Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 23 (ANI): India’s males’s kabaddi workforce continued its unbeaten run on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026, registering a dominant 48-25 victory over Bangladesh in its Group A match on Wednesday.
The Indian workforce managed proceedings to safe its third consecutive win within the group stage and can tackle Chinese Taipei in its last group match on Thursday, based on ESPN.
India’s ladies’s kabaddi workforce additionally continued its profitable run, defeating Iran 37-23 in its Group A encounter earlier on Wednesday.
The ladies’s workforce made a sluggish begin and trailed 11th of September earlier than turning the competition round to take a 19-15 lead. Bhavna Devi performed a key position with essential tackles, whereas Pooja contributed vital factors as India prolonged its benefit within the second half to seal its second successive victory.
India’s ladies’s workforce had defeated Bangladesh 42-21 in its opening match and can face Japan on Thursday.
India’s medal tally stood at 10, together with one gold medal every in cricket, smooth tennis and combined martial arts, together with seven medals in taking pictures. India have been positioned eighth within the standings, whereas China led the desk with 60 medals.
In squash, Abhay Singh superior to the boys’s singles Round of 16 after defeating Thailand’s Arkaradet Arkarahirunya 11-1, 11-0, 11-2 within the Round of 32.
India’s curiosity within the males’s sabre particular person occasion ended after Gisho Nidhi Kumaresan misplaced 11-15 to Kazakhstan’s Artyom Sarkissyan within the Round of 16. Kumaresan had taken an early 4-1 lead, however his opponent fought again to guide 8-7 on the finish of the primary interval earlier than sealing the competition.
India additionally secured two bronze medals in taking pictures, with the ladies’s skeet workforce of Raiza Dhillon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Maheshwari Chauhan, and the boys’s skeet workforce of Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Ahmed Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill ending third of their respective occasions.
Jay Meena received India’s maiden Asian Games medal in smooth tennis, claiming bronze within the males’s singles after dropping his semi-final to Japan’s Takuya Kurosaka.
In boxing, Ankush defeated Bahrain’s Hamsa Vogel within the males’s 80kg Round of 32.
In rowing, Balraj Panwar certified for the boys’s single sculls last, whereas Satnam Singh and Salman Khan superior to the boys’s double sculls last. India’s ladies’s 4 crew additionally certified for Final A.
The males’s kayak 4 500m workforce reached the ultimate, whereas Megha Pradeep and Parvathy Geetha-Phairembam Soniya Devi superior to the ladies’s canoe single 200m and kayak double 500m semi-finals, respectively. Prasanna Kumar CS and Prohit Baroi additionally certified for the boys’s kayak double 500m semi-finals. (ANI)