Asian Games 2023: India win 4 meals on Day 11 including gold in compound archery

India’s medal rush continued Wednesday at the Asian Games as they achieved their best-ever medal haul on Day 11 of the Hangzhou 2022. With 69 medals secured by the end of Day 10, it was a bronze medal in the 35km race walk mixed team event Wednesday that helped India equal their previous best of 70 medals from 2018.

Ram Baboo and Manju Rani won the mixed team bronze in the 35km race walk with a combined timing of 5:51:14.

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China won the 35km race walk mixed gold with a Games record timing of 5:16:41 while Japan bagged silver with 5:22:11.

Soon after Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Pravin Deotale clinched gold in the mixed team compound archery event to guide India to a record 71 medals at the 2023 Asian Games. Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Pravin Deotale combined to beat South Korea 159-158 in a closely contested gold medal match.

The bronze was won by the Chinese Taipei team which defeated Kazakhstan in the match for third place.

Bronze in squash and boxing

Abhay Singh and Anahat Singh won a bronze in the squash mixed doubles team event after their campaign ended with a semi-final defeat to Malaysia’s Aifa Binti Azman and Mohammad Syafiq Kamal. The Indian pair lost 11-8, 2-11, 9-11.

In the women’s 57kg category, boxer Parveen bagged a bronze after her 0-5 defeat to Chinese Taipei’s Ting Yu Lin.

India have so far won a total of 73 medals including 16 gold, 26 silver and 31 bronze.