Asian Games Badminton: Satwik-Chirag advance to final

Satwiksai Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty create history, becoming the first ever Indian badminton doubles pair to enter the final at the Asian Games.  They thrash former World Champions and World No 3 Malaysian pair of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik 21-17, 21-12. At the change of ends,...

Wrestler  Kiran Bishnoi wins women's 76kg bronze medal after beating Mongolia's Ariunjargal Ganbat 6-3.In the men's freestyle 57kg, wrestler Aman Sehrawat wins a bronze medal with a technical superiority win over China's Minghu Liu. Bajrang Punia returns empty-handed after losing...

The Indian Men's Hockey team beat Japan 5-1 to win the Asian Games gold medal in Hangzhou.This is India's fourth gold medal at the Asian Games. It's the 2nd most gold by a team. Pakistan have most Asian Games gold medals with 9.With three minutes to go, India are pushed back in defence but they...

In the men's hockey final between India and Japan, the former take a good 2-0 lead in the first half of the match.A field goal from Manpreet Singh in the 26th minute followed by penalty corner corner conversion off the stick of captain Harmanpreet Singh doubled India's lead in the 1st half.

India clinched their first-ever medal in women's sepaktakraw at the Asian Games with the regu team winning a bronze after losing to powerhouse Thailand in the semi-finals.The Indian women's team of Ayekpam Maipak Devi, Oinam Chaoba Devi, Khushbu, Elangbam Priya Devi and Elangbam Leirentombi Devi...

Wrestler Sonam Malik defeated China's Long Jia to claim the bronze medal in the women's freestyle 62kg at the Asian Games.This is India's 91st medal at the Asian Games. With more assured medals over the final two days, India's medal tally is set to go past the magical 100 mark for the first time...

India's men team of Tushar Prabhakar, Atanu Das and Dhiraj Bommadevara finished with a silver medal after losing to South Korea in the final of the archery men's recurve team event at the Asian Games on Friday.South Korea's Lee Wooseok, Oh Jinhyek and Kim Je Deok won the gold medal after winning...

The India men's stormed into the Kabaddi final after thrashing Pakistan 61-14 in a one-sided semi-final match at the Asian Games on Friday.In the gold medal clash, India will take on the winners of the second semi-final between Iran and Chinese Taipei.

India's H S Prannoy was outclassed in straight games by China's Lif Shifeng in the badminton men's singles semi-final at the Asian Games on Friday.Prannoy went down 16-21, 9-21 to settle for the bronze medal.

India's Bajrang Punia went down to Iran's Rahman Amouzadkhalili in the semi-finals of the men's freestyle 65kg semi-final wrestling event at the Asian Games.Punia was beaten 1-8 on points against Amouzadkhalili in the last four bout.Bajrang will look to make up for that loss when he plays in the...

Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur and Simranjeet Kaur won the first medal of the day for India after claiming the bronze medal in the Recurve Archery womens team event.The Indian women's team outclassed Vietnam 6-2 in the bronze medal play-off match.

Two-time former champions India stormed into their fourth successive final of the Asian Games with a commanding 61-17 win over Nepal in the women's kabaddi event on Friday.India, the last edition's runners-up, faced little challenge from their rivals and led 29-10 at half time with Pooja Hathwala...