Asian Games 2023 Day 9 Highlights: Ancy Sojan wins silver in women's long jump; India's medal count reach 60

Asian Games 2023 Day 9 Highlights

Asian Games 2023 Day 9 Highlights: Parul Chaudhary and Priti Lamba won the silver and bronze medal in the women's 3000m steeplechase final. Both finished behind Bahrain's Winfred Yavi, who clinched the gold medal and created a new Asian Games record. Ancy Sojan then went to win a silver medal in the women's long jump final but it was disappointment for Shaili Singh, who finished fifth. The Indian team comprising Md Ajmal, Vithya Ramraj, Rajesh Ramesh and Subha Venkatesan initially won bronze medal in the mixed team 4x400m relay event, which was later upgraded to silver. The decision came after second-placed Sri Lankan team were disqualified due to lane infringement.

Earlier, Sutirtha and Ayhika Mukherjee crashed to a narrow defeat in the table tennis women's doubles semifinal and had to settle for bronze. The semifinal match went down to the wire as North Korea's Suyong Cha, Sugyong Pak sealed a narrow 4-3 (11-7 8-11 11-7 8-11 9-11 11-5 2-11) victory. Meanwhile, India bagged two surprise rolling skating bronze medals. The Indian team consisting of Sanjana Bhatuka, Karthika Jagadeeswaran, Heeral Sadhu and Aaratju Kastury clinched a third-placed finish in women's speed skating 3000m relay team event. India made it back-to-back roller skating bronze as the men's team came 3rd in the 3000m relay final.

Mohammed Afsal Pulikkalakath was in hot form in his men's 800m heat and finished first to qualify for the final. He will be joined by Krishnan Kumar, who also qualified. Also, Vithya Ramraj advanced to the women's 400m hurdles final.

In archery, India defeated Hong Kong, China to enter the quarterfinal of men's recurve team event and also went to the quarterfinal of the women's recurve team event. The Indian men's hockey team thrashed Bangladesh 12-0 and advanced to the semifinals.

Catch the Highlights of Day 9 of Asian Games 2023:

India's medal tally-

Gold: 13

Silver: 24

Bronze: 23

Results-

Roller skating: India bag BRONZE in women's speed skating 3000m relay team

India get BRONZE in men's 3000m relay final

Table tennis: Sutirtha Mukherjee, Ayhika Mukherjee settle for BRONZE after losing to North Korea's Suyong Cha, Sugyong Pak in women's doubles semifinals

Athletics:

Parul Chaudhary and Priti Lamba win Silver and Bronze in women's 3000m steeplechase final

Ancy Sojan wins Silver in women's long jump final, Shaili Singh finishes fifth

India win silver medal in 4x400m mixed team relay

Mohammed Afsal Pulikkalakath first in his men's 800m heat, qualifies for final

Krishnan Kumar qualifies for men's 800m final

Jesse Sandesh qualifies for men's high jump final

Sarvesh Kushare qualifies for men's high jump final

Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan qualifies for men's 400m hurdles final

Yashas Palaksha qualifies for men's 400m hurdles final

Vithya Ramraj qualifies for women's 400m hurdles final

Archery: India beat Malaysia 6-2 in recurve mixed team 1/8 elimination

India beat UAE 159-151 in compound mixed team 1/8 elimination

India beat Singapore 235-219 in compound men's team 1/8 elimination

India beat Thailand 5-1 to enter quarterfinal of women's recurve team event

India defeat Hong Kong, China 6-0 to advance to quarterfinal of men's recurve team event

India's Bhajan Kaur beats Sima Aktar of Bangladesh in women's recurve 1/16 elimination match, enters pre-quarterfinals

Dhiraj Bommadevara beats Lam Dorji of Bhutan to advance to the pre-quarterfinals in the men's recurve individual event

Atanu Das beats Bin Mohamad Khairul of Malaysia to advance to the pre-quarterfinals in the men's recurve individual event

India's Ankita Bhakat loses to Rezza Octavia of Indonesia in women's recurve 1/16 elimination

Sepaktakraw: India beat Singapore 2-0 in men's quadrant preliminary Group B

Canoe sprint: Megha Pradeep, Shivani Verma finish last in women's canoe double 500m final

Binita Chanu Oinam, Parvath Geetha finish last in women's kayak double 500m final

India's Niraj Verma 7th in men's canoe single 1000m final

India's Ribason Singh, Gyaneshwor Singh finish 8th in men's canoe double 500m final

Badminton: India's Sai Pratheek, Tanisha Crasto beat Macau, China's Chong Leong, Chi NG 2-0 (21-18 21-14) in their mixed doubles round of 32 fixture

Squash: India's Anahat Singh, Abhay Singh beat Thailand's Anantana, Arkaradet 2-0 (11-5 11-6) in their mixed doubles fixture

Joshana Chinappa loses to South Korea's Heo Mingyeong in the women's singles Round of 16

Tanvi Khanna defeated Arichaya Chujit of Thailand in women's singles round of 16

Saurav Ghosal defeated Kuwait's Ammar Altamimi, in the men's singles round of 16

Mahesh Mangaonkar loses to Japan's Ryunosuke Tsukue in the men's singles quarterfinal

Kabaddi: India held to a tie by Chinese Taipei in women's Group A match