TheSportsRush takes a look at India’s day 5 schedule at Asian Games 2018. A staggering five gold medals are up at stake in Rowing event.
Indian athletes will enter the field to add to the medal tally on Day 5 of the Asian Games 2018. Deepika Kumari and Promila Daimary, two big hopes in the Archery event, will take centre-stage in the Pre-Quarterfinal of the Recurve category. 5 gold medals will be in line in the rowing event, while India’s men and women team will look to book a berth in the final of the Kabaddi event.
But India’s strongest medal hopes will start their individual campaign in the badminton event. PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal, Srikanth Kidambi and Prannoy Kumar will be amongt the big names competing in the singles event, while Ashwini Ponappa will pair N. Sikki Reddy in the women’s doubles.
Here is the full list of events where Indian athletes will be in action on Day 5 of the Asian Games 2018. (All timings in IST)
Archery
Women’s Recurve Individual (Pre-Quarterfinal): 10:10 AM
Promila Daimary vs Urantungalag Bishindee (Mongolia)
Deepika Kumari vs Hyang Ji Ri (DPR Korea)
Gymnastics
Women’s Vault: Aruna Reddy, Mandira Chowdhury – 2:30 PM
Badminton
Men’s Singles: 11:30 AM
Srikanth Kidambi
Prannoy Kumar
Women’s Singles: 10:30 AM
PV Sindhu vs Thi Trang Vu (Hong Kong, China)
Saina Nehwal vs Soraya Aghaeihajiagha (Iran)
Men’s Doubles: 10:50 AM
Chirag Shetty/Satwiksairaj Rankireddy vs Y Chung/Ch Tam (Hong Kong, China)
Manu Atri/B Sumeeth Reddy vs Ta Mohammed/Ma Rasheed (Maldives)
Women’s Doubles: 10:30 AM
Ashwini Ponappa/N. Sikki Reddy vs Wy Ng/Nt Yeung (Hong Kong, China)
Rutaparna Pandea/Arathi Sara Sunil vs C Chaladchalam/P Muenwong (Thailand)
Mixed Doubles: 10:30 AM
Pranav Chopra/N. Sikki Reddy vs PS Chan/Ly Goh (Malaysia)
Satwiksairaj/Ashwini Ponappa vs D Puavaranukroh/S Taerattanachai (Thailand)
Basketball – Women’s 5×5
India vs Indonesia – 4:30 PM
Bowling
Men’s Trios – Dhruv Sarda, Shabbir Dhankot, Akaash Ashok Kumar – 8:00 AM
Bridge
Men’s team Qualification: India (Round 5 – 2nd in order) – 9:00 AM
Mixed team Qualification: India (Round 5 – 6th in order) – 9:00 AM
Supermixed team Qualification: (Round 4 – 5th in order) – 9:00 AM
Canoeing
Women’s Single Semifinal : Champa Mourya – 7:30 AM
Golf
Men’s individual and Men’s team: Aadil Bedi, Kshitij Naveed Kaul, Harimohan Singh, Rayhan Thomas – 5:00 AM
Women’s individual and Women’s team: Diksha Dagar, Ridhima Dilawari, Sifat Sagoo – 5:00 AM
Kabaddi
Women’s Semifinal – India vs (TBD) – 1:50 PM
Men’s Semifinal – India vs (TBD) – 4:00 PM
Pencak Silat
Men’s 50-55 kg – Boynao Singh Naorem – 8:00 AM
Rowing (Gold Medal events)
Men’s Single Sculls – Baban Dattu Bhokanal – 8:00 AM
Men’s Double Sculls – Om Prakash/Sawarn Singh – 9:10 AM
Women’s Double Sculls – Pooja/Sayali Rajendra Shelake – 9:25 AM
Men’s Pair – Malkeet Singh/Surinder Singh – 8:50 AM
Men’s Lightweight Fours – India (Lane 2) – 10:10 AM
Shooting
Men’s Double Trap (Qualification) – Ankur Mittal, Shradhul Vihaan – 8:30 AM
Women’s Double Trap – Varsha Verman, Shreyasi Singh – 8:45 AM
Sport Climbing
Men’s Speed Quarterfinals – Chingkheinganba Maibam, Bharat Stephen Pereira Kamath – 8:00 AM
Men’s Combined – Chingkheinganba Maibam, Bharat Stephen Pereira Kamath – 8:00 AM
Women’s Speed Quarterfinals – Shreya Shankar Nankar – 8:00 AM
Squash
Men’s Singles: Round of 32
Sourav Ghosal vs Shamil Wakeel (Sri Lanka) – 9:00 AM
Harinder Pal Sandhu vs Ko Young-jo (Korea) – 9:00 AM
Swimming
Men’s 50m Butterfly – Anshul Kothari – Heat 1 – 8:00 AM
Men’s 100m Freestyle – Agnel Aaron D’Souza – Heat 1, Advait Page – Heat 2 – 8:51 AM
Men’s 200m Backstroke – Srihari Nataraj – Heat 1, Advait Page – Heat 2 – 7:38 AM
Tennis
- Men’s Singles Quarterfinals – Prajnesh Gunneswaran vs Soonwoo Kwoon (Korea) – 9:00 AM
- Women’s Singles Semifinals – Ankita Raina vs Shuai Zhang (China) – 9:00 AM
- Men’s Doubles Semifinals – Rohan Bopanna/Divij Sharan vs K Uesugi/S Shimabukuro (Japan) – 9:00 AM
- Mixed Doubles Quarterfinals – Rohan Bopanna/Ankita Raina vs CB Rungkat/A Sutjiadi (Indonesia) – 9:00 AM
Volleyball (Indoors)
Women’s – India vs Kazakhstan – 9:00 AM
Weightlifting
Men’s 77 kg – Sathish Sivalingam, Ajay Singh – 10:00 AM
