In K4 500m Men's event, it's Kazakhstan, Republic of Korea and Islamic Republic of Iran who take the top three slots and get a gold, silver, bronze respectively.
Indian pugilists Amit Panghal and Vikas Krishan won their quarterfinal bouts against Jang Ryong Kim and Tuoheta Erbieke Tanglatihan, respectively, to assure at least a Bronze each for India. The two will be in action in the semifinals tomorrow!
Meanwhile, another medal was assured as The Indian Women's squash team of Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal, Sunanya Kuruvilla, and Tanvi Khanna defeated China and secured a place in the Semifinals of the event.
Manika Batra and Achanta Sharath also created history as they won the second ever (and first in Mixed Doubles) Bronze medal in Table Tennis at Asiad.
However, the highlight of the day was athletics again! India bagged a silver and two golds. The silver was won by Dutee Chand in Women's 200m. A historic gold for Swapna Barman who fought off a toothache to clinch the first ever Women's Heptathon medal for India. Arpinder Singh won himself a gold too in Men's triple jump, an event in which the gold came after 48 years!!
Time is ticking really fast and we are on Day 12 of the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games already.
Starting off the morning will be the Indian kayaking team who are into the finals. We'll be having the K4 500m Men Finals, the K4 500m Women's Finals today! Along with that we have Naocha Singh and Ching Singh Arambam in the K2 1000m Men Finals and Gaurav Tomar and Sunil Singh will try their best in the Canoe Double C2 1000m Finals today!
All eyes are cast to the water as the Indian canoe and kayak teams set forth to bring glory to India in their finals.