Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 23 (ANI): Olympic medallists Manu Bhaker and Mirabai Chanu will headline India’s marketing campaign on a packed day on the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya on Wednesday, with taking pictures, weightlifting, badminton and several other different disciplines providing medal alternatives, based on Olympics.com.
Double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker will compete within the ladies’s 10m air pistol occasion, aiming so as to add an Asian Games medal to her rising listing of achievements. The Paris 2024 Olympic bronze medallist had missed out on a person medal on the Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023 and can look to make a robust comeback on the continental occasion.
Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Mirabai Chanu may also be in focus as she takes the stage within the ladies’s 49kg weightlifting class. Chanu narrowly missed out on a medal at Hangzhou 2023, ending fourth after an damage prevented her from finishing her closing clear and jerk try.
Coming into the occasion after profitable gold on the just lately concluded Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Chanu will look to hold her momentum and safe a podium end on the Asian Games, the one main multi-sport occasion the place she is but to win a medal.
Shooting will present extra medal possibilities for India, with the skeet shooters finishing their three-day qualification rounds. Anantjeet Singh Naruka will probably be among the many shooters to look at after recovering strongly on the second day following a tough opening spherical.
The Indian males’s badminton crew will face a tricky problem towards the People’s Republic of China within the semi-finals. Lakshya Sen and his teammates secured a medal for India after defeating Japan within the quarter-finals and can now intention to e-book a spot within the gold medal match.
Squash may also start its marketing campaign at Aichi-Nagoya, with Indian gamers that includes in singles first-round matches. Anahat Singh, who has obtained a bye, will start her marketing campaign from Thursday. The singles occasions on the Asian Games function a qualification pathway for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, with quotas accessible for the boys’s and ladies’s champions.
Wushu participant Roshibina Devi will compete within the ladies’s 60kg sanda semi-finals, the place she is assured of profitable her third particular person Asian Games medal in three appearances.
Indian groups may also proceed their hockey and kabaddi group-stage campaigns, whereas boxer Ankush will compete within the males’s 80kg class. Swimming may also provide medal alternatives for Indian athletes on Wednesday.
With a number of medal contenders in motion, India will look to construct on its marketing campaign on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games because the competitors enters one other essential part. (ANI)