Live, September 25: India eye more athletics medals, shooters, swimmers in action

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Live, September 25: India eye more athletics medals, shooters, swimmers in action

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of India's campaign at the Asian Games for Friday, September 25.

4:16 AM: Surfing - Sugar Shanti in women's shortboard Round 1, Heat 3.

5:02 AM: Surfing - Kamali Moorthy in women's shortboard Round 1, Heat 5.

6:00 AM: Equestrian - Shruti Vora in individual dressage 1st individual qualifier.

6:00 AM: Equestrian - Gaurav Pundir in individual dressage 1st individual qualifier.

6:00 AM: Equestrian - Hriday Chheda in individual dressage 1st individual qualifier.

6:00 AM: Equestrian - Jai Sud in individual dressage 1st individual qualifier.

6:00 AM: Equestrian - Shruti Vora, Gaurav Pundir, Hriday Chheda and Jai Sud in dressage mixed team final (medal event).

6:00 AM: Fencing - Sachin Sanasam Hemash Singh, Aditya and Tejas Manoj Patil in men's foil team Table of 16.

6:10 AM: Badminton - Dhruv and Tanisha vs Abdul Razzaq Aminath Nabeeha Ahmed Nibal of Maldives in mixed doubles Round of 32.

6:15 AM: Shooting - Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh in 10m air pistol mixed team qualification.

6:30 AM: Canoe Sprint - Prasanna Kumar CS and Prohit Baroi in men's kayak double 500m semifinal.

6:30 AM: Table Tennis - Manush Shah and Diya Chitale vs Wong Chun Ting and Doo Hoi Kem of Hong Kong in mixed doubles quarterfinal.

6:30 AM: Table Tennis - Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini vs Lin Shidong and Man Kuai of China in mixed doubles quarterfinal.

6:30 AM: Athletics - Anamika KA in women's heptathlon long jump.

6:30 AM: Athletics - Pooja in women's heptathlon long jump.

6:40 AM: Swimming - Danush Suresh in men's 50m breaststroke Heat 3.

6:50 AM: Canoe Sprint - Megha Pradeep and L Neha Devi in women's canoe double 500m semifinal.

6:58 AM: Swimming - Rishabh Das in men's 200m backstroke Heat 1.

7:00 AM: Fencing - Taniksha Khatri and Anupriya Mitva Chaudhari Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer in women's pe team Table of 16.

7:00 AM: Squash - Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar vs David Pelino and Jemyca Aribado of the Philippines in mixed doubles quarterfinal.

7:06 AM: Swimming - Utkarsh Santosh Patil in men's 200m backstroke Heat 3.

7:10 AM: Swimming - Dhakshan Shashikumar in men's 400m freestyle Heat 1.

7:15 AM: Shooting - Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar in men's 50m rifle 3P individual qualification.

7:15 AM: Shooting - Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil in men's 50m rifle 3P individual qualification.

7:15 AM: Shooting - Niraj Kumar in men's 50m rifle 3P individual qualification.

7:15 AM: Shooting - Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil and Niraj Kumar in men's 50m rifle 3P team final (medal event, subject to qualification).

7:20 AM: Surfing - Kishore Kumar in men's shortboard Round 1, Heat 3.

7:22 AM: Swimming - Aneesh Sunil Kumar Gowda in men's 400m freestyle Heat 3.

7:30 AM: Hockey - India women vs Japan in Pool B.

7:30 AM: Table Tennis - G Sathiyan and Harmeet Desai vs Affan Pratama and Muhammad Negara of Indonesia in men's doubles Round of 32.

7:36 AM: Swimming - Sajan Prakash in men's 200m butterfly Heat 3.

7:55 AM: Esports - Adnan Mohammed Badshah, Deepkumar Vipulbhai Patel, Sai Krishna Nalluri, Dipjyoti Laxman Nath, Rudra Narayan Nayak and Reuben Fernandes vs Republic of Korea in Pokémon Unite Group C, Match 1.

7:55 AM: Athletics - Anamika KA in women's heptathlon javelin throw.

7:55 AM: Athletics - Pooja in women's heptathlon javelin throw.

8:00 AM: Canoe Sprint - Prasanna Kumar CS and Prohit Baroi in men's kayak double 500m finals (medal event, subject to qualification).

8:10 AM: Canoe Sprint - Khwairakpam Dhanamajuri Devi, Phairembam Soniya Devi, Pooja and Parvathy Geetha in women's kayak four 500m Final A (medal event).

8:15 AM: Table Tennis - Manav Thakkar and Manush Shah vs Tomokazu Harimoto and Hiroto Shinozuka of Japan in men's doubles Round of 32.

8:20 AM: Fencing - Sachin Sanasam Hemash Singh, Aditya and Tejas Manoj Patil in men's foil team quarterfinal (subject to qualification).

8:20 AM: Fencing - Taniksha Khatri, Anupriya, Mitva Chaudhari and Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer in women's pe team quarterfinal (subject to qualification).

8:30 AM: Canoe Sprint - Megha Pradeep and L Neha Devi in women's canoe double 500m finals (medal event, subject to qualification).

8:30 AM: Shooting - Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh in 10m air pistol mixed team final (medal event, subject to qualification).

9:00 AM: Table Tennis - Yashaswini Ghorpade vs Hend Zaza of Syria in women's singles Round of 32.

9:15 AM: Surfing - Sivaraj Babu in men's shortboard Round 1, Heat 8.

9:15 AM: Squash - Abhay Singh vs Tsukue Ryunosuke of Japan in men's singles quarterfinal.

9:30 AM: Kabaddi - India women vs Nepal in semifinal.

9:38 AM onwards: Surfing - Sugar Shanti in women's shortboard Round 2, subject to qualification.

9:38 AM onwards: Surfing - Kamali Moorthy in women's shortboard Round 2, subject to qualification.

9:45 AM: Table Tennis - Sreeja Akula vs Song Gyong Pyon of People's Republic of Korea in women's singles Round of 32.

10:00 AM: Squash - Anahat Singh vs Tanvi Khanna in women's singles quarterfinal.

10:00 AM: Squash - Tanvi Khanna vs Anahat Singh in women's singles quarterfinal.

10:15 AM: Boxing - Sachin vs Abu Jajeh Mohammad of Jordan in men's 60kg Round of 16.

10:30 AM: Shooting - Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar in men's 50m rifle 3P individual final (medal event, subject to qualification).

10:30 AM: Shooting - Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil in men's 50m rifle 3P individual final (medal event, subject to qualification).

10:30 AM: Shooting - Niraj Kumar in men's 50m rifle 3P individual final (medal event, subject to qualification).

10:30 AM: Table Tennis - Manav Thakkar vs U Tae Ryong of People's Republic of Korea in men's singles Round of 32.

10:50 AM onwards: Fencing - Sachin Sanasam Hemash Singh, Aditya and Tejas Manoj Patil in men's foil team semifinal (subject to qualification).

10:45 AM: Kabaddi - India men vs Thailand in semifinal.

10:45 AM: Squash - Veer Chotrani vs Irfan Muhammad of Pakistan in men's singles quarterfinal.

11:15 AM: Table Tennis - Manush Shah vs Farazi Benyamin of Iran in men's singles Round of 32.

12:00 PM: Table Tennis - Sreeja Akula and Syndrela Das vs Man Kuai and Manyu Wang of China in women's doubles Round of 16.

12:30 PM onwards: Badminton - Dhruv and Tanisha in mixed doubles Round of 16.

12:30 PM onwards: Badminton - Satwik and Chirag vs Pakkapon Teeraratsukul and Peeratchai Sukphun of Thailand in men's doubles Round of 32.

12:30 PM onwards: Badminton - Treesa and Gayatri vs Lui Lok Lok and Tsang Hiu Yan of Hong Kong in women's doubles Round of 32.

12:30 PM onwards: Badminton - Kavipriya and Simran vs Kusuma Febriana Dwipuji Puspitasari and Meilysa Trias of Indonesia in women's doubles Round of 32.

12:30 PM onwards: Badminton - Hariharan and Arjun vs Muh Shohibul Fikri and Fajar Alfian of Indonesia in men's doubles Round of 32.

12:45 PM: Table Tennis - Diya Chitale and Yashaswini Ghorpade vs Chen Yi and Fan Shuhan of China in women's doubles Round of 16.

12:50 PM onwards: Fencing - Taniksha Khatri, Anupriya, Mitva Chaudhari and Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer in women's pe team semifinal (subject to qualification).

1:30 PM: Weightlifting - Nirupama Devi in women's 61kg Final, Group A (medal event).

1:35 PM: Swimming - Danush Suresh in men's 50m breaststroke final (medal event, subject to qualification).

1:55 PM: Swimming - Rishabh Das in men's 200m backstroke final (medal event, subject to qualification).

1:55 PM: Swimming - Utkarsh Santosh Patil in men's 200m backstroke final (medal event, subject to qualification).

2:15 PM: Boxing - Preeti vs Pang Choi Mi of DPR Korea in women's 54kg Round of 16.

2:22 PM: Swimming - Aneesh Sunil Kumar Gowda in men's 400m freestyle final (medal event, subject to qualification).

2:22 PM: Swimming - Dhakshan Shashikumar in men's 400m freestyle final (medal event, subject to qualification).

2:50 PM: Fencing - Sachin Sanasam Hemash Singh, Aditya and Tejas Manoj Patil in men's foil team final (medal event, subject to qualification).

2:51 PM: Swimming - Sajan Prakash in men's 200m butterfly final (medal event, subject to qualification).

3:00 PM: Table Tennis - Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini in mixed doubles semifinal.

3:35 PM: Athletics - Manpreet Kaur in women's shot put final (medal event).

3:35 PM: Athletics - Krishna Jayasankar Menon in women's shot put final (medal event).

3:45 PM: Table Tennis - Manush Shah and Diya Chitale in mixed doubles semifinal.

3:50 PM: Fencing - Taniksha Khatri, Anupriya, Mitva Chaudhari and Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer in women's pe team final (medal event, subject to qualification).

4:11 PM: Athletics - Gurindervir Singh in men's 100m semifinal, Heat 2.

4:19 PM: Athletics - Animesh Kujur in men's 100m semifinal, Heat 3.

4:33 PM: Athletics - Sindhushree Ganesha in women's pole vault final (medal event).

4:41 PM: Athletics - Anamika KA in women's heptathlon 800m.

4:41 PM: Athletics - Pooja in women's heptathlon 800m.

5:02 PM: Athletics - Gulveer Singh in men's 10,000m final (medal event).

5:10 PM: Athletics - Damneet Singh in men's hammer throw final (medal event).

5:10 PM: Athletics - Praveen Kumar in men's hammer throw final (medal event).

5:53 PM: Athletics - Kiran in women's 400m Round 1, Heat 2.

6:01 PM: Athletics - Prachi in women's 400m Round 1, Heat 3.

6:21 PM: Athletics - Vishal Thennarasu Kayalvizhi in men's 400m Round 1, Heat 2.

6:50 PM: Athletics - Animesh Kujur in men's 100m final (medal event, subject to qualification).

6:50 PM: Athletics - Gurindervir Singh in men's 100m final (medal event, subject to qualification).

TBD: Badminton - Unnati Hooda vs Yu Mi Song of DPR Korea in women's singles Round of 64.

Pooja and Anamika have been putting in a brave performance so far in the women's heptathlon, but both stars find themselves outside the medal places at the moment. Anamika is seventh and Pooja is in ninth with 3177 and 3159 points. Fatimeh Mohitizadeh of Iran is in the lead at the moment with 3486 points.

But all that could change with three more events remaining in the competition. It will start with the long jump today, followed by javelin throw.

India had another busy day at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, picking up five medals across athletics, shooting, wushu and rowing. There was no gold on Thursday, but the medal tally continued to climb with two silvers and three bronzes.

Seema Kumari opened India's athletics medal account with bronze in the women's 10,000m, before the mixed 4x400m relay quartet of TS Manu, MR Poovamma, Vishal TK and Vithya Ramraj secured silver in 3:14.46.

Roshibina Devi followed with silver in the women's Sanda 60kg final, while Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Parinaaz Dhaliwal claimed bronze in mixed team skeet. Rowers Satnam Singh and Salman Khan also finished third in the men's double sculls.

India's relay silver was briefly held up after a UAE protest, but the result was confirmed once the UAE was disqualified. Bahrain took gold in a Games-record 3:12.87.

Animesh Kujur and Gurindervir Singh both advanced to the men's 100m semifinals, finishing third and second respectively in their heats. Kujur clocked 10.36s, while Gurindervir returned 10.38s.

Asha Ilango narrowly missed out on a triple jump medal. Her 13.83m effort matched China's Yi Li, but she finished fourth after losing the countback on the second-best jump.

India's men's hockey team made it three wins from three with an emphatic 8-2 victory over South Korea. Dilpreet Singh scored a hat-trick, while Shilanand Lakra, Harmanpreet Singh, Abhishek and Rajinder Singh also found the net.

The defending champions remain top of Pool A and will face hosts Japan next. Penalty-corner conversion remained a concern, with India missing four straight chances before Rajinder finally converted late in the match.

India's men's and women's kabaddi teams completed unbeaten group campaigns and moved into the semifinals.

The men's side beat Chinese Taipei 37-21 to finish with four wins from four, while the women's team defeated hosts Japan 50-25 after earlier victories over Bangladesh and Iran.

Both teams are now within two wins of another Asian Games gold-medal double.

Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna, Abhay Singh and Veer Chotrani all reached the singles quarterfinals.

Anahat and Tanvi will face each other in an all-Indian women's quarterfinal, while Abhay won 3-0 against Sri Lanka's Ravindu Laksiri. Veer survived a five-game battle against Malaysia's Sanjay Jeeva.

Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar also moved into the mixed doubles quarterfinals.

India's women's doubles pairs Diya Chitale-Yashaswini Ghorpade and Sreeja Akula-Syndrela Das both won their Round of 32 matches in straight games. Manush Shah also progressed in men's singles.

Parveen advanced in women's 65kg boxing after a walkover, while Paritosh reached the Puyo Puyo Champions quarterfinals in esports.

Rohit Benedicton, meanwhile, finished 12th in the men's 50m butterfly heats and was listed among the reserves for the final.

India therefore ended Day 5 with five more medals, several strong team performances and a host of athletes moving deeper into their respective competitions. The focus now turns to Day 6, with the men's 100m semifinals among the major athletics highlights.

Unlike the other days, September 25 was an early start for India with surfing. India's Sugar Shanti and Kamali Prakash have finished in third place in their respective heats in the Women's shortboard Round 1.

Shanti got a combined score of 3.84 and she was trailing behind the leader by 6.51 points.

Kamali ended up with a score of 3.74 in her heat, trailing the leader by 8.27.