In four days of pure sporting action at 2018 Asian Games, India has bagged 15 medals, which includes 4 gold, 3 silver and 8 bronze. We are now on Day 5 of Jakarta Palembang 2018 Asian Games, and there’s a lot Indian athletes can add to their current medal tally and move up from seventh position in the medal standings. Beginning with Rowing where all medal events will be taking place, all eyes will be on Olympian Dattu Bhokanal in the men's single sculls competition. Star Indian players such as PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal from badminton, Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Pallikal from squash will also be in action for their singles matches. Check out the complete Day 5 schedule of Indian athletes participating in Asian Games 2018 today. Asian Games 2018 Live News Updates Day 5: PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal in Badminton Singles, Sathish Sivalingam in Weightlifting Are India’s Hopes to Increase Medals Tally Today.
The biggest star attraction of the day is weightlifter Sathish Sivalingam who will feature in the men's 77kg event. The 26-year-old is two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist, and it will be exciting to see if he can bag his first Asiad medal in Indonesia. Then we have Tennis with Indian players Ankita Raina, Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan ensuring India of a medal in women’s singles and men’s doubles by reaching semi-finals stage, but they will look forward to getting into gold medal matches. Apart from these, other sports Indian fans will keenly follow is Artistic Gymnastics where Aruna Reddy and Pranati Nayak would be eying a podium finish in the women’s vault final. Asian Games Medal Tally 2018 Updated: Four Medals in Wushu Takes India’s Medal Tally to 15 in Current Table and Country-Wise Medal Standings.
2018 Asian Games Day 5 India Schedule in IST
ARCHERY – Starts at 8.30am IST onwards
Men’s Individual Recurve – Vishwas, Atanu Das
Women’s Individual Recurve- Promila Daimary, Deepika Kumari
ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS – Starts at 3pm IST onwards
Women’s Vault Event- Aruna Budda Reddy
BADMINTON – Starts at 10.30am IST onwards
Women’s Singles - PV Sindhu vs Vu Thi Trang (VIE), Saina Nehwal vs Soraya Aghaeihajiagha (IRI)
Women’s Doubles - Ashwini Ponnappa/ Sikki Reddy vs Nga Ting Yeung/ Wing Yung NG (HKG), Rutaparna Panda/Arathi Sara Sunil vs Chayanit Chaladchalam/Muenwong Phataimas (THA)
Mixed Doubles - Pranav Jerry Chopra/ Sikki Reddy vs Lui Ying Goh/ Peng Soon Chan (MAS), Ashwini Ponnappa/ Satvik Sairaj Rankireddy vs Sapsiree Taerattanachai/ Dechapol Puavaranukroh (THA)
Men’s Doubles - Satvik Sairaj Rankireddy/ Chirag Shetty vs Yonny Chung/ Chun Hei Tam(HKG), Manu Attri/ B Sumeeth Reedy vs Rasheed Ajfan Mohamed / Mohamed Ahmed Thoif (MDV)
BASKETBALL – Starts at 5pm IST onwards
Women’s 5×5 Group A India vs Indonesia
CANOE/KAYAK SLALOM – Starts at 9am IST onwards
Women’s Singles semifinals – Champa Mourya
GOLF – Starts at 4.30am IST onwards
Men’s Individual: Aadil Bedi, Hari Mohan Singh, Rayhan Thomas and Naveed Kshitij Kaul
Women’s Individual: Sifat Sagoo, Ridhima Dilawari, Diksha Dagar
ROWING – Starts at 7.30am IST onwards
Men’s Singles Sculls Final- Dattu Baban Bhokanal
Men’s Double Sculls Final- Om Prakash Sawarn Singh
Women’s Pair Final- Sanjukta Dung/ Harpreet Kaur
Women’s Doubles Sculls Final- Pooja/ Sayali Shekale
Men’s Pair Final- Malkeet Singh/ Gurinder Singh
Men’s Lightweight Four Final - Bhopal Singh, Jagveer Singh, Tejash Shinde and Pranay Naukarkar
SHOOTING – Starts at 9am IST onwards
Men’s Double Trap Qualification – Shardul Vihan, Ankur Mittal – 9am
Women’s Double Trap finals- Varsha Varman, Shreyasi Singh- 9.15am
SQUASH – Starts at 8.30am IST onwards
Men’s singles Round of 32: Saurav Ghosal vs Mukhtar Wakeel Mohomed Shamil (SRI), Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu vs Youngjo Ko (KOR) – 8:30 AM Women’s singles Round of 16: Dipika Pallikal, Joshna Chinappa
SWIMMING – Starts at 7.30am IST onwards
Men’s 50m Butterfly Heats- Ankur Kothari, Virdhawal Khade – 7:30 AM Men’s 100m Freestyle Heats- Virdhawal Khade, Aaron Dsouza- 7:50 AM Men’s 200m Backstroke Heats- Srihari Nataraj, Advait Page – 8 AM
TENNIS – Starts at 8.30am IST onwards
Women’s Singles Semifinals – Ankita Raina vs Shuai Zhang (CHI) Mixed Doubles Quarterfinals – Rohan Bopanna/ Ankita Raina vs A Sutjiadi/ CB Rungkat (INA) Men’s Doubles Semifinals- Rohan Bopanna/ Divij Sharan vs K Uesugi/ S Shimabukuro (JAP) Men’s Singles Quarterfinals- Prajnesh Gunneswaran vs Soonwoo Kwon (KOR).
WEIGHTLIFTING – Starts at 9.30am IST onwards
Men's 77kg qualification - Sathish Sivalingam
Earlier on Day 4, Rahi Sarnobat scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman shooter to win Asiad gold while the wushu players produced their best ever medal haul at the 18th Asian Games on Wednesday.
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