Asian Games 2023 Highlights Day 2: Gold for India in cricket, shooting; 2 bronze in rowing, wushu medal confirmed
Asian Games 2023 Highlights: In the men's 10m air rifle team event, the Indian contingent set a new world record and bagged gold in Hangzhou.

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....Read More
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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Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: End of Day 2
That's all from today as India add six more medals to their previous day's tally of five.
Two gold, both of which came in team events and four bronze.
Meanwhile, Roshibina Devi Naorem has confirmed a medal for India after beating Kazakhstan's Aiman Karshyga in the women's 60kg wushu quarterfinal.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Another win in boxing
Nishant Dev secures a 5-0 win against Nepal's Dipesh Lama in the men's 71kg boxing preliminary round.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Vikrant Baliyan goes down
Vikrant Baliyan goes down 1-2 against Indonesia's Samuel Marbun in the men's 65kg 1/8 Wushu event.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: India gymnast Pranati Nayak qualifies
India gymnast Pranati Nayak qualified for the women’s vault event and the all-around finals.
She finished sixth in the vault event, with a total of 12.716. The top 8 ranked gymnasts (maximum two per NOC) qualify to the apparatus final.
In the all-around event, she qualified 23rd. Top 24 ranked gymnasts (maximum two per NOC) qualify for the all-around Final.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: India finish seventh in men's 4x200m freestyle relay
Indian quartet - Aryan, Aneesh, Kushagra and Tanish - finish seventh in the men's 4x200m freestyle relay swimming final. The India quartet completed the event in 7:29:23.
South Korea clinch gold, followed by China and then Japan.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: India's medal tally in double digits
After starting the opening day with five medals, India extend their tally to 11, which include two gold. Both the gold medals came in team events – the men's 10 air rifle event and the women's cricket finals.
Apart from two gold, India have won three silver and six bronze so far.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Likith Selvaraj finishes seventh
India’s Likith Selvaraj finished seventh in men's 100m breaststroke final, as he records a time of 1:01.62.
China’s Qin Haiyang wins gold, also breaks the Asian Games record in the process. He finishes the event with a timing of 57.76 seconds, breaking his own Asian Games record, which he set in the heats earlier in the morning.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Surya Bhanu Pratap Singh secures hard fought win
Surya Bhanu Pratap Singh gets the better of his opponent in the third round, which also brings an end to the contest. The Indian beats his opponent 2-1 to enter men's 60kg Wushu quarterfinals.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Men's 60kg Wushu underway
India's Surya Bhanu Pratap Singh is in action against Uzbekistan's Islombek Khaydarov in men's 60 kg Wushu.
Two rounds are done with both the players winning one each.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Deepak Bhoria secures unanimous decision win
Deepak Bhoria beats Malaysia's Muhammad Abdul 5-0 (unanimous decision) in the first round of men's 51kg category.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Wushu - MEDAL CONFIRMED FOR ROSHIBINA DEVI NAOREM
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Roshibina was up against Kazakh Aiman Karshyga in the 60kg quarterfinal. She was aggressive from the beginning and managed a couple of takedowns early on. Her opponent struggled to keep up and in the end, the bout went the Indian's way. She is through to the semis and assured of at least a bronze.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Swimming - men's 50m backstroke final
Srihari Nataraj finishes sixth with a time of 25.39. It is a China one-two with Jiayu Xu winning gold and Gukailai Wang winning silver. Japan's Ryosuke Irie took bronze.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Boxing - women's 66kg
China's Yang Liu beats Arundhati Choudhary 5:0 (unanimous decision) in the women's 66kg preliminary round.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Swimming
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: The men's 50m backstroke final gets underway at 5pm. Srihari Nataraj is in action for India.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Wushu
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: The Wushu events begin at 5pm and first up will be Roshibina Devi Naorem up against Aiman Karshyga of Kazakhstan in the sanda women's 60kg quarterfinal. The winner goes through to the semis and hence confirms at least a bronze medal.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Boxing
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Arundhati and Liu Yang have entered the ring. Here we go then.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Boxing
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: About half an hour after Arundhati's bout, India's Deepak Bhoria will face Malaysia's Muhammad Abdul Qaiyum Ariffin in men's 50kg.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Boxing
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: The boxing events are underway at the Hangzhou Gymnasium. Korea's Su-Jin Seon is currently battling it away in the women's 66kg category. After that India's Arundhati Choudhary will face China's Liu Yang. Arundhati had won gold in the Youth Boxing World Championships in 2021 and she qualified for the Asiad after making a drastic shift from 75kg to 66kg.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Handball - Women's preliminary
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: The Indian women's team have started off with a loss. They have lost 41-13 to Japan.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Tennis - Mixed Doubles Round 2
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Bopanna might have incurred a shock loss in men's doubles, exit in round 2 of the discipline earlier today, but he now given given himself something to fight for. Pairing up with Rutuja Bhosale, the duo, seeded second, claimed a 6-2, 6-4 win against Uzbekistan's Akgul Amanmuradova and Maksim Shin to move to the third round.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: India's medals thus far
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: The Indian contingent currently has two gold medals, one in women's cricket and the other in men's 10m air rifle. There are three silvers, two of which came in rowing and one for the 10m air rifle women's team. A total of six bronze medals have been won, three of which came in rowing. The men's 25m rapid fire pistol team also won bronze as did Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar in men's 10m air rifle and Ramita Jindal in women's 10m air rifle.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Tennis - Mixed Doubles Round 2
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Indian pair of Rutuja Bhosale and Rohan Bopanna are up against Uzbekistan's Akgul Amanmuradova and Maksim Shin. Having secured an early break, the second-seeded pair from India look to consolidate lead on serve in the opening set.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: India win gold in women's cricket
HISTORY! First-ever gold medal for India in cricket at any event. It had to be the women's cricket team. They narrowly missed the gold in the Commonwealth Games but this time, they have got their hands on the top prize. India women (116/7) beat Sri Lanka women (97/8) in the final by 19 runs to win GOLD!
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: India inch closer to historic gold
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Sri Lanka have just lost their sixth wicket. They need 30 more runs to win in 12 balls with just four wickets in hand. India firm favourites to win historic gold in women's cricket.
Asian Games 2023 Live Updates Day 2: Women's cricket - Sri Lanka need 79 runs in 66 balls vs India
Chasing a target of 117 runs, Sri Lanka have reached 38/3 in nine overs. They need 79 runs in 66 balls to win against India!

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