Asian Games 2018 Day 4: India's medal tally up to 15, Wushu adds 4 bronze medals after Rahi's gold
Updates from Day 4 of the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta-Palamebang.
India added five medals (one gold and fours bronze medals) to its tally on day four of Asian Games 2018. While shooter Rahi Sarnobat bagged gold in women's 25 Pistol event, four wushu players won bronze medals on Wednesday.
Here are highlights from Day 4
Shooting: Manu Bhaker creates Asian Games record to top qualifying in women's 25m Pistol event. Rahi Sarnobat makes it to the final, too.
Swimming: Indian men's 4x100m relay team qualifies for the final.
Rowing: Indian women's Four Team, men's Skull Team, and men's Lightweight Eight Team qualify for finals.
Tennis: Ankita Raina assures India of another medal by reaching the women's singles semis.
Wushu: India's Gyandash Singh misses out on a medal by 0.01 points in the men's Taijijian event.
Medal - Shooting: India's Rahi Sarnobat bags gold in women's 25 Pistol event.
Hockey: Indian men's team defeats Hong Kong 26-0 in Pool A match.
Tennis: Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan assure India another medal by reaching the semi-finals in the Men's Doubles.
MEDAL Wushu: Santosh Kumar (Men's Sanda 56kg), Surya Bhanu Pratap Singh (Men's Sanda 60kg), Narender Grewal (Men's Sanda 65kg) and N Roshibina Devi (Women's Sanda 60kg) win bronze medals.
Here's how it happened on Day 4
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That's it for the day.
India now have 15 medals with 5 (one gold, four bronze) coming on Wednesday.
India remain seventh in the medal tally.
Pos Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 China 37 30 15 82 2 Japan 20 23 25 68 3 Korea 11 15 23 49 4 Iran 7 3 6 16 5 Indonesia 6 3 7 16 6 North Korea 5 2 3 10 7 India 4 3 8 15 8 Thailand 4 2 10 16 9 Uzbekistan 3 5 6 14 10 Chinese Taipei 3 3 8 14 11 Mongolia 3 2 4 9 12 Kazakhstan 1 6 14 21 13 Lebanon 1 1 2 4 14 Malaysia 1 1 1 3 15 Macau 1 1 0 2 16 Philippines 1 0 5 6 17 Singapore 1 0 3 4 18 Jordan 1 0 2 3 19 Kyrgyzstan 0 4 5 9 20 Vietnam 0 3 7 10 21 Hong Kong 0 2 7 9 22 Turkmenistan 0 1 1 2 23 Myanmar 0 0 2 2 24 Afghanistan 0 0 1 1 Volleyball
Indian men suffer first defeat in the group stage as they go down against Qatar on 25-15, 25-20, 25-20. They are placed second in Pool F with one match left.
Gymnastics
India, without Dipa Karmakar, finish 7th in the women’s team final.
Wushu
BRONZE MEDAL
Narender Grewal too settles for bronze after losing 0-2 in the men's Sanda 65 kg semifinal to Iran’s Foroud Zafari.
India finish with four bronze medals in Wushu on Wednesday.
Wushu
ANOTHER BRONZE MEDAL
Surya Bhanu Pratap Singh loses 0-2 in the men's Sanda 60 kg semifinal to Iran’s Erfan.
Swimming
Indian team of Aaron DSouza, Virdhawal Khade, Sajan Prakash and Anshul Kothari finish 8th with a timing of 3:25.34 seconds in 4X100 relay.
Wrestling
India's Harpreet Singh loses his bronze medal bout in Greco-Roman wrestling. He loses 3-6 as India's Greco-Roman contingent finish the Asian Games without a medal.
- Wushu Santosh Kumar too settles for bronze medal after losing to Vietnam's Truong Giang Bui in men's 56kg Sanda semifinal. Wrestling Menwhile, India's Harpreet Singh is looking to win a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Wushu
Roshibina Devi Naorem loses to China's Yingying Cai in women's 60 kg Sanda semifinals - settles for bronze medal.
Wushu
Four Indians are in action next. All of them are assured of at least bronze medals.
Tennis
Rohan Bopanna and Ankita Raina win their mixed doubles round of 16 match 6-4 6-4.
Gymnastics
India team is in action in women’s team gymnastics final. However, India are without the injured Dipa Karmakar.
Tennis
BAD NEWS FOR INDIA
Men's Doubles: Sumit Nagal and Ramkumar Ramanathan lose their quarter-final match to Kazakhstan’s Bublik/Yevseyev 7-5, 4-6, 2-10.
Women’s Doubles: Ankita Raina and Prarthana Thombare lose in the round of 16.
Archery
India’s Abhishek Verma finished fourth in the men’s compound individual ranking round with a total score of 704. Aman Saini came in 16th with 704, Rajat Chauhan 18th with 691 and Sangampreet Singh 19th with 689.
India finished second in the compound men’s team ranking round behind Korea, who scored a Games record of 2116. India’s total score was 2087.
India’s ranking in the compound mixed team is also second with a score of 1409. Korea came first with a world record score of 1412.
India assured another medal
Tennis - Men's Doubles
Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan will at least bag a bronze as they reach the semi-finals.
GOLD for India:
A calm and composed veteran shooter Rahi Sarnobat becomes the first Indian woman to win an individual GOLD medal in shooting at the Asian Games!
Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol Final
Still no result, another shoot off. Best of five continues
Thai shooter got a zero, Rahi two.
Decider continues, Best of five shots again
Will it be a silver or a second Gold for India?10 shots for Gold, five for Bronze. Let's go!
Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol Final
After 7th series, Rahi gets only two. Still leads by two. Now shoot off for bronze.
Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol Final
Rahi misses two shots, but still leads by one.
Hockey - Men's Preliminary
That's it, Hong Kong's misery finally comes to an end.
India win 26-0, their highest ever margin of victory.
They had beaten hosts Indonesia 17-0 in their opening game.
Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol Final
After 6th series, Manu Bhaker gets eliminated. Rahi extends lead by three.
The 16-year-old breaks down. Sports are cruel.
Hockey - Men's Preliminary
India have put in a historic performance here. Nevermind the quality of the opposition, such a scoreline says something.
The Harendra Singh-coached side lead Hong Kong China 25-0 with three minutes still to play.
Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol Final
Rahi misses one again, gets four. Leads by two. Manu in elimination zone now.
Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol Final
Rahi finally misses a shot, just two for Rahi. Manu gets 4 hits. Rahi leads by one. Manu still at 5th place.
Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol Final
At the end of second series, Rahi Sarnobat maintains her lead at the top spot, hasn't missed any shot. Manu Bhaker still at 5th.
Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol Final
Manu Bhaker is placed fifth after missing two shots while Rahi Sarnobat is at the top spot with all 5 shots
Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol Final
India's Rahi starts with five on five, Manu had 3
Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol Final
To be noted:
Tennis - Men's Singles Round of 16
India's Prajnesh Gunneswaran defeats Vietnam's Nam Ly 6-3 5-7 6-4 to move in the quarters.
Hockey - Men's Preliminary
India lead Hong Kong 18-0 at the end of the third quarter.
Shooting - Women's 25m Pistol Final
The event featuring India's Manu Bhaker and Rahi Sarnobat begins
Wrestling - Men’s Greco-Roman 87 kg category
India's Harpreet Singh loses his semi-final bout against Uzbekistan’s Rustam Assakalov in just 38 seconds. A brutal 0-8 defeat. He will now compete for the bronze medal.
Hockey - Men's Preliminary
Almost five minutes into the third quarter, India lead Hong Kong 15-0. That's not a typo. It is 15-0.
Hockey - Men's Preliminary
GOAL!
India score with the final touch of the second quarter. They lead Hong Kong 14-0. Yes.
They got six goals in the first quarter, eight in the second.
The match will resume after a ten-minute break. Final score predictions?
...make that 13-0 for India. Harmanpreet gets at the end of a penalty corner, hits a superb reverse shot into the back of the net.
Hockey - Men's Preliminary
GOAL!
Amit Rohidas converts a penalty corner in spectacula fashion, India lead Hong Kong 12-0.
Just over two minutes to go in the second quarter.
Meanwhile, the Indian men's hockey team has taken an 11-0 lead against Hong Kong halfway through the second quarter. Yes, you read that right.
Wrestling - Men's Greco-87 kg Roman category
India's Harpreet Singh is through to the semis with a dominating 8-0 victory against Japan’s Masato Sumi by technical superiority. That match lasted just about two minutes!
Hockey - Men's Preliminary
GOAL!
India have scored again, they lead Hong Kong 9-0.
The match is getting a little boring now.
Hockey - Men's Preliminary
GOAL!
Lalit Kumar Upadhyay makes it 7-0 for India against Hong Kong.
GOAL!
Manpreet Singh scores his second goal, makes it 8-0 in the second quarter.
Wrestling - Men's Greco-Roman 77 kg category
India's Gurpreet Singh loses 6-8 to Iran's Mohammadali Geraei in the quarter-finals. He will now await repechage.
Hockey - Men's Preliminary
That's the end of the first quarter. There will be a two-minute break now. India lead Hong Kong China 6-0. That was fun!
GOAL!
Vivek Sagar Prasad makes it 6-0. Credit to Hong Kong for not comnceding a goal for about nine minutes there.
Hockey - Men's Preliminary
This is like a school match. An attack versus defence drill during practice.
The ball has barely left the Hong Kong half, Indian goal-keeper PR Sreejesh could well take a nap.
India lead 5-0 with just over three minutes left in the first quarter.
GOAL!
Make that 5-0. SV Sunil gets at the end of a through-ball and deflects the ball in.
The Hong Kong side might be ranked 45 but make no mistake about it, the Indian men's hockey team is a top-class outfit as of today.
GOAL!
Hockey - Men's Preliminary
This is a rout! Rupeinder Pal Singh coverts another penalty corner and India have a 4-0 lead against Hong Kong inside the first five minutes.
GOAL!
India have taken the lead inside two minutes! A scintilating run from Lalit Upadhyay, he intercepted the ball in his own half, dribbled past defenders over 40 yards and played the perfect through-ball. Akashdeep Singh then hit a brilliant first-touch shot to score.
GOAL!
India lead Hong Kong 2-0 in three minutes!
A superb reverse shot from Manpreet Singh.
GOAL!
What's happening here?!
India are 3-0 up inside the first four minutes. They eant a penalty corner and Rupendar Singh hits a fine drive to score.
Wow!
Hockey
The Harendra Singh-coached side had mauled hosts Inodesia 17-0 in their first match.
Can they put up a similar performance today?