Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 22 (ANI): India’s sole gymnast on the 2026 Asian Games, Pranati Nayak, certified for the ladies’s particular person vault remaining after ending seventh amongst 19 opponents within the qualification spherical with a mixed rating of 12.916.
The remaining, which is able to function eight gymnasts, is scheduled for September 24. Pranati, who’s competing solely in vault – India’s greatest occasion in inventive gymnastics – secured her place within the medal spherical with a constant efficiency throughout her two makes an attempt, based on ESPN.
The 31-year-old scored 13.000 in her first vault, with 4.4 in problem and eight.600 in execution. She adopted it up with 12.433 in her second try, incomes 4.0 in problem and eight.433 in execution.
A Tokyo Olympian, Pranati is a three-time bronze medallist on the Asian Gymnastics Championships. She arrived on the Asian Games after profitable silver within the girls’s vault on the FIG World Challenge Cup 2026 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Meanwhile, India’s girls’s cricket workforce received its second successive Asian Games gold medal, defeating Sri Lanka by 147 runs within the T20 remaining. India posted 216/3 earlier than bowling Sri Lanka out for 69 in 15.4 overs.
India additionally secured a medal in males’s badminton after beating Japan 3-0 within the quarterfinal, whereas the ladies’s workforce misplaced 3-1 to Japan of their quarterfinal.
In wushu, Roshibina Devi confirmed a medal by defeating Macao’s Chu Man Sin within the girls’s 60kg quarterfinal. India’s males’s kabaddi workforce registered a 63-31 win over South Korea in Group A.
In boxing, Sakshi Chaudhary defeated the Philippines’ Aira Villegas within the girls’s 51kg spherical of 32, whereas Jadumani Singh beat Nepal’s Chandra Bahadur Thapa within the males’s 55kg spherical of 32.
In capturing, Elavenil Valarivan and Parth Mane completed fourth within the 10m air rifle combined workforce remaining. Anantjeet Singh Naruka was second in males’s skeet qualification after the second day, whereas Mairaj Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill have been twenty third and thirty fifth, respectively. In the ladies’s occasion, Raiza Dhillon was fifth, Parinaaz Dhaliwal ninth and Maheshwari Chauhan sixteenth.
India’s girls’s desk tennis workforce beat Thailand 3-2 within the spherical of 16, whereas the boys’s workforce misplaced 0-3 to the Republic of Korea within the opening spherical.
In swimming, India completed eighth within the 4x100m medley relay remaining. Aryan Nehra got here fourth within the males’s 1500m freestyle remaining B, whereas the boys’s 4x100m medley relay quartet of Rishabh Das, Akash Mani, Benediction Beniston and Dhanush Suresh certified for the ultimate after ending seventh general within the heats.
China grew to become the primary nation to cross 50 medals on the Games, with 31 gold, 13 silver and eight bronze. India stood eighth within the medal tally with seven medals – one gold, 4 silver and two bronze. (ANI)