Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur heaped praise on Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee for winning India's first-ever medal in Women's Doubles Table Tennis at the ongoing Asian Games.
Indian archers Aditi Swami, Jyothi Vennam, Ojas Deotale and Abhishek Verma are through to compound quarterfinals and advanced their way to the quarter-finals after they won in the first two rounds at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou on Monday.
Tajinderpal Singh Toor won the country a gold in athletics in the ongoing Asian Games on Sunday. India has 12 medals in athletics so far, with two gold, five silver and five bronze.
The Men In Blue are playing the quarterfinals directly due to them being a top-ranked T20I side. Nepal defeated Maldives by 138 runs in their Group A match to qualify for the quarterfinals.
Jyothi Yarraji opened up on her false start controversy in the Women's 100m Hurdles at the 19th Asian Games and said that it was a horrible experience.
India secured a bronze medal in the table tennis women's doubles and scripted history for bagging the first medal in Table Tennis in the history of the Asian Games.
On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Congratulated the Bronze Medalist in the Women's Speed Skating 3000m Relay and Men's Speed Skating 3000m Relay at the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou.
The India skating contingent captured its first medal at the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou as the women's speed skating 3000 m relay team consisting of Heeral Sadhu, Kartika Jagadeeswaran and Aarathy Kasturi Raj secured a bronze medal in the final on Monday. Minutes later, it was a
India as a team meanwhile, finished on the fifth and last position in the final as Ashish Limaye's elimination on Sunday set them back by 1,000 points and the team ended with 1077.20 penalty points, the most on the table.
Niraj clocked timings of 4:36.314 minutes to finish at the seventh spot. Chinese Taipei's Kuan-Chieh Lai captured the gold (4:15.942 minutes) while Vladlen Denisov of Uzbekistan (4:15.994 minutes) and Timofey Yemelyanov (4:18.810 minutes) of Kazakhstan got silver and bronze respectively.
It was a closely contested game in Kochi, with the defences of both teams standing tall. However, it was Kerala Blasters FC who got the breakthrough late in the game through captain Adrian Luna, who netted his second goal in as many games. Reflecting on the result, Cooper felt his side was s