Asian Games 2026: Diya-Yashaswini win ladies’s doubles TT second spherical conflict

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 24 (ANI): The Indian ladies’s doubles pair of Diya Chitale and Yashaswini Ghorpade accomplished a 3-0 win over Iran of their spherical two conflict on the ongoing Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya on Thursday. 

Diya and Yashaswini outclassed the Iranian pair of Setayash Iloukhani-Mashid Ashtari with a fully one-sided scoreline of 11-2, 11-2, 11-4, as per ESPN. 

Meanwhile, in swimming, India’s Benediction Beniston completed fifth in his males’s 50 m butterfly warmth with a timing of 23.87 seconds. Across all heats, he stands at twelfth place, and solely prime 10 could make it to the finals. Benediction is a reserve for the ultimate. 

In the Canoe Sprint ladies’s single 200 m semifinal, Megha Pradeep completed fourth with timings of 51.093s, 1.66 seconds behind the chart-topper. With solely the highest three getting a shot on the last, she is eradicated. 

Coming to the athletics competitors, in heptathlon 100 m hurdles, Anamika Aneesh Kozhinjaparambil completed fifth and final in her warmth, clocking timings of 14.80s sufficient for 868 factors. In one other warmth as nicely, Pooja completed fifth and final as nicely, with timings of 14.61s, sufficient for 894 factors.

 Indian wushu athlete Roshibina Devi secured her second consecutive silver medal on the Asian Games, dropping to China’s Zhang Xiaoyu within the ladies’s sanda 60 kg last at Aichi-Nagoya on Thursday. 

Roshibina, additionally a 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games silver medalist, misplaced each her rounds by a 0-5 scoreline, and the Chinese opponent sealed the match 2-0, as per ESPN.

Having already gained a 2018 Asian Games bronze, Roshibina turns into the primary Indian girl to win three back-to-back medals in Wushu on the Asian Games.

Roshibina loved a formidable run in Japan, which included beating 2023 world champion, Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy of Vietnam.

On Wednesday, Roshibina defeated Indonesia’s Thania Kusumaningtyas 2-0 within the semi-final to safe her place within the title conflict.

This is India’s 14th medal on the ongoing occasion, having already gained a gold, including the sixth silver to the tally. India has additionally gained seven bronze medals to this point. 

Earlier, the pairing of Satnam Singh and Salman Khan secured a bronze medal within the males’s double sculls last on Thursday. 

The duo clocked a time of 6:13.25, simply 3.48 seconds in need of China’s gold medalists Yi Xudi / Nie Yide and a pair of.76 seconds behind the silver medalists Mekhrojbek Mamatkulov / Pavel Sorin, as per ESPN. 

Satnam-Salman maintained the second place at 500m, 1000m and 1500m however fell away in direction of the tip. At one level, they had been simply half a second behind the Chinese pair. 

In males’s singles sculls competitions, Balraj Panwar missed out on a medal, ending fourth. Balraj managed to remain second at 500m, 1000m and 1500m marks, however later discovered himself outdone by Shakhboz Kholmurzaev of Uzbekistan and Tatsuya Sakurama of Japan in the course of the last 500 m stretch, and he misplaced the medal. 

Balraj maintained a five-second lead over Sakurama forward of the ultimate stretch however completed eight seconds in need of him, clocking timings of 6:54.80, 15 seconds behind the gold medalist Zhiwei Deng of China. (ANI)