- India
- International
GOLD NUMBER SIX FOR INDIA! Saina Mirza-Saketh Myneni win mixed doubles GOLD in Tennis
Discus Throw: GOLD number five! India’s Seema Punia wins GOLD in women’s discus throw
Hockey: India lose 1-3 to South Korea in women’s semi-final
Boxing: Disappointing day for boxers as only Vikas Krishan makes quarters, Mandeep bows out
Wrestling: India’s Narsingh edges Japan’s Shimoda in a thrilling contest to bag the bronze medal
Wrestling: Bajrang settles for silver after going down to Iran’s Masoud in the gold medal clash in the 61kg category
Colour improved! Bajrang improves the colour of his medal to silver after the win over Noriyuki of Japan in the 61kg semis. He will now battle it out for gold later in the day
Tennis (men’s doubles): India’s Sanam Singh & Saketh Myneni settle for silver after losing to Yongkyu Lim & Hyeon Chung of Korea. The Indian duo went down 5-7, 6-7 (2-7)
Kabaddi (men’s): India thrash Thailand 66-27 to register their second win on the trot
Wrestling: Pawan Kumar loses to Feng Zhang of China and is out of medal contention now
Wrestling: Narsingh Yadav beats Kambarov in 74kg repechage to move into the bronze medal round
Wrestling: Narsingh and Pawan are through to the repechage round for bronze in their respective categories
ANOTHER MEDAL ASSURED After trailing 3-6, Bajrang Kumar pulls off a sensational comeback to beat Tajakistan’s Farkhodi Usmonzoda 17-7 in the 61kg quarter-final. He’s into the semis now
Boxing: Vikas Krishan beats Azamat Kanybek in convincing fashion to enter middleweight quarters
Wrestling: Pawan Kumar goes down 0-10 to Iran’s Meisam Mostafajoukar in the quarters. Pawan can have another shot if Meisam reaches the final
Wrestling: India’s Pawan Kumar sees off Nepal’s Sumir Kumar in under one minute to progress in the 86 kg category. The Indian wrestler earned his 10 points in a hurry!
Wrestling: After leading 2-0, India’s Narsingh Yadav concedes three points to lose the 74kg contest 3-2 against Uzbekistan’s Rashid Kurbanov. The Indian, though, still has a glimmer of hope if Rashid reaches the final
Wrestling: India’s Bajrang Kumar progresses after the new ruling comes to his rescue. Bajrang was tied at 5-5 with his Mongolian opponent Tumenbileg, but advanced in the 61kg freestyle category as he earned the last points
Table Tennis: After mixed doubles loss, the Indian pair of Poulami and Ankit Das beat Pakistan’s Rahila Kashif and Shabnam Bilal
Canoeing: Gaurav Tomar finishes seventh in 1000m men’s category
Table Tennis: Achanta Sharath Kamal and Poulomi Ghatak lose their mixed doubles contest
Basketball: India women’s team to play Kazakhstan for 5-6 play-off after defeating Mongolia in 5-8 play-off
Athletics: Swapna Barman and Susmita Singha Roy end fifth and ninth in long jump
Beautiful overcast morning in #Incheon. Hope Indians can light up sky with a few more golds, esp tennis, discus throw pic.twitter.com/15IGysGQj5
— Mihir Vasavda (@mihirsv) September 29, 2014
Day 9 recap
Yogeshwar ends long wait: On Sunday, the grappler defeated Tajikistan’s Zalimkhan Yusupov in a thrilling final to finish on top of the podium in the 65 kg weight category in Incheon. In doing so, the London Olympics bronze medallist ended India’s 28-year wait for an Asian Games wrestling gold medal.
The giant step: Khushbir scripts history by becoming the first Indian woman to win a medal in race walk in the Asian Games.
Boxers assure medals: Olympic bronze-medallist M C Mary Kom led the charge as Indian women boxers packed a powerful punch by assuring themselves of medals in each of the three weight categories.