Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 23 (ANI): The Indian ladies’s kabaddi workforce continued its successful run on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026, defeating Iran 37-23 of their group-stage match on Wednesday.
India made a sluggish begin and trailed Iran 9/11 within the first half earlier than making a powerful comeback. The Indian workforce turned the momentum round to take a 19-15 lead on the finish of the primary half.
Bhavna Devi performed a key function with essential tackles, whereas Pooja contributed necessary factors to assist India preserve management of the competition.
India prolonged its lead within the second half and comfortably secured a 37-23 victory over Iran. The win marked India’s second consecutive victory within the ladies’s kabaddi competitors. Earlier, the Indian workforce defeated Bangladesh 42-21 in its opening match. India ladies face Japan tomorrow, Thursday.
Meanwhile, India secured a medal in capturing and warranted one other in comfortable tennis, whereas athletes throughout rowing, canoe dash and desk tennis produced notable performances on an action-packed day on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026.
The Indian ladies’s skeet workforce of Raiza Dhillon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Maheshwari Chauhan gained the bronze medal after ending third within the workforce occasion with a mixed rating of 331. China gained gold with 346 factors, whereas Kazakhstan claimed silver.
In comfortable tennis, Jay Meena assured India of its first-ever Asian Games medal within the sport after defeating Philippines’ Sherwin Nuguit in an exciting males’s singles quarter-final. Meena registered a 4-3 victory to enter the semi-finals, with all semi-finalists assured a medal.
Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker completed fifth within the ladies’s 10m air pistol particular person remaining after reaching the medal spherical. Suruchi Inder Singh and Esha Singh missed out on qualification for the ultimate.
India additionally made progress in rowing occasions. Balraj Panwar certified for the boys’s single sculls remaining after ending third in his warmth, whereas Satnam Singh and Salman Khan superior to the boys’s double sculls remaining after ending second of their warmth.
The males’s kayak 4 500m workforce comprising Harshwardhan Shaktawat, Varinder Singh, L Naocha Singh Oinam and Arun Singh additionally certified for the canoe dash remaining after ending third in Heat 1. Megha Pradeep progressed to the ladies’s canoe single 200m semi-final, whereas Parvathy Geetha and Phairembam Soniya Devi certified for the ladies’s kayak double 500m semi-final.
In rowing, Gurbani Kaur, Aleena Anto, Tendenthoi Haobijam and Poonam completed sixth total within the ladies’s 4 heats and secured qualification for Final A. Jaswinder Singh and Nitin Kumar completed fourth within the males’s pair heats and can compete in Final B.
In swimming, Benedicton Beniston completed thirteenth total within the males’s 100m butterfly heats, whereas Sajan Prakash didn’t begin the occasion. Vedaant Madhavan and Aneesh Sunil didn’t advance from the boys’s 200m freestyle heats after ending nineteenth and seventeenth, respectively.
Indian paddlers additionally registered wins in combined doubles. Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade defeated Maldives’ Mohamed Ismail and Fathimath Ali, whereas Manush Shah and Diya Chitale overcame Sri Lanka’s Chanul Kulappuwawadu and Bimandee Swarna.
In sepaktakraw, India defeated the Philippines 2-1 within the males’s workforce regu Group B match however missed out on qualification for the following stage. (ANI)