India began their medal hunt within the nineteenth Asian Games in Hangzhou with their rowers and girls shooters bagging 5 medals on Sunday, although a gold eluded them on the primary day on which medals have been within the offing

The rowers claimed two silver and one bronze medal whereas the shooters claimed a silver within the ladies’s 10m Air Rifle Team Competition and a bronze within the 10m air rifle particular person competitors with Ramita Thapar ending third.

The Indian males’s soccer staff certified for the Round of 16 with a 1-1 draw with Myanmar whereas the boxers made a profitable begin with two-time World Champion Nikhat Zareen scoring a dominant win towards the identical participant she defeated within the World closing in March this 12 months.

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Srihari Nataraj and the ladies’s 4x100m freestyle staff reached their respective finals however couldn’t get into the medals bracket — Srihari ending sixth within the males’s 100m backstroke in 54.48 seconds whereas the quartet of Dhinidhi Desinghu, Maana Patel, Janhvi Choudhary and Shivanghi Sarma clocked 3:54.66 to complete seventh within the closing.

The day, nonetheless, belonged to the rowers and girls rifle shooters as their efforts helped India to make an look on the seventh place within the medals tally with 5 medals — three silver and two bronze.

The rowers bagged the primary medal — a silver — when Olympians Arvind Singh and Arjun Lal Jat completed second within the Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls closing on the Fuyang Water Sports Centre. The skilled pair, who had reached the semifinals on the Tokyo Olympic Games, ended the Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls Final in 6 minutes 20.18 seconds to take silver behind the Chinese duo — Junje Fan and Man Sun, who accomplished the course in 6:23.16. Uzbekistan’s Shakhzod Nurmatov and Sobirjon Safaroumov gained the bronze medal in 6:32.47.

The Indian staff of Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar, Ashish, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neeraj, Neetish Kumar, Charanjeet Singh and Dhananjay Pande gained the silver medal in Men’s Coxed Eight whereas Babu Lal Yadav and Lekh Ram gained bronze medal within the Men’s Pair occasions on Sunday, taking the Indian tally in rowing to a few medals on the day.

In the Men’s Coxed Eight, India completed in a timing of 5:43.01, ending behind China at 5:40.17 and forward of Indonesia who completed third at 5:45.51.

In the Men’s Pair, India’s Babu Lal Yadav and Lekh Ram completed third in 6:50.14. Hong Kong China bagged the gold medal in 6:44.20 with Uzbekistan taking silver in 6:48.41. The Indians ran the Uzbekistan pair shut however in the long run, couldn’t handle to get any nearer.

Meanwhile, the shooters additionally acquired into the act with teen Ramita Thapar popping out in flying colors as she anchored the Women’s 10m Air Rifle staff to a silver medal after which bagged a bronze medal within the particular person competitors.

Ramita with teammates Mehuli Ghosh and Ashi Chouksey completed second behind China, who had a complete of 1896.6 whereas Mongolia took the bronze medal with a rating of 1880.0. China stormed to the gold medal with a complete of 1896.6.

In the Individual competitors, Ramita was bunched in a bunch at a second place midway by way of the ultimate of the person competitors.

She then misplaced her method barely with a rating of 9.9 on the sixteenth flip, recovered with six pictures of 10+ however needed to be glad with the bronze medal behind two Chinese shooters.

India’s skilled Mehuli Ghosh, the opposite Indian to qualify for the person closing, completed fourth.

The Indian males’s soccer staff made historical past because it reached the Round of 16 for the primary time since 2010, ending second in Group A regardless of being held 1-1 by Myanmar in a preliminary spherical match.

Talismanic striker Sunil Chhetri, some of the prolific goalscorers at the moment lively within the sport, gave India the lead within the twenty third minute as India led 1-0 at half-time. However, they did not capitalise on the benefit and allowed Myanmar to attain within the 74th minute by way of Kyaw Yan to attract the match.