Asian Games
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.
Live Updates
- 20 Sep 2023 9:05 AM GMT
Women's Wrestling team heads to China for Asian Games.
Indian women wrestlers will be going to China for a training camp before the main tournament begins.
- 20 Sep 2023 8:24 AM GMT
Balraj Panwar qualifies for SF
Rower Balraj Panwar finished 3rd in heats of single sculls event and qualified for semifinal.
- 20 Sep 2023 5:51 AM GMT
Indian rowers move to the final race.
Women's Coxless four- Aswathi P. B., Mrunamayee Nilesh, Thangjam Priya Devi and Rukmani
Men's Coxless pair- Babul Lal Yadav and Lekh Ram
Men's Coxed Eights- Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar, Ashish, Neeraj, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neetesh Kumar, Charanjeet Singh and D. U. Pande
- 20 Sep 2023 5:21 AM GMT
Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh finished second behind China.
India finished second in the Heat 1 of men's lightweight double sculls and qualify to Repechage round (6:27:45).
- 20 Sep 2023 5:16 AM GMT
India finished fourth in women's lightweight double sculls heat.
India finished fourth in the Heat 2 of women's lightweight double sculls and qualify to Repechage round (7:27:57).
