BOXING: Nishant Dev advances to quarters:
Nishant Dev, a world championships bronze medallist, knocked out Vietnam's Phuoc Tung Bui in the men's 71kg round of 16 boxing bout at the Asian Games 2023. The 22-year-old Indian boxer stormed into the quarter-final in one minute and 38 seconds. Nishant Dev will fight Sewonrets Quincy Mensah Okazawa for a semi-final spot on September 30 at 6:30 PM IST.
SWIMMING: Women's 4x200m freestyle relay breaks national record:
Dhinidhi Desinghu, Vritti Agarwal, Shivangi Sarma and Hashika Ramachandra created a new women's 4x200m freestyle relay national record time, clocking 8:37.58, in the final at the Asian Games 2023. The quartet had set the previous record (8:39.64) in the heats earlier today. However, Team India finished last in the final.
Meanwhile, the Indian men's 4x100m freestyle relay team also finished last in the final. Srihari Nataraj and Co. clocked 3:21.46, 10.58 seconds behind the Chinese team, who broke the Asian record.
SWIMMING: Indians falter in men's 800m freestyle fast heat:
Aryan Nehra and Kushagra Rawat finished in the bottom two of the men's 800m freestyle fast heat, a medal event, at the Asian Games 2023. Nehra clocked 8:04.06 to rank seventh while Rawat was eighth with a time of 8:14.01.
The Republic of Korea's Woomin Kim shattered the Asian Games record by 2.33 seconds on his way to clinching the gold medal. The 22-year-old swimmer also bagged the 1500m freestyle silver and 4x200m freestyle relay gold.
BOXING: Deepak Bhoria ousted in round of 16:
Deepak Bhoria, the reigning world championship bronze medallist, lost 4:1 on points against Japan's Tomoya Tsuboi in the men's 51kg pre-quarterfinal at Hangzhou 2023. Despite a point deduction in the bout, the former world champion Japanese boxer got the better of the 26-year-old Deepak.
SQUASH: India beat Nepal in men's team tie:
The Indian men's squash team won 3-0 against Nepal in the Pool A tie at Hangzhou 2023. Abhay Singh and Mahesh Mangaonkar won their matches in straight games against Amrit Thapa and Arhant Simha, respectively. Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu, meanwhile, followed suit in the final match with an 11-1, 11-2, 11-6 victory.
India won four of the five group matches at the Asian Games 2023, assuring a semi-final spot and a medal. Their only defeat came against Pakistan on Wednesday.
Earlier, the Indian women's squash team made the semi-final and assured the nation's first squash medal.
ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS: Pranati Nayak finishes eighth in vault final:
Pranati Nayak finished with a score of 12.350 to rank eighth in the women's vault final at the Asian Games 2023. The 28-year-old scored 12.100, with -0.3 penalty points, in vault 1 and notched 12.600 in vault 2. She had qualified sixth in the subdivision 1 round at Hangzhou. Pranati Nayak had also finished eighth in the vault final at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta.
BOXING: Lamboria punches her way into quarters:
India's Jaismine Lamboria won her women's 60kg round of 16 boxing bout against Saudi Arabia's Hadeel Ghazwan Ashour after the referee stopped contest in the second round at Hangzhou. The 22-year-old Indian pugilist had scored a perfect 10 in round 1.
Commonwealth Games 2022 bronze medallist Jaismine Lamboria will take on Ungyong Won from DPR Korea in the quarter-final on October 1 at 12:30 PM IST. Jaismine is one win away from a medal at the Asian Games and sealing a women's 60kg Olympic quota for India.
SQUASH: Malaysia win 3-0 vs Indian women's team:
Indian squash players Joshana Chinappa, Tanvi Khanna and Anahat Singh lost their matches in the women's team tie against Malaysia at the Asian Games 2023.
Joshana Chinappa went down 11-6, 11-2, 11-8 against Sivasangari Subramaniam while Tanvi Khanna lost a five-game versus Aifa Binti Azman. Despite Anahat Singh's efforts in the third game, Malaysian player Rachel Arnold won the final match 14-12 to seal a 3-0 victory.
It was India's first defeat in women's team squash Pool B while Malaysia won all their five group ties. However, both teams made it to the semi-final and assured themselves a medal at Hangzhou.
TRACK CYCLING: David Beckham Elkatohchoongo ranked eighth in men's sprint:
Indian cyclist David Beckham Elkatohchoongo finished eighth in the men's sprint event at the Asian Games 2023. David Beckham clocked 0.109 seconds behind fifth-placed Chinese Taipei's Shih-Feng Kang in the 5th-8th places race.
Triyasha Paul, meanwhile, lost in the women's sprint 1/16 final repechage heat to the Republic of Korea's Hyeonseo Hwang.
While it marked the end of Triyasha Paul's Hangzhou campaign, David Beckham will race in the men's keirin heats tomorrow at 12:00 PM IST.
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