Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 26 (ANI): The Indian contingent is ready for a packed Day 8 on the Asian Video games 2026 on Sunday, with a number of medal occasions, finals and essential qualification contests scheduled throughout a number of disciplines.
The motion begins within the early hours, with Kamali Moorthy taking up Singapore’s Camille Marie within the ladies’s shortboard Spherical 2 at 3:58 AM IST at Lengthy Seashore, Tahara. At 4:00 AM, race walkers Priyanka and Manju Rani will compete within the ladies’s marathon race stroll ultimate.
India’s archers may also start their marketing campaign early, with Sahil Rajesh Jadhav, Thirumuru Ganesh Maniratnam and Kushal Dalal that includes within the males’s compound group elimination spherical towards the UAE, whereas the ladies’s compound group takes on Mongolia. Surfers Sugar Shanti Banarse and Sivaraj Babu may also be in motion, whereas India’s Sepaktakraw group faces the Republic of Korea at 5:30 AM.
At 6:00 AM, equestrian riders Hriday Chheda and Jai Sud will compete within the particular person dressage ultimate. Badminton will see Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand tackle Malaysia within the ladies’s doubles quarterfinals, whereas Dhruv and Tanisha face China’s Feng Yan Zhe and Huang Dongping within the combined doubles.
India’s capturing contingent may also be in motion, with Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat competing within the 25m pistol precision qualification from 6:10 AM. Lure shooters Kynan Chenai, Ahvar Rizvi, Shapath Bharadwaj, Neeru, Manisha Keer and Aashima Ahlawat will comply with at 6:30 AM.
Kurash athletes Sangita and Bharti will start their marketing campaign at 6:30 AM, whereas India’s recurve and compound combined groups will compete in archery from 7:30 AM.
The morning session may also see India’s sailors compete on the Kaiyoh Yacht Harbor, whereas decathletes Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad proceed their gruelling 10-event marketing campaign. The duo will compete within the 110m hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw and 1500m throughout the day.
CA Bhavani Devi and the ladies’s sabre fencing group will tackle Indonesia from 8:20 AM. Indian athletes may also compete within the 400m hurdles heats and lengthy leap qualification rounds, with Santosh Kumar Tamilarasan, Yashas Palaksha, Vithya Ramraj and Anu Raghavan amongst these in motion.
Badminton stars PV Sindhu and Unnati Hooda will face powerful opposition within the ladies’s singles quarterfinals, with Sindhu drawn towards China’s Chen Yufei and Hooda going through Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi. Weightlifter Harjinder Kaur will then compete within the ladies’s 69kg ultimate Group A at 10:00 AM.
Squash will supply two main gold-medal alternatives for India. Abhay Singh will face Malaysia’s Ng Eain Yow within the males’s singles ultimate at 12:30 PM, whereas Anahat Singh will tackle Malaysia’s Sivasangari Subramaniam within the ladies’s singles ultimate at 1:30 PM.
In group sports activities, India’s males’s volleyball group will face Vietnam at 12:30 PM, whereas the ladies’s hockey group will tackle Singapore in a Pool B encounter at 3:30 PM. Indian boxers Ankush, Parveen, Sachin and Narender may also be concerned of their respective quarterfinal bouts.
Athletics will take centre stage within the night, with Shaili Singh and Ancy Sojan Edapilly competing within the ladies’s lengthy leap ultimate at 3:25 PM. Harita Bhadra and Unnati Aiyappa Bolland will line up within the ladies’s 200m ultimate, adopted by Animesh Kujur within the males’s 200m ultimate.
Sarvesh Anil Kushare and Adarsh Ram Jothi Shankar will contest the lads’s excessive leap ultimate, whereas Nandhini Kongan will compete within the ladies’s 100m hurdles ultimate.
Parul Chaudhary and Ankita will then compete within the ladies’s 3000m steeplechase ultimate, earlier than India’s ladies’s 4x100m relay group brings the day’s athletics motion in direction of a detailed.
With medal alternatives in squash, athletics, weightlifting, equestrian and race strolling, together with high-stakes contests in badminton, archery, capturing and group sports activities, Day 8 guarantees to be one of many busiest days but for the Indian contingent on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Video games. (ANI)
