The Asian Games 2023 will officially commence on September 23 in Hangzhou, China. However, some events will begin on September 19. All sporting events will continue till October 7, with the closing ceremony scheduled to take place the following day. It was supposed to be held last year but the event had to be postponed due to COVID-19. The fifteen-day sporting extravaganza will feature 40 events this year. This will be the 19th edition of the sporting event with the first one taking place back in 1951 in Delhi, India. Sporting fans will have the opportunity to witness several Asian talents competing for Asia’s top honours. Medal events will be starting from the day after the opening ceremony on September 24.
India are set to field 655 athletes at the 2023 Asian Games. The athletics contingent will be the largest with 68 participating athletes. In the previous edition of the event in 2018, India had fielded 570 athletes in 36 different competitions. If you are having some trouble finding the date when your favourite athlete will be participating then continue reading this article. You will find all the Indians in the fray for each day in the Asian Games mentioned below.
September 19
Men’s Volleyball – India vs Cambodia
Men’s Football – India vs China
September 20
Rowing (Round 1):
Men’s double sculls – Parminder Singh, Satnam Singh
Men’s Lightweight double sculls – Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh
Women’s Lightweight double sculls – Anshika Bharti, Kiran
Pair without Cox – Babu Ram, Lekh Ram
Men’s single sculls – Balraj Panwar
Sailing (Day 1):
Chitresh Tatha, Adhvait Menon, Vishnu Saravanan, Jerome Kumar, K. C. Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar
Ishwariya Ganesh, Neha Thakur, Nethra Kumanan, Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma
Preethi Kongara, Sudhanshu Shekhar, Siddheshwar Doiphode, and Ramya Saravanan
Modern Pentathlon (Fencing):
Mayank Chaphekar
Men’s Volleyball: India vs Korea
September 21
Women’s Cricket: India vs TBC Quarterfinal
Men’s Football: India vs Bangladesh
Women’s Football: India vs Taipei
September 22
Men’s Hockey: India vs Uzbekistan
September 24
Shooting:
Women’s 10m air rifle (Individual & Team) – Ramita, Mehuli Ghosh, Ashi Chouksey
Tennis: Sumit Nagal, Ankita Raina, Karman Thandi (Singles)
Women’s Rugby: India vs Hong Kong
India vs Japan Boxing (Round 1): Nikhat Zareen, Jaismine Lamboria, Shiva Thapa, Lakshya Chahar, Parveen Hooda, Sanjeet
Women’s Football: India vs Thailand
Men’s Football: India vs Myanmar
September 25
Shooting:
Men’s 10m air rifle (Individual & Team) – Divyansh Singh Panwar, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil
Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol (Individual & Team) – Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh
Gymnastics (Qualifying): Pranati Nayak
Swimming (Round 1 to Finals): Likhith SP, Dhinidhi Desinghu, Hashika Ramachandran
Virdhawal Khade
Table Tennis:
Manika Batra/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Mixed doubles Round 1
Men’s and Women’s Team semifinals
Judo: Garima Choudhary
Rugby: India vs Singapore
Boxing (Round 1): Arundhati Chaudhary, Deepak Bhoria
Handball: India vs Japan
Women’s Basketball: India vs Uzbekistan
Men’s Basketball: India vs Uzbekistan
September 26
Fencing (Round 1 to Finals): Bhavani Devi
Men’s Hockey: India vs Singapore
Shooting: Air rifle mixed team – Divyansh Singh Panwar/Ramita; Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar/Mehuli Ghosh
Swimming (Round 1 to Finals): Tanish Mathew, Aneesh Gowda, Advait Page, Palak Joshi, Anand AS
Judo (Round 1 to Finals): Avtar Singh, Indubala Devi, Tulika Maan
Boxing (Round 1): Lovlina Borgohain, Nishant Dev, Sachin, Sanjeet
September 27
Fencing (Preliminary to Finals):
Men’s Foil Team – Dev, Arjun, Akash Kumar, Bibish Kathiresan
Women’s Epee Team – Taniksha Khatri, Ena Arora, Yashkeerat Kaur, Jyotika Dutta
Shooting:
Women’s 50m rifle 3-position (Individual & Team) – Sift Kaur Samra, Ashi Chouksey, Manini Kaushik
Women’s 25m pistol (Individual & Team) – Rhythm Sangwan, Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh
Men’s and Women’s Skeet (Individual & Team) – Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Gurjoat Singh Khangura and Ganemat Sekhon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Darshana Rathore
Cycling (Men’s Sprint, Preliminary Round): Ronaldo Singh, Rojit Singh, David Beckham, Esow Alban
Squash (Round 1): Women’s Team – Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal Karthik, Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna
Men’s Team – Saurav Ghosal, Abhay Singh, Mahesh Mangaonkar, Harinderpal Singh Sandhu
Swimming (Round 1 to Finals): Maana Patel, Lineysha AK
Table Tennis (Round 1,2): Ayhika Mukherjee/Sutirtha Mukherjee, Diya Chitale/Sreeja Akula, Manav Thakkar/Manush Shah, Sharath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manika Batra/ Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
Women’s Hockey: India vs Singapore
Women’s Basketball: India vs China
Boxing (Round 2): Shiva Thapa, Sanjeet
Gymnastics (Final): Pranati Nayak
Women’s Handball: India vs Hong Kong
Wushu (Semifinals): Onilu Tega, Roshibina Devi, Vikrant Baliyan, Surya Singh, Sunil Singh
Men’s Basketball: India vs Macau
September 28
Golf (Round 1): Anirban Lahiri, Shubhankar Sharma, Shiv Chawrasia, Khalin Joshi, Aditi Ashok, Avani Prashanth, Pranavi Urs
Shooting:
Men’s 10m air pistol (Individual & Team) – Sarabjot Singh, Shiva Narwal, Arjun Singh Cheema
Skeet mixed team – Anantjeet Singh Naruka/Ganemat Sekhon and Gurjoat Singh Khangura/Parinaaz Dhaliwal ‘
Swimming (Round 1 to finals): Aneesh Gowda, Aryan Nehra, Vritti Agarwal
Cycling: Men’s Sprint QFs to finals, Women’s Sprint – Celestina, Triyasha Paul, Mayuri Lute, Sashikala Agase
Boxing (Round 2): Deepak Bhoria, Jaismine Lamboria
Men’s Basketball: India vs China
Men’s Hockey: India vs Japan
September 29
Athletics: Medal Events – Sandeep Kumar, Vikash Singh, Priyanka Goswami
Tanya Kumari, Rachna Kumari, Kiran Baliyan, Manpreet Kaur
Heats – Aishwarya Mishra, Himanshi Malik, Md Anas, Md Ajmal
Shooting:
Women’s 10m air pistol (Individual & Team) – Divya TS, Esha Singh, Palak
Men’s 50m rifle 3-position (Individual & Team) – Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Swapnil Kusale, Akhil Sheoran
Swimming (Round 1 to finals): Sajan Prakash, Kushagra Rawat, Nina Venkatesh
Boxing (Round 2, QFs): Parveen Hooda, Nikhat Zareen, Lakshya Chahar, Sanjeet
Men’s Basketball: India vs Malaysia
Women’s Handball: India vs China
Women’s Hockey: India vs Malaysia
September 30
Shooting: Air pistol mixed team – Sarabjot Singh/Divya TS; Shiva Narwal/Esha Singh
Roller Sports: Aarthy Kasturi Raj
Boxing (Quarterfinals): Lovlina Borgohain, Nishant Dev, Sachin
Women’s Handball: India vs Nepal
Weightlifting: Mirabai Chanu, Bindyarani Devi
Athletics:
Medal Events- Kartik Kumar, Gulveer Singh
Heats – Murali Sreeshankar, Jeswin Aldrin, Jyothi Yarraji, Nithya Ramraj, Ajay Saroj, Jinson Johnson
Diving: Siddharth Pardeshi, London Singh
Men’s Hockey: India vs Pakistan
October 1
Archery: Individual Ranking Rounds – Dhiraj Bommadevara, Atanu Das, Tushar Shelke, Mrinal Chauhan, Abhishek Verma, Ojas Deotale, Rajat Chauhan, Prathamesh Jawkar, Prachi Singh, Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur, Simranjeet Kaur, Avneet Kaur, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, Parneet Kaur
Men’s Trap: Prithviraj Toindaman, Kynan Chenai, Zoravar Singh Sandhu
Boxing (QFs and SFs): Parveen Hooda, Jaismine Lamboria, Arundhati Chaudhary, Shiva Thapa, Lakshya Chahar, Sanjeet
Women’s Hockey: India vs Korea
Athletics: Medal Events – Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Sahib Singh, Sreeshankar, Jeswin Aldrin, Avinash Sable, Seema Punia, Harmilan Bains, Kumari Diksha, Ajay Saroj, Jinson Johnson, Jyothi Yarraji
Heats – Shaili Singh, Ancy Sojan, Amlan Borgohain
Diving: Siddharth Pardeshi, London Singh
October 2
Badminton (Round 1): HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth, PV Sindhu, Ashmita Chaliha, Satwik/Chirag, Dhruv/Arjun, Gayatri/Treesa, Tanisha/Ashwini, Sai Prateek/Tanisha, Rohan/Sikki
Men’s Hockey: India vs Bangladesh
Athletics: Medal Events – Pavithra V, Shaili Singh, Ancy Sojan, Parul Chaudhary, Preeti Lamba, Jyothi Yarraji, Amlan Borgohain, Mixed 4x400m Relay
Heats – Sarvesh Kushare, Jesse Sandesh, Krishan Kumar, Md Afsal, Santhosh Kumar, Yashas P, Sinchal Ravi, Vithya Ramraj
Diving: Siddharth Pardeshi, London Singh
October 3
Women’s Hockey: India vs Hong Kong
Sport Climbing: Speed Individual – Aman Verma, Dhiraj Dinka, Anisha Verma, Shivpreet Pannu
Boxing (SFs, Final): Nikhat Zareen, Lovlina Borgohain, Jaismine Lamboria, Deepak Bhoria, Nishant Dev, Sachin, Shiva Thapa, Narender, Sanjeet
Athletics: Harmilan Bains, Kumari Chanda, Rubina Yadav, Pooja, Praveen Chitravel, Abdullah Aboobacker, Sinchal Ravi, Vithya Ramraj, Santhosh Kumar, Yashas P, Ankita, Parul Chaudhary, Annu Rani, Krishan Kumar, Md Afsal
October 4
Wrestling (Greco-Roman): Gyanendra, Neeraj, Vikash, Sunil Kumar
Boxing (Finals): Lovlina Borgohain, Jaismine Lamboria, Parveen Hooda, Lovlina Borgohain, Deepak Bhoria, Nishanth Dev, Shiva Thapa, Sachin, Lakshya Chahar
Athletics: Sarvesh Kushare, Jesse Sandesh, Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Kumar Jena, Sheena N, Harmilan Bains, Kumari Chanda, Gulveer Singh, Avinash Sable
October 5
Wrestling: Greco Roman – Narender Cheema, Naveen; Women’s Freestyle – Pooja Gehlot, Antim Panghal, Manshi
Boxing (Finals): Parveen Hooda, Arundhati Chaudhary, Deepak Bhoria, Nishant Dev, Sachin, Lakshya Chahar, Narender
October 6
Wrestling: Women’s Freestyle – Sonam Malik, Radhika, Kiran; Men’s Freestyle: Aman Sehrawat, Bajrang Punia
October 7
Wrestling: Men’s Freestyle – Yash, Deepak Punia, Vicky, Sumit
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