New Delhi: A strong Indian contingent of 679 members including 516 athletes and 163 officials will be beginning their Asian Games campaign on Saturday, 19th September 2014 with a hope to better its medal tally of 64 medals in the year 2010.
The squad of five men and five women in wrestling includes nine who competed in Glasgow and all three gold medallists: Sathish Sivalingam (men's 77kg), Sukhen Dey (men's 56kg) and Sanjita Khumukchan (women's 48kg). K. Ravi Kumar (men's 77kg), Vikas Thakur (men's 85kg) and Saikhom Mirabai Chanu (women's 48kg) won silver. Punam Yadav settled for bronze in the women's 63kg.
Indian athletes will not participate in 8 Sports, hence missing the chance for 50 Medal events out of 439 Medal events. The Incheon Asian Games feature all the 28 Sports events that are part of 2016 Olympics.
Shweta Chaudhry, Heena Sidhu and Malaika Goel in Women's 10m Air Pistol; Mansher Singh, Darius Kynan Chenai and Manavjit Singh Sandhu in Men's Trap; and Om Prakash, Jitu Rai and Omkar Singh in Men's 50m Pistol events will seek glory.
Other notable actions where Indians are expected to perform well are in badminton team events, tennis team events, etc.
Following is the complete schedule:
BADMINTON:
05:30 IST: Women's Team Round of 16 Match: India vs Macau
09:30 IST: Men's Team Round of 16 Match: India vs South Korea
BASKETBALL:
12:45 IST: Men's Group B, India vs Palestine
CYCLING:
12:30 IST: Women's Team Sprint Qualifying - Heat 1 (Deborah and Kezia Vergheese)
12:45 IST: Men's Team Sprint Qualifying - Heat 1 (Amrit Singh, Amrit Nagi and Alan Baby)
EQUESTRIAN:
08:30 IST: Dressage Team Prix St-Georges (Rajendra Shubhsri, Nadia Haridass, Vanita Malhotra, Shruti Vora)
HANDBALL:
6:30 IST: Men's Preliminary Round - Group D, India vs Chinese Taipei
12:30 IST: Women's Preliminary Round - Group A, India vs South Korea
JUDO:
10:30 IST: Men's 60kg Elimination Round of 32: Navjot Chana vs Almaraghy Abdalla (Kuwait)
Women's 48kg Elimination Round of 16: Likmabam Shushila Devi vs Kubeeva Mukaddas (Uzbekistan)
Women's 52kg Elimination Round of 16: Thoudam Kalpana Devi vs Khadka Devika (Nepal)
ROWING:
06:50 IST: Lightweight Men's Single Sculls Heat 2: Dushiant Dushyant
SHOOTING:
04:30 IST: 10m Air Pistol Women's Qualification: Shweta Chaudhry, Heena Sidhu, Malaika Goel
10m Air Pistol Women's Team Finals: Shweta Chaudhry, Heena Sidhu, Malaika Goel
05:30 IST: Trap Men's Qualification Day 1: Mansher Singh, Darius Kynan Chenai, Manavjit Singh Sandhu
06:00 IST: 50m Pistol Men's Qualification: Om Prakash, Jitu Rai, Omkar Singh
06:00 IST: 50m Pistol Men's Team Finals: Om Prakash, Jitu Rai, Omkar Singh.
SQUASH:
13:30 IST: Women's Singles Round of 16 Match: Joshana Chinappa vs Song Sunmi (South Korea); Dipika Pallikal vs Gu Jinyue (China)
15:30 IST: Men's Singles Round of 16 Match: Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu vs Almezayen Abdullah (Kuwait)
TENNIS:
07:00 IST: Women's Team Second Round: India vs Oman
VOLLEYBALL:
13:00 IST: Men's Preliminary Round - Group C, India vs Hong Kong
14:00 IST: Women's Preliminary Round - Group A, India vs South Korea
WEIGHTLIFTING:
12:30 IST: Women's 48kg Group A (Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu)
10:30 IST: Men's 56kg Group B ( Sukhen Dey)
WUSHU:
05:30 IST: Men's Changquan Final: Anjul Namdeo
Men's Sanda 60kg Round of 16: Narender Grewal vs Mangal Prasad Tharu (Nepal)
Men's Sanda 65kg Round of 16: M Bimoljit Singh vs Salaheddin Bayramov (Turkmenistan)
Women's Sanda 52kg Round of 16: Yumnam Sanathoi Devi vs Kamalova Mubarak (Uzbekistan)
Men's Sanda 56kg Round of 16: Santosh Kumar vs Rizaidin Railin (Kazakhstan)
Women's Sanda 60kg Round of 16: Wangkhem Sandhyarani Devi vs Thi Ly Tan (Vietnam).
