Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 24 (ANI): India made a powerful starting to its athletics marketing campaign on the Asian Games 2026 on Thursday, securing two medals. The combined 4x400m relay group bagged silver, whereas Seema Kumari clinched bronze within the ladies’s 10,000m, incomes India’s first athletics medal of the Games.
India have secured 17 medals on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games thus far, comprising one gold, seven silver and 9 bronze.
The relay quartet of TS Manu, MR Poovamma, Vishal TK and Vithya Ramraj clocked 3:14.46 to complete second behind Bahrain. Bahrain claimed the gold in a Games-record time of three:12.87.
Seema clinched the bronze medal within the ladies’s 10,000m, clocking 32:50.05. Bahrain’s Winfred Yavi secured the gold with a time of 32:39.18, whereas Japan’s Nozomi Tanaka completed second in 32:41.54 to assert silver.
Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Parinaaz Dhaliwal added one other historic chapter to India’s skeet marketing campaign on Thursday, securing a bronze medal within the combined group occasion. The achievement marked India’s first-ever Asian Games medal in combined group skeet.
The medal additionally accomplished a three-medal haul for India in skeet over two days. Anantjeet, Bhavtegh Singh Gill and Mairaj Ahmed Khan had earlier received bronze within the males’s group occasion on Wednesday, whereas Parinaaz, Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan secured one other bronze within the ladies’s group occasion later that day.
While, India’s Roshibina Devi Naorem secured her second successive Asian Games silver medal in wushu after shedding 0-2 to China’s Zhang Xiaoyu within the ladies’s 60kg sanda ultimate on Thursday. Zhang dominated each rounds, profitable every 5-0, to seal a complete 10-0 victory on mixture. Roshibina had additionally received silver on the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games.
India’s rowers additionally added a bronze medal to the nation’s tally on Thursday, with Satnam Singh and Salman Khan ending third within the males’s double sculls. The outcome marked India’s first-ever Asian Games medal within the occasion.
The Indian duo held second place till the 1,500m mark earlier than slipping to 3rd within the ultimate 500m. They completed the race in 6:13.25, with China claiming the gold medal and Uzbekistan taking silver.
India’s rowers additionally added a bronze medal to the nation’s tally on Thursday, with Satnam Singh and Salman Khan ending third within the males’s double sculls. The outcome marked India’s first-ever Asian Games medal within the occasion.
The Indian duo held second place till the 1,500m mark earlier than slipping to 3rd within the ultimate 500m. They completed the race in 6:13.25, with China claiming the gold medal and Uzbekistan taking silver.
Indian sprinters Animesh Kujur and Gurindervir Singh superior to the boys’s 100m semifinals after ending third and second, respectively, of their opening-round heats on Thursday.
Kujur clocked 10.36 seconds to complete third in his warmth and safe a spot within the semifinals. Thailand’s Puripol Boonson received the warmth in 9.95 seconds, whereas China’s Zeng Keli completed second with a time of 10.22 seconds. Kujur recorded a response time of 0.140 seconds and maintained his place contained in the qualification spots to progress to the subsequent spherical.
Gurindervir, in the meantime, completed second in Heat 4 of Round 1 with a time of 10.38 seconds.
Both Indian kabaddi groups maintained their profitable momentum on the Asian Games. The males’s group defeated Chinese Taipei 37-21, whereas the ladies’s facet registered a commanding 50-25 victory over Japan to progress to the semifinals and guarantee themselves of not less than a bronze medal.
India loved a powerful outing in squash, with Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna, Abhay Singh and Veer Chotrani advancing to the singles quarterfinals. Singh registered a cushty 3-0 (11-4, 11-5, 11-7) win over Singapore’s Wai Iynn Au Yeong in 19 minutes, whereas Khanna overcame Singapore’s Wai Yhann Au Yeong 3-1 (5-11, 11-4, 11-5, 13-11) in a 39-minute contest.
In the boys’s singles, Singh defeated Sri Lanka’s Ravindu Laksiri 3-0, whereas Chotrani edged previous Malaysia’s Sanjay Jeeva 3-2 in a carefully fought encounter. Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar additionally progressed to the combined doubles quarterfinals.
In hockey, Dilpreet Singh struck a hat-trick as India registered a commanding 8-2 victory over Korea within the males’s competitors. The win marked India’s third consecutive victory, holding them on the prime of Pool A.
Dilpreet discovered the web within the tenth, twenty sixth and thirty second minutes to guide India’s attacking cost and full his hat-trick.
Parveen was the one Indian boxer to progress on Thursday, advancing to the ladies’s 65kg quarterfinals after receiving a walkover. Sakshi Chaudhary suffered a slim 2-3 defeat to Kazakhstan’s Alua Balkibekova within the ladies’s 51kg pre-quarterfinals, whereas Sumit was pressured to withdraw from his males’s 70kg bout after sustaining a knee damage.
In gymnastics, Pranati Nayak completed sixth within the ladies’s vault ultimate. She recorded scores of 12.900 on each vaults and completed with an general rating of 13.100 after receiving a 0.20 bonus.
While Asha Ilango narrowly missed out on a medal within the ladies’s triple bounce, ending fourth with a finest effort of 13.83 m-the identical distance recorded by China’s Yi Li. (ANI)