Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 25 (ANI): Indian sprinters Gurindervir Singh and Animesh Kujur didn’t advance to the lads’s 100m closing on the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya on Friday after ending fifth and seventh, respectively, of their semifinal heats, bringing their athletics campaigns on the Games to an finish.
Gurindervir clocked 10.32 seconds in Heat 2 to complete fifth, whereas Oman’s Al Balushi Ali topped the warmth with a time of 10.01 seconds. China’s Xie Zhenye completed second with 10.18 seconds, whereas South Korea’s Biwesa Daniel completed third with 10.22 seconds.
In Heat 3, Animesh Kujur completed seventh with a time of 10.38 seconds and likewise didn’t advance to the ultimate. South Korea’s Nwamadi Joeljin topped the warmth with a time of 10.17 seconds, whereas Malaysia’s Mohd Muhammad got here second with 10.25 seconds. Japan’s Koike Yuki completed third with 10.31 seconds.
While Gurindervir and Kujur endured disappointing finishes, Gulveer Singh received a silver medal within the males’s 10,000m occasion.
Gulveer produced a powerful efficiency, clocking 28:29.38 to comfortably end second and safe silver medal within the occasion.
Earlier within the day, Manpreet Kaur received the bronze medal within the girls’s shot put on the continental occasion. Manpreet produced her finest throw of 17.17 metres in her fourth try to safe a spot on the rostrum.
The bronze was considered one of a number of medals secured by India on Day 6 of the Asian Games.
Shooters Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh received gold within the 10m air pistol combined group occasion, whereas Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil and Niraj Kumar secured silver within the males’s 50m rifle 3 positions group occasion.
In desk tennis, Manush Shah and Diya Chitale secured bronze in combined doubles after reaching the semi-finals, the place they misplaced to China’s Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha.
India’s squash combined doubles pair of Joshana Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar additionally assured the nation of a medal after progressing to the semi-finals. Abhay Singh and Anahat Singh superior to the respective singles semi-finals.
India’s males’s and girls’s kabaddi groups additionally booked their locations within the finals after profitable their respective semi-final matches towards Thailand and Nepal.
In hockey, the Indian girls’s group defeated Japan 3-1 of their Pool B encounter.
Elsewhere, swimmer Rishabh Das completed sixth within the males’s 200m backstroke closing, whereas weightlifter Seram Nirupama Devi completed seventh within the girls’s 61kg class.Boxer Preeti’s Asian Games marketing campaign ended within the spherical of 16 after she misplaced 0-5 to North Korea’s Pang Chol Mi.
India has received 21 medals – two gold, 9 silver and 11 bronze – putting the nation twelfth on the medals chart. (ANI)