Asian Games 2023 Highlights Day 11: Neeraj Chopra wins gold, India’s medal count climb to 81

Asian Games 2023 Day 11 Highlights: India’s current medal tally is 81, better than their previous best in Jakarta 2018 (70).

Asian Games 2023 Day 11 Highlights: India clinched gold in the compound archery mixed team final on Day 11 of the ongoing Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou on Wednesday. Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Pravis Ojas Deotale were in hot form as they took India past their best Asiad medal tally. Their current tally is 81, better than their previous best in Jakarta 2018 (70). India also bagged bronze in the 35km race walk mixed team final. While Lovlina Borgohain won silver after losing 0-5 in women’s 75 kg boxing final. Parveen settled for bronze after going down in the 57kg women’s boxing semifinal. Sunil Kumar won a bronze in men’s Greco-Roman 87Kg wrestling after. He beats Kyrgyzstan Atabek Azisbekov 2-1.

Harmilan Bains clocked 2:03.75 to finish second in women’s 800m finals and won her second silver medal at the event. She had won a silver in women’s 1500m earlier this week. Avinash Sable too added another silver to India’s tally, finishing second in men’s 5000m final. He had won a gold medal in the men’s 3000m steeplechase event. The Indian women’s 4x400m relay team clinched silver, losing gold to Bahrain in a neck-and-neck contest. Meanwhile, the men’s team won a gold in the 4x400m relay. Neeraj Chopra and Kishore Kumar Jena won the gold and silver respectively in the men’s javelin throw final.

Dipika Pallikal, Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu defeated Hong Kong’s Ka Yi Lee, Chi Him Wong in mixed doubles semifinal and assured India of at least a silver. An all-Indian squash mixed doubles final was prevented as Anahat Singh, Abhay Singh lost to Malaysia’s Aifa Binti and Mohammad Syafiq in the other semifinal. The pair had to settle for bronze. Saurav Ghosal dished out an authoritative performance in men’s singles squash semifinals, defeating Hong Kong’s Leung C.H.H in straight games.

India’s medal tally:

Gold: 18

Silver: 31

Bronze: 32

Results-

Archery: India’s Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Pravin Ojas Deotale win GOLD in compound archery mixed team event

Wrestling: Sunil Kumar wins bronze medal in men’s Greco-Roman 87Kg

Boxing: Parveen loses in women’s 57kg semifinal, gets BRONZE

Lovlina Borgohain gets SILVER in Women’s 75kg after losing the final to China’s Li Qian

Athletics: India win BRONZE in 35km race walk mixed team final

Harmilan Bains won silver in women’s 800m final

Avinash Sable won silver in men’s 5000m final

India’s women’s 4x400m relay team wins silver

Neeraj Chopra wins gold, Kishore Kumar Jena wins silver in men’s javelin finals

The Indian men’s 4x400m relay team won gold

Squash: India’s Anahat Singh, Abhay Singh crash to defeat against Malaysia’s Aifa Binti, Mohammad Syafiq in the mixed doubles semifinal, claim BRONZE

Dipika Pallikal, Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu defeat Hong Kong’s Ka Yi Lee, Chi Him Wong in mixed doubles semifinal, enter final

Saurav Ghosal enters men’s singles semifinal

Kabaddi: India men defeat Thailand 63-26 in Group A

India beat Thailand 54-22 in women’s kabaddi

Wrestling: Neeraj loses to Uzbekistan’s Makhmud Bakhshilloev in the men’s greco-roman 67kg 1/8 final

Sunil Kumar loses to a Iran’s Naser Alizadeh in the men’s greco-roman 87kg semifinal

Badminton: PV Sindhu defeats Indonesia’s Putri Kusuma Wardani to advance to women’s singles quarterfinals

HS Prannoy defeats Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Panarin to enter men’s singles quarterfinal

India’s Treesa Jolly, Gayatri Gopichand lose to South Korea’s Soyeong Kim and Heeyong Kong in women’s doubles pre-quarterfinals

India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty defeat Leo Rolly Carnando and Daniel Marthin of Indonesia in their men’s doubles pre-quarterfinal fixture

Volleyball: India women defeated Nepal, 3-1 in Pool G

Hockey: India win 5-3 in men’s hockey semifinal vs South Korea