Asian Games Day 9 Highlights: Indian sprinters shine in women's steeplechase

India wins silver in 4X400 Mixed Relay Finals in the 2022 Asian Games. 

Indian sprinter Tejaswin Shankar has extended his lead in the Men's Decathlon event and is currently sitting at the top with 250 points.

Indian long jumper Ancy Sojan wins silver in women's long jump with a jump of 6.63m. 

Indian sprinter Amlan Borgohain finishes sixth in Men’s 200m Final of the 2022 Asian Games. 

Men’s team with 278.93 points finish at Rank- 2

Women’s team with 106.83 points finish at Rank- 7

Mixed team finish at 234.37 points at Rank-5

Priti and Parul Chaudhary wins silver and bronze medal at the Women’s 3000m Steeple Chase Final in the 2023 Asian Games. 

Recurve Women’s Individual 1/16 Elimination: Ankita Bhakat lost to Rezza Octavia of Indonesia by 5-6.

Recurve Men’s Individual 1/16 Elimination: Atanu Das beat Malaysia’s Bin Mohamad by 6-4

Recurve Men’s Individual 1/16 Elimination: Dhiraj Bommadevara win against Bhutan’s by Lam Dorji

Recurve Women’s 1/8 Elimination: Bhajan Kaur loses to South Korea’s An San by 3-7

Recurve Men’s 1/8 Elimination: Atanu Das win against Robert Nam of Tajikistan by 7-1

Recurve Men’s 1/8 Elimination: Dhiraj Bommadevara win against Bangladesh’s Mohammad Hakim Ahmed by 6-5 in a shootout. 

Indian women's Basketball team has lost against Basketball in Men's Basketball by 57-96 in quarterfinals.

Sourav Ghosal wins in the Men's Squash event at the 2022 Asian Games as he defeats Kuwait’s Ammar Altamimi by 11-4, 11-4, 11-6.

The Chinese Taipei has stopped India to a draw as the match is tied at 34 points in Women's Kabaddi. 

Men's Hockey team thrash Bangladesh 12-0. Advances to the semi final.

India pull off another thrashing in Men's hockey. India are 9-0 up over Bangladesh in the 4th quarter.

BRONZE MEDAL ALERT! SUTIRTHA-AYHIKA LOSE TO CHA-PAK 11-7, 8-11, 11-7, 8-11, 9-11, 11-5, 2-11

Eight matchpoints and done... The Mukherjees take it to seven games, but in the end, it will only be a bronze medal for the Indians.

2-0 to Anahat and Abhay as India romps home 11-5, 11-6. Thailand perishes in 9 minutes.

Tejaswin’s last attempt is a 12.88m throw. He finishes fifth in shot put and he is also currently fifth on the overall standings.

Here’s how things look after shot put.

Another QAT-IND finish! Yashas Palaksha’s (49.61) performance earns him a ‘Q’ with a second-place finish. With a 49.44s finish, Qatar’s Hemeida Bassem also qualifies directly for the final.

Men's Skating team has also attained Bronze in 3000m relay category.

In women’s speed skating 3000m relay, India bags the bronze medal.

India are fourth on the Medals Tally with 13 Gold, 21 Silver, and 19 Bronze medals.

Here's the schedule of India on Day 9

6:30 AM onwards    

Athletics - Decathlon    
Tejaswin Shankar

6:40 AM onwards    
Athletics - Men's High Jump Qualification    
Jesse Sandesh/Anil Kushare 

7:00 AM    Equestrian    
Eventing (show jumping final) - Team and Individual
      
7:17 AM onwards    
Athletics -Men's 800m heats     
Krishan Kumar/Md Afsal 

7:40 AM     
Men's Canoe Single 1000m Final    Niraj Kumar

7:45 AM onwards    
Athletics - Men's 400m Hurdles Heat    
Tamilsaran/Yashas Palaksha 

8:10 AM onwards    
Athletics - Women's 400m Hurdles Heats     
Vithya Ramraj/Sinchal Kaveramma Ravi

8:20 AM    
Women's Canoe Double 500m Final     

8:25 AM    
Women's Kayak Double 500m Final     

8:50 AM    
Badminton - Mixed Doubles    
SP Krishna Prasad/T Crasto

9:15 AM    
Canoe/Kayaking  - Men's Canoe Double 500m Final     

10:15 AM    
Table Tennis - Women's Doubles Semi-Final    
Ayhika Mukherjee/Suthirtha Mukherjee 

10:50 AM    
Badminton - Mixed Doubles     
Rohan Kapoor/SR Nelakurthi

11:30 AM        
Badminton - Men's Singles    
Kidambi Srikanth 

11:30 AM onwards    
Kurash - Semi-Final Bouts (If Qualified)    
Yash Chauhan and Jyoti Tokas 

12:15 PM    
Badminton - Men's Doubles    
Kapila D and Ramachan Madathil 

12:50 PM        
Badminton - Men's Doubles 
Sathwik Rankireddy/ Chirag Shetty

1:15 PM    
Hockey - Men's Hockey  
India Vs. Bangladesh    

1:30 PM    
Basketball - Women's Basketball 
India Vs. DPR Korea    

1:30 PM    
Kabaddi- Women's Kabaddi Group Match  
India Vs.Chinese Taipei    

3:30 PM    
Squash - Men's Singles    
Saurav Ghoshal

4:00 PM    
Table Tennis - Women's Doubles Final (If Qualified)    
Ayhika Mukherjee/Suthirtha Mukherjee 

4:30 PM    
Athletics - Women's Pole Vault Final    
Pavithra

4:30 PM    
Diving - Men's 1m Springboard Diving     
London Singh 

4:40 PM        
Women's Long Jump    
Shaili Singh/Ancy Sojan 

4:50 PM        
3000m Women Steeplechase    
Parul Chaudhary/Priti 

5:25 PM        
Men's 200m    
Amlan Borgohain

6:10 PM        
4x400m - Mixed Relay

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Tejaswin comes fourth in the 100m race with a PB/SB showing of 11.12. Japan’s Yuma Maruyama tops with 870 points (10.96). No. 2 Chinese Taipei’s Chen-Yu Wang has 847 points (11.06). In the third place, we have another Japanese in Shun Taue with 843 points (11.08).