Indian athletes face full Asian Games programme with race-walk finals and team events

Indian athletes are scheduled to compete across numerous disciplines at the Asian Games on Sunday, September 27, with medal events beginning in the morning and continuing through the afternoon. In athletics, Priyanka and Manju Rani are listed for the women’s marathon race-walk final at 4am. Later, India has medal-event entries in the women’s long jump, women’s 200 metres, men’s 200 metres, men’s high jump and women’s 100m hurdles.

The athletics programme also includes the men’s decathlon, with Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad scheduled for the 110m hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 1500m. Parul Chaudhary and Ankita are listed for the women’s 3000m steeplechase final. Indian archers begin with compound men’s and women’s team round-of-16 contests against the United Arab Emirates and Mongolia respectively.

Recurve and compound mixed teams, as well as the men’s and women’s recurve teams, are also scheduled to compete, with later rounds dependent on qualification. Badminton includes women’s doubles and mixed doubles quarter-finals. Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand are listed to face Malaysia’s Pearly Tan and Thinaah Muralitharan, while Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto are scheduled to meet China’s Feng Yan Zhe and Huang Dongping.

India’s boxing entries include Ankush in the men’s 80kg quarter-final, Parveen in the women’s 65kg quarter-final, Sachin in the men’s 60kg quarter-final and Narender in the men’s over-90kg quarter-final. The women’s sabre team, including Bhavani Devi, Shreya Gupta, Jefarlin J.S. and Shruti Joshi, is scheduled to face Indonesia in the table of 16.

India’s women’s hockey team is also listed to play Singapore in Pool B at 3:30pm. Other scheduled events include individual dressage finals for Hriday Chheda and Jai Sud, kurash contests, women’s sepak takraw and shooting, including Esha Singh’s 25m pistol qualification.