The Indian men's badminton team featuring HS Prannoy, Lakshya Sen, Kidambi Srikanth, and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty will be aiming to create history at the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, China on Sunday, October 1.
After a fantastic win over the Republic of Korea in the semi-finals, the Indian team will have a golden opportunity to win India’s first-ever Asian Games gold medal in badminton. They will be up against the hosts China in the men’s team badminton final event
Notably, India have never won a gold in badminton at the Asian Games.
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PV Sindhu won a silver medal at Jakarta 2018, which is India's best-ever result in badminton at the continental meet so far.
India's star boxer Nikhat Zareen will be eyeing a spot in the final of the women’s 50kg event. Having already confirmed a medal, she will be aiming for gold.
In athletics, Avinash Sable will be in action in the men’s 3000m steeplechase final. Jyothi Yarraji in women’s hurdles finals, Tajindepal Singh Toor in men’s shot put, Murali Sreeshanker and Jeswin Aldrin in men’s long jump are also strong contenders.
Aditi Ashok and the Indian women’s team are also favorably placed to do a double in golf for India in this year's showpiece event.
Asian Games 2023 India schedule October 1
Archery
Recurve men's individual qualification round (Dhiraj Bommadevara, Atanu Das, Mrinal Chauhan, Tushar Shelke) - 6:30 AM
Compound women's individual qualification round (Avneet Kaur, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, Parneet Kaur) - 6:30 AM
Recurve women's individual qualification round (Bhajan Kaur, Prachi Singh, Ankita Bhakat, Simranjeet Kaur) - 11:50 AM
Compound men's individual qualification round (Prathamesh Jawkar, Rajat Chauhan, Ojas Deotale, Abhishek Verma) - 11:50 AM
Athletics
Medal event: Women’s heptathlon events (Swapna Barman, Nandini Agasara) - starts 6:30 AM; final event at 6:15 PM
Women’s 200m round 1 heats (Jyothi Yarraji) - 7:10 AM onwards
Men’s 200m round 1 heats and semi-finals (Amlan Borgohain) - 7:45 AM onwards
Medal event: Men’s shot put final (Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Sahib Singh) - 4:30 PM
Medal event: Men’s long jump final (Murali Sreeshankar, Jeswin Aldrin) - 4:40 PM
Medal event: Men’s 3000m steeplechase final (Avinash Sable) - 4:45 PM
Medal event: Women’s discus throw final (Seema Punia) - 5:35 PM
Medal event: Women’s 1500m final (Harmilan Bains, Deeksha) - 5:50 PM
Medal event: Men’s 1500m round final (Ajay Kumar Saroj, Jinson Johnson) - 6:00 PM
Medal event: Women’s 100m hurdles final (Jyothi Yarraji, Nithya Ramraj) - 6:45 PM
Badminton
Medal event: Men’s team gold medal match (HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen, Mithun Manjunath, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty, Dhruv Kapila/MR Arjun):
India vs China - 2:30 PM
Basketball
Women's preliminary round Group A: India vs China - 5:30 PM
Boxing
Women’s 50kg semi-finals: Nikhat Zareen (IND) vs Chuthamat Raksat (THA) - 4:30 PM
Women’s 57kg quarter-finals: Parveen (IND) vs Sitora Turdibekova (UZB) - 11:45 AM
Women’s 60kg quarter-finals: Jasmine (IND) vs Ungyong Won (PRK) - 12:30 PM
Bridge
Men's, women’s, and mixed team round robin 2 (Indian teams) - 6:30 AM onwards
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Canoeing
Multiple sprint races heats, and semi-finals (multiple athletes) - 7:00 AM onwards
Chess
Men’s team round 3 (Gukesh D, Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, Pentala Harikrishna, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa) - 12:30 PM onwards
Women’s team round 3 (Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Vantika Agrawal, Savitha Shri B) - 12:30 PM onwards
Equestrian
Eventing cross country team and individual (Apurva Kishor Dabhade, Vikas Kumar, Ashish Vivek Limaye) - 5:30 AM onwards
Golf
Medal round: Men’s individual and team round 4 (Anirban Lahiri, Shubhankar Sharma, SSP Chawrasia, Khalin Joshi) - 4:00 AM onwards
Medal round: Women’s individual and team round 4 (Aditi Ashok, Avani Prashanth, Pranavi Urs) - 4:00 AM onwards
Hockey
Preliminary women's Pool A: India vs South Korea -1:30 PM
Kurash
Medal event: Men’s -81kg (Vishal Ruhil) - 7:00 AM onwards (medal rounds start from 11:30 AM)
Roller skating
Medal event: Men's speed skating 1000m sprint heats, semi-final and final (Vikram Rajendra Ingale, Aryanpal Singh Ghuman) - 6:30 AM
Medal event: Women's speed skating 1000m sprint heats, semi-final and final (Karthika Jagadeeswaran, Sanjana Bathula) - 7:00 AM
Sepaktakraw
Women's quadrant preliminary Group B: India vs Laos - 7:30 AM
Men's quadrant preliminary Group B: India vs Japan - 11:30 AM
Women's quadrant preliminary Group B: India vs China - 12:30 PM
Shooting
Men’s trap qualification phase 2, team medals and individual final (Kynan Chenai, Prithviraj Toindaman, Zoravar Singh Sandhu) - 6:30 AM onwards
Women’s trap qualification phase 2, team medals and individual final (Rajeshwari Kumari, Manisha Keer, Preeti Rajak) - 6:30 AM onwards
Squash
Mixed doubles Pool A (Dipika Pallikal/Harinderpal Singh Sandhu): India vs Korea - 8:30 AM
Mixed doubles Pool D (Anahat Singh/Abhay Singh): India vs Philippines - 10:00 AM
Men’s singles round of 32: Mahesh Mangaonkar (IND) vs Jonathan Reyes (PHI) - 1:30 PM
Mixed doubles Pool A (Dipika Pallikal/Harinderpal Singh Sandhu): India vs Pakistan - 1:30 PM
Mixed doubles Pool D (Anahat Singh/Abhay Singh): India vs Pakistan - 3:00 PM
Volleyball
Women's preliminary round Pool A: India vs China - 4:30 PM