Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Highlights: Kiran Baliyan wins first athletics medal for India in Hangzhou

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: India's medal tally at the end of all that stands at 33 - eight golds, 12 silvers and 13 bronze. Six of those gold medals have come in shooting alone, with Palak winning the 10m air pistol event and the men's 50m 3P rifle team winning the other gold today. There are two big India-Pakistan matches tomorrow, one in men's hockey and the other in the men's team squash gold medal match. But that is just the tip of the iceberg, there are a lot more big medals at stake for Indians and you can get a full picture of that we put out the schedule shortly. Thanks for staying with us here today, goodnight!

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: India have beaten Mongolia 68-62 in a rather thrilling match in which momentum swung one way and then another.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: Kiran Baliyan's 17.32m throw gets her the bronze and that is India's first athletics medal at this year's Asian Games. Manpreet Kaur finishes fifth with a best throw of 16.25m. Meanwhile, it is a Chinese one-two Gong Lijiao wins the gold with a best throw of 19.58. Song Jiayuan claims silver with a best effort of 18.92.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: Kiran Baliyan remains in the bronze medal position after her fifth throw of 16.79m. Manpreet has dropped to fifth.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: No improvements for Kiran or Manpreet after their fourth throws. Consecutive foul throws for Manpreet in her third and fourth attempts. Meanwhile, Kiran manages 16.76m in her fourth throw. She remains in the bronze medal position for now.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: Kiran Baliyan has jumped up to third with her third throw of 17.36m. Manpreet Kaur is yet to make the third throw, she is currently fourth with her first throw of 16.25m still being her best.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: Sourav Ghosal beats Eain Yow 3-1 (11-7, 11-4, 10-12, 11-3) and India are through to the final! They beat defending champions Malaysia to make the final of the men's team event. India, who bagged the gold at Incheon 2014 and clinched bronze in 2018 Jakarta, won 2-0 in the semifinal tie. Abhay Singh earlier won 3-1 (11-3, 12-10, 9-11, 11-6) against Muhammad Addeen Idrakie Bin Bahtiar.

India will face Pakistan in the gold-medal match after their neighbnoring country beat Hong Kong 2-1 in the other semifinal.

Kiran Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: Kiran Baliyan and Manpreet Kaur representing India in this event.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: The Indian men's team has beaten the Philippines 3.5-0.5. The women, meanwhile, beat Mongolia 3.5-0.5.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: Sourav Ghosal wins the second game as well, 11-4, against Eain Ng Yow. One more and India will be through to the final.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: Tanya Chaudhary has finished seventh with a best throw of 60.50m. Rachna Kumari is 9th with a best throw of 58.13m. It's a Chinese one-two with Wang Zheng taking gold with 71.53, followed by Zhao Jie with 69.44. South Korea's Kim Tae Hul wins bronze with 69.14, which is her personal best.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: Sourav Ghosal goes 2-0 up in Match 2 of the semifinal tie as he won the 1st and 2nd game 11-7, 11-8 against Eain Yow NG. He is a game away from handing India a 2-0 lead in the match.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: Advait Page finishes 7th in men's 200m backstroke final. He clocked 2:02:67m but bettered his heat timing (2:03:01m) in the final. China's Xu Jiayu wins the gold medal (1:55:37m)

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: India beat Malaysia 6-0. A good defensive performance from Malaysia in the second, third and fourth quarters but India just flattened them in that first quarter.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: India have scored six goals today but just one of them have come directly from a PC. That would worry them considering they have had a dozen of those today. Just under three minutes left in the match now.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: Tanya Chaudhary jumps to 4th spot in women's hammer throw final with a 60.50m attempt! This was her first 60m+ throw in the event so far. Rachna Kumari, however, is out of contention (best throw of 58.13m). Three rounds done, three to go.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: India's Muhammed Ajmal Variyathodi secures direct qualification in men's 400m final! The Indian clocks 45.76s and finishes second in Heat 2. In the previous heat, Muhammed Anas Yahiya clocked 46.29s and finished third; he is out of contention for final.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: India take an early 1-0 lead against defending champions Malaysia as Abhay Singh beat Muhammad Addeen Idrakie Bin Bahtiar in the fourth game of Match 1, 11-5, to hand India the advantage in the semifinal tie. He had won the opening two games 11-7, 12-10 before going down 9-11 in the third.

Up next, Sourav Ghosal will face Eain Yow NG in Match 2.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: GOAL! India 6-0 Malaysia. Vaishnavi gets the ball to Lalremsiami in the middle of the D, she finishes clinically. This goal has been a long time coming.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: End of Q3! India 5-0 Malaysia. No goals for India in this quarter, the Malaysians in fact managed to get a penalty corner in this quarter but that is pretty much as close as it got for them.

Another A20 point penalty and that is that for India. They are out of the race in men's Madison.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: India hit by a 20-point penalty, and it looks like they are now all but out of contention for a podium finish. India are currently at -13 points, while Korea (41 points), Japan (40 points) and Hong Kong China (26 points) at first, second, and third respectively

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: Abhay Singh started India's tie off with a bang against Muhammad Addeen Idrakie Bin Bahtiar of Malaysia. He took an early lead with 11-7, 12-10 wins in the opening two games before the Mayalsian pulled one back in the third (11-9). Two more games in this match will decide the result before proceedings head to the subsequent ties.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: The women's hammer throw event is underway, with Tanya Chaudhary and Rachna Kumari presenting the Indian challenge. Not the best of throws to start with, though, as both well under the 60m mark. Rachna currently at 8th spot, Tanya 9th.

Asian Games 2023 Day 6 Live Updates: Well this bout almost got over even before it started. Referee stops the bout in the first round itself, merely 53 seconds into the bout and Nikhat Zareen is declared winner! An utter domination from the Indian boxer and she secures an Asian Games medal!