Bagging three silver and two bronze medals, India is off to a superb begin on Sunday on the Asian Video games in Hangzhou. Within the Ladies’s 10m air rifle crew occasion, India’s Ramita Jindal, Mehuli Ghosh and Ashi Chouksey received India’s first silver medal.
Whereas yet one more silver was bagged by Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh in Rowing light-weight males’s double sculls.
Additional medals had been fetched in rowing with Babu Lal Yadav and Lekh Ram profitable bronze in males’s pair with a time of 6:50.41 sec behind the gold medallists Hong Kong, China (6:44.20 sec) and Uzbekistan 6:48.11.
Indias Babu Lal Yadav and Lekh Ram have fun on the podium after profitable bronze medal in Mens Coxless Pair occasion on the nineteenth Asian Video games, in Hangzhou, China | PTI
In the meantime, in rowing, Males’s coxed eight occasion between China and India noticed a tricky combat earlier than the latter completed second with a time of 5:43.01s, which was 2.84s behind the host crew, which clocked 5:40.17.
The Indian males’s coxed-eight crew comprised Neeraj, Nareskh Kalwaniya, Neetish Kumar, Charanjeet Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Puneet Kumar and Ashish.
India had despatched an enormous contigent of 33 rowers on the continental video games.
“We missed coaching for 20 to 25 days as I used to be having lower-back ache two months again. In any other case, we’d have received the gold medal,” mentioned Arvind. He added that their subsequent goal might be to intention for glory on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Additionally, Ramita received bronze in ladies’s 10m air rifle particular person occasion.
In Pool A match, Males’s hockey crew beat Uzbekistan (16-0).
Additionally in one other achievement, India has entered the ladies’s cricket crew last, beating Bangladesh by 8 wickets. With this, silver medal is assured. The crew additionally set a file by turning into the primary crew to qualify for the Asian Video games last. They are going to play the ultimate towards Pakistan/Sri Lanka.
Later within the day, boxing champion Nikhat Zareen is about to face a troublesome match. Additionally, males’s and ladies’s soccer groups might be in motion in group matches later.
