Hangzhou [China], October 3 (ANI): World Champion Neeraj Chopra will step out on Wednesday to defend his males’s javelin throw crown on the ongoing nineteenth Asian Games and can intention for his second consecutive gold.
Neeraj, a Tokyo Olympic medallist, will headline the athletic occasion on Day 11 of the Games, the place India will certainly be the favourites for a gold medal.
India gained 70 medals on the Asian Games 2018 – its highest-ever medal tally on the continental occasion – 16 gold, 23 silver and 31 bronze.
India ended Day 10 of the nineteenth Asian Games with total 69 medals- 15 gold, 26 silver and 28 bronze.
Meanwhile, Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain will likely be punching for an Asian Games gold medal within the girls’s 75kg boxing class last towards China’s Li Qian. In different athletic occasions, the Indian males’s and girls’s 4x400m relay groups will hunt for a medal. The monitor and area athlete Avinash Sable, who gained a gold within the 3000m steeplechase, will take part within the 5000m run. Indian males’s hockey staff will play their meet’s semifinal conflict towards South Korea and a victory within the match will put them only one win away from a gold medal and a 2024 Paris Olympic quota.
India are additionally within the working for 2 mixed-team archery occasions within the recurve and compound sections. India have already confirmed three medals within the sport.
Indian girls’s and males’s kabaddi groups will play towards Thailand of their respective matches. PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty will likely be in motion in badminton pre-quarterfinals occasions.
The eleventh Day of the Asian Games can even mark the beginning of wrestling occasions, the place India grapplers will likely be in motion in 4 classes for India within the Greco-Roman self-discipline.
Two gold, two silver, and 5 bronze medals on Tuesday took India just one draw back from their document – 70 on the 2018 Asian Games.
With squash and boxing medals confirmed India are cool-headed to create a brand new document in Hangzhou. (ANI)