India Wins Multiple Medals on Day Six at Asian Games

Team India secured a bronze medal early on Thursday at the Asian Games as rowers Satnam Singh and Salman Khan finished third in the men's double sculls event. This followed a narrow miss by Balraj Panwar, who finished fourth in the men's singles sculls final after holding the silver position until the final five hundred metres. Roshibina Devi added a silver medal in wushu after losing the women's sixty kg sanda final to China's Zhang Xiaoyu. This marks her third consecutive Asiad medal, following a bronze in 2018 and a silver in 2023. Shooters Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka then secured a bronze medal in the Mixed Skeet Team event. Earlier in the Games, the women's cricket team led by Harmanpreet Kaur won India's first gold medal by defeating Sri Lanka by one hundred forty-seven runs in the final. Shooting events also brought multiple medals, including a silver in the women's team ten metre air rifle by Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar, and Vidarsa Vinod, with Elavenil also winning individual silver. The men's ten metre air rifle team of Rudrankksh Patil, Himanshu Dhillon, and Parth Mane won silver, while Dhillon took individual silver and Patil claimed individual bronze. Mirabai Chanu secured a silver in women's forty-nine kg weightlifting, and Suchika Tariyal won a bronze in the women's traditional sixty kg MMA event against Singapore's Teo Hui Hoon.