Asian Games
Asian Games 2026: Roshibina wins silver; Bronze in rowing, two medals in Athletics – Highlights
Highlights from India’s Asian Games campaign on September 24 as Roshibina Devi fights for wushu gold, rowers chase medals and India faces South Korea in hockey.
Asian Games 2026, September 24: India return to action on Thursday with a busy medal schedule, led by Roshibina Devi’s women’s 60kg sanda final in wushu and a series of rowing finals in the morning.
Roshibina will be the first major medal contender in action when she takes on China’s Xiaoyu Zhang at 6:05 AM, with gold at stake. The Indian had reached the final with a 2-0 semifinal win over Indonesia’s Thania Kusumaningtyas and will now look to move up from her bronze-medal finishes at the 2018 and 2022 Asian Games.
Rowing will also be a major focus, with the men’s single sculls and double sculls finals scheduled from 5:10 AM. Balraj Panwar will be among India’s medal hopefuls after progressing to the men’s singles sculls final on Wednesday. India will also feature in the women’s four and men’s quadruple sculls finals.
The day will also feature Indian athletes across boxing, squash, table tennis, fencing, canoeing, swimming, gymnastics and athletics.
Animesh Kujur and Gurindervir Singh will compete in the men’s 100m heats, while the evening athletics programme includes the women’s 10,000m final and mixed 4x400m relay final.
Highlights:
Live Updates
- 24 Sept 2026 12:43 PM IST
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea: South Korea scores!
South Korea comfortably scores their first goal via Kim Jaeho
India have now conceeded at least one goal in every match at the Asian Games so far.
IND 7-1 KOR
- 24 Sept 2026 12:39 PM IST
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea: GOAL! Abhishek makes it 7-0
Goal No. 7 comes from Abhishek’s stick!
A mix-up in the Korean D sees the ball roll towards the right before a shot is saved by the goalkeeper. Abhishek is quickest to the rebound and makes no mistake, firing it in to put India 7-0 up.
IND 7-0 KOR
- 24 Sept 2026 12:34 PM IST
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea: Koreans respond with a PC!
No change in the scores.
IND 5-0 KOR
- 24 Sept 2026 12:33 PM IST
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea: PC for India!
India earn their second penalty corner of the match. Manpreet finds Harmanpreet, but the first rusher gets in the way. India win another PC and then another. Three back-to-back penalty corners for India, take the count to SIX in a go.
Vivek takes the sixth one himself, going for a scoop, but it sails wide and over the post. No goal!
IND 6-0 KOR
- 24 Sept 2026 12:28 PM IST
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea: HAT-TRICK for Dilpreet
You leave him unattended at a crucial position and he will punish you. Hattrick for Dilpreet.
Tenth goal of the tournament so far for the Indian forward!
- 24 Sept 2026 12:26 PM IST
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea: Green card for Shilanand Lakra
Shilanand Lakra collects a green card.
IND 5-0 KOR
- 24 Sept 2026 12:18 PM IST
Squash, Abhay Singh advances to quarterfinals with a straight game win
India No. 1 defeated Sri Lanka's Ravindu Laksiri in straight games, 11-3, 11-5, 11-6, to book his spot in the last 8.
He is now just one win away from the medal and will next face Ryunosuke Tsukue of Japan in the last 8 on Friday.
- 24 Sept 2026 12:15 PM IST
Hockey, India W v/s South Korea: Half Time
India continue their merry ways on the hockey field. They net four in the first quarter, add another in second to make it five in the first half.
South Korea have barely been able to trouble them.
IND 5-0 KOR
- 24 Sept 2026 12:11 PM IST
Rowing, Men's Lightweight Double Sculls: Rohit and Ujjwal Kumar Singh finish 4th; miss out on a medal
Rohit and Ujjwal Kumar Singh finished in fourth place with a time of 6:27.42 and missed out on a medal to Uzbekistan, Indonesia and Hong Kong.
They had a slow start and were in fifth place at the first 500m, but then they slowly started coming back into the top 4 and were just 0.04 away from Hong Kong at the 1500m mark.
But then, in the final 500m, the Hong Kong duo picked up the pace and left the Indian pair way behind, and they had to settle for a 4th-place finish.
