50m freestyle swimming final
16:36 (IST)
Men's 50m freestyle swimming final
India's hope Virdhawal Khade is in action. The swim will start in few minutes.
16:32 (IST)
Well done, boys!
16:30 (IST)
Tennis - Mixed doubles Round of 32
Their Korean opponents Jeamoon and Kim have fought back to pile the pressure on to the Indians.
16:27 (IST)
Men's kabaddi Group A match
16:26 (IST)
Men's recurve archery individual and team ranking round has come to an end. Here's the list of Indians, their ranks and scores:
Atanu Das - 14 - 332 (score)
Viswash - 17 - 328
Jagdish Choudhary - 31 - 314
Sukhchain Singh - 46 - 306
India - 8th - 1956
India (mixed team) - 8th - 1309
16:13 (IST)
Tennis - Mixed doubles Round of 32
The Indian duo recovered from a sluggish start to win three games in a row and clinch the first set.
16:13 (IST)
Men's kabaddi Group A match
16:07 (IST)
Tennis - Mixed doubles Round of 32
Rohan Bopanna and Ankita Raina find their feet and rally to tie the first set at 3-3!
16:01 (IST)
Men's kabaddi Group A match
15:58 (IST)
Tennis - Mixed doubles Round of 32
We're still in the early minutes of the game however, and the Indians have shown that they can match the intensity of the Koreans.
15:51 (IST)
Men's kabaddi Group A match
So far so dominating from India. They have taken a 11-point lead in the first half. The score reads 18-11 to India.
15:43 (IST)
Meanwhile, Indian men's kabaddi team is playing their group A match against against Thalland. It has been a good start for India.