The 19th Asian Games 2023 have started in Hangzhou, China.
They start with a big opening ceremony on September 23. Some sports started earlier on September 19 and will continue for 19 days. Then, it will wrap up with a closing ceremony on October 8.
The sports event was supposed to happen last year but got postponed due to COVID-19.
India will have 655 athletes participating in all 40 sports at the event, which is 85 more than the previous time in Jakarta.
In 2018, India won 70 medals – 16 gold, 23 silver, and 31 bronze, their best at this event. This time, they want to get even more awards.
Here is the schedule of the Asian Games 2023 event:
September 19, Tuesday
Men’s Volleyball: India vs Cambodia (4:30 pm)
Men’s Football: India vs China (5 pm)
September 20, Wednesday
- Rowing
(Round 1): Men’s double sculls – Parminder Singh, Satnam Singh (6:30 pm), Men’s Lightweight double sculls – Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh (6.30 am), Women’s Lightweight double sculls – Anshika Bharti, Kiran (6:30 am), Pair without cox – Babu Ram, Lekh Ram (6:30), Men’s eight with coxswain (6:30 am), Women’s four without cox (6:30 am). Men’s single sculls – Balraj Panwar(12:30 pm), Men’s quadruples sculls (12:30), Women’s eight with coxswain (12:30 pm), Men’s four without cox (12:30 pm)
- Sailing
Chitresh Tatha, Adhvait Menon, Vishnu Saravanan, Jerome Kumar, K.C. Ganapathy, Varun Thakkar, Ishwariya Ganesh, Neha Thakur, Nethra Kumanan, Harshita Tomar, Shital Verma, Preethi Kongara, Sudhanshu Shekhar, Siddeshwar Doiphode, and Ramya Saravanan – 9 am
- Modern pentathlon (Fencing): Mayank Chaphekar – 12 pm
- Men’s Volleyball: India vs. Korea – 4:30 pm
September 21, Thursday
- Women’s Cricket: India vs. TBC Quarterfinal – 6:30 am
- Rowing: Repechage round – 6:30 am
- Men’s Football: India vs Bangladesh – 1:30 pm
- Women’s Football: India vs. Chinese Taipei – 5 pm
September 22, Friday
- Rowing: Semifinal – 6.30 am
- Table Tennis (Men’s and Women’s Team): Round 1 – 7:30 am, Round 2 – 1.30 pm
- Volleyball: Quarterfinals/ Playoff Matches
September 23, Saturday
- Table Tennis (Men’s and Women’s Team): Round 3 (7:30 am)
Asian Games 2023 Opening Ceremony
September 24, Sunday
- Shooting: Women’s 10m air rifle (Individual & Team) – Ramita, Mehuli Ghosh, Ashi Chouksey – 6 am
- Women’s cricket semifinals – 6:30/ 11:30
- Rowing: Finals – 6:30 am
- Wushu: Round 1 to finals – 6:30 am to 5 pm
- Table Tennis (Men’s and Women’s Team): Round 4 and Quarterfinals – 7.30 am
- Tennis (Round 1): Sumit Nagal, Ankita Raina, Karman Thandi (Singles), mixed doubles – 7:30 am
- Men’s Hockey: India vs. Uzbekistan – 8.45 am
- Women’s Rugby: India vs. Hong Kong – 9.30 am
- India vs Japan – 2:30 pm
- Boxing (Round 1): Nikhat Zareen (11.30 a.m.), Jaismine Lamboria (11:30 am), Shiva Thapa (11:30 am), Lakshya Chahar (11:30 am), Parveen Hooda (4:30 pm)
- Women’s Football: India vs. Thailand – 1:30 pm
- Men’s Football: India vs Myanmar – 5 pm
September 25, Monday
- Women’s Cricket: Medal matches – 6:30 am
- Rowing: Final – 6:30 am
- 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 Sindhu, Adarsh Singh – 6:30 am
- Wushu: Round 1 to finals – 6:30 to 5 pm
- Gymnastics (Qualifying): Pranati Nayak – 7:30 am
- Swimming (Round 1 to finals): Likhith SP (7:30 am), Dhinidhi Desinghu (7:30 am), Hashika Ramachandran (7:30 am), Virdhawal Khade (7:30 am)
- Table Tennis: Manika Batra/ Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Mixed doubles Round 1, Men’s and Women’s Team semifinals – 7:30 am
- Tennis: Singles and doubles action continue – 6:30 am
- Judo: Garima Choudhary – 7:30 am to 3:30 pm
- Rugby: India vs. Singapore – 8:30 am
- Boxing (Round 1): Arundhati Chaudhary (11:30 am), Deepak Bhoria (11: 30 am)
- Handball: India vs Japan – 11:30 am
- Women’s basketball: India vs. Uzbekistan – 11:30 am
- Men’s basketball: India vs. Uzbekistan – 5:30 pm
September 26, Tuesday
- Fencing (Round 1 to Finals): Bhavani Devi – 6:30 am
- Men’s Hockey: India vs. Singapore – 6:30 am
- Shooting: Air rifle mixed team – Divyansh Singh Panwar/ Ramita, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar/ Mehuli Ghosh – 6:30 am
- Swimming (Round 1 to final): Tanish Mathew, Aneesh Gowda,
- Advait, Palak Joshi, Anand AS – 7:30 am
- Tennis: Singles and doubles – 6:30 am
- Judo (Round 1 to finals): Avtar Singh, Indubala Devi, Tulika Maan – 7:30 am to 3:30 pm
- Cycling (Round 1 to finals): Men’s and Women’s team sprint – 7:30 am to 12: 30 pm
- Squash (Round 1): Men’s and Women’s teams
- Boxing (Round 1): Lovlina Borgohain, Nishant Dev, Sachin, Sanjeet (11:30 am/ 4:30 pm)
September 27, Wednesday
- Equestrian: Dressage, semifinals – 5:30 am
- Fencing (Preliminary to final): Men’s foil team – Dev, Arjun, Akash Kumar, Bibish Kathiresan 6:30 am, Women’s Epee team – Taniksha Khatri, Ena Arora, Yashkeerat Kaur, Jyotika Dutta – 9:30 am
- Shooting: Women’s 50m rifle 3-position (Individual & team) – Sift Kaur Samra, Ashi Chouksey, Manini Kaushik, Women’s 25m pistol (Individual & team) – Rhythm Sanwan, Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh; Men’s and Women’s skeet (Individual and team) – Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Gurjoat Singh Khangura and Ganemat Sekhon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Darshana Rathore – 6:30 am
- Cycling (Men’s Sprint, Preliminary Round): Ronaldo Singh, Rojit Singh, David Beckham, Esow Alban – 7:30 am
- Squash (Round 1): Women’s team – Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal Karthik, Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna (7:30 am); Men’s team – Saurav Ghosal, Abhay Singh, Mahesh Mangaonkar, Harinderpal Singh Sandhu – 10 am
- Swimming (Round 1 to final): Maana Patel, Lineysha AK – 7:30
- Table Tennis (Rounds 1 and 2): Ayhika Mukherjee/ Sutirtha Mukherjee, Diya Chitale/ Sreeja Akula, Manav Thakkar/ Manush Shah, Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran – 7:30 am
- Tennis: Singles and doubles – 7:30
- Sailing: Finals – 9 am
- Women’s Hockey: India vs. Singapore – 10 am
- Women’s Basketball; India vs. China – 11:30 am
- Boxing (Round 2): Shiva Thapa, Sanjeet – 11:30 am/ 4:30 pm
- Gymnastics (Final): Pranati Nayak – 12:30 pm
- Women’s Handball: India vs. Hong Kong – 4:30 pm
- Wushu (Semifinals): Onilu Tega, Roshibina Devi, Vikrant Baliyan, Surya Singh, Sunil Singh – 5 pm
- Men’s Basketball: India vs. Macau – 5:30 pm
- Esports: EA Sports FC Online Final – 6 pm
September 28, Thursday
- Golf (round 1): Anirban Lahiri, Shubhankar Sharma, Shiv Chawrasia, Khatlin Joshi, Aditi Ashok, Avani Prashanth, Pranavi Urs – 3:30 am
- Shooting: Men’s 10m air pistol (individual and team) – Sarabjot Singh, Shiva Narwal, Arjun Singh Cheema; Skeet mixed team – Anantjeet Singh Naruka/ Ganemat Sekhon and Gurjoat Singh Khangura/ Parinaaz Dhaliwal – 6:30 am
- Esports: League of Legends semifinals – 6:30 am/ 11:30 am
- Wushu: Individual Gold medal matches – 6:30 am
- Swimming (round 1 to finals): Aneesh Gowda, Aryan Nehra, Vritti Agarwal – 7:30 am
- Cycling: Men’s Sprint QFs to finals, Womens Sprint – Celestina, Triyasha Paul, Mayuri Lute, Sashikala Agase – 7:30 am
- Table Tennis (rounds 2, 3, QFs): singles and doubles – 7:30 am
- Tennis (quarter-finals, semifinals): singles and doubles – 7:30 am
- Squash (Quarterfinals): Men’s and Women’s Team – 10 am, 2:30 pm
- Badminton (round 1): Men’s team, Women’s team – 10:30 am
- Boxing (round 2): Deepak Bhoria, Jaismine Lamboria – 11:30 am/ 4:30 pm
- Men’s basketball: India vs. China – 3:30 pm
- Men’s Hockey: India vs. Japan – 6 pm
September 29, Friday
- Golf: Round 2 – 3:30 am
- Athletics: Medal events – Sandeep Kumar, Vikash Singh, Priyanka Goswami – 5:30 am, Tanya Kumari, Rachna Kumari, Kiran Baliyan, Manpreet Kaur – 4:30 pm; 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 – 6:30 am
- Swimming (round 1 to finals): Sajan Prakash, Kushagra Rawat, Nina Venkatesh – 6:30 am
- Table Tennis (round 3, mixed doubles SF): Singles and doubles – 7:30 am
- Tennis: Men’s doubles, Women’s singles finals; Men’s Singles, Women’s doubles, mixed doubles semifinals – 7:30 am
- Squash (semifinals): Women’s team – 8:30, women’s individual – 12:30 p.m., Men’s team – 1:30 pm
- Badminton (round 2): Men’s and women’s teams – 10:30 am, 3:30 pm
- Boxing (Round 2, QFs): Parveen Hooda, Nikhat Zareen, Lakshya Chahar, Sanjeet – 11:30 am/ 4:30 pm
- Cycling (QFs to finals): Women’s Sprint – 11:30 am
- Esports: League of Legends final – 11:30 am
- Men’s Basketball: India vs. Malaysia – 12 pm
- Women’s Handball: India vs. China – 3:30 pm
- Women’s Hockey: India vs Malaysia – 4 pm
September 30, Saturday
- Golf: Round 3 – 3:30 am
- Equestrian: Eventing Team and Individual – 5:30 am
- Shooting: Air pistol mixed team – Sarabjot Singh/ Divya TS; Shiva Narwal/ Esha Singh – 6:30 am
- Roller sports: Aarthy Kasturi Raj – 6:30 am
- Canoeing & Kayaking: Round 1 to semifinals – 7 am
- Kurash: Round 1 to semifinals – 7 am
- Table tennis (quarterfinals): singles and doubles – 9:30 am
- Badminton: Men’s and Women’s team semifinals – 10:30 am, 4:30 pm
- Boxing (quarterfinals): Lovlina Borgohain, Nishant Dev, Sachin – 11:30 am/ 4:30 pm
- Women’s handball: India vs. Nepal – 11:30 am
- Squash: Men’s and Women’s team finals – 11:30 am, 1 pm
- Weightlifting: Mirabai Chanu, Bindyarani Devi – 1:30 pm, 4:30 pm
- Athletics: Medal events – Men’s 400m, Women’s 400m, Kartik Kumar, Gulveer Singh; Heats – Murali Sreeshankar, Jeswin Aldrin, Jyothi Yarraji, Nithya Ramraj, Ajay Saroj, Jinson Johnson – 3:30 pm
- Diving: Siddharth Pardeshi, London Singh – 5 pm
- Men’s Hockey: India vs Pakistan – 6 pm
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