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Asian Games 2018, Day 2 Live: Vinesh Phogat becomes first Indian woman wrestler to bag Asiad gold

Here are live updates from Day 2 of the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia.

Asian Games 2018, Day 2 Live: Vinesh Phogat becomes first Indian woman wrestler to bag Asiad gold
Vinesh Phogat wins gold

India started their campaign at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia with two medals on the opening day.

Wrestler Bajrang Punia won a gold while shooters Apurvi Chandela and Ravi Kumar combined to clinch a bronze.

There's a lot to look forward to for the Indian athletes on Day 2. They'll be competing in shooting, rowing, swimming, badminton, basketball, taekwondo, wushu, kabaddi, tennis, handball, volleyball, artistic gymnastics, and hockey.

Highlights from Day 2

Medal: Vinesh Phogat becomes India's first woman wrestler to win gold at the Asian Games. 

Deepak Kumar gives India its third medal, a silver in Men's 10m Air Rifle.

Badminton: Sindhu defeats Yamaguchi but Saina loses to Okuhara as Japan defeat India 3-1 in the quarter-final of the Women's Team event.

Shooting: Apurvi Chandela finishes fifth in the 10m Air Rifle final.

Medal: 19-year-old shooter Lakshay wins silver in Men's Trap.

Here are live updates from Day 2

LIVE Blog
20 Aug 2018
07:55 PM

Hockey

Indian men's hockey team begins 2018 Asian Games campaign in style. India beat Indonesia 17-0 (yes 17-0) in their first match. 

07:54 PM

Wrestling 

Another disappointing result- India's Sumit misses out on bronze medal, loses playoff against Uzbekistan's M Davit.

07:53 PM

Tennis 

Rohan Bopanna and Sharan Divij will be in action in Men's doubles Round of 32 soon. 

07:43 PM

Gymnastics 

All Indian male gymnasts fail to qualify for the next round in artistic gymnastics. Yogeshwar Singh is in Reserve 2 in Vault, but his chances appear bleak.

07:06 PM

Wrestling

Major upset for India: Rio 2016 bronze medallist, Sakshi Malik loses the bronze Medal bout to North Korean wrestler 2-12 in 62Kg women's freestyle wrestling. 

06:55 PM

Meanwhile, Vinesh having a quiet but a special moment to herself. 

 

06:45 PM

Gymnastics

 

 

06:26 PM

Wrestling

Contradicting result after Phogat's gold -  Pooja Dhanda loses the bronze Medal bout to Japanese wrestler 1-6 in 57Kg freestyle women's Wrestling. 

05:53 PM

Podium time as India's national anthem is played at Jakarta!

 

05:15 PM

Wrestling

VINESH PHOGAT BECOMES FIRST INDIAN WOMAN TO CLINCH A GOLD MEDAL AT THE ASIAN GAMES!

Phogat defeats Japan's Yuki Ire 6-2 in 50Kg freestyle wrestling final. 

 

04:45 PM

Tennis

Men's doubles: Ramanathan Ramkumar and Sumit Nagal are through to Pre-quarters with 6-1, 6-1 win in 1their first round. 

04:29 PM

Badminton

All over for Indian men's team; doubles duo of Atri Manu and Buss Sumeeth loses 14-21;18-21 to the Indonesian duo and that means Indian men's team loses the tie 1-3 to Indonesia. 

04:27 PM

Kabaddi

One of the biggest shocks for India today at the 2018 Asian Games: Men's Kabaddi have lost to Korea 23-24 in their 3rd match in Group A. Yesterday India beat both Bangladesh and Srilanka. India's next match is against Thailand scheduled tomorrow. India are now tied with South Korea with four points each in Pool A. 

03:40 PM

Badminton - Men's Team

What a win for HS Prannoy! He takes the third game 21-19.

Indonesia now lead India 2-1 in the five-match tie.

03:39 PM

Badminton - Men's Team

HS Prannoy is locked in a titanic tussle here. The Indian leads 16-14 in the decider.

03:32 PM

Badminton - Men's Team

HS Prannoy has come back strongly in the match.

After winning the first game and losing the second, he leads 11-5 in the third.

03:24 PM

Wrestling

126 kg category wrestler Sumit has a chance now to win a bronze through repechage.

He'd lost his opening bout but has now won 7-0 against Oleg Boltin.

03:23 PM

Badminton - Men's Team

HS Pronnoy, after winning the first game comfortably, has lost the second one 19-21.

India trail Indonesia 0-2 in this five-match tie. Prannoy has to win this match to keep his country's hopes alive.

03:20 PM

Kabaddi

A massive upset!

The mighty Indian men's team is defeated 23-24 by Korea.in their third group game.

03:16 PM

Lakshay shot a stunning 43 out of 50 targets in the final.

Chinese Taipei’s Yang Kunpei shot 48 out of 50 to win gold.

03:13 PM

MEDAL ALERT!

Shooting - Men's Trap Final

India's Lakshay wins a silver medal after a phenomenal display of shooting in the final. What a sensational performance from the 19-year-old!

India gets its second medal of the day and fourth overall.

03:06 PM

Shooting - Men's Trap Final

Lakshay has made it to the final two, he is now assured of a silver.

03:03 PM

Shooting - Men's Trap Final

Sandhu is eliminated after a couple of poor rounds.

But Lakshay is now guaranteed a medal! He remains in second position.

03:02 PM

Shooting - Men's Trap Final

After 30 shots, Lakshay is in second position witrh Sandhu in fourth. India will be guaranteed a medal if both survive the next round.

02:56 PM

Shooting - Men's Trap Final

Both Lakshay and Sandhu are now tied in the second place after a brilliant round of shooting from the latter.

02:53 PM

Badminton - Men's Team

HS Prannoy is dominating! He takes the first game 21-15 against his opponent from Indonesia.

02:49 PM

Shooting - Men's Trap Final

After 20 shots, Lakshay is in second position and Sandhu is fourth.

02:47 PM

Shooting - Men's Trap Final

Lakshay is tied in the first position after 15 shots, Sandhu is fourth.

Medal on the cards here!

02:45 PM

Badminton - Men's Team

HS Prannoy has taken a solid 11-8 lead in the opening game. He has to win this match to keep India in this tie against Indonesia. India trail 0-2.

02:42 PM

Lakshay and Sandhu both hit all five targets in the second round.

This is great going by the Indian pair.

Can they bring home more medals?

02:41 PM

Shooting - Men's Trap Final

Lakshay misses just one shot while Sandhu misses two in the first round of five shots.

02:32 PM

Shooting

Manavjit Singh Sandhu and Lakshay Sheroan will now compete in the men's Trap final.

02:29 PM

Badminton - Men's Team

Indonesia take a 2-0 lead in the five-match tie against India.

Satwik and Chirag lose the third game to the World No.1 pair.

HS Prannoy will now compete in a singles match.

02:23 PM

Wrestling

WOW! Vinesh Phogat, you beauty!

The Indian wrestler wins her semi-final bout in just 75 seconds, she will now compete for gold in the women's 50 kg category.

Vinesh defeats Uzbekistan’s Dauletbike Yakhshimuratova 10-0 by technical superiority to roar into the final.

02:22 PM

Badminton - Men's Team

India's Satwik and Chirag have lost the second game after clinching the opening one against Indonesia.

We're diving into a decider now!

02:20 PM

Wrestling

Vinesh Phogat starts her semi-final now.

Will she be the third Indian wrestler to lose her semis bout today?

02:19 PM

Wrestling

Major upset for India as Sakshi Malik loses her semi-final bout 7-8.

She will now fight for bronze.

02:09 PM

Wrestling

Just five seconds to go, Rio Games bronze medalist Sakshi concedes lead, India appeals but the final decision goes in the favour of her opponent. Sakshi Malik loses 8-7 to Kyrgyzstan's Aisuluu in the 62Kg semi-final bout. Will come back to fight her bronze medal match later in the day. 

 

01:58 PM

Badminton

India's Chirag Shetty-Satwik Rankireddy clinch the first game 21-19 in the men's doubles vs Indonesia's Marcus Gideon and Kevin Sukamujlo. In the second game, the Indian duo is leading 16-14. Go, India! 

01:39 PM

Wrestling

Setback for India!

North Korea's Myong Suk Jong beats Pooja Dhanda on Technical Superiority (10-0) in the semi-final. Pooja will now return to fight her bronze medal match. 

01:37 PM

Wrestling

Sakshi Malik gets past Kazakhstan's Ayaulym Kassymova 10-0 in three minutes, 35 seconds to progress to 62Kg freestyle wrestling's semi-final! 

01:21 PM

Badminton

Srikanth losses!

Kidambi Srikanth loses 21-23, 22-20, 10-21 to Anthony Ginting. India trail Indonesia 0-1 in men's team event's quarterfinals. 

01:12 PM

Badminton

Meanwhile, Kidambi Srikanth fights back to equalise 1-1 in the ongoing men's team event. Decider game in progress now. 

01:02 PM

Wrestling

Another win for a Indian woman wrestler, another win via technical superiority. It's Pooja Dhanda who progresses to 57kg women's wrestling semifinals after beating Uzbekistan's Esenbaeva Nabira. 

 

01:00 PM

 

 

12:58 PM

Wrestling

India's Vinesh Phogat continues to be impressive in 50Kg freestyle event, beats South Korea's Kim Hyungjoo on Technical Superiority (10-0) to progress through to the final two. 

12:49 PM

Badminton

Oh, Srikanth! He loses first game 21-23 to Indonesia's Anthony Ginting in men's team quarterfinal badminton tie

 

12:41 PM

Wrestling

What a stunning performance from Sakshi Malik in her 62 kg bout!

She defeats Thailand’s Salinee Srisombat by technical superiority inside two minutes and moves into the quarters.

12:40 PM

Badminton - Men's Team

Kidambi Srikanth has an 11-10 lead in the opening game against Indonesia's Ginping.

12:39 PM

Shooting

A poor start for Seema Tomar in the Women's Trap final. She has missed her first five shots. Difficult for her to win a medal from here.

12:26 PM

Badminton - Men's Team

Kidambi Srikanth steps for India in the first match of the tie against Indonesia's Ginting.

12:22 PM

Wrestling

That was an agonising performance from Pinki Jangra in her 53 kg bout.

She loses 0-10 against Mongolia's Sumiya. Simply no match.

12:13 PM

Wrestling

India's Pinki has taken the mat in the 53 kg category.

11:54 AM

Wrestling

After Vinesh Phogat, it's the turn of Pooja Dhanda to burn the mat. The Indian grappler takes just over a minute to defeat Thailand’s Orasa Sookdongyor by technical superiority and move into the quarter-finals.

11:51 AM

Wrestling

And inside just a couple of minutes, India's Sumit loses his 125 kg bout 0-10. Poor performance, to put it mildly.

11:51 AM

Wrestling

India's Sumit has taken the mat in the 125 kg category.

11:42 AM

Wrestling

Vinesh Phogat storms into the quarter-final of the 50 kg category.

An 8-2 win against her Chinese opponent in a one-sided bout.

11:39 AM

Wrestling

Sensational stuff from Vinesh Phogat!

In one swift move, she earns six straight points to take an 8-0 lead in the first period.

11:35 AM

Badminton

After the women's event, it's now time for the Indian men's team to take the court.

Can they put up a better performance?

11:35 AM

Wrestling

Time for the wrestlers to step up as Vinesh Phogat takes the mat in the women's 50 kg category.

11:19 AM

Shooting

Disappointment for India as Apurvi Chandela finishes fifth in the 10m Air Rifle final.

She won a bronze for the country on the opening day, but fired a poor final shot to bow out on Monday.

11:14 AM

Badminton - Women's Team Quarter-final

Japan defeat India 3-1.

After Sindhu defeated Yamaguchi to win the first match of the tie, Saina lost a close match against Okuhara and India lost both the doubles matches too.

11:13 AM

Shooting

Apurvi is hanging by a thread here.

She's in fourth position in the 10m air rifle final.

There are six shooters still in the fray.

Can the Indian climb up?

11:09 AM

Swimming

The Indian 4x200m freestyle relay swimming team of Sajan Prakash, Srihari Nataraj, Saurabh Sanngvekar and Avinash Mani qualify for the finals in seventh place with a time of 7:34.16.

11:08 AM

Shooting

India's Apurvi Chandela finishes in top five after the first 5 shots. With the score of 51.2, Chandela beat shooter from Taipei, Singapore, and Iran in women's 10m air rifle final.

11:01 AM

Handball

Some good new comes from the handball courts. Indian Men's team beats Thailand 45-19 in their group match.

11:00 AM

Badminton

Women's doubles badminton team of Ashwini Ponnappa and PV Sindhu are finding it difficult to get better of Japanese duo of Matsutomo/Takahashi. The world No 2 pair leads 11-7 in second game.

10:58 AM

Swimming

Neel Roy fails to make the final cut in Men's 200m individual Medley Swimming. He finished at 13th spot with a timing of 2:08.07.

10:56 AM

Basketball

Indian women's basketball team loses 54-104 to Unified Korea. These are three losses in the three matches played by the team in group stages

10:56 AM

Taekwondo

Latika Bhandari of India lost to Hong Kong's Sin Yi Law 22-24 in the round of 16 in Women's 53 kg Taekwondo competition.

10:38 AM

Tennis

Ankita Raina starts her campaign in impressive style. The Indian defeats Indonesia's Gumulya 6-2 6-4 to move into the third round in women's singles.

10:31 AM

Shooting

Apurvi Chandela has the opportunity to win her second medal in two days.

She has made it to the finals of the 10m Air Rifle event, which is about to start.

10:26 AM

Badminton - Women's Team Quarter-final

Bitter, bitter loss for Saina Nehwal as she goes down 16-21 in the third and final game against Okuhara.

Japan now lead the five-match tie 2-1.

Next up, doubles action with PV Sindhu and Ashwini Ponnappa representing India.

10:03 AM

Women's kabaddi

Indian women's team take down Thailand 33-23 in their second group game.

10:00 AM

Trap shooting

Veteran Manavjit Singh Sandhu is on ninth position with 94 points while young star Lakshay shot a perfect 25 in the fourth series. He grabbed the top spot with 96 points 

09:58 AM

Badminton

India's shuttler Saina Nehwal takes the match into a decider. She fought back from 12-17 to tie the score to 20-20. She saved four match points against Okuhara.

09:58 AM
09:37 AM

MEDAL ALERT!

India get a silver as Deepak Kumar finishes second in the Men's 10m Air Rifle.

09:35 AM

WHAT A SHOT FROM DEEPAK!

He was trailing by 0,6, but ended up shooting 10.8 to move into second position.

He's now going for gold!

09:34 AM

Ravi Kumar bows out. Valliant effort from him.

Deepak is still in the fray.

09:32 AM

India are assured of another medal!

Ravi Kumar and Deepak Kumar have made it to the last four in the Men's 10m Air Rifle Final.

India will at least get one medal in this event now.

09:27 AM

Shooting - 10m Air Rifle Final

India's Ravi Kumar and Deepak Kumar are in 3rd and 5th position respectively after 13 rounds of shots.

09:24 AM

Badminton- Women's Team Quarter-final

Okuhara defeats Nehwal 21-11 in the first game.

The Indian will need to improve drastically to have a chance in this match.

09:11 AM

Shooting

The 10m Air Rifle final has begun.

India's Ravi Kumar and Deepak Kumar are competing.

Another medal coming?

09:08 AM

Badminton - Women's Team Quarter-final

N Sikki Reddy and Arathi Sara Sunil lose the second game 6-21 to lose the match against their Japanese opponents.

The five-match tie is now locked at 1-1 after PV Sindhu had given India a lead earlier.

Saina Nehwal and Nozomi Okuhara have taken the court now for a singles match.

09:07 AM

Kabaddi

Indian women's team is in action against Thailand.

They beat Japan in an emphatic manner in their opening match on Sunday.

09:01 AM

Badminton

Japan's Sayaka Hirota and Yuki Fukushima overpowered India's Sikki Reddy and Arathi Sara Sunil to level the score 1-1. Indian players lost 15-21 6-21 to the world No 1 pair.

Next match is between Saina Nehwal and Nozomi Okuhara.

08:59 AM

Rowing

India's  Swarn Singh, Dattu Bhokanal, Om Prakash and Sukhmeet Singh grabbed the top spot in Men's Quadruple Sculls. They registered the time of 6:15:18. Followed by Indonesia at 6:17:56 and Kazakhstan 6:44:63 to make the top three.

08:58 AM

Badminton 

Indian women's doubles team of Sikki Reddy and Arathi Sara Sunil lost their first game 15-21. They are battling world No 1 pair of Sayaka Hirota and Yuki Fukushima.

08:39 AM

Rowing

India's Rohit Kumar and Bhagwan Singh finish second in their Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls heat. The repechage round awaits them now.

08:21 AM

Badminton - Women's Team Quarter-final

Time for game 2 of the tie between India and Japan.

It'll be a doubles match, with N Sikki Reddy and Arathi Sara Sunil playing for India.

08:17 AM

Shooting

Good news coming in for India. Ravi Kumar and Deepak Kumar have both made it to the finals of the 10m Air Rifle event.

Let's not forget, it was Ravi who combined with Apurvi Chandela to provide India its first medal on Sunday.

08:14 AM

Badminton - Women's Team Quarter-final

What a performance from PV Sindhu!

The star shuttler defeats Japan's Yamaguchi 21-18, 21-19 to give Inda a 1-0 lead in the tie.

08:07 AM

Swimming - Men's 50m Backstroke

Brilliant performance by India's Srihari Nataraj and Arvind Mani as they finish 1-2 in their heat.

The duo is, however, is still awaiting the results from other heats to find out whether either of them has made it to the finals.

08:05 AM

Badminton - Women's Team Quarter-final

It's neck-and-neck in the second game as well. Japan's Yamaguchi leads Sindhu 11-10.

This was the exact same score at the halfway mark in the first game too. Only that time, it was Sindhu who was leading.

Can the Indian come back strongly in game 2?

07:54 AM

Shooting - Women’s trap qualification

India's Seema Tomar is in fourth position and Shreyasi Singh is placed seventh at the moment.

07:51 AM

Badminton - Women's Team Quarter-final

PV Sindhu is putting on a show here!

She takes the first game against Yamaguchi 21-18.

It's been a tight match so far, with the Japanese giving it her all, but Sindhu's not letting go.

07:50 AM

Swimming

India's Advait Page finishes third in his Men's 800m Freestyle heat.

The 16-year-old clocks a time of 8:09.13.

07:47 AM

Rowing

Good news coming for India in Men's Lightweight Single Sculls.

Dushyant has topped his heat in a time of 7:43.08.

07:43 AM

Shooting

India's Ravi Kumar is in a good position to qualify for the finals in 10m Air Rifle.

07:43 AM

Badminton - Women's Team Quarter-final

There's nothing to choose between Sindhu and Yamaguchi at the moment.

The Japanese was leading 10-8 but the Indian rattles off three points in a row to make it 12-10 in the first game.

07:32 AM

Badminton

Women's team quarter-final between India and Japan is about to begin.

First up, it's PV Sindhu versus Akane Yamaguchi.

07:28 AM

Shooting

India's Ravi Kumar and Deepak Kumar are currently in action in the Men’s 10m Air Rifle Qualification.

07:26 AM

Hello everyone and welcome to live updates from Day 2 of the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia.

We start the day with shooting and equestrian action.

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