Mirabai wins silver, ends India’s 28-year Asian Games jinx

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India adds five medals on Day 5; skeet teams, Jay Meena and men’s badminton team among the medallists; medal tally reaches 12

Chandigarh, September 23

Mirabai Chanu won a silver medal in the women’s 49-kg weight category at the Asian Games in Japan on Wednesday, ending India’s 28-year wait for a medal in Asian Games weightlifting as the country added five medals across weightlifting, shooting, soft tennis and badminton.

India’s tally now stands at 12 medals, including one gold, five silver and six bronze.

Chanu’s silver ended India’s long wait for a medal in weightlifting. India also created history in skeet shooting, with the women’s team winning a medal for the first time in the event at the Asian Games. The men’s team also secured a bronze.

In soft tennis, Jay Meena won a bronze medal in the men’s singles event, giving India its first-ever Asian Games medal in the discipline.

India also secured a bronze medal in the men’s team badminton event. The Indian team lost its semifinal against China but finished with a bronze medal.

The Wednesday’s campaign also saw Indian athletes competing across several other disciplines.

In women’s hockey, India defeated Thailand 20-1 in a Pool B match. In squash, Veer Chotrani defeated Sri Lanka’s Samil Wakeel in the men’s round of 32, while Tanvi Khanna defeated South Korea’s Kim Dami 3-0 in the women’s singles round of 32.

In shooting, Raiza Dhillon finished fourth and Parinaaz Dhaliwal eighth in the women’s skeet final. In kabaddi, India defeated Bangladesh 48-25 in the men’s Group A match.

There were also disappointing results for India. The country finished fourth in the women’s 10m air pistol team event, while Manu Bhaker finished fifth in the individual final.

Indian athletes also progressed towards medal opportunities in disciplines such as wushu and rowing, with athletes qualifying for finals.

India are currently placed 13th in the overall medal standings with 12 medals.

India’s September 24 schedule:

* 5:10 am — Rowing: Balraj Panwar, men’s single sculls final
* 5:30 am — Rowing: Satnam Singh/Salman Khan, men’s doubles sculls final
* 6:10 am — Wushu: Roshibina Devi vs China’s Zhang Xiaoyu, women’s 60kg final
* 6:15 am — Shooting: Akash Bharadwaj, Kamaljeet and Kedarling Balakrishna Uchaganve, men’s 10m air pistol individual qualification/team final; individual final at 8:30 am if they qualify
* 6:30 am — Table tennis: Diya Chitale/Yashaswini Ghorpade vs Iran’s Setayash Iloukhani/Mashid Ashtari, women’s doubles second round
* 6:30 am — Shooting: Parinaaz Dhaliwal/Anant Jeet Singh Naruka, skeet mixed team qualification/final
* 6:30 am — Canoe sprint: Megha Pradeep, women’s canoe single 200m semifinal
* 6:30 am/6:38 am — Athletics: Anamika Aneesh and Pooja, women’s heptathlon heats
* 6:46 am — Swimming: Benedicton Beniston, men’s 50m butterfly heats
* 6:50 am — Canoe sprint: Soniya Devi/Parvathy Geetha, women’s kayak double 500m semifinal
* 7:01 am — Athletics: Jay Kumar/Ansa Babu/Manu TS/Rashdeep Kaur, mixed 4x400m relay heat
* 7:10 am — Table tennis: Sreeja Akula/Syndrela Das, women’s doubles second round
* 7:10 am — Rowing: Gurbani Kaur/Aleena Anto/Tendenthoi Haobijam/Poonam, women’s four final
* 7:32 am — Swimming: Benedicton Beniston/Aneesh Sunil/Akash Mani/Gitesh Shah, men’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats
* 8:00 am — Squash: Suraj Chand/Shameena Riaz vs Joshana Chinappa/Velavan Senthilkumar
* 8:05 am — Table tennis: Manush Shah vs Malaysia’s Wong Qi Shen, men’s singles first round
* 8:10 am — Canoe sprint: Naocha Laitonjam/Varinder Singh/Oinam Arun Singh/Harshawardhan Shaktawat, men’s kayak four 500m final A
* 8:30 am — Canoe sprint: Raju Rawat/Gyaneshwor Singh, men’s canoe double 500m final A
* 9:40 am — Kabaddi: India vs Chinese Taipei, men’s Group A
* 10:30 am — Squash: Tanvi Khanna and Anahat Singh, women’s singles round of 16
* 11:10 am — Canoe sprint: Harshawardhan Shaktawat, men’s kayak single 500m heat
* 11:15 am — Squash: Abhay Singh/Veer Chotrani, men’s singles round of 16
* 11:30 am — Hockey: India vs South Korea, men’s Pool A
* 11:30 am–2:10 pm — Esports: Paritosh, four Puyo Puyo Champions group games
* 11:40 am — Canoe sprint: Parvathy Geetha/Prasanna Kumar Sathyaprakash, mixed kayak double 500m heat
* Noon — Rowing: Ujjwal Kumar Singh/Rohit, lightweight men’s doubles sculls final
* 1:00 pm — Rowing: Arvind Singh/Kulwinder Singh/Navdeep Singh/Jakar Khan, men’s quadruple sculls final
* 1:35 pm — Swimming: Benedicton Beniston, men’s 50m butterfly final
* 2:15 pm — Swimming: Aryan Nehra, men’s 800m freestyle final
* 2:48 pm — Swimming: Benedicton Beniston/Aneesh Sunil/Akash Mani/Gitesh Shah, men’s 4x100m freestyle final
* 3:15 pm — Boxing: Parveen vs Tajikistan’s Malika Nozimova, women’s round of 32
* 4:14 pm — Athletics: Asha Ilango/Niharika Vashisht, women’s triple jump final
* 4:14 pm — Kabaddi: India vs Japan, women’s Group A
* 4:38 pm — Athletics: Animesh Kujur, men’s 100m heat
* 5:02 pm — Athletics: Gurindervir Singh, men’s 100m heat
* 5:55 pm — Athletics: Seema, women’s 10,000m final