Asian Games 2023 Day 13 Live Updates (October 06): Sonam beat China’s Jia Long to pick up the bronze medal in women’s 62kg wrestling category
India at Asian Games Day 13 Live Updates (October 6): The medal count improved nice and early in the morning for India as the recurve women’s team clinched bronze in archery. Later, the men’s recurve team beat Mongolia and Bangladesh to reach the final, where defeat to Korea left them with a silver medal. HS Prannoy finished with bronze after losing to home favourite Li Shifeng in the semifinal, winning India’s first men’s singles individual Asiad medal in badminton since 1982. In wrestling, Sonam won bronze in the women’s 62kg category with three other bronze medal bouts, including that of Bajrang Punia, still upcoming.
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Later, Harmanpreet Singh and Co will be keen to not just get the gold medal back for India, but also ensure their quota spot for Paris 2024 when they take on reigning champions Japan in the hockey final on Friday.
In badminton, while Prannoy lost to All England champion Shifeng, later in the day, Satwik-Chirag will take on former world champs Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik. Like Prannoy, the in-form Indian duo also assured India of a first men’s doubles Asiad medal since 1982.
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First published on: 06-10-2023 at 06:00 IST
