Asian Games: India stuns Korea in volleyball, Rowers make it to final - Highlights
The Indian rowing team, pentathlete Mayank Chaphekar, and men's volleyball team were be in action on 20 September 2023.
Satnam Singh and Parminder Singh in Men’s Double Sculls event
The Indian rowing team, pentathlete Mayank Chaphekar, and men's volleyball team were be in action on 20 September 2023.
India had an encouraging start to the day in rowing, with a 5 of teams advancing to the final races and bunch of the others into repechage races. Mayank Chaphekar also gave good debut to modern pentahlon sport for India in Asian Games with fencing ranking round.
But the icing on the cake was Indian men volleyball team achieving a historic victory over the silver medalists from the previous edition, South Korea. The match was nothing short of a rollercoaster ride, with India emerging victorious in a thrilling 3-2 victory (25-27, 29-27, 25-22, 20-25, 17-15) that lasted an intense two hours and 38 minutes. India enter the round of 12 which will be played on Friday.
We will be back with more blogs on Football and Cricket tomorrow.
After a brilliant showing by the Indian men's volleyball team and Indian rowers on the second day, India will open its campaign in Sailing, Women's Football, and Women's cricket tommorrow.
Follow the schedule for sports action on 21st September.
Harmanpreet Singh and Lovlina Borgohain were named as the flagbearers for the opening ceremony of 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
Indian men volleyball team achieved a historic victory in the ongoing Asian Games over the silver medalists from the previous edition, Korea. The match was nothing short of a rollercoaster ride, with India emerging victorious in a thrilling 3-2 victory (25-27, 29-27, 25-22, 20-25, 17-15) that lasted an intense two hours and 38 minutes.
Indians created history !!!! World rank 73 Indian men volleyball team defeat 2018 silver medallists world rank 27 South Korea in the Pool C match with a thrilling decider win and top the pool. India had 2 match points that were saved, then Korea also had a match point that India saved. India have now won 2 out of 2 games and made it to Round of 12.
India has reduced the deficit to 17-21 but the Koreans are close to the 25-point mark. India needs to get their shots right.
That was a brilliant win for the Indian team as they won the set 25-22. Korea is rattled with the attack India has come up.
It is a thrilling tie between India and Korea in men's volleyball- Follow LIVE here
Mayank Chaphekar finished the fencing ranking round on 28th position out of 29 players with 166 points (8 victories and 20 defeats) in Modern Pentathlon.
More Rowing Updates:
Men's coxless four - Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar and Asish - finish 1st in heat 1 and qualifies for final.
Men's quadruple sculls - Satnam Singh, Parminder Singh, Jakar Khan and Sukhmeet Singh finish 2nd in heat 2 and qualifies for repechage.
Women's coxed eight - Aswathi PB, Mrunamayee Salgaonkar, Priya Devi Thangjam, Rukmani, Sonali Swain, Ritu Kaudi, Varsha KB, Tendenthoi Devi and G Geetanjali finish 4th in Preliminary race and qualifies for final.
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