Asian Games 2023 Day 1, September 24, Highlights: Ramita Jindal first individual medallist, Rowing bag three medals

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Asian Games 2023 are officially on and the Indian contingent has a busy day on Sunday in Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China. Indian athletes will be involved in various disciplines such as cricket, volleyball, table tennis, football and more on the packed 24th of September 2023.

A few medals are up for grabs in disciplines such as fencing, wushu, rowing and shooting. Indian boxers and swimmers will also kickstart their campaign, hoping to deliver wins for the fans back home.

Here is a look at the Indian contingent’s complete schedule in the Asian Games 2023 for September 24th:

Cricket

6:30 AM IST: India vs Bangladesh (Women’s Semi-final)

Shooting

6:00 AM IST: Ramita, Mehuli Ghosh, Ashi Chouksey (Women's 10m Air Rifle Individual & Team)

Volleyball

12:00 PM IST: India vs. Japan (Men’s Classification 1-6th) 

Football

1:30 PM IST: India vs Thailand (Women's Group B)

5:00 PM IST: Myanmar vs India (Men's Group A)

Rugby Sevens

10:00 AM IST: Hong Kong vs. India (Women’s Pool F)

3:35 PM IST: Japan vs India (Women's Pool F)

Esports

8:00 AM IST: Charan Jot Singh (IND) vs. Jiacheng Liu (EA Sports FC Online Round of 32 Match 5)

8:00 AM IST: Karman Singh (IND) vs. Abdulaziz Faqeehi (EA Sports FC Online Round of 32 Match 14)

Hockey

8:45 AM IST: India vs. Uzbekistan (Men's Preliminary Pool A)

Boxing

11:30 AM IST: Nikhat Zareen (Round 1)

11:30 AM IST: Jaismine Lamboria (Round 1)

11:30 AM IST: Shiva Thapa (Round 1)

11:30 AM IST: Lakshya Chahar (Round 1)

4:30 PM IST: Parveen Hooda (Round 1)

4:30 PM IST: Sanjeet (Round 1)

Chess

12:30 PM IST: Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi (Men's Individual Rounds 1 and 2)

Fencing

6:30 AM IST: Dev, Bibish Kathiresan (Men's Foil Individual)

10:00 AM IST: Ena Arora, Taniksha Khatri (Women's Epee Individual)

Modern Pentathlon

3:00 PM IST: Mayank Vaibhav Chaphekar (Men's Team)

Rowing

6:30 AM IST: Women’s lightweight double sculls Final B - Kiran/Anshika Bharti finished 9th overall with 7:40.84

7:10 AM IST: Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh (Men’s lightweight double sculls Final A)

8:00 AM IST: Parminder Singh, Satnam Singh (Men's Double Sculls Final A)

8:20 AM IST: Aswathi PB, Mrunamayee Nilesh S, Thangjam Priya Devi, Rukmani (Women’s coxless four Final A)

8:40 AM IST: Babu Lal Yadav, Lekh Ram (Men coxless pair Final A)

9:00 AM IST: Charanjeet Singh, DU Pande, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neeraj, Neetesh Kumar, Ashish, Bheem Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Punit Kumar (Men’s coxed eight Final A)

Swimming

7:30 AM IST: Anand AS, Tanish Matthew (Men’s 100m freestyle heats)

7:30 AM IST: Sriharni Nataraj, Utkarsh Santosh Patil (Men’s 100m backstroke heats)

7:30 AM IST: Janhvi Choudhary, Dhinidhi Desinghu, Maana Patel, Shivangi Sarma (Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats)

Tennis

9:30 AM IST: Sumit Nagal (IND) vs Marco Ho Tin Leung (MAC) (Men's Singles Round 1)

9:30 AM IST: India vs. Nepal (Men's Doubles Round 1)

Table Tennis

7:30 AM: India vs. Thailand (Women’s Team Round of 16)

9:30 AM: India vs. Kazakhstan (Men’s Team Round of 16)

Wushu

6:30 AM IST: Anjul Namdeo, Suraj Singh Mayanglambam (Men's changquan final)

5:00 PM IST: Sunil Singh Mayanglambam (IND) vs Arnel Mandal (PHI) (Men’s 56kg 1/8 final)