Asian Games 2018 Highlights Day 2: Vinesh Phogat Secures Gold Medal, Silver for Shooters Deepak Kumar and Lakshay Sheoran

So, that's the end of Asian Games 2018 Day 2. Vinesh Phogat's gold dominated the day while shooters bagged two silver medals as well. India have now won a total of five medals (two gold, two silver, and one bronze). Do join us tomorrow for third day's action. Asian Games 2018 Medals Tally.

In men’s sanda 56kg, Santosh Kumar marched into the quarter-final with a 2-0 win. In the men’s sanda 60kg category, Surya Bhanu Pratap Singh advanced to the next roundhe quarter-final a 2-1 win and Narender Grewal won in the men’s sanda -65kg to qualify for quarterfinals as well.

Sumit Malik has failed to win a bronze in men’s freestyle 125 kg category. He loses to Uzbekistan's Modzmanashvili Davit 0-2.

What a performance by India! In their opening game, the Indian team has absolutely hammered Indonesia. They now face Hong Kong in their next match on August 22.

India have made absolute mockery of Indonesia. This is truly a goalfest. As the game moves into last quarter, India have netted 14 goals, Indonesia yet to open their scoring.

Mandeep Singh and Dilpreet Singh net two more goals as India's lead swells up to 9-0 at the halftime. Two more quarters coming up, and if India go by this pace, they will surely double the score.

After Pooja Dhanda , Sakshi Malik loses her bronze medal match in women's Freestyle 62 kg category. The India is defeated by North Korea's Jong Sim Rim 12-2 (technical points) 4-1 (class points). 

India add two more goals to Indonesia's misery. SV Sunil and Vivek Sagar are the goal-scorers. So in two quarters, India have netted seven goals.  

India’s men’s relay team (4x200 freestyle) finish 7th in the final clocking 7:37.07. Japan takes the gold medal after clocking 7:05.17. It is the games record as well. Silver goes to China (7:05.45) while Singapore. (7:14.15) secure bronze. 

After the first quarter in men's hockey match, India have taken a 5-0 lead. Rupinder Pal Singh scored twice within first two minutes of the match. Dilpreet, Akashdeep, Simranjeet then further added to India's score.

Pooja Dhanda is outplayed by Japanese wrestler Sakagami. She loses by 6-1 (technical points) 1-3 (class points). In the first period, Pooja looked in good rhythm. However, she was completely outclassed by her opponent in the second period.

In another Gold medal for India, it is Vinesh Phogat who has won it in Women's 50kg Freestyle Wrestling. This is the second Gold medal for India in two days. Earlier it was Bajrang Punia who had won a Gold medal for India.

Karman Kaur Thandi won her women's singles match against Jargal Altansarnai of Mongolia in straight sets 6-1, 6-0. Ramkumar Ramanathan, however, had a tricky round of 32 men's singles match against Wong Kit Hong. He won it 6-0, 7-6. Earlier, Ankita Raina also won her women's singles match to advance to last 16.

HS Prannoy's sole win against Indonesia was not enough for Indian men's team to sail through to semis of badminton team event. With Manu Atri-Sumeet Reddy losing 21-14, 21-18 in the fourth rubber, their fate was sealed in this event.

But there's a great news coming from Volleyball event as India beat Hong Kong 3-0 in Pool F game winning it 27-25, 25-22, 22-19.

An absolute shocker for the day as defending champs Indian men's team have lost a match at the Asian Games for the first time ever. The team which made it possible is unified Korean side that defeated India 23-24.

It is not over yet for India as HS Prannoy won the third rubber, second men's singles match against Jonatan Christie. India is now trailing 1-2 against Indonesia who had earlier won the first singles and doubles matches.

19-year-old Lakshay finished second in men's trap shooting to settle for a Silver medal. Manavjit Singh Sandhu just missed by a whisker to remain medal-less. Kunpi Yang of Chinese Taipei bagged the gold medal.

Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty lose 21-19, 19-21, 16-21 against World No 1 pair of Kevin Sanjaya and Marcus Gideon in the men’s doubles match. This defeat comes after Kidambi Srikanth lost to Anthony Ginting 23-21, 20-22, 21-10 in the first match of the tie.

Vinesh Phogat has assured India of a medal by winning Women's Freestyle 50kg category semis bout by technical superiority.

As for Sakshi Malik, she loses her semi-final against Aisuluu Tynybekova in the 62kg weight category and will have a chance at bronze medal via repechage.

Pooja Dhanda was no match to North Korea’s Jong Myong Suk in the women’s 57kg class semi-finals bout. She will now be participating in a bronze medal bout against the winner of the clash between Japan’s Sakagami Katsuki and Tissina Emma.