Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], October 2 (ANI): India’s ladies’s hockey workforce will chase a primary Asian Games gold in 44 years whereas three Indian boxers will combat for prime honours because the nation’s medal hunt enters a vital part on Day 13 of the Aichi-Nagoya Games on Friday.
The ladies’s hockey closing in opposition to defending champions China at 3:30 PM IST would be the greatest attraction of the day, with the winner additionally securing a direct qualification quota for the LA 2028 Olympics, in accordance with Olympics.com.
India, which missed the Paris 2024 Olympics after failing to qualify, shall be aiming to finish a 44-year watch for the Asian Games ladies’s hockey gold. The final time India stood atop the rostrum within the occasion was on the 1982 Asian Games.
China, in the meantime, will present a stern problem after successful the Asian Games 2023 title and taking silver on the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Archery will present India with three extra alternatives to combat for gold, with the ladies’s, combined and males’s recurve workforce occasions all deciding medals.
Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Mohod and Kirti Sharma will face China within the ladies’s workforce semi-final, whereas Kumkum and Dhiraj Bommadevara will tackle Japan within the combined workforce semi-final. Dhiraj, Neeraj Chauhan and Yashdeep Bhoge will meet Iran within the males’s workforce semi-final.
The combined workforce occasion carries further significance, with the champion National Olympic Committee set to earn one males’s and one ladies’s quota for LA 2028.
In boxing, Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain will headline India’s problem when she takes on China’s Ziyi Bao within the ladies’s 75kg closing at 10 AM IST.
Parveen Hooda will then face Olympic medallist Chen Nien-Chin of Chinese Taipei within the ladies’s 65kg closing at 2:15 PM, whereas Ankush Panghal will meet Republic of Korea’s Minseong Kim within the males’s 80kg closing at 2:45 PM IST.
Wrestling may also provide 4 medal alternatives. Sujeet Kalkal (males’s freestyle 65kg), Rajat Ruhal (125kg), Dipanshi (ladies’s 50kg) and Priya Malik (76kg) will start their respective campaigns, with the medal bouts scheduled later within the day for individuals who progress.
India are already assured of a medal in males’s quadrant sepaktakraw after reaching the semi-finals and can look to enhance the color of the medal. The ladies’s workforce may also be in motion in opposition to Thailand within the group stage.
Track biking will see Harshveer Singh Sekhon and Vishavjeet Singh compete within the males’s madison closing, whereas Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam and David Beckham Elkatohchoongo shall be in motion within the males’s keirin. Harshita Jakhar will compete within the ladies’s omnium.
Kashish Malik will start her marketing campaign within the combined particular person digital taekwondo occasion, whereas India may also characteristic in golf, crusing, canoe slalom, rugby sevens and volleyball.
In golf, Yuvraj Sandhu, Veer Ahlawat and Saptak Talwar will compete within the males’s third spherical, whereas Aditi Ashok, Diksha Dagar and Pranavi Urs will lead India’s ladies’s problem.
Vishnu Saravanan and Nethra Kumanan shall be among the many Indians in crusing, whereas the ladies’s rugby sevens workforce will face Malaysia in Pool E. The males’s volleyball workforce will tackle Republic of Korea in a classification match for fifth to eighth place.
With a number of gold-medal occasions and potential Olympic quotas at stake, Day 13 guarantees to be one other important day for India’s marketing campaign in Aichi-Nagoya. (ANI)