Indian shot-putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor smashed Games records to clinch the gold medal in Jakarta Palembang 2018 Asian Games. He won a gold medal on the first day of athletics action at the 18th edition of Asian Games. Tajinderpal has shown other athletes to believe in themselves about winning gold and this would come very handy on the Day 8 of Asian Games 2018 when a lot of track and field matches are lined up. We have the likes of Hima Das, Dutee Chand, Nirmala, Muhammed Anas and Arokia Rajiv all geared up to increase India’s medal tally as well as position in the current table and team standings. Apart from athletics, we also have India’s biggest badminton players Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu playing in quarter-finals. They’re itching to get first medal for India in badminton. Check full fixtures list of Indian athletes in action on 26th August 2018, the blockbuster Sunday. Asian Games Medal Tally 2018 Updated: Tajinderpal Singh Wins Gold, India's Medal Tally Rises to 29 in Current Table and Country-Wise Medal Standings.

India added four medals on seventh day of the ongoing Asian Games – gold medal by Tajinderpal Singh Toor in men’s shot put and three bronze medal in squash after all three players Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal failed to get past their opponents in women’s and men’s singles semi-finals event. Nevertheless, the trio clinched three important medals for the country. Apart from this, India's mixed team and mens bridge teams qualified for the semi-finals, assuring the country at least two bronze medals.

2018 Asian Games Day 8 India Schedule in IST

Archery

Women’s Team Compound (Quarterfinals) – India vs TBD – 12:10 PM

Men’s Team Compound (1/8 Eliminations): India vs Qatar – 9:20 AM

Athletics

Men’s 400m Hurdles (Qualification): Dharun Ayyasamy, Santosh Kumar – 9:30 AM

Women’s 400m Hurdles (Qualification): Jauna Murmu, Anu Raghavan – 9:00 AM

Women's 100m Semifinal: Dutee Chand - 5:00 PM

Men's Long Jump Final: Sreeshankar - 5:10 PM

Women's 400m Final: Hima Das, Nirmala - 5.30 PM

Men's 400m Final: Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Rajiv Arokia - 5:40 PM

Men's 10,000m Final: Lakshmanan Govindan - 5.50 PM

Badminton

Women’s Singles: Quarterfinals

Saina Nehwal vs Ratchanok Intanon (Thailand) – 11:30 AM

PV Sindhu vs Nitchaon Jindapol (Thailand) – 11:30 AM

Bowling

Men’s Masters (1st Block) – Shoumick Datta, Parvez Ahmad Saud – 7:30 AM

Boxing

Men’s Lightweight 60 kg (Round of 16) – Shiva Thapa vs Jun Shan (China) – 5:45 PM

Men’s Welterweight 69 kg (Round of 16) – Manoj Kumar vs Abdurakhman Abdurakhmanov (Kyrgyzstan) – 2:15 PM

Women’s Flyweight 51 kg (Round of 16) – Sarjubala Devi vs Madina Ghajorova (Tajikistan) – 3:00 PM

Bridge

Men’s Semifinal – India, Singapore, China, Hong Kong (China) – 8:00 AM

Mixed Semifinal – India, Indonesia, China, Thailand – 8:00 AM

Equestrian

Eventing Individual – Jumping final – Ashish Malik, Rakesh Kumar, Jitender Singh, Fouaad Mirza – 11:30 AM

Eventing team – Jumping final – Same lineup as above – 11:30 AM

Golf

Women’s Individual – Round 4 – 4:30 AM

Women’s team – Round 4 – 4:30 AM

Men’s Individual – Round 4 – 4:30 AM

Men’s team – Round 4 – 5:03 AM

Handball

Men’s Group: India vs Chinese Taipei – 9:30 AM

Hockey

Men’s Group: India vs Korea – 4:30 PM

Sailing

Men’s 49er – Varun Ashok Thakkar, Ganapathy Kelapanda Chengappa – 10:30 AM

Women’s 49er FX – Varsha Gautham, Sweta Shervegar – 10:35 AM

Laser Radial – Nethra Kumanan – 10:35 AM

Open Laser 4.7 – Govind Bairagi, Harshita Tomer – 10:40 AM

Mixed RS One – India (4th) – 10:40 AM

Sepak Takraw

Men’s Regu – India vs Malaysia – 8:30 AM

Shooting

Women’s Skeet (Qualification Day 2) – Rashmi Rathore (Squad 2), Ganemot Sekhon (Squad 4) – 6:30 AM

Men’s Skeet (Qualification Day 2) – Angad Vir Singh Bajwa (Squad 1), Sheeraz Sheikh (Squad 8) – 7:30 AM

Table Tennis

Women’s team (Preliminary Rounds) – India vs Qatar – 8:30 AM

Women’s team (Preliminary Rounds) - India vs China

Men’s team (Preliminary Rounds) – India vs UAE – 2:30 PM

Men’s team (Preliminary Rounds) - India vs Chinese Taipei - 6.30 PM

Volleyball - Men’s: TBD

Big disappointment came in form of Anish Bhanwala, the 15-year-old who despite being in good form failed to make to the finals of men's 25m rapid fire air pistol event. The shooter added to the list of players who failed to impress after Commonwealth Games high. But Day 8 is a new day with a lot of action in store. Shooters from Indian contingent still have chances for redemption with Rashmee Rathore and Ganemat Sekhon taking part in Skeet Women and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa and Sheeraz Sheikh in Skeet Men. Archery team will also hope to make their trip to Indonesia count as they participated in Compound Men’s and Women’s event

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