Shooters Win Two Medals in Two Minutes as Badminton Defending Champions Exit

Badminton pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty lost their first round men's doubles match, ending their title defense after winning gold at the previous games. Earlier on the sixth day, Indian shooters secured two medals within a two-minute window. Suruchi and Kamaljit won gold in the 10-meter air pistol mixed event at 9:00 AM, scoring 484.6 points to finish 6.6 points ahead of South Korea, while Iran took bronze with 415.8 points. Two minutes later at 9:02 AM, the team won silver in the 50-meter rifle three-position event with 1762 points, behind China with 1766 points and ahead of South Korea with 1751 points in third place. Kamaljit, from Sulkha village in Rewari, Haryana, switched to shooting after a 2019 injury forced him to quit athletics. Suruchi Inder Singh, a 20-year-old from Jhajjar, started shooting at age 13 and trains under coach Suresh Singh at the Guru Dronacharya Shooting Academy in Bhiwani. In other shooting results, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar finished fifth and Neeraj placed eighth in the 50-meter rifle three-position individual event. In boxing, Sachin Sivach reached the men's 60kg quarterfinals by defeating Jordan's Mohammad Abu Jajeh 4-1. Boxer Preeti lost 5-0 to Pang Chol Mi of North Korea, ending her campaign, and Nirupama Devi exited the women's 61kg weight category after lifting a total of 217kg. In mixed doubles badminton, Tanisha Crasto and Dhruv Kapila defeated Malaysia's world number-10 pair Soon Huat Goh and Shevon Jemie Lai 22-20, 24-22. Table tennis saw Manav Thakush and Manush Shah lose in men's doubles round two, while Sreejula Akula and Cindrèla Das lost in women's doubles round three. Manush Shah advanced to the third round by beating Iran's Benyamin Faraji 4-0. In squash, Veer Chotrani lost his men's singles quarterfinal to Pakistan's Muhammad Irfan, but Abhay Singh advanced to face Irfan in the semifinal. Anahat Singh defeated Tanvi Khanna 3-0 to reach the women's singles semifinals, where she will face Satomi Watanabe. Both the men's kabaddi team and the women's hockey team reached their respective semifinals, with the hockey team beating Japan 3-1 for their fourth consecutive pool win. These results placed India 12th in the medal tally with 19 medals, including two golds.