Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 27 (ANI): A packed day awaits the Indian contingent on the 2026 Asian Video games on Monday, with athletes set to compete throughout greater than a dozen disciplines as Workforce India seems so as to add to its medal tally in Aichi-Nagoya.
The motion begins early within the morning with browsing, archery and capturing, earlier than a sequence of essential staff occasions, knockout contests and athletics finals dominate the day’s schedule.
Browsing will get underway at 07:28 JST (03:58 IST) at Lengthy Seaside in Tahara, the place Sivaraj Babu will face the Philippines’ ALCISO Jayuard within the males’s shortboard Spherical 3 Warmth 2. Kishore Kumar will even be in motion later within the morning in opposition to China’s MA Wensong.
Archery will see Sahil Rajesh Jadhav and Thirumuru Ganesh compete within the males’s compound particular person 1/16 elimination spherical from 08:15 JST (04:45 IST). Maniratnam can be in rivalry, with the Indian archers aiming to progress to the 1/8 spherical.
Taking pictures will present one other main medal alternative, with Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat competing within the ladies’s 25m pistol staff remaining and particular person qualification speedy stage from 09:40 JST (06:10 IST). The lure contingent, led by Kynan Chenai, Ahvar Rizvi and Shapath Bharadwaj within the males’s occasion and Neeru, Manisha Keer and Aashima Ahlawat within the ladies’s occasion, will even start Qualification Day 2.
Tennis star Sumit Nagal will tackle South Korea’s Seongchan Hong within the males’s singles second spherical, whereas Dhakshineswar Suresh will face Indonesia’s Gunawan Trismuwantara.
Workforce occasions will even be outstanding, with the Indian ladies’s sepaktakraw staff going through Japan, the boys’s volleyball staff taking over Hong Kong and the ladies’s squash staff assembly China.
The crusing programme begins at 11:00 JST (07:30 IST), with Prince Noble and Manu Francis competing within the males’s 49er skiff, Vishnu Saravanan within the males’s ILCA 7, Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma within the ladies’s 49er FX, and Nethra Kumanan within the ladies’s ILCA 6.
In fight sports activities, Pincky Balhara will start her marketing campaign within the ladies’s -78kg Kurash quarterfinals at 11:30 JST (08:00 IST).
The afternoon will deliver a few of India’s largest knockout contests. The lads’s cricket staff will face Afghanistan in Quarterfinal 2 at 13:30 JST (10:00 IST), whereas Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain takes on South Korea’s Seong Suyeon within the ladies’s 75kg boxing quarterfinals.
India’s ladies’s 25m pistol trio of Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat will goal a spot within the particular person remaining, scheduled for 14:15 JST (10:45 IST), topic to qualification.
The night will see the Indian males’s hockey staff tackle Bangladesh in Pool A at 19:00 JST (15:30 IST). Squash groups will even proceed their campaigns, with the ladies’s facet going through Japan and the boys’s staff taking over South Korea.
Boxing will function additional Indian illustration, with Priya going through Tajikistan’s Samadova Mijgona within the ladies’s 60kg quarterfinals and Kapil Pokhariya taking over South Korea’s Kim Gichae within the males’s 90kg quarterfinals.
Nonetheless, the largest medal rush is predicted on the Nagoya Metropolis Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium, the place India’s monitor and area contingent might be concerned in a sequence of finals.
Seema and Sanya Yadav will start the athletics medal programme within the ladies’s discus throw remaining at 18:05 JST (14:35 IST). Vithya Ramraj and Anu Raghavan will then compete within the ladies’s 400m hurdles remaining, adopted by Santosh Kumar and Tamilarasan within the males’s 400m hurdles remaining.
All eyes might be on Avinash Mukund Sable at 19:47 JST (16:17 IST) as he competes within the males’s 3000m steeplechase remaining.
The lads’s lengthy bounce remaining will function Sreeshankar Murali and David Solomon Patturaj, whereas Yoonus Shah and Gulveer Singh will line up for the boys’s 1500m remaining.
India will even have Rohit Yadav and Yashvir Singh within the males’s javelin throw remaining, whereas Parul Chaudhary and Seema will compete within the ladies’s 5000m remaining.
The athletics programme will conclude with relay motion, with the Indian males’s 4x400m relay staff competing in Spherical 1 at 21:31 JST (18:01 IST) earlier than the ladies’s 4x100m relay remaining at 22:04 JST (18:34 IST).
With medal occasions unfold throughout capturing, athletics, fight sports activities and different disciplines, September 28 guarantees to be one of many busiest days for the Indian contingent on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Video games. (ANI)
