India's overall medal count stood at 41 at the end of day 9 of the competitions.
Neeraj Chopra, the India's flag-bearer at opening ceremony, was the torch-bearer of Indian success in athletics at 2018 Asian Games on Monday.
While Neeraj, the world juniour champion, earned another record-smashing gold in javelin throw, India's track-and-field athletes delivered a hat-trick of silver medals. The day also saw India's first medal in badminton women's as Saina Nehwal ended with a bronze and the first badminton finallist too with PV Sindhu making it to a historic final.
India's overall medal count stood at 41 (8 gold, 13 silver, and 20 bronze) at the end of day 9 of the competitions.
Neeraj on the mark
Neeraj Chopra on Monday showed why he is considered the biggest and brightest star in Indian athletics right now. He delieverd on the massive expectations in style, throwing the spear to a brand new personal best of 88.06m and leaving the field behind by quite a distance.
Such was his dominance in the field that even his worst throw stood ahead of nearest opponent.
Sindhu-Saina set record
PV Sindhu became the first shuttler to make the Asian Games badminton singles final. She defeated Akane Yamaguchi 21-17 15-21 21-10 for her second win over the Japanese at the Asian Games, having beaten her in the team championship as well.
Sindhu will now fight it out with Tai Tzu-Ying to claim India's first ever individual gold in badminton.
Tai ended Saina's run in the semifinals. However, the Indian ended up setting another record as the first woman to win medal in badminton.
"I have a strategy in place for her. It should be a good match," said world No.3 Sindhu, who has not beaten Tai in their last five meetings.
TT Surprise
The Indian men's table tennis team pulled off a surprise as they beat a much-stronger Japan 3-1 in the quarterfinals. They have assured the country of its first-ever medal in table tennis at Asian Games.
While veteran Sharath Kamal blanked world number 19 Kenta Matsudaira 11-8, 12-10, 11-8 in the first, rising star G Sathiyan delivered on the big stage, winning both his singles against 28th ranked Jin Ueda and Matsudaira.
Silver aplenty
There was plenty of silver to celebrate as well, all of it coming from the athletics arena. Sudha Singh (women's 300m steeplechase), Neena Varakil (women's long jump) and Dharun Ayyasamy (men's 400m hurdles) came second in their respective events.
Ayyasamy clocked 48.96 seconds to shatter his own national record and finish behind Qatar's Abderrahman Samba who won the gold with a Games record time of 47.66.
Varakil's best jump of 6.51m came in the fourth attempt, which was enough to fetch her the silver.
Veteran Sudha clocked 9:40.03 seconds to win her second Asian Games medal after the 2010 Guangzhou edition gold in the same event.
Hockey women march on
Indian women's team followed the men into the semifinals on Monday. Skipper Rani Rampal scored a hat-trick as the title contenders outplayed Thailand 5-0 to go into the semis undefeated.
Boxers advance
The Commonwealth Games medal-winning duo of Vikas Krishan (75kg) and Amit Panghal (49kg) advanced as did Dheeraj Rangi.
Vikas out-ounched Pakistan's Tanveer Ahmed in his pre-quarterfinal bout while Amit recovered from a rusty start to outwit Mongolia's Enkhmandakh Kharhuu.
National champion Dheeraj Rangi (64kg) defeated Mongolia's Nurlan Kobashev to also be one win away from a guaranteed medal.
However, Mohammed Husammuddin (56kg) lost a close contest against Kyrgyzstan's Enkh-Amar Kharkhuu to bow out of the competition in the pre-quarterfinal stage.
Other results
The squash players also made a winning start in the team events. The men beat Indonesia 3-0 in the morning before overwhelming Singapore by the same margin. The women, who had only one match, defeated Iran 3-0.
However, cycling and karate did not throw up good results for India.
In cycling, both the men's and women's sprint and pursuit teams failed to qualify for the final rounds. In the team sprint events, the two teams finished seventh in the qualification round out of eight participants.
India did not have a single winner in the karate competition.
In volleyball, the Indian women's team ended its campaign after losing 0-3 to China in the last Pool B match. In a 67-minute match, India lost 18-25 19-25 9-25 to China, who remained unbeaten in the pool stage.
Already out of reckoning, the Indian men's speaktakraw team ended its campaign on a positive note, beating Nepal 2-0 in the last group B regu match.
(With PTI Inputs)
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