Asian Games 2023 Day 8 LIVE Updates: India target historic golds in badminton, golf

08:17 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Canoe Sprint

In Women's Kayak Single 500m Heats, Soniya Devi Phairembam is fourth with a time of 2:17.351 and is into the semi-finals, which will take place later in the day

08:13 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Canoe Sprint

Megha Pradeep with a fifth place finish in the Women's Canoe Single 200m Heats. Her time of 56.705 doesn't see her qualify for the final. She will now head to the semi-finals to determine if she stands a chance

08:10 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Athletics

Amlan Borgohain finishes third in his heats in Men's 200m and that is an automatic qualificaiton into the semi-finals in the evening session. Borgohain with a time of 21.08 seconds

08:07 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Athletics

Amlan Borgohain to take the track in Men's 200m Heats

07:59 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Athletics

Swapna Barman posts a distance of 43.78m in her first throw in the javelin throw discipline. Nandini Agasara with a fouled start

07:42 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Athletics

WOW! Jyothi Yarraji has missed out on qualifying for the Women's 200m finals by a whisker. Her timing of 23.78 seconds is poorer than Guifen Huang (23.54 seconds) and Thi Nhi Yen Tran (23.74 seconds) who finished third and fourth in Heat 3. As luck would have it, Kristina Marie Knott, with time of 24.02 seconds, has progressed by virtue of finishing second in Heat 2 and grabbing the automatic slot

07:35 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Athletics

Swapna Barman improves her long jump best to 5.71m in the third attempt but is clearly not pleased with it. She collects 762 points from long jump. Nandini Agasara, with best of 5.94m, adds 831 points.

Swapna Barman is sixth in the overall standings with 4074 points while Nandini Agasara is third with 4159 points

Javelin throw and 800m to follow now

07:30 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Athletics

Ahead of her Women's 100m Hurdles final appearance in the evening, Jyothi Yarraji takes the track in the morning in the Women's 200m Heats. She finishes third with a time of 23.78 seconds. Yuting Li and Olga Safronova taking the top two spots and automatic qualification. The next two fastest runners across heats also make it to the final - but for that, she has to play the waiting game

07:22 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Athletics

In the women's heptathlon, focus on long jump now. Nandini Asagara with a best of 5.94m - her season best. Swapna Barman with a best of 5.63m but has one attempt remaining

07:19 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Athletics

Women's Heptathlon also underway which features Swapna Barman and Nandini Agasara. Barman had disappointed in the high jump and mentally looks to have checked out since. She was distraught, cried when she touched the bar during her jump and struggled in the shot put and 200m that followed. Agasara has upped herself in this seven discipline event

07:16 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Archery

The qualification rounds in archery are underway. These will determine the seedings for the competition that starts next week. Tushar Shelke, Atanu Das, Mrinal Chauhan, Dhiraj Bommadevara are in action in recurve men's individual qualification, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Parneet Kaur, Avneet Kaur, Aditi Gopichand Swami in the Compound Women's Individual Qualification round

06:58 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Golf

Aditi Ashok's seven stroke lead going into the fourth and final round has been cut to four shots with Xiyu Lin and Arpichaya Yubol remaining hot on her heels. She had just one bogey (taking one more shot to hit a par hole) across three rounds. Today, in eight holes she's had two already.

The drop doesn't bode well for India's gold medal-winning chances in the team event. From occupying top spot, India have dropped to third behind Thailand and China respectively

06:30 (IST)

Asian Games LIVE: Medal events

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