India’s results at Asian Games 2018: Day 7

TheSportsRush brings India’s results at Asian Games 2018 on Day 7.

India enjoyed a terrific day in the Athletics event, as Tajinderpal Singh Toor made an Asian Games record with an attempt of 20.75, clinching the gold medal. Toor also created a national record with this attempt.

Hima Das also made a national record in the women’s 400m race, as she and Nirmala Sheoran, both qualified for the finals. Muhammad Anas stood first in the Heat in Men’s 400m and qualified for the final race, alongside Rajiv Arokia. Dutee Chand also made her way into the semifinal of women’s 100m event.

PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal also cruised into the quarterfinals of women’s singles, however India faced disappointment in other major events at the Asian Games on day 8.

India’s run in the individual event in squash came to an end as Sourav Ghosal, Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa lost their semifinals. All the three have settled for a bronze medal.

Indian women’s hockey team also won their group game against Korea 4-1, and have all but sealed their place in the semifinals.

Here is the full list of results of events where Indian athletes participated today.

Archery

Women’s Team Recurve – India 2-6 Chinese Taipei (lost in quarterfinals)

Men’s Team Recurve – India 1-5 Korea (lost in quarterfinals)

Athletics

Men’s Long Jump (Qualification) – Sreeshankar – 4th (Qualified for second attempt)

Men’s 400m (Qualification) –

• Rajiv Arokia – 8th (qualified)
• Muhammad Anas – 1st (qualified)

Men’s Shot Put (Qualification) – Tajinder Toor – GOLD MEDAL (ASIAN GAMES RECORD)

Women’s 100m (Qualification) – Dutee Chand – 3rd (qualified)

Women’s 400m (Qualification) –

• Nirmala Sheoran – 4th (qualified)
• Hima Das – 2nd (qualified)

Women’s Hammer Throw – Sarita R Singh – 5th

Women’s 10,000m – Sanjivani Baburao Jadhav (6th), Suriya Loganathan (9th)

Badminton

Men’s Doubles:

• Saitwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty 1-2 S Choi/M Kang (Korea)
• Manu Atri/B. Sumeeth Reddy 1-2 J Li/Y Liu (China)

Women’s Singles: Round of 16

• Saina Nehwal 2-0 Fitriani (Indonesia)
• PV Sindhu 2-0 Greogria Mariska Tunjung (Indonesia)

Women’s Doubles:

• Ashwini Ponappa/N. Sikki Reddy 2-0 Q Chen/Y Jia (China)

Bowling

Men’s team of six (1st block) – India – 13th

Boxing

Men’s light flyweight (49 kg) – Amit Panghal – BYE

Men’s Bantam (56 kg) – Mohammad Hussamuddin – BYE

Men’s Light Welterweight (64 kg) – Dheeraj Rangi – BYE

Men’s Middleweight (75 kg) – Vikas Krishan Yadav – BYE

Women’s Lightweight (60 kg) – Pavitra – BYE

Bridge

Men’s team: India – 4th (qualify for semifinals)

Mixed team: India – 1st (qualify for semifinals)

Supermixed team: India – 8th (fail to qualify)

Equestrian

Eventing Individual (Cross-Country) – Current positions (Will continue on Day 8)

• Ashish Malik – 17th
• Rakesh Kumar – 12th
• Jitender Singh – 23rd
• Fouaad Mirza – 1st

Eventing Team event – India (3rd)

Golf

Women’s individual (Round 3) – Diksha Dagar (26th), Ridhima Dilawari (tied at 20th), Sifat Sagoo (tied at 23rd) – TBC

Women’s team (Round 3) – India (9th) – TBC

Men’s individual (Round 3) – Aadil Bedi (tied at 10th), Kshitij Naveed Kaul (tied at 21st), Harimohan Singh (tied at 41st), Rayhan Thomas (tied at 10th) – TBC

Men’s team (Round 3) – India (tied at 5th) – TBC

Handball

Women’s 9/10th place match – India 54-19 Malaysia

Hockey

Women’s: India 4-1 Korea

Sailing

49er Men (Race 3): Varun Ashok Thakkar/Ganapathy Kelapanda Chengappa – 2nd (TBC)

49er FX Women (Race 3): Varsha Gautham, Sweta Shervegar – 3rd (TBC)

Laser Radial (Race 3): Nethra Kumanan – 6th (TBC)

Open Laser 4.7 (Race 3) – Govind Bairagi (10th), Harshita Tomar (3rd) – TBC

Mixed RS One (Race 3) – India (7th) – TBC

Sepak takraw

Men’s Regu – Preliminary (Group B) – India 0-2 Korea

Shooting

Women’s Skeet qualification – Ganemat Sekhon (9th), Rashmi Rathore (10th) – TBC

Men’s Skeet qualification – Angar Vir Singh Bajwa (13th), Sheeraz Shaikh (10th) – TBC

Men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol – Shivam Shukla, Anish Bhanwala – Failed to qualify

Sport Climbing

Men’s Combined – Chingkheinganba Maibam (16th), Bharath Stephen Kamath Pereira (10th)

Women’s Combined – Shreya Sanjay Nankar (17th)

Also read: India’s day 8 schedule at Asian Games 2018

Squash

Men’s Singles Semifinal – Saurav Ghosal 2-3 Chun Ming Aun (Hong Kong, China) – BRONZE

Women’s Singles Semifinal –

• Dipika Pallikal Karthik 0-3 Ann Nicol David (Malaysia) – 1:30 PM – BRONZE
• Joshna Chinappa 1-3 Sivasangari Subramaniam (Malaysia) – 2:30 PM – BRONZE

Volleyball (indoor event)

Men’s – India 3-0 Maldives – 8:30 AM

Women’s – India 2-3 Chinese Taipei – 5:30 PM

Weightlifting

Men’s 94 kg – Vikas Thakur – 8th

MEDAL TALLY

1. China – 72 gold, 51 silver, 30 bronze
2. Japan – 34 gold, 31 silver, 44 bronze
3. South Korea – 25 gold, 26 silver, 33 bronze
4. Iran – 14 gold, 11 silver, 9 bronze
5. Indonesia – 10 gold, 12 silver, 16 bronze
6. North Korea – 10 gold, 5 silver, 6 bronze
7. Thailand – 8 gold, 8 silver, 24 bronze
8. India – 7 gold, 5 silver, 17 bronze
9. Chinese Taipei – 6 gold, 11 silver, 13 bronze
10. Uzbekistan – 5 gold, 10 silver, 7 bronze