Asian Games 2026 Day 5: Seema, combined relay win athletics medals; Roshibina baggage Wushu silver

NEW DELHI: India made a robust begin to its athletics marketing campaign on the Asian Games 2026 on Thursday, profitable two medals. The combined 4x400m relay workforce gained silver, whereas Seema gained bronze within the ladies’s 10,000m. Seema’s medal was India’s first athletics medal at these Games.The relay workforce of TS Manu, MR Poovamma, Vishal TK and Vithya Ramraj clocked 3:14.46 to complete second behind Bahrain. Bahrain gained gold in a Games report time of three:12.87.

Seema ends India’s wait in ladies’s 10,000m

Seema, 25, gained the bronze medal within the ladies’s 10,000m with a time of 32:50.05. Bahrain’s Winfred Yavi gained gold in 32:39.18, whereas Japan’s Nozomi Tanaka took silver in 32:41.54.Seema’s bronze was India’s first ladies’s 10,000m medal on the Asian Games since 2010.At the 2010 Asian Games, Preeja Sreedharan gained gold and Kavita Raut claimed silver within the occasion.

Mixed relay workforce provides one other medal

The combined 4x400m relay workforce additionally continued India’s medal run within the occasion.India gained gold when the occasion was launched on the 2018 Asian Games and took silver on the earlier version. Thursday’s consequence gave India its third consecutive medal within the occasion.The consequence was saved unofficial for a while after the UAE lodged a protest. The UAE was later disqualified, making India’s silver medal official.India had earlier certified for the ultimate after ending second in Heat 2.

Roshibina wins second straight Asian Games silver

India’s Roshibina Devi Naorem gained her second consecutive Asian Games silver in wushu. She misplaced 0-2 to China’s Zhang Xiaoyu within the ladies’s 60kg sanda ultimate. Zhang gained each rounds 5-0 to take the bout 10-0 on mixture.Roshibina had additionally gained silver on the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games and bronze on the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games. She turned India’s most profitable wushu participant on the Asian Games with three medals.Roshibina had missed out on choice initially after shedding the trials. She received a spot within the workforce after authentic alternative Divyanshi Choudhary was dominated out as a result of damage.

Anantjeet-Parinaaz clinch historic skeet mixed-team bronze

Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Parinaaz Dhaliwal gave Indian skeet one more reason to have fun on Thursday, capturing their strategy to a historic bronze within the combined workforce occasion. It was India’s first-ever Asian Games medal in combined workforce skeet.The bronze accomplished a exceptional three-medal haul for Indian skeet in simply two days. Anantjeet, Bhavtegh Singh Gill and Mairaj Ahmed Khan had gained the lads’s workforce bronze on Wednesday, earlier than Parinaaz, Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan added one other bronze within the ladies’s workforce occasion later that day.Twenty-four hours later, Anantjeet and Parinaaz had been again on the vary, this time combining to make sure that India gained medals in all three skeet occasions on the Asian Games.

Rowers lastly have a medal to indicate

India’s rowers additionally completed the day with a bronze medal. Satnam Singh and Salman Khan gained bronze within the males’s double sculls, India’s first medal within the occasion on the Asian Games.The Indian pair stayed second till the 1,500m mark earlier than dropping to 3rd within the ultimate 500m. They clocked 6:13.25.China gained gold, whereas Uzbekistan took silver.

Asha Ilango misses bronze

Asha Ilango narrowly missed out on a medal within the ladies’s triple bounce. She completed fourth after producing a greatest bounce of 13.83m, the identical distance as China’s Yi Li.The Chinese athlete completed forward as a result of her second-best bounce was higher. Yi had a second-best effort of 13.79m, whereas Asha’s was 13.65m.Animesh, Gurindervir attain 100m semifinalsAnimesh Kujur certified for the lads’s 100m semifinals after ending third in Heat 1 of Round 1. He clocked 10.36 seconds. Thailand’s Puripol Boonson gained the warmth in 9.95 seconds.National report holder Gurindervir Singh additionally reached the semifinals after ending second in Heat 4 with a time of 10.38 seconds. The high three from every of the six heats and the following six quickest runners superior to the semifinals, which will probably be held on Friday.

Kabaddi groups proceed unbeaten run

Both the Indian males’s and ladies’s kabaddi groups continued their profitable runs. The males’s workforce beat Chinese Taipei 37-21, whereas the ladies’s workforce defeated Japan 50-25 to achieve the semifinals and safe at the very least a bronze medal.India are the defending champions in each occasions.

Anahat, Tanvi arrange all-Indian squash quarterfinal

India had a productive day in squash, with Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna, Abhay Singh and Veer Chotrani reaching the singles quarterfinals. Anahat beat Singapore’s Wai Iynn Au Yeong 3-0 (11-4, 11-5, 11-7) in 19 minutes.Tanvi defeated Singapore’s Wai Yhann Au Yeong 3-1 (5-11, 11-4, 11-5, 13-11) in 39 minutes. The outcomes arrange an all-Indian ladies’s singles quarterfinal between Anahat and Tanvi.In males’s singles, Abhay beat Sri Lanka’s Ravindu Laksiri 3-0, whereas Veer defeated Malaysia’s Sanjay Jeeva 3-2 after an in depth contest. Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar additionally superior to the combined doubles quarterfinals.

Dilpreet’s hat-trick powers hockey win

Dilpreet Singh scored a hat-trick as India beat Korea 8-2 within the males’s hockey competitors. It was India’s third straight win and saved the workforce on the high of Pool A. Dilpreet scored within the tenth, twenty sixth and thirty second minutes. Abhishek scored twice, whereas Shilanand Lakra, Harmanpreet Singh and Rajinder Singh additionally discovered the web.India had earlier overwhelmed Indonesia 13-1 and Sri Lanka 16-1.

Boxing, gymnastics and fencing disappoint

Parveen was the one Indian boxer to progress on Thursday after receiving a walkover into the ladies’s 65kg quarterfinals. Sakshi Chaudhary misplaced 2-3 to Kazakhstan’s Alua Balkibekova within the ladies’s 51kg pre-quarterfinals, whereas Sumit needed to withdraw throughout his 70kg bout due to a knee damage.In gymnastics, Pranati Nayak completed sixth within the ladies’s vault ultimate. She scored 12.900 on each vaults and completed with 13.100 after a 0.20 bonus.India’s fencing marketing campaign additionally ended after C A Bhavani Devi and Shreya Gupta had been eradicated in ladies’s particular person sabre. Bhavani reached the spherical of 16 after beating Mongolia’s Oulen Tugsjargan 15-8, however misplaced 5-15 to China’s Rao Xueyi within the pre-quarterfinals.