New Delhi: The 19th edition of the Asian Games will begin on September 23, in Hangzhou, China.
The 15-day-long event will witness a total of 40 sports being played, with top athletes from all over Asia competing in the battle of supremacy.
The 18th edition of the tournament was supposed to take place last year in 2022 but was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. So despite being held in 2023, the tournament will still be called Asian Games 2022.
India will be sending their largest ever contingent of 655 players to take part in Asian Games 2023, which is 85 more than Asian Games 2018, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
India will also be fielding its athletes in the newly added discipline of cricket this year.
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Notably, the Indian wrestlers will be taking part under the Indian Flag, despite the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), getting suspended by United World Wrestling (UWW), as the player’s recommendation was sent by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and not the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).
The full schedule of the Indian contingent date-wise:
19 September:
Men’s Volleyball: India vs Cambodia (4:30 pm)
Men’s Football: India vs China (5 pm)
20 September:
Rowing (Round 1):
Men’s double sculls – Parminder Singh, Satnam Singh (6:30 am)
Men’s Lightweight double sculls – Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh (6:30 am)
Women’s Lightweight double sculls – Anshika Bharti, Kiran (6:30 am)
Pair without cox – Babu Ram, Lekh Ram (6:30 am)
Men’s eight with Coxwain (6:30 am)
Women’s four without cox (6:30 am)
Men’s single sculls – Balraj Panwar (12:30 pm)
Men’s quadruples sculls (12:30 pm)
Women’s eight with Coxwain (12:30 pm)
Men’s four without cox (12:30 pm)
Sailing (Day 1): Chitresh Tatha, Adhvait Menon, Vishnu Saravanan, Jerome Kumar, K. C. Ganapathy, and Varun Thakkar, Ishwariya Ganesh, Neha Thakur, Nethra Kumanan, Harshita Tomar, and Shital Verma, Preethi Kongara, Sudhanshu Shekhar, Siddheshwar Doiphode, and Ramya Saravanan (9 am)
Modern Pentathlon (Fencing): Mayank Chaphekar (12 pm)
Men’s Volleyball: India vs Korea (4:30 pm)
21 September:
Women’s Cricket: India vs TBC Quarterfinal (6:30 am)
Rowing: Repechage round (6:30 am)
Men’s Football: India vs Bangladesh (1:30 pm)
Women’s Football: India vs Taipei (5 pm)
22 September:
Rowing: Semifinals (6:30 am)
Table Tennis (Men’s and Women’s Team): Round 1 (7:30 am), Round 2 (1:30 pm)
Men’s Hockey: India vs Uzbekistan (8:45 am)
Volleyball: Quarterfinals/ Playoff Matches
23 September:
Table Tennis (Men’s and Women’s Team): Round 3 (7:30 am)
Opening Ceremony of Asian Games 2023
24 September:
Shooting: Women’s 10m air rifle (Individual & Team) – Ramita, Mehuli Ghosh, Ashi Chouksey (6 am)
Women’s Cricket Semifinals (6:30 am/11:30 am)
Rowing: Finals (6:30 am)
Wushu: Round 1 to finals (6:30 am to 5 pm)
Table Tennis (Men’s and Women’s Team): Round 4 and Quarterfinals (7:30 am)
Tennis (Round 1): Sumit Nagal, Ankita Raina, Karman Thandi (Singles), Mixed Doubles (7:30 am)
Women’s Rugby: India vs Hong Kong (9:30 am), India vs Japan (2:30 pm)
Boxing (Round 1): Nikhat Zareen (11:30 am), Jaismine Lamboria (11:30 am), Shiva Thapa (11:30 am), Lakshya Chahar (11:30 am), Parveen Hooda (4:30 pm), Sanjeet (4:30 pm)
Women’s Football: India vs Thailand (1:30 pm)
Men’s Football: India vs Myanmar (5 pm)
25 September:
Women’s Cricket: Medal matches (6:30 am)
Rowing: Finals (6:30 am)
Shooting: Men’s 10m air rifle (Individual & Team) – Divyansh Singh Panwar, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil, Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol (Individual & Team) – Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh (6:30 am) Wushu: Round 1 to finals (6:30 am to 5 pm) Gymnastics (Qualifying): Pranati Nayak (7:30 am)
Swimming (Round 1 to Finals): Likhith SP (7:30 am), Dhinidhi Desinghu (7:30 am), Hashika Ramachandran (7:30 am), Virdhawal Khade (7:30 am)
Table Tennis: Manika Batra/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Mixed doubles Round 1, Men’s and Women’s Team semifinals (7:30 am)
Tennis: Singles and doubles action continue (6:30 am)
Judo: Garima Choudhary (7:30 am – 3:30 pm)
Rugby: India vs Singapore (8:30 am)
Boxing (Round 1): Arundhati Chaudhary (11:30 am), Deepak Bhoria (11:30 am)
Handball: India vs Japan (11:30 am)
Women’s Basketball: India vs Uzbekistan (11:30 am)
Men’s Basketball: India vs Uzbekistan (5:30 pm)
26 September:
Fencing (Round 1 to Finals): Bhavani Devi (6:30 am)
Men’s Hockey: India vs Singapore (6:30 am)
Shooting: Air rifle mixed team – Divyansh Singh Panwar/Ramita; Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar/Mehuli Ghosh (6:30 am)
Swimming (Round 1 to Finals): Tanish Mathew, Aneesh Gowda, Advait Page, Palak Joshi, Anand AS (7:30 am)
Tennis: Singles and doubles action continue (6:30 am)
Judo (Round 1 to Finals): Avtar Singh, Indubala Devi, Tulika Maan (7:30 am to 3:30 pm)
Cycling (Round 1 to Finals): Men’s and Women’s team sprint (7:30 am to 12:30 pm)
Squash (Round 1): Men’s and Women’s Teams
Boxing (Round 1): Lovlina Borgohain, Nishant Dev, Sachin, Sanjeet (11:30 am/4:30 pm)
27 September:
Equestrian: Dressage, Semifinals (5:30 am)
Fencing (Preliminary to Finals): Men’s Foil Team – Dev, Arjun, Akash Kumar, Bibish Kathiresan (6:30 am); Women’s Epee Team – Taniksha Khatri, Ena Arora, Yashkeerat Kaur, Jyotika Dutta (9:30 am)
Shooting: Women’s 50m rifle 3-position (Individual & Team) – Sift Kaur Samra, Ashi Chouksey, Manini Kaushik, Women’s 25m pistol (Individual & Team) – Rhythm Sangwan, Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh; Men’s and Women’s Skeet (Individual & Team) – Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Gurjoat Singh Khangura and Ganemat Sekhon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Darshana Rathore (6:30 am)
Cycling (Men’s Sprint, Preliminary Round): Ronaldo Singh, Rojit Singh, David Beckham, Esow Alban (7:30 am)
Squash (Round 1): Women’s Team – Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal Karthik, Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna (7:30 am); Men’s Team – Saurav Ghosal, Abhay Singh, Mahesh Mangaonkar, Harinderpal Singh Sandhu (10 am)
Swimming (Round 1 to Finals): Maana Patel, Lineysha AK (7:30 am)
Table Tennis (Round 1,2): Ayhika Mukherjee/Sutirtha Mukherjee, Diya Chitale/Sreeja Akula, Manav Thakkar/Manush Shah, Sharath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manika Batra/ Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (7:30 am)
Tennis: Singles and doubles action continue (7:30 am)
Sailing: Finals (9 am)
Women’s Hockey: India vs Singapore (10 am)
Women’s Basketball: India vs China (11:30 am)
Boxing (Round 2): Shiva Thapa, Sanjeet (11:30 am/4:30 pm)
Gymnastics (Final): Pranati Nayak (12:30 pm)
Women’s Handball: India vs Hong Kong (4:30 pm)
Wushu (Semifinals): Onilu Tega, Roshibina Devi, Vikrant Baliyan, Surya Singh, Sunil Singh (5 pm)
Men’s Basketball: India vs Macau (5:30 pm)
Esports: EA Sports FC Online Final (6 pm)
28 September:
Golf (Round 1): Anirban Lahiri, Shubhankar Sharma, Shiv Chawrasia, Khalin Joshi, Aditi Ashok, Avani Prashanth, Pranavi Urs (3:30 am)
Shooting: Men’s 10m air pistol (Individual & Team) – Sarabjot Singh, Shiva Narwal, Arjun Singh Cheema; Skeet mixed team – Anantjeet Singh Naruka/Ganemat Sekhon and Gurjoat Singh Khangura/Parinaaz Dhaliwal (6:30 am)
Esports: League of Legends semifinals (6:30 am/11:30 am)
Wushu: Individual Gold Medal matches (6:30 am)
Swimming (Round 1 to finals): Aneesh Gowda, Aryan Nehra, Vritti Agarwal (7:30 am)
Cycling: Men’s Sprint QFs to finals, Women’s Sprint – Celestina, Triyasha Paul, Mayuri Lute, Sashikala Agase (7:30 am)
Table Tennis (Round 2, 3, QFs): Singles and doubles action continue (7:30 am)
Tennis (Quarterfinals, Semifinals): Singles and doubles action continue (7:30 am)
Squash (Quarterfinals): Men’s and Women’s Teams (10 am, 2:30 pm)
Badminton (Round 1): Men’s Team, Women’s Team (10:30 am)
Boxing (Round 2): Deepak Bhoria, Jaismine Lamboria (11:30 am/4:30 pm)
Men’s Basketball: India vs China (3:30 pm)
Men’s Hockey: India vs Japan (6 pm)
29 September:
Golf: Round 2 (3:30 am)
Athletics: Medal Events – Sandeep Kumar, Vikash Singh, Priyanka Goswami (5:30 am),Tanya Kumari, Rachna Kumari, Kiran Baliyan, Manpreet Kaur (4:30 pm); Heats – Aishwarya Mishra, Himanshi Malik, Md Anas, Md Ajmal
Shooting: Women’s 10m air pistol (Individual & Team) – Divya TS, Esha Singh, Palak; Men’s 50m rifle 3-position (Individual & Team) – Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Swapnil Kusale, Akhil Sheoran (6:30 am)
Swimming (Round 1 to finals): Sajan Prakash, Kushagra Rawat, Nina Venkatesh (6:30 am)
Table Tennis (Round 3, Mixed Doubles SF): Singles and doubles action continue (7:30 am)
Tennis: Men’s Doubles, Women’s Singles finals; Men’s Singles, Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles semifinals (7:30 am)
Squash (Semifinals): Women’s Team (8:30 am), Women’s Individual (12:30 pm), Men’s Team (1:30 pm)
Badminton (Round 2): Men’s and Women Teams (10:30 am, 3:30 pm)
Boxing (Round 2, QFs): Parveen Hooda, Nikhat Zareen, Lakshya Chahar, Sanjeet (11:30 am/4:30 pm)
Cycling (QFs to finals): Women’s Sprint (11:30 am)
Esports: League of Legends Final (11:30 am)
Men’s Basketball: India vs Malaysia (12 pm)
Women’s Handball: India vs China (3:30 pm)
Women’s Hockey: India vs Malaysia (4 pm)
30 September:
Golf: Round 3 (3:30 am) Equestrian: Eventing Team and Individual (5:30 am)
Shooting: Air pistol mixed team – Sarabjot Singh/Divya TS; Shiva Narwal/Esha Singh (6:30 am)
Roller Sports: Aarthy Kasturi Raj (6:30 am)
Canoeing & Kayaking: Round 1 to Semifinals (7 am)
Kurash: Round 1 to Semifinals (7 am)
Table Tennis (Quarterfinals): Singles and doubles action continue (9:30 am)
Badminton: Men’s and Women’s Teams Semifinals (10:30 am, 4:30 pm)
Boxing (Quarterfinals): Lovlina Borgohain, Nishant Dev, Sachin (11:30 am/4:30 pm)
Women’s Handball: India vs Nepal (11:30 am)
Squash: Men’s and Women’s Team Finals (11:30 am, 1 pm)
Weightlifting: Mirabai Chanu, Bindyarani Devi (1:30 pm, 4:30 pm)
Athletics: Medal Events – Men’s 400m, Women’s 400m, Kartik Kumar, Gulveer Singh; Heats – Murali Sreeshankar, Jeswin Aldrin, Jyothi Yarraji, Nithya Ramraj, Ajay Saroj, Jinson Johnson (3:30 pm)
Diving: Siddharth Pardeshi, London Singh (5 pm)
Men’s Hockey: India vs Pakistan (6 pm)
October 1:
Golf: All Finals (3:30 am)
Equestrian: Eventing Team and Individual (5:30 am)
Archery: Individual Ranking Rounds – Dhiraj Bommadevara, Atanu Das, Tushar Shelke, Mrinal Chauhan, Abhishek Verma, Ojas Deotale, Rajat Chauhan, Prathamesh Jawkar, Prachi Singh, Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur, Simranjeet Kaur, Avneet Kaur, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, Parneet Kaur (6:30 am)
Men’s Trap: Prithviraj Toindaman, Kynan Chenai, Zoravar Singh Sandhu (6:30 am)
Bridge (Round 2): Men’s and Women’s Pairs, Mixed Team (6:30 am)
Canoeing & Kayaking: Round 1 to Semifinals (7 am)
Kurash: Round 1 to Finals (7 am)
Badminton: Men’s and Women’s Team finals (10:30 am, 4:30 pm)
Boxing (QFs and SFs): Parveen Hooda, Jaismine Lamboria, Arundhati Chaudhary, Shiva Thapa, Lakshya Chahar, Sanjeet (11:30 am/4:30 pm)
Women’s Hockey: India vs Korea (1:30 pm)
Athletics: Medal Events – Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Sahib Singh, Sreeshankar, Jeswin Aldrin, Avinash Sable, Seema Punia, Harmilan Bains, Kumari Diksha, Ajay Saroj, Jinson Johnson, Jyothi Yarraji; Heats – Shaili Singh, Ancy Sojan, Amlan Borgohain (3:30 pm)
Diving: Siddharth Pardeshi, London Singh (5 pm)
October 2:
Archery: Individuals Round 1-3, Team Round 1 (6:30 am)
Roller Sports (Round 1 to finals): Men’s and Women’s Speed Skating Relay teams (6:30 am)
Canoeing & Kayaking: Finals (7 am)
Badminton (Round 1): HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth, PV Sindhu, Ashmita Chaliha, Satwik/Chirag, Dhruv/Arjun, Gayatri/Treesa, Tanisha/Ashwini, Sai Prateek/Tanisha, Rohan/Sikki (11:30 am)
Squash (Round 1): Mixed Doubles, Men’s and Women’s Individual (12:30 pm)
Equestrian: Eventing Team and Individual (12:30 pm)
Men’s Hockey: India vs Bangladesh (1 pm)
Athletics: Medal Events – Pavithra V, Shaili Singh, Ancy Sojan, Parul Chaudhary, Preeti Lamba, Jyothi Yarraji, Amlan Borgohain, Mixed 4x400m Relay; Heats – Sarvesh Kushare, Jesse Sandesh, Krishan Kumar, Md Afsal, Santhosh Kumar, Yashas P, Sinchal Ravi, Vithya Ramraj (3:30 pm)
Diving: Siddharth Pardeshi, London Singh (4:30 pm)
October 3:
Archery: Individual Quarterfinals, Semifinals (6 am)
Men’s Cricket (QF): India vs TBC (6:30 am)
Bridge (Semifinals): Men’s and Women’s Pairs, Mixed Team (6:30 am)
Canoeing & Kayaking: Finals (7 am)
Women’s Hockey: India vs Hong Kong (7:30 am)
Sport Climbing: Speed Individual – Aman Verma, Dhiraj Dinka, Anisha Verma, Shivpreet Pannu (7:30 am)
Soft Tennis: Round 1 to QFs (7:30 am)
Badminton (Round 2): Singles and doubles action continues (10:30 am)
Boxing (SFs, Final): Nikhat Zareen, Lovlina Borgohain, Jaismine Lamboria, Deepak Bhoria, Nishant Dev, Sachin, Shiva Thapa, Narender, Sanjeet (11:30/4:40 pm)
Sepak Takraw: Men’s and Women’s Quadrant Semifinals (11:30 am)
Squash (Quarterfinals): Mixed Doubles, Men’s and Women’s Individual (12:30 pm)
Athletics: Harmilan Bains, Kumari Chanda, Rubina Yadav, Pooja, Praveen Chitravel, Abdullah Aboobacker, Sinchal Ravi, Vithya Ramraj, Santhosh Kumar, Yashas P, Ankita, Parul Chaudhary, Annu Rani, Krishan Kumar, Md Afsal (3:30 pm)
October 4:
Archery: Mixed Teams QFs to Final (6:30 am)
Sepak Takraw: Men’s and Women’s Quadrant Finals (6:30 am)
Soft Tennis: SFs and Finals (7:30 am)
Wrestling (Greco-Roman): Gyanendra, Neeraj, Vikash, Sunil Kumar (7:30 am)
Squash (SFs): Mixed Doubles, Men’s Individual (9:30 am)
Badminton (QFs): Singles and doubles action continues (10:30 am)
Boxing (Finals): Lovlina Borgohain, Jaismine Lamboria, Parveen Hooda, Lovlina Borgohain, Deepak Bhoria, Nishanth Dev, Shiva Thapa, Sachin, Lakshya Chahar (11:30 am/4:30 pm)
Men’s Hockey: Semifinals (1:30 pm)
Athletics: Sarvesh Kushare, Jesse Sandesh, Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Kumar Jena, Sheena N, Harmilan Bains, Kumari Chanda, Gulveer Singh, Avinash Sable, Women’s 4x400m Relay, Men’s 4x400m Relay (3:30 pm)
October 5:
Archery: Compound Men’s and Women’s Teams QFs to Final (6:30 am)
Jiu-Jitsu: Qualification to finals (6:30 am)
Wrestling: Greco Roman – Narender Cheema, Naveen; Women’s Freestyle – Pooja Gehlot, Antim Panghal, Manshi (7:30 am)
Badminton (QFs, SFs): Singles and doubles action continues (10:30 am)
Boxing (Finals): Parveen Hooda, Arundhati Chaudhary, Deepak Bhoria, Nishant Dev, Sachin, Lakshya Chahar, Narender (11:30 am/4:30 pm)
Squash: Individual and Mixed Doubles Finals (11:30 am)
Women’s Hockey: Semifinals (1:30 pm)
October 6:
Equestrian: Dressage Team and Individual final standings (5:30 am)
Archery: Recurve Men’s and Women’s Teams QFs to Final (6:30 am)
Men’s Cricket: Semifinals (6:30 am)
Bridge (Finals): Men’s and Women’s Pairs, Mixed Team (6:30 am)
Jiu-Jitsu: Qualification to finals (6:30 am)
Kabaddi: Men’s and Women’s Semifinals (7 a.m.)
Wrestling: Women’s Freestyle – Sonam Malik, Radhika, Kiran; Men’s Freestyle: Aman Sehrawat, Bajrang Punia (7:30 am)
Sepak Takraw: Men’s and Women’s Regu Semifinals (11:30 am)
Men’s Hockey: Final (4 pm)
Badminton: Men’s Singles Semifinals (4:30 pm)
October 7:
Archery: All Individual Finals (6:30 am)
Sepak Takraw: Men’s and Women’s Regu Finals (6:30 am)
Jiu-Jitsu: Qualification to finals (6:30 am)
Kabaddi: Women’s Final (7 a.m.), Men’s Final (12:30 p.m.)
Wrestling: Men’s Freestyle – Yash, Deepak Punia, Vicky, Sumit (07:30 am)
Badminton: Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles Finals (10:30 am)
Men’s Cricket: Final (11:30 am)
Women’s Hockey: Final (4 pm)
October 8:
Closing Ceremony of the Asian Games 2023.
