Overview
- Mirabai Chanu won silver in the women’s 49kg weightlifting event on Wednesday after a 198kg total that included snatches of 83kg, 85kg and 87kg and a clean and jerk of 111kg, giving her medals across Olympics, Worlds, Commonwealths and the Asian Games.
- India secured two skeet team bronzes on Wednesday when the women’s trio of Raiza Dhillon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Maheshwari Chauhan finished with a combined 331 and the men’s team of Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill also took third place.
- The men’s badminton team settled for bronze after a semifinal loss to China on Wednesday, and Jay Meena earned India’s first-ever Asian Games medal in soft tennis by reaching the men’s singles semifinals and taking bronze.
- Naorem Roshibina Devi confirmed a silver in women’s Sanda 60kg on Thursday, extending her run to three consecutive Asian Games medals after she lost the final to China’s Zhang Xiaoyu.
- The two-day cluster of medals underscores India’s breadth of success across disciplines and leaves the contingent well placed to add more hardware as multiple finals and knockout rounds continue through the schedule.