Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], October 2 (ANI): Indian sailor Nethra Kumanan secured the bronze medal within the ladies’s dinghy occasion on the Asian Games 2026 on Friday, including one other medal to India’s crusing haul on the Aichi-Nagoya Games.
Nethra recovered strongly within the second and last race of the finals after a tough opening race to complete on the rostrum. She ended degree on factors with Hong Kong’s Stephanie Louise Norton, however her superior head-to-head outcomes towards Norton gave her the bronze medal.
The medal provides to India’s spectacular efficiency in crusing on the Asian Games, with Indian sailors having already gained medals within the males’s and girls’s skiff occasions.
Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma gained bronze within the ladies’s skiff occasion on Thursday after ending fourth initially. Their place was upgraded after China, which had initially taken third place, was disqualified.
Earlier on Thursday, Manu Francis and Prince Noble gained silver within the males’s skiff occasion, ending behind China after 9 races. Hong Kong took the bronze medal.
On Day 13, India’s archers additionally loved a productive outing, with Kumkum Mohod, Ankita Bhakat and Kirti Sharma successful gold within the ladies’s recurve staff occasion after defeating South Korea 5-3.
Kumkum and Dhiraj Bommadevara subsequently reached the combined recurve staff last after beating Japan 5-3 within the semifinal, earlier than dropping 3-5 to China within the gold-medal conflict to accept silver.
In wrestling, Sujeet Kalkal superior to the lads’s freestyle 65kg semifinal with a dominant 10-0 technical superiority victory over Iran’s Abbas Ebrahimzadehsavadkouhi within the quarterfinal. Earlier, he had defeated Afghanistan’s Sayed Omar Zazai 13-3 within the spherical of 16.
India’s different wrestling outcomes included defeats for Dipanshi towards Japan’s Yui Susaki within the ladies’s 50kg spherical of 16, Rajat Ruhal towards Kazakhstan’s Yedige Kassimbek within the males’s freestyle 125kg spherical of 16, and Priya towards reigning Asian Games champion Kyzy Medet of Kyrgyzstan within the ladies’s 76kg spherical of 16.
In different occasions, India’s ladies’s rugby sevens staff defeated Malaysia 26-5 in a Pool E match, whereas the lads’s volleyball staff beat South Korea 3-1 within the classification match for fifth to eighth locations.
David Beckham progressed to the lads’s keirin semifinal in monitor biking, whereas Ronaldo Singh was eradicated within the repechage.
In canoe slalom, Pradhyumna Singh Rathod certified for the lads’s kayak cross quarterfinal and Shikha Chauhan progressed to the ladies’s kayak cross quarterfinal, whereas Hitesh Kewat was eradicated.
Kashish Malik defeated Hong Kong’s Lam Siu Wai within the combined particular person digital taekwondo spherical of 16 earlier than dropping to Kazakhstan’s Rita Bakisheva within the quarterfinal.
India additionally suffered a defeat to Thailand within the ladies’s sepaktakraw quadrant group match, whereas Vishnu Saravanan completed fourth within the males’s dinghy crusing occasion.
With Nethra’s bronze, India’s crusing medal haul on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games has now grown additional, including to the silver and two bronze medals secured earlier within the competitors.
India at the moment rank on the sixth place in medal tally with 70 medals, together with 12 gold, 24 silver and 34 bronze medals, on the time of writing. (ANI)