India eye record medals at Asian Games 2026 New Delhi: India’s hopes of securing a historic esports medal at the Asian Games in Japan suffered a setback after an unplayed eFootball fixture against Mongolia was recorded as a forfeit win, leaving India without the goal difference it needed to remain in contention for the knockout…
Nihal Sarin and Savitha Shri (Photo by Rafal Oleksiewicz and Michal Walusza for FIDE) NEW DELHI: India will look back at Nihal Sarin’s loss before the rest day and wonder what might have happened had he taken a few more minutes — he had plenty of time on the clock, more than enough to have…
Satnam-Salman win rowing bronze Satnam Singh and Salman Khan secured a bronze medal for India at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games after finishing third in the men’s double sculls final on Thursday.The Indian pair clocked 6:13.25, with China’s Yi Xudi and Nie Yide taking gold and Uzbekistan’s Mekhrojbek Mamatkulov and Pavel Sorin claiming silver.Satnam and Salman…
The other side of America’s only grandmaster Irina Krush NEW DELHI: For most of its history, American women’s chess had a very simple relationship with the Olympiad podium. It did not have one. Not once, in over four decades of trying, had the United States women’s team finished among the medals at chess’s biennial team…
Animesh Kujur, left, and Punjab’s Gurindervir Singh became the winner and first runner-up, respectively, in the men’s 100m during the Indian Athletics Final Series 2026, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi. (PTI Photo) India’s campaign at the Asian Games 2026 continues on Thursday, September 24, with athletes competing across multiple sports in Aichi-Nagoya,…
Naorem Roshibina Devi, red, competes against Indonesia’s Kusumaningtyas Thani in the women’s 60kg wushu semifinal match during the 20th Asian Games, in Nagoya, Japan. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Naorem Roshibina Devi is one victory away from rewriting Indian wushu history. Already the country’s most successful wushu athlete at the Asian Games — the Manipuri has…
Mirabai Chanu (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s star weightlifter Mirabai Chanu won her maiden Asian Games medal on Wednesday, claiming silver medal in the women’s 49kg category at the Nagoya City Trade and Industry Center in Aichi and Nagoya.Mirabai lifted a total of 198 kg in the event. She lifted 87 kg in the snatch…
India’s Raiza Dhillon (PTI Photo) India’s Raiza Dhillon and Parinaaz Dhaliwal missed out on individual medals after finishing fourth and eighth respectively in the women’s skeet final at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Wednesday, having earlier helped the country secure team bronze.Raiza came agonisingly close to adding another medal to India’s tally, finishing fourth with…
Mirabai Chanu won silver; India’s men’s and women’s skeet teams bag bronzes (Image credit: Agencies) NEW DELHI: Mirabai Chanu finally ended her long wait for an Asian Games medal, winning silver in the women’s 49kg category on Wednesday.The 32-year-old lifted a total of 198kg (88kg+111kg) to finish second. The medal was India’s first Asian Games…
Manu Bhaker remembers late coach Jaspal Rana (Image credit: Agencies) NAGOYA: Manu Bhaker wore a disappointed look after finishing fifth (181.1) in the women’s 10m air pistol event. The position was unchanged from the previous edition of the Asian Games, but almost everything else had.In Hangzhou, she had been part of the gold-winning trio in…
