Asian Games 2026 Day 4: Mirabai Chanu ends Asiad medal wait; India win two skeet bronzes in capturing

NEW DELHI: Mirabai Chanu lastly ended her lengthy watch for an Asian Games medal, profitable silver within the girls’s 49kg class on Wednesday.The 32-year-old lifted a complete of 198kg (88kg+111kg) to complete second. The medal was India’s first Asian Games weightlifting medal since Karnam Malleswari received silver in 1998.Mirabai had been chasing an Asian Games medal since 2014. The Tokyo Olympic silver medallist as soon as once more confirmed her class on the large stage and added one other main medal to her profession.With a well-recognized grin on her face, she made mild work of the heavy lifts earlier than declaring that her “life is now full.”

Skeet shooters save the day for India

It was a blended day for India on the capturing vary.The much-anticipated girls’s 10m air pistol crew of double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker, Suruchi Singh and Esha Singh couldn’t win a medal in both the crew or particular person occasions.Bhaker was the one Indian from the trio to qualify for the person remaining, however she completed fifth.The 24-year-old Paris Olympics bronze medallist later broke down whereas talking in regards to the emotional affect of the demise of her childhood coach Jaspal Rana in June.The skeet shooters, nonetheless, ensured India didn’t go away the capturing vary empty-handed.The males’s and girls’s groups each received bronze medals.Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan and Parinaaz Dhaliwal mixed for a rating of 331 to complete third within the girls’s crew occasion. China received gold with 357 factors, whereas Kazakhstan took silver with 336.Raiza and Parinaaz additionally reached the person finals however couldn’t end on the rostrum.In the boys’s occasion, Anantjeet Singh Naruka, veteran Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill secured bronze with a mixed rating of 346.Anantjeet was the one Indian from the trio to achieve the person remaining and completed fourth.

Wushu: Roshibina enters gold medal conflict

Roshibina Devi Naorem moved into the gold medal match within the girls’s 60kg class after defeating Indonesia’s Thania Kusumaningtyas 2-0 on the Aichi Prefectural Martial Arts Hall.She will face China’s Xiaoyu Zhang within the remaining.Roshibina, 25, has already received a silver and a bronze medal within the earlier two editions of the Asian Games.

Badminton stars humbled by China

India’s males’s badminton crew ended its marketing campaign with a bronze medal after dropping 1-3 to China within the semifinals.Lakshya Sen and Ayush Shetty couldn’t get previous their higher-ranked opponents, whereas Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have been the one Indians to win a match.India had received silver on the earlier version in Hangzhou in 2023, the place China had additionally overwhelmed them within the remaining.World No. 14 Lakshya, who had performed a key function in India’s run to the semifinals, misplaced 16-21, 18-21 to planet No. 6 Shi Yu Qi within the opening singles match.India fell 0-1 behind, however Satwik and Chirag introduced the crew again into the competition.The Indian pair produced a robust efficiency to beat Paris Olympics silver medallists and reigning planet champions Liang Wei Keng and Wang Chang 21-11, 22-20.However, Ayush Shetty and the second doubles pair of Hariharan Amsakarunan and MR Arjun couldn’t win their matches as China sealed the tie.

Table tennis, squash gamers transfer forward

Indian pairs Harmeet Desai-Yashaswini Ghorpade and Diya Chitale-Manush Shah superior to the desk tennis blended doubles quarterfinals.The seventh-seeded Chitale and Shah made simple progress with a 3-0 win over the Sri Lanka-Maldives mixture.In the spherical of 16, Shah and Chitale defeated Moosa Ahmed and Aishath Nazeem 11-0, 11-7, 11-6.They will face Hong Kong’s Doo Hoi Kim and Wong Chun Ting within the quarterfinals on Thursday. A win will guarantee them of a medal.In squash, Abhay Singh, Veer Chotrani and Tanvi Khanna entered the spherical of 16 with comfy victories.Second seed Abhay dropped solely three factors in his opening males’s singles match in opposition to Thailand’s Arkaradet Arkarahirunya, profitable 11-1, 11-0, 11-2.Chotrani beat Sri Lanka’s Shamil Wakeel 11-8, 11-3, 11-3 within the spherical of 32.In the ladies’s singles, Tanvi defeated South Korea’s Dami Kim 11-5, 11-7, 11-5.

Women’s hockey crew continues profitable run

India’s girls’s hockey crew registered its third straight win in Pool B, thrashing Thailand 20-1.Drag-flicker Deepika Sehrawat was the star of the present, scoring a report 9 objectives in a single match.Deepika scored within the 2nd, eighth, ninth, twenty fourth, thirty third, thirty sixth, thirty ninth, 51st and 57th minutes. She transformed all 9 of her penalty-corner makes an attempt.Navneet Kaur additionally scored 4 objectives within the 4th, twenty ninth, thirty fifth and 51st minutes.India additionally continued its sturdy run in kabaddi, with each the boys’s and girls’s groups registering complete wins over Bangladesh and Iran respectively of their group-stage matches.