Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 27 (ANI): A packed day awaits the Indian contingent on the 2026 Asian Games on Monday, with athletes set to compete throughout greater than a dozen disciplines as Team India appears so as to add to its medal tally in Aichi-Nagoya.
The motion begins early within the morning with browsing, archery and capturing, earlier than a collection of essential workforce occasions, knockout contests and athletics finals dominate the day’s schedule.
Surfing will get underway at 07:28 JST (03:58 IST) at Long Beach in Tahara, the place Sivaraj Babu will face the Philippines’ ALCISO Jayuard within the males’s shortboard Round 3 Heat 2. Kishore Kumar may even be in motion later within the morning towards China’s MA Wensong.
Archery will see Sahil Rajesh Jadhav and Thirumuru Ganesh compete within the males’s compound particular person 1/16 elimination spherical from 08:15 JST (04:45 IST). Maniratnam can be in competition, with the Indian archers aiming to progress to the 1/8 spherical.
Shooting will present one other main medal alternative, with Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat competing within the ladies’s 25m pistol workforce ultimate and particular person qualification fast stage from 09:40 JST (06:10 IST). The lure contingent, led by Kynan Chenai, Ahvar Rizvi and Shapath Bharadwaj within the males’s occasion and Neeru, Manisha Keer and Aashima Ahlawat within the ladies’s occasion, may even start Qualification Day 2.
Tennis star Sumit Nagal will tackle South Korea’s Seongchan Hong within the males’s singles second spherical, whereas Dhakshineswar Suresh will face Indonesia’s Gunawan Trismuwantara.
Team occasions may even be outstanding, with the Indian ladies’s sepaktakraw workforce dealing with Japan, the boys’s volleyball workforce taking up Hong Kong and the ladies’s squash workforce assembly China.
The crusing programme begins at 11:00 JST (07:30 IST), with Prince Noble and Manu Francis competing within the males’s 49er skiff, Vishnu Saravanan within the males’s ILCA 7, Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma within the ladies’s 49er FX, and Nethra Kumanan within the ladies’s ILCA 6.
In fight sports activities, Pincky Balhara will start her marketing campaign within the ladies’s -78kg Kurash quarterfinals at 11:30 JST (08:00 IST).
The afternoon will convey a few of India’s greatest knockout contests. The males’s cricket workforce will face Afghanistan in Quarterfinal 2 at 13:30 JST (10:00 IST), whereas Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain takes on South Korea’s Seong Suyeon within the ladies’s 75kg boxing quarterfinals.
India’s ladies’s 25m pistol trio of Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat will goal a spot within the particular person ultimate, scheduled for 14:15 JST (10:45 IST), topic to qualification.
The night will see the Indian males’s hockey workforce tackle Bangladesh in Pool A at 19:00 JST (15:30 IST). Squash groups may even proceed their campaigns, with the ladies’s aspect dealing with Japan and the boys’s workforce taking up South Korea.
Boxing will characteristic additional Indian illustration, with Priya dealing with Tajikistan’s Samadova Mijgona within the ladies’s 60kg quarterfinals and Kapil Pokhariya taking up South Korea’s Kim Gichae within the males’s 90kg quarterfinals.
However, the largest medal rush is anticipated on the Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium, the place India’s observe and area contingent might be concerned in a collection of finals.
Seema and Sanya Yadav will start the athletics medal programme within the ladies’s discus throw ultimate at 18:05 JST (14:35 IST). Vithya Ramraj and Anu Raghavan will then compete within the ladies’s 400m hurdles ultimate, adopted by Santosh Kumar and Tamilarasan within the males’s 400m hurdles ultimate.
All eyes might be on Avinash Mukund Sable at 19:47 JST (16:17 IST) as he competes within the males’s 3000m steeplechase ultimate.
The males’s lengthy bounce ultimate will characteristic Sreeshankar Murali and David Solomon Patturaj, whereas Yoonus Shah and Gulveer Singh will line up for the boys’s 1500m ultimate.
India may even have Rohit Yadav and Yashvir Singh within the males’s javelin throw ultimate, whereas Parul Chaudhary and Seema will compete within the ladies’s 5000m ultimate.
The athletics programme will conclude with relay motion, with the Indian males’s 4x400m relay workforce competing in Round 1 at 21:31 JST (18:01 IST) earlier than the ladies’s 4x100m relay ultimate at 22:04 JST (18:34 IST).
With medal occasions unfold throughout capturing, athletics, fight sports activities and different disciplines, September 28 guarantees to be one of many busiest days for the Indian contingent on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. (ANI)