Asian Games September 25: India’s Day 6 schedule features shooters, Gulveer Singh and seven medal events
India's contingent faces a packed Day 6 programme at the Asian Games on Friday, September 25, with shooters and Gulveer Singh among the athletes scheduled in medal events. Action stretches from early-morning surfing to evening athletics finals, with seven confirmed medal events for Indian competitors.
Shooting is scheduled early and offers multiple medal opportunities: Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh contest the 10m air pistol mixed team qualification at 6:15 AM with the mixed-team final listed at 8:30 AM (both subject to qualification). Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil and Niraj Kumar begin the men's 50m rifle 3 positions individual qualification at 7:15 AM and are entered for the men's 50m rifle 3P team final (medal event, subject to qualification); individual finals for the three shooters are scheduled at 10:30 AM (subject to qualification).
Canoe sprint provides medal finals in the morning: Prasanna Kumar CS and Prohit Baroi race in the men's kayak double 500m semifinal at 6:30 AM with a men's K2 500m final at 8:00 AM (subject to qualification), while Khwairakpam Dhanamajuri Devi, Phairembam Soniya Devi, Pooja and Parvathy Geetha contest the women's kayak four 500m Final A at 8:10 AM (medal event). Megha Pradeep and L Neha Devi have a women's canoe double 500m semifinal at 6:50 AM and the corresponding final at 8:30 AM (medal event, subject to qualification).
Swimming and weightlifting also feature Indian entries across heats and finals: Danush Suresh swims in the men's 50m breaststroke heat at 6:40 AM with the final at 1:35 PM (subject to qualification); Rishabh Das and Utkarsh Santosh Patil are listed in 200m backstroke heats at 6:58 AM and 7:06 AM respectively with finals at 1:55 PM (subject to qualification). Nirupama Devi is scheduled in the weightlifting women's 61kg Final, Group A at 1:30 PM (medal event).
Team and racket events occupy much of the mid-morning and afternoon: India’s women face Nepal in the kabaddi semifinal at 9:30 AM and the men meet Thailand in their semifinal at 10:45 AM. Fencing opens with the men's foil team Table of 16 at 6:00 AM (Sachin Sanasam Hemash Singh, Aditya and Tejas Manoj Patil) and the women's epee team Table of 16 at 7:00 AM (Taniksha Khatri, Anupriya, Mitva Chaudhari and Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer), with quarterfinals, semifinals and finals listed later in the day (all subject to qualification). Table tennis mixed doubles quarterfinals begin at 6:30 AM, with semifinals scheduled for the afternoon at 3:00 PM and 3:45 PM.
Athletics provides a cluster of medal events in the afternoon and evening: Anamika KA and Pooja contest heptathlon long jump and javelin earlier in the day with their heptathlon 800m at 4:41 PM; Sindhushree Ganesha is entered in the women's pole vault final at 4:33 PM; Manpreet Kaur and Krishna Jayasankar Menon are due in the women's shot put final at 3:35 PM. The men's hammer throw final featuring Damneet Singh and Praveen Kumar is at 5:10 PM, Gulveer Singh runs in the men's 10,000m final at 5:02 PM, and semifinal slots for the men's 100m (Gurindervir Singh at 4:11 PM, Animesh Kujur at 4:19 PM) lead into a men's 100m final at 6:50 PM (subject to qualification).
Early-morning surfing, equestrian and combat sports open the day: Sugar Shanti and Kamali Moorthy are listed in women's shortboard Round 1 heats at 4:16 AM and 5:02 AM respectively, Kishore Kumar and Sivaraj Babu have men's shortboard Round 1 heats at 7:20 AM and 9:15 AM, and equestrian individual dressage first qualifiers (Shruti Vora, Gaurav Pundir, Hriday Chheda and Jai Sud) and the dressage mixed team final are scheduled at 6:00 AM. Boxing matches include Sachin vs Abu Jajeh Mohammad of Jordan at 10:15 AM and Preeti vs Pang Choi Mi of DPR Korea at 2:15 PM, while multiple badminton ties occupy early- and mid-day slots, with Unnati Hooda's women's singles Round of 64 listed as TBD.
Several medal decisions for India are set across the day, including the men's 50m rifle 3P team and individual finals in the morning and Nirupama Devi's weightlifting women's 61kg Final at 1:30 PM; Gulveer Singh's men's 10,000m final at 5:02 PM is among the evening's confirmed fixtures for Indian athletes on September 25.
