Day 8 at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games turned out to be India’s best showing yet, with four medals clinched — including a gold — and two more assured.
India started the day with a historic silver in the men’s marathon, where Sawan Barwal ended the nation’s 44-year wait for a medal in the discipline. That was followed by India’s 11th medal in shooting, a silver in the women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions.
The gold came in women’s kabaddi, where India survived a scare against Iran to retain their title.
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Squash then delivered three more medals. Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar secured mixed doubles bronze, while Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh stormed into their respective singles finals, ensuring at least two more silver medals.
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Here's the full list of results for India on Day 7 at the Asian Games:
Kabaddi:
India beat Iran 37-34 in women's final, win GOLD
Athletics:
{{/usCountry}}India beat Iran 37-34 in women's final, win GOLD
Athletics:
{{/usCountry}}Sawan Barwal wins SILVER in men's marathon with national record time of 2:11:37.
Animesh Kujur finishes top of his men's 200m heat, into semifinal.
Tejaswin Shankar finished fifth (13.16m, 677pts) and Thowfeeq Noushad tentn (10.76m, 531 pts)in men's decathlon shot put. Tejaswin is third (2484), Thoufeeq ninth (2290) in the overall standings.
Shooting:
Ashi Chouksey, Tilottama Sen and Vidarsa Vinod win team SILVER in women's 50m rifle 3P
Tilottama Sen finishes fourth and Vidarsa Vinod finishes fifth in women's 50m rifle 3P positions individual final
Sailing:
India in fifth after mixed dinghy opening series race 2
Squash:
Joshna Chinappa-Velavan Senthilkumar earn BRONZE after losing their mixed doubles semifinal against Tang Ming Hong-Lee Ka Yi of Hong Kong.
Anahat Singh beats Satomi Watanabe of Japan 3-2 in women's singles semifinal, into final.
Boxing:
Kapil Pokhariya beats Sam Estaki of Iran in men's 90kg in round of 16 bout, enters quarterfinal
Boxing:
Jadumani Singh loses to Carlo Paalam of Philippines in men's 55kg round of 16 bout.
Badminton:
Ayush Shetty beat Makhsut Tajibullayev of Kazakhstan in men's singles second round match.
Unnati Hooda beat Wong Ling China of Malaysia in women's singles second round match.
Lakshya Sen lost to Loh Kean Yew of Singapore 12-21, 21-15, 14-21 in men's singles second round match.
PV Sindhu beat Chiu Pin-chian of Chinese Taipei in women's singles second round match.
Archery:
Chikitha Taniparthi (705, 1st,), Jyothi Surekha Vennam (699, 13th), Prithika Pradeep (695, 20th) were second in team qualification (2099).
Dhiraj Bommadevara (698, 1st, Asian & National Record), Neeraj Chauhan (676, 20th), Yashdeep Bhoge (665, 25th) finished third in the men's team recurve qualification.
Kumkum Mohod finished 10th, Kirti 18th, and Ankita Bhakat 26th in women's recurve qualifying.
Fencing:
India lost 25-45 to South Korea in men's sabre team quarterfinal.
India lost 14-41 to Japan in women's foil team quarterfinal.
Canoe Sprint:
Parvathy Geetha and Prasanna Kumar finished second in mixed kayak double 500m semifinal, into Final A.
Raju Rawat and Neha Devi Leichonbam finish eighth in mixed canoe double 500 final.
Harshwardhan Shaktawat finished fifth in men's kayak single 500m semifinal, into Final B.
Boxing:
Kapil Pokhariya beats Sam Estaki of Iran in men's 90kg in round of 16 bout, enters quarterfinal
Jadumani Singh loses to Carlo Paalam of Philippines in men's 55kg round of 16 bout.
Table Tennis:
Yashaswini Ghorpade lost to Miwa Harimoto of Japan in women's singles round 3.
Manush Shah lost 0-4 to Lin Shidong in men's singles round 3.
Esports:
Paritosh lost 0-5 to Dongshin Kang in Puyo Puyo Champions quarterfinal.
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