Varsha Gautham and Aishwarya Nedunchezhiyan endured disqualification in one of the 12 races before claiming a bronze medal in the women’s two person dinghy Sailing event of the Asian Games, in Incheon on Tuesday.
Varsha as skipper and Aishwarya as crew finished with net 25 points.
Nethra Kumanan ended seventh out of eight sailors in the women’s one person dinghy in Laser Radial class and Ramya Saravanan also managed a similar position in the Optimist class.
In the Optimist Men’s One Person Dinghy, Chitresh Tatha ended sixth with 63 points.
EQUESTRIAN: Yashaan Zubin Khambatta finished a disappointing 28th and last in the jumping individual final round A.
HANDBALL: India went down against Thailand 31-30 after a penalty shoot-out to finish eighth in the women’s competition. India took the first half 14-12 before Thailand fought back in the second to win it with an identical scoreline. Thailand then edged out its opponent 5-4 in the shoot-out.
KABADDI: With an aim to defend their gold medal, Indian women’s team produced a clinical performance to outwit host South Korea 45-26 (HT: 27-10) and enter the semifinals.
The Indians secured six points by packing off the entire Korean team thrice in the match, including twice in the opening half.
SEPAK TAKRAW: The Indian teams lost all their matches in the preliminary regu stage on Tuesday. The men were outplayed by South Korea 21-13, 21-6 before going down 24-22, 21-18 against Malaysia later in the day. India is third in the group with two wins and as many losses. The women’s team lost 21-16, 21-14 for its second straight loss and now lies fourth and last in the group.
SHOOTING: Ahmad Mairaj Khan finished fifth while the Indian team came seventh in the men's skeet event.
Ahmad, the only Indian to sneak into the semifinal, shot 11 out 15, which was not enough to take him to the bronze medal match.
Earlier, Ahmad scored 119 to finish sixth in the qualification round. Other Indians in the fray, Parampal Singh Guron (110) and Arozepal Sandhu (109) failed to reach the semifinal after finishing 24th and 26th, respectively during the qualification.
TABLE TENNIS: Indian paddlers enjoyed an all-win day as Achanta Sharath Kamal and Anthony Amalraj reached the men’s doubles third round after taming Nepal’s Purshottam Bajracharya and Amar Lal Malla 6-11, 11-5, 11-8, 12-10.
Also booking a third round berth in men’s doubles were Harmeet Desai and Soumyajit Ghosh as dispatched Yemen’s Omar Ahmed Ali and Mohammed Fahd Gubran 12-10, 11-5, 11-6 in just 15 minutes. In mixed doubles pre-quarterfinals, Amalraj and Madhurika Patkar rallied to beat Japan’s Seiya Kishikawa and Ai Fukuhara 5-11, 13-11, 11-8, 11-4 in 26 minutes.
TAEKWONDO: In the men’s 74kg quarterfinal, Jasvant lost 8-0 against Iran’s Masoud Hajizavareh, while Latika Bhandari went down 13-1 against South Korea’s Jeongyeon Yoon of Korea in a women’s 53kg quarterfinal bout.
VOLLEYBALL: The Indian women spikers continued to disappoint as they lost their 5th-8th place play-off against Kazakhstan 25-20, 25-19 25-20 in only 69 minutes. India will next play the loser of the encounter between Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei in the 7th-8th place play-off.
WRESTLING: After a fine performance in the freestyle category, the Greco-Roman grapplers did not have the kind of start they would have liked as all three wrestlers fighting on the day failed to finish on the podium. Krishankant Yadav had a great opportunity to finish third but he went down to Iran’s Saeid Abdvali 0-3 in the bronze medal play-off round.
