A lot of action awaits Indian sports fans as the country will kickstart its campaigns in sports like Boxing, Chess, Hockey, Esports, Shooting, Tennis and many more on Day 1 19th edition of Asian Games at Hangzhou on Sunday (September 24).
In all Indian team will be active in 18 sports throughout the day. India could also their medal's account on September 24 given India could vie in the finals of nine events, with 5 finalists already confirmed in the Rowing.
Check Asian Games 2023 LIVE UPDATES of India events on September 24 here
India in Medal Events (9):
*5 in Rowing: Already Qualified for Final
*1 in Shooting (If we qualify)
*3 in Swimming (If we qualify)
Below is the schedule for day six:
Boxing
Women’s 54kg Round of 16: Preeti Pawar (IND) vs Silina Alhasanat (JOR) - 11:45 AM
Women’s 50kg Round of 32: Nikhat Zareen (IND) vs Thi Tam Nguyen (VIE) - 4:30 PM
Cricket
Women’s semi-final 1: India vs Bangladesh - 6:30 AM IST
Chess
Men’s Individual rounds 1 and 2 (Vidit Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi) - 12:30 PM onwards
Women’s individual rounds 1 and 2 (Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli) - 12:30 PM onwards
Esports
FC Online Round of 32 and bracket matches (Charanjot Singh and Karman Singh Tikka) - 8:00 AM onwards
Football
Women’s first round Group B: India vs Thailand - 1:30 PM
Men’s first round Group A: India vs Myanmar - 5:00 PM
Fencing
Men’s foil individual (Dev and Bibish Kathiresan) - 6:30 AM onwards
Women’s epee individual (Ena Arora and Taniksha Khatri) - 10:00 AM onwards
Hockey
Preliminary Men’s Pool A: India vs Uzbekistan - 8:45 AM
Modern Pentathlon
Men’s team: Mayank Vaibhav Chaphekar - 3:00 PM
Rugby sevens
Women’s Pool F: India vs Hong Kong China - 10:00 AM
Women’s Pool F: India vs Japan - 3:35 PM
Rowing
Women’s lightweight double sculls Final B (Kiran, Anshika Bharti) - 6:30 AM
Medal event: Men’s lightweight double sculls Final A (Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh) - 7:10 AM
Medal event: Men’s double sculls Final A (Parminder Singh, Satnam Singh) - 8:00 AM
Medal event: Women’s coxless four Final A (Aswathi PB, Mrunamayee Nilesh S, Thangjam Priya Devi, Rukmani) - 8:20 AM
Medal event: Men coxless pair Final A (Babu Lal Yadav, Lekh Ram) - 8:40 AM
Medal event: Men’s coxed eight Final A (Charanjeet Singh, DU Pande, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neeraj, Neetesh Kumar, Ashish, Bheem Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Punit Kumar) - 9:00 AM
Sailing
Qualifying races in multiple categories (multiple athletes) - 8:30 AM onwards
Shooting
Women’s 10m air rifle qualification, individual final and team final (Ashi Chouksey, Mehuli Ghosh, Ramita) - 6:00 AM onwards
Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol qualification phase 1 (Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh) - 6:30 AM onwards
Swimming
Men’s 100m freestyle heats and final (Anand AS, Tanish George Matthew) - 7:30 AM onwards
Men’s 100m backstroke heats and final (Sriharni Nataraj, Utkarsh Santosh Patil) - 7:30 AM onwards
Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats and final (Janhvi Choudhary, Dhinidhi Desinghu, Maana Patel, Shivangi Sarma) - 7:30 AM onwards
Tennis
Men’s doubles round 1: India 2 vs Nepal 1 - 9:30 AM onwards
Men’s singles round 1: Sumit Nagal (IND) vs Marco Ho Tin Leung (MAC) - 9:30 AM onwards
Table Tennis
Women’s team round of 16: India vs Thailand - 7:30 AM
Men’s team round of 16: India vs Kazakhstan - 9:30 AM
Volleyball
Men’s classification 1st-6th: India vs Japan - 12:00 PM
Wushu
Men's changquan final (Anjul Namdeo, Suraj Singh Mayanglambam) - 6:30 AM
Men’s 56kg 1/8 final: Sunil Singh Mayanglambam (IND) vs Arnel Mandal (PHI) - 5:00 PM onwards