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India’s young shooters asian games The process of winning gold in Asian Games 2023 continued on Friday as the country won a total of eight medals with two gold, four silver and two bronze on the sixth day. India is at fourth position in the medal table after winning a total of 33 medals including eight gold, 12 silver and 13 bronze. China is at the top by winning 200 medals including 105 gold, 63 silver and 32 bronze. Indian shooters gave their best performance till date by adding two gold and three silver.

Shooters broke Doha’s record

In the last six days, Indian shooters have won 18 medals including six gold and seven silver. Earlier, India’s best performance in the shooting event of the Asian Games was in the 2006 Doha Games when it won 14 medals.

India’s excellent performance in rifle

In the men’s 50m rifle three positions, India won the gold medal with a world record as Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar (591), Swapnil Kusale (591) and Akhil Sheoran (587) overcame the Chinese challenge and scored 1769. Palak Gulia and Isha Singh gave a historic performance to each other in the women’s individual 10 meter air pistol event and won gold and silver medals respectively. In the women’s 10 meter air pistol team category, 18-year-old Isha (579), Palak (577) and Divya TS (575) won the silver medal with a total score of 1731. After this, 22 year old Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar won the silver medal in the individual rifle three positions event with a score of 459.7. This is Palak’s first individual medal in an international competition. He scored 242.1 in the final which is a record in the Asian Games. Isha has also won silver in the women’s 25 meter pistol event. Whereas Isha, Manu Bhakar and Rhythm Sangwan won the gold medal in the team event. Isha, who won individual silver in 25 meter pistol on Wednesday, was also a part of the team that won silver in 10 meter air pistol. Isha scored 239.7 in the individual final.

India had to be satisfied with silver in tennis

In the tennis men’s doubles event, Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni lost in the finals and had to settle for a silver medal. However, the mixed doubles pair of Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale has kept India’s hopes of a gold medal in tennis alive by reaching the finals. The pair of Bopanna and Bhosale defeated Chan Hao-Ching and Yu-Hsiu Hsu in the mixed doubles semi-finals of Chinese Taipei. 1, 3 6, 10 Defeated by 4. Chinese Taipei’s Hsu Yu Siu and Jason Jung defeated the second seeded Indian pair in the men’s doubles. 4, 6 Defeated by 4. This is Ramkumar’s first medal in the Asian Games and Myneni’s third medal. He has won men’s doubles silver with Satnam Singh and mixed doubles gold with Sania Mirza at the 2014 Incheon Games. This is India’s first medal in tennis this time. India had won three medals in Jakarta in 2018 but this time it will have to return with only two medals.

Such was the performance in squash

On the strength of the brilliant play of experienced Saurav Ghoshal and Abhay Singh, the Indian men’s squash team won over Malaysia to enter the final in which they will face Pakistan, while the Indian women’s squash team won the bronze medal after losing to Hong Kong in the semi-finals. Saurav and Abhay sealed their ticket to the final by registering identical 3-1 wins against their respective rivals. After winning both the initial matches, Mahesh Mangaonkar did not need to play. The Indian team had won the bronze medal in the last Asian Games. The trio of Joshna Chinappa, Anhat Singh and Tanvi Khanna were defeated 1-2 by Hong Kong. The Indian women’s team had won the silver medal in 2018.

Kiran Baliyan gives bronze to India in shot put

On the opening day of the athletics competition, Kiran Baliyan became the first Indian woman to win a medal in the shot put event of the Asian Games in 72 years by winning a bronze medal. She opened India’s account in athletics by throwing the shot put 17.36 meters in her best third attempt of the day. Kiran thus became the second Indian after Barbara Webster to win a medal in the women’s shot put event at the Asian Games. Anglo-Indian Barbara from Mumbai won the bronze medal in the first edition of the Asiad in New Delhi in 1951. In this event, the second Indian Manpreet Kaur finished fifth with a throw of 16.25 meters.

India’s performance in the race was like this

In the women’s 400 meter race, Himanshi Malik finished fifth in her heat 3 with a timing of 57.82 seconds, due to which she could not qualify for the finals. Among other Indians during the day, Aishwarya Mishra qualified for the finals by finishing second in Heat 1 with a season’s best timing of 52.73 seconds. In the men’s 400 meter race, Mohammad Ajmal qualified for the finals by finishing second in his heat with a timing of 45.76 seconds. Whereas Mohammad Anas Yahiya could not qualify.

Such was the performance in wire shot throw.

In the final of women’s wire shot put event, Tanya Chaudhary (60.50 m) and Rachna Kumari (58.13 m) finished seventh and ninth respectively.

India’s performance in walking

In the morning session, national record holder Priyanka Goswami finished fifth in the women’s 20 km walk with a timing of one hour 43 minutes and seven seconds. In the men’s 20 km event, Vikas Singh finished fifth with a time of 1:27:33 seconds. In this, another Indian Sandeep Singh got ‘disqualified’ during the race.

Zareen secures Paris Olympic quota and medal in boxing

Two-time world champion in boxing Nikhat Zareen secured Paris Olympic quota and medal by reaching the semi-finals of women’s 50 kg category without breaking a sweat. Nikhat’s priority in Hangzhou was to secure an Olympic quota and she achieved this with an RSC (Referee Stoppage) win over Jordan’s Nassar Hanan in the quarterfinals. Nikhat, playing her third match at the Asiad, took less than three minutes to register victory and will now face Thailand’s two-time World Championship bronze medalist Chuthamat Raksat in the semi-finals on Sunday. World Championship bronze medalist Parveen (57 kg) managed to reach the quarterfinals by defeating local favorite Jichun Xu 5-0. Lakshya Chahar was eliminated in the round of 16 in the 80 kg category, losing 1-4 to Omurbek Bekzhigit Ululu of Kyrgyzstan.

India’s brilliant performance in badminton

The Indian men’s badminton team defeated Nepal 3-0 in the quarterfinals and secured a historic medal after 37 years. Lakshya Sen first came on the court, he defeated Prince Dahal 21-5 21-8, after which in the second match, Kidambi Srikanth defeated Sunil Joshi 21-4 21-13. In the third match, Mithun Manjunath won the match with a 21-2 21-17 victory over Bishnu Katuwal. The Indian men’s team has ensured at least a bronze medal and now in the semi-finals the team will face the winner of the match between Indonesia and Korea. But the Indian women’s team was disappointed. The team led by PV Sindhu was eliminated after losing 0-3 to Thailand in the quarter-finals. Two-time Olympic medalist Sindhu suffered a 21-14, 15-21, 14-21 defeat at the hands of Pornpawee Chochuwong in the first singles match. After this, world number 17 pair Trisa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand were defeated by Jongkolphan Kittitharakul and Ravinda P 21-19, 21-5. Ashmita Chaliha was dismissed by Busanan Ongbamrungphan for 21. Defeated by 9,21.16.

Indian women’s hockey team defeated Malaysia 6-0

The Indian women’s hockey team maintained its dominance and registered its second consecutive win by defeating Malaysia 6-0 in the Pool A match. Monica (seventh minute) opened India’s account, after which vice-captain Deep Grace Ekka (eighth), Navneet Kaur (11th), Vaishnavi Vitthal Phalke (15th), Sangeeta Kumari (24th) and Lalremsiami (50th) also scored.

Table Tennis kept medal hopes alive in Table Tennis

Commonwealth Games gold medalist Manika Batra kept her medal hopes alive by reaching the women’s singles quarter-finals in the table tennis event, but Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan had to face defeat in the last-16. Manika confirmed her place in the quarter-finals by defeating Suthasini Sawetabut of Thailand 4-2 (11-7, 6-11, 12-10, 11-13, 12-10, 11-6) in a close match.

Indian golfer Aditi Ashok remains in the race for medal

Indian golfer Aditi Ashok remains in the race for a medal in the individual event with second place by a margin of one shot.

India’s performance in chess was like this

India’s men’s and women’s teams began their campaign with easy wins over Mongolia and Philippines respectively in the chess team event. India’s Sajan Prakash and Advet Page finished fifth and seventh respectively in their finals, ending the country’s swimming campaign without a medal.

India’s journey in cycle race ends

Indian cyclists Aso and David Beckham finished 10th and 11th respectively in the 7th to 12th place finals of the men’s keirin event. India’s 15-member eSports contingent ended its campaign with the exit of the DOTA 2 team.