Asian Games 2023 Live Update DAY 11: Highlights Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Kumar Jena win gold and silver in men’s javelin throw

India crashed records on Day 11 of the 2023 at Asian games, Hangzhou, the most notable of them being recording the best-ever medal haul in this competition. Today, India bagged 12 medals, India have crossed their 2018 tally of 70 medals and are currently fourth on the medals tally with 81 medals in which 18 gold, 31 silver and 32 bronze.

Ram babu and Manju Rani started the day with race walkers winning the bronze medal in mixed team 35km race walk event.

After Indian performance is at the best and each done their best. Proud to be Indian.

Neeraj recorded his Season Best attempt of 88.88m, while Kishore broke his Personal Best . figure on two occasions, ultimately recording a best throw of 87.54m.

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There were also a couple of ‘repeating’ medallists. Avinash Sable, who had smashed the Games Record (GR) in men’s 3000m steeplechase, won a silver medal in men’s 5000m.

Harmilan Bains, the athlete from Punjab who had previously won a silver medal in women’s 1500m, won another silver medal, this time in women’s 800m

Medal Tally After Day 11

All Day Events and actions happened today

Archery

The recurve mixed team of Ankita Bhakat and Atanu Das lost their quarter-final match against Indonesia.

Athletics

In men’s high jump, Sarvesh Kushare and Jesse Sandesh finished in the fourth and ninth position respectively. In women’s triple jump, Sheena Varkey finished in the sixth position.

Badminton

PV Sindhu stormed into the quarter-final of women’s singles by beating Putri Kusuma Wardani of Indonesia, while HS Prannoy is also through to the quarter-final of men’s singles.

Tennis

The women’s doubles pair of Treesa Jolly-Gayathri Gopichand and the mixed doubles pair of Sai Pratheek-Tanisha Crasto lost their respective Round of 16 games. Tanisha Crasto and Ashwini Ponnappa’s pair also lost in the Round of 16 of women’s doubles.

Kidambi Srikantha was also knocked out in the Round of 16 of men’s singles, losing his match to Japan’s Kodai Naraoka.

However, Saitwiksairaj Rankireddy & Chirag Shetty qualified for the quarter-finals of men’s doubles.

Bridge

The Indian men’s squad qualified for a gold medal contest, where they will face Hong Kong.

Chess

After round 6 of 9, the Indian men’s team is currently placed in second position, and so is the Indian women’s team.

Equestrian

India were eliminated from the team jumping event. In the individual qualifiers, Yash Nensee finished in the 41st position.

Hockey

The Indian men’s hockey squad qualified for the final with a 5-3 triumph over South Korea in semis. Abhishek, Amit Rohidas, Lalit Upadhyay, Mandeep Singh and Hardik Singh were the hero’s for India.

Kabaddi

The Indian men’s team won their second group-stage game against Thailand by a 63-26 margin. Meanwhile, the women’s team finished on pole position in their group by beating Thailand 54-22 in the last group stage fixture.

Roller Skating

The pair of Jinesh Satyan Nanal and Shreyasi Joshi finished seventh in the final of mixed inline freestyle skating slalom pair.