Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 28 (ANI): A busy medal schedule awaits India on Monday as the lads’s cricket workforce begins its Asian Games 2026 marketing campaign, whereas Avinash Sable, Lovlina Borgohain, Manu Bhaker and several other different main athletes look so as to add to the nation’s medal tally on Day 9 of the continental showpiece.
India, which ended Day 8 with 37 medals — 4 gold, 16 silver and 17 bronze — will start its males’s cricket marketing campaign on the quarter-final stage in opposition to Afghanistan on the Korogi Athletic Park, in line with Olympics.com.
The defending champions will face the Hangzhou 2023 silver medallists, with India seeking to proceed its gold-medal run after defeating Afghanistan within the ultimate three years in the past.
Athletics will present a number of medal alternatives for India, with 9 finals that includes Indian athletes scheduled for the night session.
Avinash Sable will likely be one of many greatest sights as he returns to the 3000m steeplechase. The Hangzhou silver medallist is making his comeback from an extended harm layoff and can look to problem for a podium end.
The males’s javelin throw will even be intently watched within the absence of defending champion Neeraj Chopra. Commonwealth Games medallist Yash Vir Singh and Rohit Yadav will carry India’s problem as they appear to increase the nation’s gold-medal streak within the occasion.
India has gained the lads’s javelin gold on the final two Asian Games via Chopra. Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Tharanga and Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem are among the many main contenders within the occasion.
Hangzhou silver medallist Murali Sreeshankar and David Patturaj Solomon will compete within the males’s lengthy leap, whereas Gulveer Singh will line up within the 1500m and Parul Chaudhary within the girls’s 5000m. Both Gulveer and Parul have already gained medals on the ongoing Games.
The athletics programme will even function the ladies’s discus throw, males’s and ladies’s 400m hurdles and ladies’s 4x100m relay.
In boxing, Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain will tackle Republic of Korea’s Seong Suyeon within the girls’s 75kg quarter-final. A victory would guarantee Lovlina of a medal. Priya Ghanghas and Kapil Pokhariya are additionally one win away from securing podium finishes.
Shooting will see Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh and Rahi Sarnobat compete within the girls’s 25m pistol qualification, with Manu aiming to safe a person medal in her ultimate alternative on the Games.
The squash competitors strikes into the workforce occasions, with singles finalists Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh seeking to bounce again after their silver-medal finishes.
India’s archers will even be in motion within the particular person compound occasions, with Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Chikitha Taniparthi competing within the girls’s draw, whereas Sahil Jadhav and Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru will function within the males’s competitors.
In hockey, the Indian males’s workforce will face Bangladesh in its ultimate Pool A match. Pincky Balhara will signify India in kurash, whereas volleyball and tennis competitions will even proceed with the Indian contingent in motion.
With a number of medal occasions lined up throughout athletics, boxing and taking pictures, India will look to show a packed Day 9 schedule into one other productive day after including seven medals on Sunday. (ANI)