By Vipul Kashyap
Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 21 (ANI): India’s Chef de Mission for the Asian Games 2026, Sahdev Yadav, mentioned logistical points regarding lodging, transport and meals have been resolved and expressed confidence that the nation’s athletes will add extra medals to the tally within the coming days.
Speaking to ANI on Monday, Sahdev mentioned the nation’s medal tally will proceed to develop, saying the robust begin is ‘only the start’ and backing the weightlifting contingent to ship within the coming days.
‘It feels actually good. This is only the start, and there will probably be a line of medals. Big hopes from weightlifting. Everything is ok now, and we’ve sorted out all preparations, together with resorts, transport, and meals. There aren’t any issues anymore,’ Sahdev informed ANI.
India loved a powerful day on the Asian Games 2026, securing extra medals throughout taking pictures and blended martial arts, whereas athletes additionally progressed to finals in swimming and registered wins in boxing, smooth tennis and desk tennis.
In taking pictures, Himanshu received silver and Rudrankksh secured bronze within the males’s 10m air rifle particular person closing. Earlier, Rudrankksh and Himanshu had certified for the ultimate after ending third and seventh respectively, whereas Parth Mane completed eleventh. The Indian trio had additionally received silver within the group occasion.
In blended martial arts, Suchika Tariyal secured a bronze medal after dropping to Singapore’s Teo Hui Hoon within the girls’s conventional 60kg semifinal.
In boxing, Sumit defeated Thailand’s Bunjong Sinsiri within the males’s 70kg Round of 32 bout to advance within the competitors.
Soft tennis noticed Aadhya Tiwari and Jay Meena report wins over Cambodia and Mongolia of their blended doubles Group B matches. They additionally misplaced to South Korea’s Kim Yeon-hwa and Jaekyu Park earlier than struggling defeat in opposition to the Philippines’ Christy Sanosa and Sherwin Nuguit within the spherical of 16.
In swimming, Srihari Nataraj superior to the lads’s 50m backstroke closing, with Rishabh Das named as reserve. Mani Akash and Gitesh Shah missed out on the lads’s 50m freestyle closing, whereas Dhanush Suresh didn’t qualify for the lads’s 100m breaststroke closing.
In wushu, Nyeman Wangsu completed fifteenth within the girls’s Changquan closing. In desk tennis, India defeated Pakistan 3-0 within the girls’s group Group F match. India, nonetheless, suffered a setback in sepaktakraw, dropping to Japan within the males’s group regu Group B match. (ANI)