Asian Games Day 6 Highlights: Historic shot put medal push IND tally to 33

Asian Games Highlights Day 6: India shooters Palak and Esha Singh won Gold and Silver in 10m air pistol women's individual event. India's medal count swells to 33 with 8 Gold, 12 Silver and 13 Bronze

On Day 6 (September 29) of the Asian Games 2023, Indian shooters once again extended the India's medal tally by winning a Gold in Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions team event while Women's shooters won Silver in 10m Air Pistol team event. Indian pair of Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni went down fighting in the Gold medal match as they settle for a Silver in Men's doubles Tennis against the Chinese Taipei pair. In one of a dominance of its kind, India shooter Palak and Esha Singh won a Gold and Silver in Women's 10m air pistol women's individual event. Meanwhile, the Indian women's hockey team will return to action, tennis and squash stars will be eyeing their nation's first medal in the respective events and the athletics events will kick off as India eyes to add more medals to their tally today. India ended the day with a total of 25 medals, which included six gold, eight silver, and 11 bronze. Check 2023 Asian Games India medal tally here

India's medal winners in the Asian Games 2023 so far

Medals: Gold - 8; Silver - 12; Bronze - 12 - Total 32

1. Shooting -- 10m Air Pistol Women's individual event - Palak wins GOLD
2. Shooting  -- 10m Air Pistol Women's individual event - Esha Singh win Silver
3. Shooting - 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men's team- Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Swapnil Suresh Kusale and Akhil Sheoran win GOLD.

4. Shooting - 10m Air Pistol Women's team - Palak, Esha Singh, and Divya TS win Silver
5. Shooting - 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men's (individual event) - Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar wins Silver

6. Tennis -- Men's doubles -- Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan win Silver
7. Squash -- Women's team event -- Tanvi Khanna, Anahat Singh and Joshana Chinnapa win Bronze
8. Shooting -- 10m air Pistol men's team event - Arjun Singh Cheema, Sarabjot Singh and Shiva Narwal win GOLD

9. Wushu --  Sanda 60kg - Roshibina Devi wins Silver
10. Equestrian- Individual Dressage- Anush Agarwalla wins Bronze

11. Shooting -- 50-metre three-position individual event -- Sift Kaur Samra wins GOLD

12. Shooting -- 25m air pistol team event -- Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh and Rythm Sangwan win GOLD

13. Shooting -- 25 m air pistol individual event -- Esha Singh win Silver

14. Shooting- Men's Skeet individual- Anant Jeet Singh Naruka- Silver

15. Shooting -- 50-metre three-position individual event-- Ashi Chouksey wins Bronze

16. Shooting -- Team skeet men's -- Anant Naruka, Gurjaot Singh and Angad Bajwa win Bronze win Bronze

17. Sailing- Men’s Dinghy - ILCA7 - Vishnu Saravanan wins Bronze

18. Shooting - 50-metre three positions team event - Sift Kaur Samra, Ashi Chouksey and Manini Kaushik win Silver

19. Equestrian - Dressage team competition - India wins GOLD

20. Sailing - Girls Dinghy ILCA4 - Neha Thakur wins Silver

21.Sailing - Men's windsurfer RS:X - Eabad Ali wins Bronze

22. Shooting - Men's 10m air rifle team event -- Divyansh Singh Panwar, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Rudrankksh Patil win GOLD

23. Cricket- India women's team beat Sri Lanka by 19 runs to clinch GOLD

24. Rowing - Men's Four event -- Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar and Ashish win Bronze

25. Rowing -- Men's Quadruple Sculls -- Satnam Singh, Parminder Singh, Jakar Khan, Sukhmeet Singh win Bronze

26. Shooting - Men's 10m air rifle - Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar wins Bronze

27. Shooting - Men's Men's 25m rapid fire pistol Team event - Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh win Bronze

28. Rowing - Men’s lightweight double sculls Final A -- Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh win Silver

29. Rowing - Men’s coxed eight Final A - Charanjeet Singh, DU Pande, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neeraj, Neetesh Kumar, Ashish, Bheem Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Punit Kumar win Silver

30. Rowing - Men coxless pair Final A -- Babu Lal Yadav, Lekh Ram win Bronze

31. Shooting -- Women’s 10m air rifle team -- Ashi Chouksey, Mehuli Ghosh, Ramita win Silver

32. Shooting -- Women's 10m air rifle individual event -- Ramita Jindal wins Bronze

33. Athletics- Women's Shotput- Kiran Baliyan- Wins Bronze

The Indian duo of Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale assured India at least a Silver medal in the mixed doubles event as they defeated Chinese pair in the semifinal. In hockey, the Indian Women's Hockey Team is set to take on Malaysia in their second Pool A match. In terms of head-to-head encounters, India enjoys a commanding record against Malaysia. Of the 17 games played between the two sides, India emerged victorious in 16, while only one match ended in a draw. Despite their best efforts, Malaysia has yet to taste victory against the Indian team.
 

India schedule today (September 29) at Asian Games 2023

Sport	Indian athletes	Events	Time (IST)
Athletics	Vikash Singh and Sandeep Kumar	men's 20km (medal event).	Vikash Singh - finished 5th with a time of 1:27:33, Sandeep disqualified
Athletics	Priyanka Goswami	women's 20km (medal event)	Priyanka finishes 5th
Shooting	Swapnil Kusale, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Akhil Sheoran	men's 50m 3 position qualification and team final. (team medal event)	06:30:00
Shooting	Palak, Esha Singh and Divya TS	10m air pistol women's qualification and team final. (team medal event)	06:30:00
Tennis	Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni	men's double final against Chinese Taipei. (medal event)	07:30:00
Table tennis	Manika Batra vs Suthasini Sawettabut (Thailand)	women's singles round of 16 match.	08:15:00
Squash	India's men's and women's	semifinal matches.	8:30 am onwards
Shooting	10m air pistol women's	individual final (medal event).	09:00:00
Table tennis	Manush Shah and Manav Thakkar vs Yew Pang and Izaac Pang (Singapore)	men's doubles round of 16 match.	09:00:00
Table tennis	Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan vs Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin (China)	men's doubles round of 16 match.	09:35:00
Shooting	Men's 50m 3 position final	(medal event)	11:30:00
eSports	India vs Kyrgyzstan in DOTA2 Group A match.	DOTA2 Group A match.	11:30:00
Boxing -	Parveen vs Zichun Xu	men's 57kg round of 16 match.	12:00:00
Tennis	Rohan Boppana and Rutuja Bhosale.	mixed doubles semifinal against Chinese Taipei	After 12:00 pm
Cycling	David Beckham	men's keirin first round heat.	12:06:00
Cycling	Esow Alben in men's keirin first round heat.	-	12:12 pm
eSports	India vs Philippines in DOTA2 Group A match.	DOTA2 Group A match.	12:30:00
Table tennis	Sreeja Akula and Diya Chitale vs Miwa Harimoto and Miyuu Kihara (Japan)	women's doubles round of 16 match.	13:30:00
Boxing -	Lakshya Chahar vs Omurbek Bekzhigit (Kyrgz Republic)	men's 80kg round of 16.	13:35:00
Table tennis	Sutritha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee vs Wanmisa Aueawiriyayothin and Jinnipa Sawettabut	women's doubles round of 16 match.	14:05:00
Handball	India vs China	women's Group B match.	15:30:00
Hockey	India vs Malaysia	women's Pool A match.	16:00:00
Cycling	Niraj Kumar and Harshveer Sekhon	men's Madison final.	16:14:00
Athletics	Aishwarya Mishra	women's 400m heats.	16:30:00
Athletics	Tanya Chaudhary and Rachna Kumari	women's hammer throw final (medal event).	16:30:00
Boxing	Nikhat Zareen vs Hanan Nassar (Jordan)	women's 50kg quarterfinal.	16:45:00
Athletics	Himanshi Malik	women's 400m heats.	16:46:00
Athletics	Muhammed Anas	men's 400m heats.	16:55:00
Athletics	Muhammed Ajmal	men's 400m heats.	17:03:00
3x3 Basketball	India vs China	men's Pool C match.	17:20:00
Basketball	India vs Mongolia	women's Group A match.	17:30:00
Athletics	Manpreet Kaur and Kiran Baliyan	women's shot put final (medal event).	18:15:00
Badminton	Indian women's and men's	teams quarterfinal matches	Underway
onwards	Bridge	Men's and women's team rounds.	06:30:00
Chess -	Men's and women's team	round 1	12:30 pm onwards
Golf -	Pranavi Urs, Avani Prashanth and Aditi Ashok	women's individual and team round	04:00:00
Golf	Anirban Lahiri, SSP Chawrasia, Khalin Joshi and Shubhankar Sharma	men's team and individual round 2.	04:00:00

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7:45 PM

Asian Games 2023 LIVE | First Shotput medal in 72 years for India

 

Women's Shot Put: MEDAL UPDATE. As mentioned in the official commentary, that is India's first women's shot put medal since 1951! End of a 72-year-old wait.

 

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6:44 PM

Asian Games Highlights | Squash India vs Pakistan in final

India defeated Malaysia in the semifinal to set a final date with Pakistan in final.

5:46 PM

Asian Games LIVE | Athletics -- Women's Hammer Throw - Indians disappoint

In the women's Hammer throw event, India's Tanya Choudhary and Rachna Kumari fail spring any surprise as they finishes seventh and 9th.

Tanya's best throw: 60.50 metre
Rachna's best throw: 58.13 metre

5:41 PM

Asian Games LIVE | Hockey - Women's Pool A match - IND 6-0 MAL

India win the game 6-0 against Malaysia.

5:36 PM

Asian Games LIVE | Squash - Men's team semifinal - India 1-0 vs Malaysia

Abhay Singh won the first game after Malaysian player Addeen gave the India a tough fight. Abhay though clinched the game 3-1. 

India leading the Match 1-0.

In the second match of the team event, Saurav Ghosal is leasing 7-3.

5:29 PM

Asian Games LIVE | Hockey - Women's Pool A match - IND 6-0 MAL

India leading 6-0 in the final quarter. 

5:10 PM

Asian Games LIVE | Hockey - Women's Pool A match - India 5-0 Malaysia in 4th quarter

The third quarter goes goalless but India are comfortably leading the match 5-0.

5:05 PM

Asian Games LIVE | Table Tennis - men's singles -- Sharath Kamal goes down fighting

ACHANTA Sharath Kamal vs CHUANG Chih-Yuan - Round of 16

Sharath Kamal goes down fighting in the round of 16 match. After losing the  first two Games, Sharath makes a comeback in third, winning it 11-9. 
 Chinese Taipei's Chih-Yuan wins the 4th game. But Sharath Kamal shows his class in the next two games, winning it 12-10, 11-6. 

But Chinese Taipei player win the final game 11-8.

5:05 PM

Asian Games LIVE | Table Tennis - men's singles -- Sharath Kamal goes down fighting

ACHANTA Sharath Kamal vs CHUANG Chih-Yuan - Round of 16

Sharath Kamal goes down fighting in the round of 16 match. After losing the  first two Games, Sharath makes a comeback in third, winning it 11-9. 
 Chinese Taipei's Chih-Yuan wins the 4th game. But Sharath Kamal shows his class in the next two games, winning it 12-10, 11-6. 

But Chinese Taipei player win the final game 11-8.

4:56 PM

Asian Games LIVE | Boxing - Nikhat Zareen is class apart

Two-time World Champion Nikhat Zareen (50kg) is through to the semifinals of the Asian Games after securing a RSC (Referee stopping the contest) win in the 1st round against Jordan's Hanan Nassar . 

 

With this win Nikhat not only secures the medal but also confirms the first Olympic qouta for the Paris Olympic Games in boxing.
 

4:51 PM

Asian Games LIVE | Boxing - Women's 45-50kg - Nikhat Zareen in the semis, medal assured

NASSAR Hanan (Jordon) vs NIKHAT Zareen (India) - Quarterfinal

Nikhat Zareen is completely dominating the game as match is stopped for the third time for the count. And yes Nikhat has knocked out her opponent in just 90 seconds, confirming a medal for India. She will play the semifinal next. With this, she also confirms a place in Paris Olympics 2023.

4:43 PM

Asian Games LIVE | Boxing - Women's 45-50kg - Nikhat Zareen in action

NASSAR Hanan vs NIKHAT Zareen - Quarterfinal

Nikhat Zareen's match to begin shortly. She is eyeing a semifinal beth and assurance of medal in women's 45-50kg category.

4:42 PM

Asian Games LIVE | Hockey - Women's Pool A match - India 5-0 Malaysia at Half time

India completely dominated Malaysia in the first half.

India 5-0 Malaysia.

4:31 PM

Asian Games LIVE | Hockey - Women's Pool A match - India 5-0 Malaysia in second quarter

After some good defensive play from Malaysia. India's Sangeeta finally ables to find the back of the net.

India 5-0 vs Malaysia

4:24 PM

Asian Games LIVE | Hockey - Women's Pool A match - India 4-0 Malaysia in first quarter

Malaysia are not able to make circle entry as India making brilliant move.