Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 Day 1: India Open Account with Two Silvers as Hockey, Cricket and MMA Shine

Key facts

• Elavenil Valarivan won silver in the women's 10m air rifle individual event with 252.4 points, while Japan's Hinata Taichi took gold with an Asian Games record 253.0 and South Korea's Ban Hyojin won bronze with 230.4.
• Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Uttam Maskar and Vidarsa Vinod combined for 1898 points to win silver in the women's 10m air rifle team event, finishing behind China.
• Suchika Tariyal defeated Mongolia's Altanchimeg Baigalmaa in the women's Traditional MMA 60kg quarterfinal to reach the semifinals, assuring India a medal in MMA's Asian Games debut.
• Shafali Verma scored her maiden T20I century, an unbeaten 100 off 49 balls, as defending champions India beat Bangladesh by 114 runs to reach the women's cricket final, where they will face Sri Lanka.
• India's women's hockey team thrashed Uzbekistan 19-0, with Deepika scoring a record eight goals, the most by an individual player in Asian Games hockey.
• India's men's hockey team, the defending champions, defeated Indonesia 13-1 in their Pool A opener, with Dilpreet Singh scoring a hat-trick.
• India's women's table tennis team came from 1-2 down to beat Singapore 3-2 in Group F, with Yashaswini Ghorpade winning the decider, while the men's team lost 0-3 to Iran after earlier beating Indonesia 3-0.
• PV Sindhu, Unnati Hooda and Tanvi Sharma won in straight games as India beat Kazakhstan 3-0 in the women's team badminton event.
• Indian swimmer Rishabh Das finished sixth in the men's 100m backstroke final with 54.77 seconds; China's Xu Jiayu won gold with a Games record 51.98 seconds.
• India's Quimcy D'Souza missed medals in teqball, losing both the women's singles and mixed doubles bronze-medal matches as the sport made its Asian Games debut.