Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 25 (ANI): India’s Manpreet Kaur received the bronze medal within the girls’s shot put on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 on Friday, whereas compatriot Krishna Jayasankar Menon completed fifth within the occasion.
Manpreet produced her greatest throw of 17.17 metres in her fourth try to safe a spot on the rostrum. China’s Song Jiayuan received the gold with 19.40m, whereas compatriot Zhang Linru claimed silver with 18.14m, in keeping with ESPN.
South Korea’s Jeong Yu Sun completed fourth with 16.78m, whereas Krishna Menon recorded a greatest throw of 16.57m to complete fifth.
The bronze was one among a number of medals secured by India on Day 6 of the Asian Games.
Earlier, shooters Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh received gold within the 10m air pistol blended group occasion, whereas Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil and Niraj Kumar secured silver within the males’s 50m rifle 3 positions group occasion.
In desk tennis, Manush Shah and Diya Chitale secured bronze in blended doubles after reaching the semi-finals, the place they misplaced to China’s Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha.
India’s squash blended doubles pair of Joshana Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar additionally assured the nation of a medal after progressing to the semi-finals. Abhay Singh and Anahat Singh superior to the respective singles semi-finals.
India’s males’s and girls’s kabaddi groups additionally booked their locations within the finals after successful their respective semi-final matches in opposition to Thailand and Nepal.
In hockey, the Indian girls’s group defeated Japan 3-1 of their Pool B encounter.
Elsewhere, swimmer Rishabh Das completed sixth within the males’s 200m backstroke ultimate, whereas weightlifter Seram Nirupama Devi completed seventh within the girls’s 61kg class.
Boxer Preeti’s Asian Games marketing campaign ended within the spherical of 16 after she misplaced 0-5 to North Korea’s Pang Chol Mi.
India’s medal tally stood at 21, comprising two gold, eight silver and 11 bronze medals, putting the nation twelfth within the standings on the time of writing. (ANI)