New Delhi [India], October 1 (ANI): India gained six confirmed medals on Day 12 of the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, together with two silver and 4 bronze, whereas the lads’s hockey and cricket groups superior to their respective gold-medal matches on Thursday.
Nitesh Siwach within the males’s 97kg Greco-Roman wrestling class and Indian sailors Manu Francis and Prince Noble within the males’s skiff occasion headlined the nation’s medal wins on Thursday.
Siwach gained the silver medal within the males’s 97kg Greco-Roman wrestling occasion on the Asian Games 2026 after shedding to Japan’s Yuri Nakazato within the gold medal bout.
Nitesh went down 0-2 within the opening spherical of the gold medal bout, with Nakazato taking the lead after the Indian was penalised for passivity. Nitesh defended effectively when Nakazato bought the chance so as to add to his rating, retaining the deficit to only two factors. However, the Indian was unable to search out a bonus within the closing 30 seconds of the opening spherical.
Nakazato then prolonged his result in 4-0 with two minutes remaining on the clock after brilliantly bundling Nitesh over and taking two extra factors. The Japanese wrestler continued to dictate the tempo and put Nitesh below stress. Nakazato additionally seemed to complete the bout with a pin, however Nitesh held his floor. Nakazato maintained management till the tip and secured the gold medal, whereas Nitesh needed to accept silver.
Meanwhile, the Indian duo of Manu Francis and Prince Noble completed second behind China after finishing 9 races with 23 factors, whereas Hong Kong secured the bronze medal within the males’s skiff occasion. Manu and Prince, who compete collectively within the 49er class, produced a constant marketing campaign and likewise gained one of many 9 races on their solution to the silver medal.
Later on Thursday, sailors Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma gained a bronze medal within the ladies’s skiff occasion, giving India one other medal within the crusing competitors within the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.Â
The Indian pair completed third after 9 races within the opening collection, with 24 internet factors and 28 whole factors. Harshita and Shital had initially completed fourth, however China, which had initially secured third place, was subsequently disqualified, transferring the Indian pair into the bronze-medal place.
The Indian squash groups additionally contributed two extra bronze medals. The ladies’s crew comprising Anahat Singh, Joshana Chinappa, Tanvi Khanna, and Shameena Riaz gained bronze after shedding 1-2 to Hong Kong within the semifinal, whereas the lads’s crew of Abhay Singh, Veer Chotrani, Velavan Senthilkumar, and Suraj Kumar Chand secured bronze following a 1-2 defeat in opposition to Malaysia.
In archery, Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru bagged the bronze medal within the males’s compound particular person occasion with a 149-144 victory over Vietnam’s Cong Duc Dang.
The medal was Ganesh’s second on the Aichi-Nagoya Games.
Ganesh maintained his composure all through the bronze-medal contest and pulled away from Cong within the closing levels. The Vietnamese archer opened with an eight, whereas Ganesh continued to search out the goal persistently earlier than sealing the competition with a rating of 149.
India assured themselves of one other medal in males’s sepaktakraw after reaching the semi-finals of the quadrant occasion with an unbeaten group-stage marketing campaign.
India’s males’s quadrant crew registered an exhilarating 2-1 comeback win over Myanmar to high Group A and safe a spot within the semi-finals.
After shedding the opening sport 15-10, India bounced again to win the subsequent two video games 15-13 and 15-7. Earlier, the crew had defeated the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Vietnam within the group stage.
The greatest team-sport highlights of the day got here in hockey and cricket, with each Indian males’s groups reaching the finals.
India defeated Pakistan 4-3 in an exhilarating semi-final, with Abhishek scoring the decisive aim within the dying minutes to ship the defending champions into the gold-medal match.
Captain Harmanpreet Singh scored twice, whereas Sukhjeet Singh additionally discovered the web as India surrendered a three-goal lead earlier than Abhishek struck late to seal the victory.
The win means India’s males’s and girls’s hockey groups will each characteristic within the finals on the similar Asian Games for the primary time since 1998.
In males’s cricket, India defeated Sri Lanka by 124 runs within the semifinal to arrange a gold-medal conflict in opposition to Pakistan.
India posted 169/7 of their 20 overs, with Ishan Kishan main the best way with an unbeaten 80 off 46 balls to set Sri Lanka a difficult goal.
Earlier, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi supplied India with a brisk begin, scoring 38 off 21 balls regardless of the early lack of wickets. With the pitch proving tough for batting, Sri Lanka face a difficult chase.
India will head into Day 13 of the Asian Games with one other action-packed day on the playing cards, with extra medals up for grabs throughout archery, boxing, hockey and a number of other different disciplines. (ANI)