Page 19 - Sports

Asian Games: India to face Pakistan in men's volleyball match for 5th-place

According to Olympics.com, the match between India and Pakistan will start at 4:00 PM Indian Standard Time

I had tears in my eyes: Smriti Mandhana on winning Asian Games gold medal

Mandhana said that it was a very special moment for her and was happy to contribute to India's medal tally in the multi-sport event

Asian Games: Tennis players Rohan Bopanna-Rutuja Bhosale move to next round

The Indian duo won the match in straight sets 6-2, 6-4 in just 1:04 minutes at the HOC Tennis Centre

Asian Games: Indian men's 3x3 basketball team opens campaign with win

Taking on the more fancied Uzbeks in the 3x3 basketball match, the Indian women competed hard but eventually came out on the losing side

We won, we feel proud: Women cricketers on historic Asian Games gold

A fiery spell by Titas Sandhu and tight spin bowling from Deepti Sharma and Devika Vaidya helped India defend a modest total of 117 runs

Asian Games: Manipur's Naorem Devi confirms bronze for India in Wushu

At the last edition of the Asian Games, India's 13-member Wushu contingent returned with four bronze medals

PM hails women cricket team for Asian Games gold, lauds other winners

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday congratulated India's women cricket team for winning the gold medal at the Asian Games. Modi also congratulated the 10m air rifle men's team for winning the gold medal at the Games and lauded the performance of other medal-winners and players as well. "What a grand show by our cricket team as they clinch Women Cricket gold at Asian Games. The country rejoices in their incredible achievement," he said. "Our daughters are keeping tricolour flying high in the sporting arena too with their talent, grit, skill and teamwork. Congratulations for your great victory," he added. Lauding the gold-winning air rifle team, he said, "Our fantastic shooters from the 10m Air Rifle Men's Team, Rudrankksh Patil, Divyansh Panwar, and Aishwary Pratap Tomar have won the gold in truly awe inspiring manner as they did so while shattering the world record." He saluted the champions for their fantastic display of skill and determination and wished that they keep reach

Asian Games: Ankita, Rutuja reach pre-quarterfinals stage in tennis singles

In her round of 32 match, Ankita defeated Uzbekistan's Sabrina Olimjonova by 6-0, 6-0 in two straight sets in a matter of 51 minutes. She captured both the sets in less than 30 minutes

Our Rowers have done it again: Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur

Anurag Thakur took to his official X account and showered praise on Satnam Singh, Parminder Singh, Sukhmeet Singh, and Jakar Khan who were a part of India's Men's Quadruple Sculls team

Asian Games: 'A proud moment', says Shooter Tomar on his double-win

Aishwary was part of the Indian team which won a gold at the Men's 10 Metre Air Rifle Team event earlier today and he also notched a bronze medal in the individual event of the same category

Asian Games: Sidhu finishes fourth in 25m rapid fire pistol shooting event

The Indian rapid-fire pistol shooting trio of Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu and Adarsh Singh secured a bronze medal in the 25m rapid-fire pistol team men's event

Asian Games 2023: Indian rowers clinch another bronze, total tally at 4

Indian rowers Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar and Ashish Goliyan bagged a bronze in men's fours event at the Asian Games here on Monday. Lying fourth in the final 500metre of the 2000m race, the quartet showed superb coordination to finish third with 6:10.81s, and was pipped by China (6:10.04) by a fraction of seconds. Uzbekistan took the top spot in the podium with a timing of 6:04.96. Indian rower Balraj Panwar however missed out on a maiden Asian Games podium, finishing fourth in the men's single sculls. The 24-year-old from Karnal, who was among the top-three at the 1500-mark, faltered in the final 500m to slip to fourth place with a timing of 7:08.79s. He finished less than nine seconds behind Hong Kong's Hin Chun Chiu who took the bronze medal (7:00.55). China's Liang Zang secured the gold with 6:57.06, while Japan's Ryuta Arakawa (6:59.79) and Hong Kong's Hin Chun Chiu finished with silver and bronze respectively. With this Indian rowers have two silver and four

Asian Games: Indian 10m air rifle team wins gold with world record score

The Indian men's 10m air rifle team shot down gold with a world record score on the second day of shooting competition at the Asian Games here on Monday. The team of world champion Rudrankksh Patil, Olympian Divyansh Panwar and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar aggregated 1893.7 in the qualification round to better the world record of 1893.3 set by the Chinese set less than a month back at the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. Rudrankksh shot 632.5, Tomar 631.6 and Panwar 629.6 to aggregate the world record score. South Korea clinched the silver with an aggregate of 1890.1, while China won the bronze with a score of 1888.2.

Jay Shah lauds women's cricket team for winning gold at Asian Games

Smriti Mandhana (46) and Jemimah Rodrigues (42) played valuable knocks for India and Rajeshwari Gayakwad and Devika Vaidya also contributed with wickets apart from the quality spell of Titas Sadhu

Obtained primary goal: Stimac on reaching football round 16 in Asian Games

Stimac took to X and mentioned that the players slept in airports and then completed recovery sessions at a park in China before taking part in the event

Virat one of greats, no chance of stealing number 3 spot from him: Iyer

India outplayed Australia with both bat and ball to clinch the three-match ODI series 2-0 after winning the second match by 99 runs through the Duckworth-Lew-Lew-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method

India heading to ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 as number one ODI side

India is placed at the top spot with 117 rating points, while Pakistan sit at second with 115 rating points. Australia, on the other hand, slipped further and is third with 110 points

Asian Games women's cricket: India vs Sri Lanka Gold medal game at 11:30 am

Sri Lanka deny yet another India vs Pakistan final as the women's team beat Pakistan women's cricket team in the semifinal of Asian Games 2023 to set up summit clash with India

Indian women go down to Thailand 0-1, fail to enter knockout stage

The Indian women's football team failed to qualify for the knockout stage of the Asian Games after their 0-1 defeat to Thailand here on Sunday. Indian side fought bravely but a 52nd minute goal from Thongrong Parichat helped Thailand to emerge winner in their Group B match. India had lost their Asian Games opener to Chinese Taipei 1-2. The defeat against Thailand also ended their chances of finishing among the three second placed teams, who will enter the knockouts along with five top-ranked sides, from five groups. But India made a composed start to the match and even looked the better side, creating a series of chances. Anju Tamang came up with the first promising move for the Indians in the 11th minute from the right flank before her low cross was intercepted. Five minutes later, Manisha Kalyan too created a couple of chances in the company of Bala Devi and Dangmei Grace, but they failed to yield any result. In the 25th minute, Manisha saw her shot getting blocked by the Thai

Indian fencer Taniksha Khatri goes down in QF, misses medal narrowly

India narrowly missed out on a medal in Asian Games fencing when Taniksha Khatri lost to world No 2 Man Wai Vivian Kong of Hong Kong 7-15 in individual epee quarterfinal here on Sunday. Khatri, who won her three pool matches to qualify for the knockout round, had seven touches but her opponent was superior and sealed the issue to make the semifinals. A quarterfinal win would have guaranteed at least a bronze medal for the Indian who out-performed her teammate Ena Arora by just four points (15-11) in the round of 32. Khatri then prevailed over Uzbekistan's Shakhzoda Egamberdieva 15-10. Earlier in the pool matches, Khatri defeated Ivy Claire Dinoy of Philippines (5-1), Zolboo Ochirkhuyag of Mongolia (5-0) and Yemen's Samah Abdullah Musleh Alshami 5-1. Her only two losses were to Singapore's Elle Meihui Koh (15) and South Korea's Sera Song 35. The knock-outs have three rounds of three-minute each and the fencer who completes 15 touches is adjudged the winner. The pool matches on th