Asian Games: India luggage eight medals, boxers guarantee three extra podium finishes on action-packed Day 9

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 28 (ANI): India claimed eight medals on Day 9 of the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya on Monday, profitable 4 silver and 4 bronze medals throughout athletics, capturing and kurash, whereas three Indian boxers confirmed medals by advancing to the semifinals of their respective classes.

Athletics accounted for six of India’s eight medals on the day. Rohit Yadav and Yashvir Singh secured bronze and silver, respectively, within the males’s javelin throw, with each Indian throwers ending on the rostrum. 

Yashvir Singh took an early lead within the males’s javelin throw competitors earlier than Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage produced throws of 88.33m in his fourth try and 88.55m in his remaining try and clinch gold. Yashvir responded with a private better of 85.72m in his remaining try, which was sufficient to safe the silver medal and full an Indian double podium alongside Rohit Yadav, who took the lead within the males’s javelin throw together with his third try of 84.35m earlier than being overtaken by Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage and India’s Yash Vir Singh. He ultimately completed third to win the bronze medal, forward of Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem, who completed fourth.

Long jumper Murali Sreeshankar clinched the silver medal within the males’s lengthy soar on the Asian Games 2026 on Monday, recording a greatest soar of 8.07m. Sreeshankar secured his second consecutive Asian Games silver after additionally ending runner-up on the Hangzhou 2023 version

Gulveer Singh additionally clinched the silver medal within the males’s 1500m on the Asian Games 2026 on Monday, clocking a private greatest (PB) of three:36.72 within the remaining.

Esha Singh received silver within the girls’s 25m pistol particular person remaining, including one other medal for India in capturing. In kurash, Pincky Balhara secured bronze within the girls’s -78kg class after dropping her semifinal bout in opposition to South Korea’s Mo Sumin.

Vithya Ramraj, alternatively, received bronze within the girls’s 400m hurdles remaining, whereas Anu Raghavan completed fifth.

Parul Chaudhary additionally added a bronze within the girls’s 5000m remaining, her second medal of the 2026 Asian Games. 

Abinaya Rajarajan, Tamanna, Sneha Sathyanarayana and Sudeshna Shivankar completed fourth within the girls’s 4x100m relay remaining, whereas the boys’s 4x400m relay workforce certified for the ultimate. 

Avinash Sable completed fourth within the males’s 3000m steeplechase remaining, whereas Seema and Sanya Yadav completed fourth and eighth, respectively, within the girls’s discus throw remaining. 

Pooja additionally certified for the ladies’s 800m remaining, whereas Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan completed seventh within the males’s 400m hurdles remaining.

Boxing additionally assured three extra medals for India, with Kapil Pokhariya defeating South Korea’s Kim Gichae within the males’s 90kg quarterfinal, Lovlina Borgohain beating South Korea’s Seong Suyeon within the girls’s 75kg quarterfinal and Priya defeating Tajikistan’s Mijgona Samadova within the girls’s 60kg quarterfinal. All three superior to the semifinals, confirming medals for India.

In squash, India recorded wins in each males’s and girls’s workforce occasions. The males’s workforce defeated South Korea 3-0 and China 3-0, whereas the ladies’s workforce beat Japan 2-1 and China 3-0 of their respective pool video games. 

In hockey, India thrashed Bangladesh 10-0 of their males’s Pool A sport.

India additionally superior to the ultimate of the 4x100m combined relay in athletics. In cricket, India’s males’s quarterfinal in opposition to Afghanistan was deserted attributable to rain, with India progressing to the semifinal by advantage of upper seeding.

In archery, Chikitha Taniparthi defeated Bhutan’s Dorji Dolma within the girls’s compound particular person spherical of 32 after which beat Chinese Taipei’s Chen Yi-Hsuan within the spherical of 16 to succeed in the quarterfinals. 

Jyothi Surekha Vennam defeated Kazakhstan’s Adel Zhexenbinova within the spherical of 32 earlier than dropping to South Korea’s Kang Yeonseo within the spherical of 16. 

In the boys’s compound particular person occasion, Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru defeated Indonesia’s Sostar Andaru Rinaldi after which India’s Sahil Jadhav to succeed in the quarterfinals, whereas Sahil had earlier defeated Mongolia’s Jamiyangombo Purevdorj within the spherical of 32.

In capturing, Neeru was first, whereas Manisha Keer and Aashima Ahlawat had been twenty first and twenty third, respectively, in girls’s lure qualifying after Day 2. In males’s lure qualifying, Shapath Bharadwaj was fifth, Kynan Chenai nineteenth and Ahvar Rizvi thirty second. 

Esha Singh certified for the ladies’s 25m pistol particular person remaining after ending eighth in qualification with 580-22x. Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat completed eleventh and thirtieth, respectively, whereas India completed fifth within the workforce occasion with 1727-56x, lacking out on a medal after Rahi missed the goal with one in all her opening rapid-fire photographs.

In tennis, Ankita Raina and Rutuja Bhosale misplaced to Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina and Yuliya Putinseva within the girls’s doubles first spherical. 

In volleyball, India defeated Hong Kong 3-0 within the males’s group sport. In sepaktakraw, India misplaced 1-2 (11-15, 15-9, 13-15) to Japan in girls’s doubles, ending backside of Group B and being eradicated.

In browsing, Kishore Kumar Anbarasu defeated China’s Ma Wensong 9.86-8.80 within the males’s shortboard spherical 3, whereas Sivaraj Babu misplaced 7.83-11.50 to the Philippines’ Alciso Jayuard in the identical spherical.

With eight medals received on Monday, India’s medal tally has risen to 45, comprising 4 gold, 20 silver and 21 bronze medals. (ANI)