After the Asia Cup in cricket, the main target now shifts on the 2023 Asian Games. India can be aiming to scale new heights on the Asian Games 2023 after registering their finest-ever medal depend on the 2018 version. The 2023 version of the Asian Games will begin on September 23 in China’s Hangzhou and can go on until October 8. The 19th version of the Asian Games will witness a 655-member sturdy Indian workforce in motion in 41 disciplines out of 61. The video games can be performed throughout 56 venues, with 481 gold medals on provide, as per Olympics.com.
Though the video games will formally begin on September 23, sports activities like cricket, soccer, volleyball and seashore volleyball will kickstart from September 19 onwards.
Cricket
1st Game: India Women’s vs TBD – September 21
The males’s and girls’s cricket groups, led by Ruturaj Gaikwad and Harmanpreet Kaur can be making their debut on the continental stage occasion. The ladies’s workforce will begin its marketing campaign on September 21 and the ultimate can be on September 25. After this, the boys’s cricket groups will kickstart their campaigns from September 27 and the title conflict will happen on October 7. Indian males’s workforce will play its first match on October 3.
Football
Men’s: India vs China (September 19, 5 PM IST) and India vs Bangladesh (September 21, 1:30 PM IST)
Women’s: India vs Chinese Taipei (5 PM)
The Indian males’s workforce is being led by Sunil Chhetri. Several high gamers are lacking from the boys’s workforce.
Volleyball
Men’s: India vs South Korea (September 20, 4:30 PM IST)
The males’s volley ball workforce will even be in motion on September 20. The self-discipline begins on September 19 and can go on October 7.
Athletics
India will subject a contingent of 68 gamers in observe and subject occasions, this can be India’s largest illustration within the sport. Olympic and World Champion Neeraj Chopra can be India’s largest face on the occasion, aiming to copy his gold-successful heroics in Jakarta in 2018. Athletics competitions can be held from September 29 to October 5, with the boys’s javelin throw ultimate on October Four as its largest attraction resulting from India’s ‘Golden Boy’ Neeraj.
Neeraj will not be the one Olympic medalist from India as badminton star PV Sindhu, boxer Lovlina Borgohain, wrestler Bajrang Punia and weightlifter Mirabai Chanu are additionally taking part in on the Asian Games. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze-successful males’s hockey workforce can be taking part in.
Badminton
Badminton competitors can be held from September 28 to October 7, with Sindhu main the 19-member Indian workforce which is able to characteristic Commonwealth champions Lakshya Sen and HS Prannoy, who can be the bronze medalist on the Badminton World Federation (BWF) World Championships held final month.
Weightlifting
Tokyo 2020 silver medalist Chanu, a former World Champion as effectively can be making her Asiad debut in ladies’s 49 kg weightlifting on September 30. Tokyo 2020 bronze medalist Bajrang Punia, the defending champion in males’s 65 kg freestyle wrestling will play on October 6.
Boxing
Meanwhile, boxing on the Asian Games can be a qualifying occasion for the Paris Olympics subsequent 12 months. Two-time and present world champion Nikhat Zareen will kickstart her marketing campaign in ladies’s 50 kg from September 24 and Lovlina will characterize India in ladies’s 75 kg from September 26 onwards. Boxing competitions will finish on October 5.
Hockey
The hockey competitors will even function a Paris 2024 Olympics qualifier, with Indian hockey groups aiming for gold every, which is able to give them a direct ticket to subsequent 12 months’s multi-sport extravaganza. The males’s hockey occasion will kickstart from September 24 and the Indian ladies’s hockey workforce will play from September 25.
Hurdler Jyothi Yarraji, steeplechase racer Avinash Sable, lengthy jumper Murali Sreeshankar, former Asian champion boxer Shiva Thapa, Indian desk tennis stars Manika Batra, Sharath Kamal and teenage chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa are another excessive-profile gamers who can be in motion.
The video games have been initially slated for 2022 however have been postponed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic in China final 12 months. India had registered 70 medals in 2018 at Jakarta, their finest tally thus far.
With ANI inputs
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