New Delhi: After enjoying a historic and record-breaking day at the Asian Games 2023, on Wednesday. India is now on the quest to reach the magical three-figure mark of total medals in one single edition of the Asian Games.
India started day 12, with an upset as their star shuttler, PV Sindhu, was knocked out of the quarterfinals.
However, the women’s compound archery team soon put smiles on the faces of everyone in the nation by winning their gold medal match against the Chinese Taipei.
India won two more gold medals courtesy of the Indian men’s compound archery team, who defeated South Korea in the finals, and the squash pair of Dipika Pallikal Karthik and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu, who won the first-ever mixed doubles event at the Asian Games.
India’s biggest heartbreak came when the women’s hockey team lost to China by 0-3, in the semifinals and are now forced to play the bronze medal match.
Indian Medal Tally- (Gold-21), (Silver-32), (Bronze-33): (Total-86)
Key moments from day 12:
16:37:Bronze from wrestling
🥉 World Championships 2023
🥈 Asian Championships 2023
🥉 Asian Games 2022🇮🇳 The 19-year-old wrestling prodigy from India continues to build on her impressive career by securing yet another medal. 𝗔 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱.
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— Team India at the Asian Games 🇮🇳 (@sportwalkmedia) October 5, 2023
Indian wrestler Antim Pangal clinched a bronze medal after defeating Mongolia’s Bolortuya by 3-1, in the bronze medal match in the women’s 53 Kg freestyle wrestling.
16:10: Silver for Saurav
😍 𝗦𝗔𝗨𝗥𝗔𝗩 ‘𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗟𝗩𝗘𝗥’ 𝗚𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗔𝗟! Congratulations to the veteran on winning his 5️⃣th Singles medal at the Asian Games.
🙌 With this 🥈, India’s campaign in Squash comes to an end with a total of 5️⃣ medals in this year’s Asian Games.
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— Team India at the Asian Games 🇮🇳 (@sportwalkmedia) October 5, 2023
Indian squash veteran Saurav Ghosal settles down with a silver medal after losing out to Malaysia’s Eain Yow by 1-3, in the finals.
15:00: Defeated, but all not lost
🏑 𝗚𝗢 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗭𝗘! The women’s team will fight for the third place against the loser of the Japan🇯🇵-South Korea🇰🇷 encounter on October 7.
💔 This defeat hurts as the 2018 silver-medalists have suffered a downgrade this time!
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— Team India at the Asian Games 🇮🇳 (@sportwalkmedia) October 5, 2023
Indian women’s hockey team goes down against the Chinese women’s team in the semifinals by 0-4, and will now play for the bronze medal now.
14:30: Kabaddi update (Men’s)
🇮🇳 𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘! With a thumping victory over Japan🇯🇵, the Indian men end the group stage with a bang.
🗓️ 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙞-𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬!
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— Team India at the Asian Games 🇮🇳 (@sportwalkmedia) October 5, 2023
Indian men’s kabaddi team finished their group stage undefeated after beating Japan by 56-29.
India will now face Pakistan in the semifinals on Friday.
14:20: Third gold of the day
🥇HATTRICK FOR THE DAY🥇
🇮🇳’s Compound Archers @archer_abhishek, and #KheloIndiaAthletes Ojas, and Prathamesh clinch the coveted GOLD, defeating Korea by a score of 235-230 at the #AsianGames2022 🏹🥇
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— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) October 5, 2023
Indian men’s compound archery team of Abhishek Verma, Ojas Praveen, and Prathamesh has won another gold medal for India after defeating South Korea by 235-230 in the finals, taking Indian medals tally to 84
13:27: Archery update (Compound men’s team)
🏹GO FOR GOLD🥇
🇮🇳’s Compound Archers @archer_abhishek, Ojas, and Prathamesh march into the FINALS by defeating Chinese Taipei at the #AsianGames2022 🤩👍🏻
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— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) October 5, 2023
Indian men’s compound archery team has booked their ticket for the finals after beating Chinese Taipei in the semifinals by 234-224.
India will now face the South Koreans in the finals at 13:55 Hrs IST, later today.
12:35: Archery update (Compound men’s team)
Indian men’s compound archery team has qualified for the semifinals after defeating Bhutan by 235-221 in the quarterfinals.
India will now face the Chinese Taipei in the finals, which is slated for later today at 13:05 Hrs IST.
12:10: Gold number 20
🥇🇮🇳 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗠𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗗 𝗗𝗢𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗦 𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗦! The experienced pair of Dipika Pallikal & Harinder Singh create history with a stellar victory against the Binti-Bin Mohd. Kamal pair of Malaysia🇲🇾.
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— Team India at the Asian Games 🇮🇳 (@sportwalkmedia) October 5, 2023
Indian squash duo of Dipika Pallikal and Harinder Pal Singh beam the first-ever mixed doubles gold medalists in the first-ever squash mixed doubles event at the Asian Games after beating Malaysia’s Aifa Azman and Md. Shafiq in the finals, giving India their 20th gold medal at the 19th Asian Games.
11:33: Singles medal assured from badminton
Indian star shuttler HS Pronoy defeated Malaysian Lee Jia Zii in the men’s singles quarterfinals to enter the semifinals and ensure one more medal in badminton from India.
10:09: Wrestling update
🙌 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗜 𝗧𝗢 𝗙𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗭𝗘! Mansi won her Repechage bout against Jeongae Bark of South Korea🇰🇷 to qualify for the Bronze medal game, where she’ll face Laylokhon Sobirova of Uzbekistan🇺🇿 later today (around 2:30 PM).
🙌 All the best to her!
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— Team India at the Asian Games 🇮🇳 (@sportwalkmedia) October 5, 2023
🤼♀ 𝗙𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗭𝗘! Antim Panghal will take on Bolortuya Bat-Ochir of Mongolia🇲🇳 in the Bronze Medal match later today.
🙌 Antim qualified for the Bronze medal game after Akari Fujinami qualified for the final.
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— Team India at the Asian Games 🇮🇳 (@sportwalkmedia) October 5, 2023
🤼♀ 𝗚𝗢 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗭𝗘! Pooja Gehlot lost her semi-finals encounter against Remina Yoshimoto of Japan🇯🇵 and will compete for Bronze later today (after 2:30 PM) .
🙌 She will take on the winner of the Repechage which will happen in a while!
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— Team India at the Asian Games 🇮🇳 (@sportwalkmedia) October 5, 2023
Indian wrestlers Pooja, Antim, and Mansi will play for the bronze medal in the women’s division after winning their repechage round matches, respectively.
🥉 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗨𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗗! Naveen won his Repechage encounter with ease against Timothy Yu Loh of Singapore🇸🇬 to qualify for the Bronze medal match where he’ll take on Minseok Kim of South Korea🇰🇷 later today (around 2:30 PM).
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— Team India at the Asian Games 🇮🇳 (@sportwalkmedia) October 5, 2023
Meanwhile, in the men’s division, Naveen also won his repechage round and will now fight for the bronze medal match later today at 14:30 Hrs IST.
9:47: Golden start
🎯🥇GOLDEN GIRLS🥇🎯#KheloIndiaAthletes Aditi, @VJSurekha, and @Parrneettt add another Gold to India’s medal tally after defeating Chinese Taipei by a scoreline of 230-229🤩🎯
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— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) October 5, 2023
Indian women’s compound archery team of Jyothi Vennam, Aditi Swami and Parneet Kaur defeated the Chinese Taipei trio in the finals by 230-229, to open India’s day 12 medal tally with a gold medal.
9:14: Winning streak continues
🇮🇳 𝙔𝙀𝙏 𝘼𝙉𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝙈𝙀𝘿𝘼𝙇 𝘼𝘿𝘿𝙀𝘿 𝙏𝙊 𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙆𝙄𝙏𝙏𝙔! We are just one step away from playing in our 8️⃣th Asian Games final. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧🇵🇰 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰!
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— Team India at the Asian Games 🇮🇳 (@sportwalkmedia) October 5, 2023
Indian men’s kabaddi team continued their red-hot run as they registered their third straight victory after beating Chinese Taipei 50-27.
India will now play their final group-stage match against Japan at 14:30 Hrs IST, later today.
8:20: Big upset
🏸 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦! With Sindhu’s loss against He Bingjiao of China🇨🇳, India’s contention in the Women’s Singles division officially comes to an end.
😭 𝙒𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙙 2 𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙎 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 2018 𝘼𝙨𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙂𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙨.
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— Team India at the Asian Games 🇮🇳 (@sportwalkmedia) October 5, 2023
Indian star shuttler PV Sindhu suffered a huge upset in the women’s singles quarterfinals as she lost to China’s He Bingjiao in straight sets of 16-21, 12-21, to end her Asian Games 2023 campaign.
