Asian Games, day 5: Wushu, athletics, taking pictures, rowing in focus as India eyes gold rush

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 24 (ANI): Indian athletes wil proceed their Asian Games 2026 marketing campaign on Day 5 with a number of medal alternatives lined up throughout rowing, wushu, athletics, taking pictures, canoe dash and different disciplines.

Wushu participant Roshibina Devi will compete within the ladies’s 60kg Sanda closing, whereas Indian rowers will characteristic in a number of medal occasions. Athletics will witness medal motion with Asha Ilango and Niharika Vashisht within the ladies’s triple leap closing and Seema within the ladies’s 10,000m closing. India’s high sprinters Animesh Kujur and Gurindervir Singh may even start their males’s 100m campaigns.

The day’s motion is scheduled to start at 5:10 AM IST (Indian Standard Time) with rowing, as Balraj Panwar competes within the males’s singles sculls closing, adopted by Satnam Singh and Salman Khan within the males’s doubles sculls closing at 5:30 AM. Roshibina Devi will tackle China’s Zhang Xiaoyu within the ladies’s 60kg wushu Sanda closing at 6:10 AM.

Shooting motion will start at 6:15 AM, with Akash Bharadwaj, Kamaljeet and Kedarling Balakrishna Uchaganve that includes within the males’s 10m air pistol qualification and crew closing,

At 6:30 AM, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka will compete in skeet blended crew qualification and closing, whereas desk tennis pair Diya Chitale-Yashaswini Ghorpade will play their ladies’s doubles Round 2 match. 

Canoe dash motion may even start at 6:30 AM, with Megha Pradeep competing within the ladies’s canoe single 200m semifinal, adopted by Soniya Devi and Parvathy Geetha within the ladies’s kayak double 500m semifinal at 6:50 AM.

Athletics occasions will see Anamika Aneesh and Pooja compete in ladies’s heptathlon heats at 6:30 AM and 6:38 AM, respectively. 

Swimming motion begins at 6:46 AM, with Benedicton Beniston within the males’s 50m butterfly heats. At 7:01 AM, Jay Kumar, Ansa Babu, Manu TS and Rashdeep Kaur will characteristic within the blended 4x400m relay warmth. 

Table tennis gamers Sreeja Akula and Syndrela Das will compete in ladies’s doubles Round 2 at 7:10 AM, whereas Gurbani Kaur, Aleena Anto, Tendenthoi Haobijam and Poonam will participate within the ladies’s 4 rowing closing at 7:10 AM.

Aryan Nehra will compete within the males’s 800m freestyle heats at 7:21 AM, whereas Benedicton Beniston, Aneesh Sunil, Akash Mani and Gitesh Shah will characteristic within the males’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats at 7:32 AM. 

Squash motion begins at 8:00 AM with Suraj Chand-Shameena Riaz taking over Joshana Chinappa-Velavan Senthilkumar.

Canoe dash medal occasions start at 8:10 AM, with Naocha Laitonjam, Varinder Singh, Oinam Arun Singh and Harshwardhan Shaktawat competing within the males’s kayak 4 500m closing A. Raju Rawat and Gyaneshwor Singh will characteristic within the males’s canoe double 500m closing A at 8:30 AM.

Manush Shah will play his males’s singles Round 1 match towards Malaysia’s Wong Qi Shen in desk tennis at 8:35 AM.

Kabaddi motion begins at 9:45 AM, with India dealing with Chinese Taipei within the males’s crew Group A match.

Squash gamers Tanvi Khanna and Anahat Singh will compete in ladies’s singles Round of 16 matches at 10:30 AM, whereas Abhay Singh and Veer Chotrani will characteristic in males’s singles Round of 16 matches at 11:15 AM.

India’s males’s hockey crew will face South Korea of their Pool A match at 11:30 AM.

Canoe dash occasions proceed with Parvathy Geetha and Prasanna Kumar Sathyaprakash within the blended kayak double 500m warmth at 11:40 AM.

Rowing medal occasions proceed at 12:00 PM, with Ujjwal Kumar Singh and Rohit competing within the light-weight males’s doubles sculls closing, adopted by Arvind Singh, Kulwinder Singh, Navdeep Singh and Jakar Khan within the males’s quadruple sculls closing at 1:00 PM.

Swimming finals will happen later within the afternoon, with Benedicton Beniston within the males’s 50m butterfly closing at 1:35 PM, and the boys’s 4x100m freestyle relay closing at 2:48 PM, if certified.

Pranati Nayak will compete within the ladies’s vault closing at 2:25 PM.

Boxer Parveen will face Tajikistan’s Malika Nozimova within the ladies’s Round of 16 bout at 2:45 PM. 

Athletics medal motion resumes at 4:14 PM, with Asha llango and Niharika Vashisht competing within the ladies’s triple leap closing. India’s ladies’s kabaddi crew will face Japan of their Group A match at 4:15 PM.

The night session will see Animesh Kujur compete within the males’s 100m warmth 1 at 4:38 PM, adopted by Gurindervir Singh in males’s 100m warmth 4 at 5:02 PM. The day will conclude with Seema competing within the ladies’s 10,000m closing at 5:55 PM. (ANI)