The Day 2 of Jakarta Palembang 2018 Asian Games saw India add second gold in its overall medal tally (5), courtesy which it stays at eighth position in the medal table and standings. And the star of the second day was undoubtedly wrestler Vinesh Phogat who became the first female grappler from India to win an Asiad gold. The 23-year-old displayed a terrific performance to keep Indian athletes moral high especially after noticeable failures from wrestling biggies like Sakshi Malik, Sumit Malik and Pooja Dhanda. India also added two silver medals, both by shooter Depak Kumar and Lakshay Sheoran. Moving on the Day 3 schedule of Indian athletes participating in Asian Games 2018. The biggest attractions of the third day is Dipa Karmakar in Artisitic Gymnastics, men's and women's archery team, men's and women's kabaddi team and rower Dattu Baban Bhokanal. Asian Games Medal Tally 2018 Updated: Vinesh Phogat Wins Gold Medal, Takes India's Medal Tally to 5 in Current Table and Country-Wise Gold, Silver, Bronze Medal Standings.

With two days of the Asian Games 2018 gone, India now move to the third day in hope of adding more medals to its kitty. Apart from shooting, wrestling and tennis, the third day will see events of swimming, archery, basketball among others. Indian women and men Kabaddi teams will continue their respective group matches while Ankita Raina will carry on campaign as she plays Eri Hozumi in the Round of 16 women’s singles tennis match. The Indian hockey women team will take on Kazakstan in Group B match on Tuesday. Shooters Sanjeev Rajput, Akhil Sheoran, Abhishek Verma, Saurabh Chaudhary, Lakshay and Shreyasi Singh will be hoping to add more medals for India.

2018 Asian Games Day 3 India Schedule in IST

Date Time Sports Event Match/Athletes
21st Aug 8.00 am Archery Recurve Women's Individual Promila Daimary, Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Laxmirani Majhi
21st Aug 8.00 am Archery Recurve Women's Team India (World Rankings 8)
21st Aug 1.20 pm Archery Recurve Men's Individual Atanu Das, Jagdish Chaudhary, Sukhchain Singh, Vishwas
21st Aug 1.20 pm Archery Recurve Men's Team India (World Rankings 12)
21st Aug 1.20 pm Archery Recurve Mixed Team India (World Rankings 8)
21st Aug 1.00 pm Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Qualifications Dipa Karmakar, Pranati Das, Aruna Reddy, Mandira Chowdhury and Pranati Nayak
21st Aug 9.00 am Bridge Men’s Qualifications Jaggy Shivdasani, Rajeshwar Tewari, Ajay Khare, Raju Tolani, Debabrata Majumder and Sumit Mukherjee
21st Aug 9.00 am Bridge Mixed Team –Round Robin 1 Kiran Nadar, Hema Deora, Himani Khandelwal, Bachiraju Satyanarayana, Gopinath Manna and Rajeev Khandelwal
21st Aug 9.00 am Bridge Supermixed Team Qualifications Bharati Dey, Marianne Karmakar, Vasanti Shah, Pranab Bardhan, Finton Lewis and Shibhnath Sarkar
21st Aug 7.30 am Fencing Women’s Epee individual India
21st Aug 1.00 pm Handball Women's Handball Group A India vs DPR Korea
21st Aug 7.00 pm Hockey Women's Tournament Pool B India vs Kazakhstan
21st Aug 8.00 am Kabaddi Women's Team Group A - Game 7 India vs Sri Lanka
21st Aug 11.20am Kabaddi Women's Team Group A - Game 9 India vs Indonesia
21st Aug 4.00 pm Kabaddi Men's Team Group A - Game 8 India vs Thailand
21st Aug 8.00 am Rowing Men's Single Sculls Repechages Dattu Baban Bhokanal
21st Aug 7.50 am Rowing Women's Pair Repechages Sanjukta Dung Dung-Harpreet Kaur
21st Aug 9.00 am Rowing Men's Lightweight Four Repechages India
21st Aug 8.00 am Shooting 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men - Qualification Sanjeev Rajput, Akhil Sheoran
21st Aug 8.00 am Shooting 10m Air Pistol Men -Qualification Abhishek Verma, Saurabh Chaudhary
21st Aug 8.30 am Shooting Trap Mixed Team – Qualification Lakshay-Shreyasi Singh
21st Aug 8.06 am Swimming 50m Freestyle Heats Anshul Kothari, Virdhawal Khade
21st Aug 9.00 am Tennis Women’s Singles Round of 16 Ankita Raina vs Eri Hozumi, Kamran Kaur vs En-Shuo Liang
21st Aug 9.00 am Tennis Mixed Doubles Round of 16 India vs Kazakhstan
21st Aug 10.00 am Tennis Men’s Doubles Round of 16 Rohan Bopanna-Divij Sharan vs Thailand, Sumit Nagal-Ramkumar Ramanathan vs Chinese Taipei
21st Aug 11.30 am Tennis Mixed Doubles Round of 32 Rohan Bopanna-Ankita Raina vs South Korea
21st Aug 9.00 am Volleyball Women's Pool B India vs Vietnam
21st Aug 12.06 pm Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 67 kg 1/8 Finals Manish vs Tsuchika Shimoyamada
21st Aug 12.24 pm Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg 1/8 Finals Gyanender vs Piyabut Wiratul
21st Aug 11.54 am Wrestling Women's Freestyle 76 kg Quarterfinals Kiran vs Yet-to-be Decided
21st Aug 1.00 pm Wrestling Women's Freestyle 68 kg Quarterfinals Divya Kakran vs Tumentsetseg Sharkhuu
21st Aug 8.00 am Wushu Men's Taijiquan & Taijijian All-Round Gyandash Singh Mayanglambam
21st Aug 8.00 am Wushu Men's Daoshu & Gunshu All-Round Chirag Sharma
21st Aug 8.00 am Wushu Men's Nanquan & Nangun All-Round Sajan Lama
21st Aug 5.00 pm Wushu Women's Sanda -60kg Quarterfinals Naorem Roshibina vs Mubashra
21st Aug 5.00 pm Wushu Men's Sanda -56kg Quarterfinals Santosh Kumar vs Phithak Paokrathok
21st Aug 5.00 pm Wushu Men's Sanda -60kg Quarterfinals Bhanu Pratap Surya Singh vs Jean Claude Saclag
21st Aug 5.00 pm Wushu Men's Sanda -65kg Quarterfinals Narender Grewal vs Akmal Rakhimov
21st Aug 5.00 pm Wushu Men's Sanda -70kg Quarterfinals Pradeep Kumar vs Puja Riyaya

Like always Asian Games are proving to be a tougher nut to crack for Indian athletes in comparison to Commonwealth Games and it is understandable too with the presence of heavyweights China leading more number of nations in Asiad than CWG. However, Indian contingent need to calm their nerves and try to focus on giving their best. We look forward to another exciting adrenaline-fill sporting day of action.

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