Asian Games 2018 Day 10 LIVE updates: India win silver in women's archery

P V Sindhu, Men and women archery teams will play for gold at the Asian Games 2018. Catch all Asian Games 2018 live updates and score here.

India won five medals on day nine of the ongoing Asian Games 2018, three of them silver, and a gold and silver apiece. Neeraj Chopra won the gold in Men's Javelin Throw. Dharun Ayyasamy (in Men's 400m Hurdles), Sudha Singh (in Men's Javelin Throw), and Neena Varakil (Women's Lonwin amp), all won silver. Shuttler Saina Nehwal was defeated by Taiwan's Tai Tzu-ying, but the Indian ace did wina bronze, thereby earning the first Indian badminton medal at Asian Games in 36 years. On day 10, P V Sindhu will have a chance to grab gold when she plays the final of Women's Badminton Singles against Tai Tzuying of Chinese Taipei. Korea and India will also play Compound Team Finals in Archery in both men and women sections. India also has chances for medal in athletics. 

Represented by 804 athletes and officials, the Indian contingent will aim to better the showing at the previous Asiad in Incheon, South Korea, where they finished eighth with 11 gold, 10 silver and 36 bronze medals on Asian Games Medal Tally. The best performance by India at the Asian Games came at the 2010 edition in Guangzhou, China where they finished sixth with 14 gold, 17 silver and 34 bronze. This year, around 12,000 athletes from 45 countries will compete in 40 disciplines. The main thrust of the Indian challenge is expected to come from athletics, wrestling, boxing and shooting. It will be interesting to see how many medals Indians will bag in 18th Asian Games.

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Asian Games 2018: From Vinesh’s gold to silver in shooting, India on Day 2

From Vinesh Phogat’s gold to Deepak Kumar’s silver in shooting, here’s how India performed on the second day

Vinesh Phogat became the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Asiad gold while the shooters bagged two silver medals on the second day of Asian Games 2018 at Jakarta on Monday. Vinesh defeated Japan’s Yuki Irie in the 50-kilogram women’s Freestyle final. This was India’s second gold after wrestler Bajrang Punia bagged one in men’s 65kg on

Day 1. Meanwhile, Deepak Kumar and Lakshay Sheoran won silver medals in the men’s 10m Air Rifle and Trap events respectively as Indian shooters continued their impressive performance at the Asian Games 2018. Deepak finished second with a score of 247.7, while compatriot Ravi Kumar finished fourth scoring 205.2 in the men’s 10m Air Rifle competition. China’s Haoran Yang bagged gold with a new Games record of 249.1m. It was the 30-year-old Deepak’s first medal at the Asiad. With this, India took the eighth spot in the Asian Games medal tally with 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze.

Manavjit Singh Sandhu disappoints

In the men’s trap final, Lakshay finished second, while compatriot Manavjit Singh Sandhu was fifth. The 20-year-old Lakshay, who had finished fourth in the qualification round, got 43 points in the final to finish second behind Chinese Taipei’s Kunpi Yang, who equalled the world record score of 48. A H N Daemyeong of South Korea got the bronze medal with 30 points, four ahead of Indian veteran Manavjit who had topped the two-phased qualification.

A summary of Indian contingent’s performance on the 2nd day of the Asian Games.

Shooting

Men:

10m Air Rifle: Deepak Kumar (Silver, 247.7); Ravi Kumar (5th)

Trap Event: Lakshay Sheoran (Silver, 43); Manavjit Sandhu (4th)

Women:

10m Air Rifle: Apurvi Chandela (5th); Elavenil Valarivan (Out in Qualifiers)

Trap: Seema Tomar (6th), Shreyashi Singh (Last in Qualifiers)

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Asian Games 2018: 16-year-old Saurabh Chaudhary claims gold on debut

The 16-year-old Chaudhary, who topped the qualifying round, shot a Games record score of 240.7 to pip Japan’s Tomoyuki Matsuda

Debutant teenager Saurabh Chaudhary clinched India’s first shooting gold of the 18th Asian Games, fetching the top honours in the men’s 10m air pistol event here today.

The 16-year-old Chaudhary, who topped the qualifying round, shot a Games record score of 240.7 to pip Japan’s Tomoyuki Matsuda (239.7) in an exciting final to add a gold to India’s shooting tally of two silver and a bronze this Asiad.

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 Hobby shooter Abhishek Verma, also making his Asian Games debut at 29, settled for the bronze medal in the same event with a score of 219.3.

In second position for most of the final, Chaudhary grabbed the lead after Matsuda fired 8.9 in his penultimate shot. The Indian went ahead with a 10.2 off his second-last shot and held the nerve to stay ahead.

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