Asian Games 2023 Highlights Day 2: Gold for India in cricket, shooting; 2 bronze in rowing, wushu medal confirmed

Asian Games 2023 Highlights Day 2

Asian Games 2023 Day 2 Highlights: In what turned out to be a spectacular performance, India set a new world record and clinched gold in the men's 10 air rifle team event on Monday, Day 2 of the ongoing Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, China. The Indian shooting contingent consisted of Divyansh Singh Panwar, Rudrankkash Balasaheb Patil and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, who notched together a total of 1893.7 points, which also proved to be the new world record. Aishwary also won bronze in the men's 10m air rifle final, with Rudrankkash claiming fourth position. Meanwhile, the Indian team in the men's four rowing final grabbed bronze medal, with a time of 6:10:81. But Balraj Panwar missed out on a medal by a whisker, finishing in fourth position in the men's singles sculls final. India also bagged bronze in the men's quadruple sculls final, finishing behind China and Uzbekistan.

In tennis, Yuki Bhambri and Rohan Bopanna crashed to a shock defeat against Uzbekistan's Sergey Fomin, Khumoyun Sultanov in the men's doubles second round. Meanwhile, Ankita Raina clinched victory in the women's singles second round against Uzbek Sabrina Olimjonova. India caught everyone's attention in 3x3 basketball, with a 20-16 victory against Japan. The Indian women's cricket team defeated Sri Lanka to win gold.

Medal tally for India -

Gold: 2

Silver: 3

Bronze: 6

Results for India on Day 2 -

Cricket: India women (116/7) beat Sri Lanka women (97/8) in the final by 19 runs to win GOLD - their first-ever gold in cricket at any event.

Rowing: Balraj Panwar finishes fourth in the men's singles sculls final

India clinch BRONZE in men's four final, with a time of 6:10:81

India bag BRONZE in men's quadruple sculls final, with a time of 6:08:61

Shooting: The Indian team consisting of Divyansh Panwar, Rudrankkash Patil and Aishwary Pratap Singh set a new world record and grabbed GOLD in the men's 10 air rifle event

Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar wins BRONZE in the men's 10m air rifle final, Rudrankkash Patil finishes fourth

India's Adarsh Singh, Anish Bhinwala, and Vijayveer Singh win BRONZE in Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol event

Swimming: Srihari Nataraj qualifies for the men's 50m backstroke final, with a timing of 25.43 in his heat

Likith Selvaraj qualifies for 100m men's breaststroke final with a timing of 1:01:98, where he finished seventh.

Maana Patel fails to qualify for women's 50m backstroke final

Anand AS, Vikram Khade don't qualify for men's 50m freestyle final

India qualify for the men's 4x200m freestyle final, where they finished seventh.

Hashika fails to qualify for the women's 200m individual medley

Judo: Garima Choudhary lost by Ippon in women's 70kg round of 16

Tennis: Rutuja Bhosale defeated Kazakhstan's Aruzhan Sagandykova to in the women's singles second round

Ankita Raina defeats Uzbekistan's Sabrina Olimjonova in women's singles round 2

Ramkumar Ramanathan gets walkover in men's singles round 2

Saketh Myneni, Ramkumar Ramanathan defeat Indonesia's Anthony Ignatiius Susanto and Agung David Susanto in the men's doubles second round

Yuki Bhambri, Rohan Bopanna lost to Uzbekistan's Sergey Fomin and Khumoyun Sultanov in men's doubles round 2

Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale beat Uzbekistan's Akgul Amanmuradova and Maksim Shin 6-2, 6-4 in mixed doubles

3x3 basketball: India defeat Japan 20-16

Handball: India women's team lose 41-13 to Japan

Boxing: China's Yang Liu beats Arundhati Choudhary 5:0 (unanimous decision) in the women's 66kg preliminary round. Deepak Bhoria beats Malaysia's Muhammad Abdul 5-0 (unanimous decision) in the first round of men's 51kg. Nishant Dev defeated Nepal's Dipesh Lama in the men's 71kg preliminary round.

Wushu: Roshibina Devi Naorem confirmed of a medal after beating Kazakhstan's Aiman Karshyga in the women's 60kg quarterfinal. Surya Bhanu Pratap Singh beats Uzbekistan's Islombek Khaydarov in men's 60 kg to enter quarterfinals. Vikrant Baliyan goes down 1-2 against Indonesia's Samuel Marbun in the men's 65kg 1/8 event.

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