Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 25 (ANI): Rudrankksh Patil, APS Tomar and Niraj Kumar will lead India’s medal cost in taking pictures on Day 6 of the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi Nagoya, whereas athletics stars Gulveer Singh, Manpreet Kaur and Damneet Singh may even be in competition for podium finishes as Indian athletes look so as to add extra medals to their tally.
The day’s medal motion will start at 7:15 AM IST, with APS Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil and Niraj Kumar competing within the males’s 50m rifle 3 positions particular person and crew occasion, based on ESPN. Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh may even be in competition for a medal within the 10m air pistol blended crew ultimate at 8:30 AM IST, in the event that they qualify from the qualification spherical held at 6:15 AM IST.
Indian athletes may even compete in a number of semifinal and quarter-final matches throughout disciplines.Â
In desk tennis, Diya Chitale and Manush Shah will face Hong Kong’s Wong Chun Ting and Doo Hoi Kem within the blended doubles quarter-finals at 6:30 AM IST, whereas Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade may even featu re within the blended doubles quarter-finals in opposition to China’s Lin Shidong and Kuai Man on the identical time.
India’s girls’s hockey crew will tackle Japan of their Pool B match at 7:30 AM IST, whereas kabaddi motion will see the ladies’s crew face Nepal within the semifinal at 9:30 AM IST. The males’s kabaddi crew may even play their semifinal in opposition to Thailand at 10:45 AM IST.
In squash, Joshana Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar will compete within the blended doubles quarter-final at 7:00 AM IST, whereas Abhay Singh will play Ryunosuke Tsukue of Japan within the males’s singles quarter-final at 9:15 AM IST.Â
Anahat Singh and Tanvi Khanna will face one another within the girls’s singles quarter-final at 10:00 AM IST, whereas Veer Chotrani will function within the males’s singles quarter-final at 10:45 AM IST.
Canoe dash may even see medal motion, with Dhanamanjuri Khwairakpam, Pooja, Soniya Devi Phairembam and Parvathy Geetha competing within the girls’s kayak 4 500m ultimate at 8:10 AM IST.
The athletics medal occasions will happen within the night session. Manpreet Kaur and Krishna Jayasankar Menon will compete within the girls’s shot put ultimate at 3:35 PM IST, adopted by Sindhusree Ganesha and Baranica Elangoval within the girls’s pole vault ultimate at 4:33 PM IST.
Gulveer Singh will compete within the males’s 10,000m ultimate at 5:02 PM IST, whereas Damneet Singh and Praveen Kumar will function within the males’s hammer throw ultimate at 5:10 PM IST.
India’s sprinters may even be in motion, with Gurindervir Singh and Animesh Kujur competing within the males’s 100m semifinals at 4:11 PM IST and 4:19 PM IST respectively. If they qualify, each will return for the lads’s 100m ultimate at 6:50 PM IST.
Earlier within the day, Indian athletes will compete in swimming, fencing, badminton, boxing, browsing, esports and different occasions.Â
Swimming motion begins at 6:40 AM IST with Dhanush Suresh within the males’s 50m breaststroke heats, whereas a number of Indian swimmers will compete throughout the lads’s 200m backstroke 400m freestyle and 200m butterfly heats.
Badminton motion contains Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty’s males’s doubles first-round match at 12:30 PM IST, Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand’s girls’s doubles first- spherical match at 1:30 PM IST, and Hariharan Amsakarunan-MR Arjun’s males’s doubles first-round match at 5:10 PM IST.
In boxing, Sachin will face UAE’s Abu Jajeh Mohammad within the males’s spherical of 16 at 10:15 AM IST, whereas Preeti will tackle North Korea’s Mi Chol Pang within the girls’s spherical of 16 at 2:15 PM IST. (ANI)