Indian shooters bagged their first Silver of the Incheon Asian Games this morning. In the Men's 25-metre Centre Fire Pistol Team event, the trio of Pemba Tamang, Gurpreet Singh and Vijay Kumar finished second to take India's overall medals tally to 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 13 Bronze. In the Individual event, Pamba was 8th, Gurpreet 9th and Vijay 12th.In the Women's 50-metre Rifle-3 positions event, Lajja Gawswami qualified for the finals. In the team section, Lajja, Anjali Bhagwat and Tejaswini Muley finished sixth.In other results, the Indian Women's Archery team stormed into the Recurve semi-finals. In the last-8 stage, the team of Dipika Kumari, Bombayla Devi Laishram and Laxmirani Majhi defeated Chinese Taipei, 5-4 to book a semi-final berth. The Men's team, however, lost to Hong Kong, 3-5 in the eliminations.In the individual Recurve event, Dipika and Laxmi advanced to the quarterfinals, while Jayant Talukdar and Atanu Das progressed to the pre-quarterfinals in the Men's section.Swimmer Sandeep Sejwal stormed into the finals of the 50-metre breaststroke this morning.In Tennis, Sanam Singh booked a quarterfinal berth. Later today, shuttler Saina Nehwal will play her quarterfinal match against world number three China's Yihan Wang, while P. Kashyap and Srikanth K. will compete in the respective pre-quarterfinals.The Men's and Women's Squash teams will play their semi-final matches. While the Indian Men will clash with Kuwait, the Indian eves will meet Korea.In Hockey, the Women's team will take on Malaysia in a group match.Pugilists Shiva Thapa, Akhil Kumar, Kuldeep Singh and Amritpreet Singh will play their pre-quarterfinal bouts.China is currently at the top of the medals tally, with Japan second and Korea third. India is 15th.
News On AIR | September 26, 2014 9:48 AM
Asian Games: India bag silver in Men's 25m centre fire pistol event; women Archery team storms into recurve SF