Day 8, Asian Games: Dutee Chand Wins Silver in 100m, Sindhu in SF

Dutee Chand wins her first Asian Games medal! She clinches silver in the 100m event with a timing of 11.32 seconds. Bahrain’s Edidiong Odiong wins gold with a timing of 11.30 seconds.

Ayyasamy Dharun and Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan qualify for the 400m hurdles final with timings of 49.55 seconds and 50.46 seconds.

Heartbreak for India! Govindan Lakshmanan, who was awarded a bronze in the 10,000m event, is disqualified from the event. He put one step off the track while running for a total timing of 29.44 minutes.

The Indian men’s team finished fourth in the bridge semi-finals with a score of 93.67. They were competing against Singapore, Hong Kong and China.

The Indian mixed team finished third in the semi-final with a score of 109.67. They were competing against China, Thailand and Indonesia.

Govindan Lakshmanan clinches a bronze in the 10,000m event with a timing of 29.44 minutes. Bahrain’s Hassan Chani wins the gold with a timing of 28.35 minutes.

Muhammed Anas wins a silver medal in the 400m event with a timing of 45.69 seconds. Arokia Rajiv finishes fourth in the event.

Hima Das wins a silver medal in the 400m event with a timing of 50.79 seconds. Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser clinches the gold medal with a Games record timing of 50.09 seconds.

Dutee Chand qualifies for the 100m final after finishing third in the semi-finals with a timing of 11.43 seconds.

Indian compound archery men’s team book a spot in the final after beating Chinese Taipei 230-227. The Indian team comprise of Rajat Chauhan, Aman Saini and Abhishek Verma.

Rajat Chauhan and Abhishek Verma were part of the gold medal-winning team in the previous edition of the Asian Games.

Former world silver-medallist Sarjuabala Devi has won her Round of 16 match.

Competing in the flyweight 51kg category, Sarjubala defeated Tajikistan's Madina Ghaforova 5-0 by unanimous decision.

She’s now in the quarter-finals.

That’s two assured medals in badminton for India! PV Sindhu has also booked her spot in the semi-finals alongside Saina Nehwal.

Sindhu has beaten world number 11 Jindapol Nitchaon 21-11, 16-21, 21-14.

No Indian woman had ever won a medal in badminton at the Asian Games. The last Indian to return with an individual medal from the Continental event was legendary Syed Modi, way back in 1982.

So far, India has won eight badminton medals at the Asian Games and six of them are in team events and one in men's doubles.

Next, Sindhu will play either world no 2 Japanese Akane Yamaguchi or China's Chen Yufei in the semifinals, while Saina face world no 1 Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei.

This one’s been stretched to a third. World number 11 Jindapol Nitchaon has won the second set 21-16 in 22 minutes.

She has won just one match out of the four she’s played against Sindhu and that was back in 2016. Could this be the second?

PV Sindhu also in action today in the quarters and she’s playing Thailand’s Jindapol Nitchaon, world number 11.

Ten minutes into the match, and Sindhu is leading 11-7 at the first break.

Muskan Kirar, Madhumita Kumari and Jyothi Vennam have reached the final of the women’s compound event and that’s India’s first assured medal in archery at the Games.

It was a close match against Chinese Taipei with the final scoreline reading 225-222.

Next up is South Korea in the final.

What a win! Saina Nehwal has beaten world number four Ratchanok Intanon in straight games to reach the semis and assure herself of a medal.

She’s now also the first-ever Indian woman to win a badminton medal at the Asian Games.

What a comeback! Intanon was in cruise control at the start of the match but Saina Nehwal just switched gears and has raced to a 1-0 lead in the match. She won the first game 21-18.

Saina Nehwal is playing Thailand’s Ratchanok Intanon in the women’s singles quarter-final and though her fourth seeded Thai opponent had opened up a 9 point lead at one stage, Saina has closed down the gap and is trailing 11-15 in the first game.

There’s a little history she’s playing for as well. If Saina does win this match, she will ensure she becomes the first Indian woman to win an Asian Games medal in badminton.

Updates: A fightback from the Indian and the match is now tied at 17-17 in the first game.

Fouaad Mirza has finished second in the Eventing Individual equestrian event.

And just as I was done writing that, India has won the team event as well.

That’s two silvers in equestrian today.

Mirza won the silver medal with a score of 26.40, while Japan's Oiwa Yoshiaki clinched the gold with a score of 22.70. China's Hua Tian Alex finished in third position to win the bronze medal, with a score of 27.10. The Indian team, comprising Rakesh Kumar, Ashish Malik and Jitender Singh apart from Mirza claimed the silver with a score of 121.30.

Almost 6 hours after today’s qualification round started, the women’s skeet final list is ready. Unfortunately, both the Indians in the event, Rashmi Rathore and Ganemat Sekhon, did not make the cut.

Ganemat finished 10th with 112 points and Rashmi finished 12th with 111 points. Only the top 6 shooters advanced to fight for the medal.

India’s men’s handball team has lost 31-35 to Chinese Taipei and have been knocked out of medal contention.

India had started their campaign with an easy 45-19 win over Malaysia. They then edged out arch-rivals Pakistan 28-27 in a thrilling contest which saw them winning goal being scored in the dying seconds.

Yep, it is a slow Sunday morning for India at the Asian Games. Mostly qualifying events taking place in the first few hours but there is a lot happening as the day goes.

There’s Saina and Sindhu playing their quarter-final matches and if either (and hopefully both) win, they can ensure India of a first individual badminton medal in 36 years. The last Indian to finish on the podium at the Asian Games in fact was Syed Modi when he won a bronze in the 1982 edition.

In fact, India has never won a silver of a gold in any badminton event at the Asian Games, just 8 bronze.

While on the topic of amazing female sportspersons, there’s also young Hima Das and Dutee Chand in action later this evening.

Hima, who became the first Indian track-and-field athlete to win a gold at a World Championship last month, will be seen in the final of the 400m final alongside Nirmala Sheoran. That race starts at 5:30PM.

Dutee Chand’s 100m semis will start at 5PM.

The star-studded recurve archery team is on its way home without a medal and it’s the turn of the compound teams to make their bid for the podium today.

And there’s been a good start. India’s beaten Qatar 227-218 in the Round of 16 to enter the quarter-finals.

Ayhika Mukherjee beat Aia Mohamed 11-2, 10-12, 11-2, 11-3 and then Sutirtha Mukherjee beat Maha Faramarzi 11-3, 11-3, 11-6 to complete a 3-0 win in India’s first women’s team tie.

Anu Raghavan and Jauna Murmu have both reached the final of the women’s 400m hurdles event. Raghavan finished third in Heat 2 with a time of 56.77 while Murmu just about made it to the final, qualifying in the last spot with a time of 59.20.

The final is tomorrow.

One week into the games and finally table-tennis events are underway in Indonesia. Kicking things off for India is the women’s team that’s taking on Qatar.

Mouma Das played the first singles match and it’s an easy 11-3, 11-2, 11-4 win for her over Maha Ali.

• 6:30 AM
  Shooting | Skeet Women (Qualification) - Rashmi Rathore, Ganemat Sekhon
• 7:30AM
  Shooting | Skeet Men (Qualification) - Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, Sheeraz Sheikh
  Canoe | Sprint 500m Women (Heats)
• 8:30 AM
  TT | Women's Team Preliminary Round (Group A) - India vs Qatar
• 8:50 AM
  Canoe | Sprint 500m Men (Heats)
• 9 AM
  Women's 400m Hurdles - Juana Murmu
• 9:20AM
  Archery | Compound Men's Team 1/8 Eliminations - India vs Qata
• 9:30AM
  Men's 400m Hurdles - Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan, Dharun Ayyasamy
  Handball | Men's Main Round Group 3 Round 7 Match: India vs Chinese Taipei
• 11:30 AM
  Saina Nehwal vs Ratchanok Intanon (Thailand)
  PV Sindhu vs Jindapol Nitchaon (Thailand)
• 12:10PM
  Archery | Compound Women's Team Quarterfinals - India vs TBD
• 12:30 PM
  TT | Women's Team Preliminary Round (Group A) - India vs China
• 2:15PM
  Boxing | Round of 16
  Manoj Kumar vs Abdurakhman Abdurakhmanov (Kyrgyzstan)
• 2:30 PM
  TT | Men's Team Preliminary Round (Group D) - India vs UAE
• 3 PM
  Boxing | Round of 16
  Sarjubala Devi vs Madina Ghaforova (Tajikistan)
• 4:30 PM
  Hockey | Men's Pool A: India vs Korea
  TT | Women's Team Preliminary Round (Group A) - India vs Iran
• 5PM
  Women's 100m Semifinal - Dutee Chand
• 5:10PM
  Men's Long Jump Final - Sreeshankar
• 5:30PM
  Women's 400m Final - Hima Das, Nirmala Sheoran
• 5:45PM
  Boxing | Round of 16 Men's Light (60kg)
  Shiva Thapa vs Jun Shan (China)
• 5:50PM
  Men's 10,000m Final - Lakshmanan Govindan
• 6:30PM
  TT | Men's Team Preliminary Round (Group D) - India vs Chinese Taipei

The second day of qualifications in women’s skeet are on and India’s Rashmi Rathore is ranked 9th after the fourth round. Ganemat Sekhon is placed 11th.

India’s lone gold-medallist on Saturday Tejinderpal Singh Toor dedicated his big feat to father, who is battling cancer back home in Punjab.

Not only did the 23-year-old from Moga win a gold, it came with a new Games record as he threw the iron ball to 20.75 m in his fifth attempt. It bettered a six-year old mark, set by Om Prakash Karhana (20.69m).

The eighth day at the 18th Asian Games will see Indians in action in table tennis, archery, athletics, badminton, boxing, shooting and hockey.

The day will start with women's skeet shooting qualifications where Rashmi Rathore and Ganemat Sekhon will be in action. The finals for skeet shooting will be played at 12:30 pm. Men's skeet shooting qualifications will also take place on Sunday and the finals will be played at 2:30 pm.

Both the men’s and the women’s team will begin their campaign in table tennis event.

A lot of medals will be up fro grab for India in athletics.

Muhammed Anas Yahiya and Arokia Rajiv will be part of the men’s 400m final. Hima Das, Nirmla Sheoran will be eyeing a podium finish in the women’s 100m final. Lakshmanan Govindan will also be in the men’s 10,000m final while Sreeshankar will be competing in the men's long jump final.

The men's compound Archery team will play Qatar at 9:20 am and the Women's team will be in action at 12:10 pm.

In badminton, we will see Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu in action in the women’s singles quarter-finals.

The men's hockey team will play South Korea in their Pool A match at 4:30 pm.

After disappointments in doubles badminton, weightlifting and recurve archery, Indian athletes ended the seventh day of the 18th Asian Games with 29 medals in the bag.

Tejinder Singh Pal Toor, India’s shot put champion bagged a gold medal as he threw 20.75 to also claim the Games record.

Indian athletes won three bronze medals in squash, with Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghoshal all three bagging bronze.

Out of the 29 medals, seven are gold, five silver and 17 bronze.