6th standing after three days, the Indian contingent has done well for itself with 14 medals in the ongoing 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. Obviously, there are expectations for more and that there could have been more so far, but the event has just begun and the goal towards a century of medals may seem distant but is still possible. The equestrian dressage team scripted history on Tuesday, September 26 with a mixed team gold and there are several more in the pipeline.
Shooters and sailors will be the top contenders for a podium finish on Wednesday, September 27. The quartet of Sudipti Hajela, Divyakriti Singh, Anush Agarwalla and Hriday Chheda will be in action in their individual events, the women's hockey team will take on Singapore while the paddlers will begin their campaigns as well.
World champion Nikhat Zareen takes centre stage as well as Shiva Thapa will also be in the ring with chess players in touching distance of medals. A medal in Wushu was already confirmed by Roshibina Devi but she will hope to go further in the competition when she fights in the 60kg semi-finals.
Here's Team India's full schedule for Wednesday, September 27:
Equestrian
Dressage Individual Intermediate I (Hriday Chheda, Anush Agarwalla, Divyakriti Singh, Sudipti Hajela) - 5:30 AM onwards
Chess
Medal event: Men’s Individual rounds 8 and 9 (Vidit Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi) - 12:30 PM onwards
Medal event: Women’s individual rounds 8 and 9 (Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli) - 12:30 PM onwards
Fencing
Medal event: Men’s team foil (Arjun, Dev, Bibish Kathiresan, Akash Kumar) - 6:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Women’s team epee (Ena Arora, Jyotika Dutta, Yashkeerat Kaur, Tanishka Khatri) - 10:30 AM onwards
Shooting
Medal event: Medal event: Men’s and women’s skeet qualification phase 2, team medals and individual final (Men’s: Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Gurjoat Singh Khangura, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa women’s: Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Ganemat Sekhon, Darshna Rathore) - 6:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Women’s 25m pistol rapid qualification round, team medals and individual final (Manu Bhaker, Rhythm Sangwan, Esha Singh) - 6:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions qualifying, team medals and final (Ashi Chouksey, Manini Kaushik, Sift Kaur Samra) - 6:30 AM onwards
Track cycling
Men’s sprint qualifying, 1/16 and 1/8 finals and repechage heats (David Beckham Elkatohchoongo, Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam) - 7:30 AM onwards
Women’s keirin (Shushikala Agashe, Triyasha Paul) - 7:56 AM onwards
3x3 basketball
Men's Round Robin Pool C: India vs Macao China - 12:10 PM
Women's Round Robin Pool A: India vs China - 4:55 PM
Basketball
Women's Preliminary Round Group A: India vs Indonesia - 5:30 PM
Artistic gymnastics
Women’s all-round final (Pranati Nayak) - 12:30 PM
Boxing
Men’s 57kg Round of 16: Shiva Thapa (IND) vs Askat Kulatev (KGZ) - 1:15 PM
Men’s 92kg Round of 16: Sanjeet (IND) vs Lazizbek Mullojonov (UZB) - 1:30 PM
Women’s 50kg Round of 16: Nikhat Zareen (IND) vs Chorong Bak (KOR) - 5:15 PM
Bridge
Men's, women’s and mixed team round robin 1-1 to 4 (Indian teams) - 6:30 PM
Esports
League of Legends quarter-finals: India vs Vietnam - 11:30 AM
Handball
Women's Preliminary Round Group B: India vs Hong Kong, China - 4:30 PM
Hockey
Preliminary Women's Pool A: India vs Singapore - 10:15 AM
Sailing
Medal event: Men's Dinghy ILCA7 medal races (Vishnu Saravanan) - 8:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Women's Single Dinghy ILCA6 medal races (Nethra Kumanan) - 8:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Men's Kite IKA Formula (Chitresh Tatha) - 8:30 AM onwards
Medal event: Men's Windsurfing iQFoil quarter-final, semi-finals and final (Jerome Kumar Savarimuthu) - 8:30 AM onwards
Squash
Men’s team Pool A: India vs Kuwait - 7:30 AM
Women’s team Pool B: India vs Nepal - 7:30 AM
Women’s team Pool B: India vs Macao, China - 2:00 PM
Men’s team Pool A: India vs Pakistan - 4:30 PM
Swimming
Women’s 100m butterfly heats and final (Nina Venkatesh) - 7:30 AM onwards
Women’s 100m backstroke (Maana Patel) - 7:30 AM onwards
Men’s 200m freestyle heats and final (Tanish George Matthew, Sriharni Nataraj) - 7:30 AM onwards
Women’s 100m breaststroke (Lineysha) - 7:30 AM onwards
Table tennis
Men’s doubles Round of 64 (Manush Shah/Manav Thakkar) - 1:30 PM onwards
Mixed doubles Round of 32 (G Sathiyan/Manika Batra and Harmeet Desai/Sreeja Akula) - 1:30 PM onwards
Tennis
Multiple singles and doubles matches (Ankita Raina, Rohan Bopanna, Rutuja Bhosale, Ramkumar Ramanathan and more) - 7:30 AM onwards
Wushu
Medal event: Men’s daoshu final (Rohit Jadhav) - 6:30 AM
Medal event: Men’s gunshu final (Rohit Jadhav) - 12:00 PM
Women’s 60kg semi-finals (Naorem Roshibina Devi) - 5:00 PM onwards
