First Gold Medal-Day 2 of the Asian Games 2022 was action-packed for India. In the 10m Air Rifle Team event, our shooters, Divyansh Singh Panwar, Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil, and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, set a new world record and won India’s First Gold medal. Aishwary also won a bronze in the Individual 10m Air Rifle event, while RB Patil came in at 4thpositon . In the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Team event, Adarsh Singh, Anish, and Vijayveer Sidhu won a bronze.
Rowing
In Rowing, India had a great final day, securing two Bronze medals. Overall, we did better than the last Asian Games in Indonesia, where we won 3 medals (1 gold and 2 bronze). This time in Hangzhou, we grabbed five medals, including 2 silver and 3 bronze. Unfortunately, the gold medal slipped away in the rowing competition.
The Indian Women’s Cricket Team made history by winning the first-ever gold medal. During the match, India won the toss, and captain Harmanpreet Kaur chose to bat. Shafali, our opener, got out early, but Smriti and Jemimah played brilliantly, helping India score 116 runs in 20 overs. Though it seemed a bit short, Indian medium pacer Titas Sadhu took 3 wickets, restricting Sri Lanka to 97 runs. India won the final by 19 runs, securing the Gold for our country. In Boxing 4 out of 5 advances into next round keeping hopes alive for medal. Nikhat sails into round of16 with a terrific win. arundhati loses to Yang Liu of China in 66 Kg Boxing bout. In Wushu last games medalist Baliyan goes down after a hard fought against Indonesian. So, on the second day, we bagged 2 Gold and 4 Bronze medals.
However, there was some disappointment in tennis as Bopanna and Bhambari lost their match.They were the medal contender.
Asian Games 2022-Indian medal winner so far( 2 Gold 3 Silver and 6 Bronze)
Gold
Shooting- 10 M Air Rifle Team(Men)- Divyansh Singh Panwar, Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil, and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
Cricket- Indian Women Team -Captain Harmanpreet Kaur
Silver Medal
Rowing-Men’s Light weight Double Sculls- Arjun Lal and Arvind Singh
Rowing-Men’s Eight Team –
Shooting-10meter Air Rifle (Team)- Ashi Chowksey, Mehuli Ghosh and Ramita
Bronze Medal
Rowing- Men’s pair Rowing- Babulal and Lekh Ram
Shooting- 10 meter Air Rifle (Individual)- Ramita
Shooting- 10 M Air Rifle Individual- Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
Shooting- 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Team – Adarsh Singh, Anish, and Vijayveer Sidhu
Rowing- Men’s Four-Jainder Singh,Bheem Singh,Punit Kumar, Ashish
Rowing-Men’s Quadruple Sculls-Satnam Singh,Parminder Singh, Jakar Khan,Sukhmeet Singh