India has made a significant impact at the 2023 Asian Games, demonstrating excellence in specific sports disciplines that have resulted in a total of 27 medals for the nation. As of Friday morning, India has secured five gold medals in shooting, one each in cricket and equestrian events.
Here is a list of Indian gold medalists at the Asian Games 2023:
- Shooting: India’s trio of Divyansh Singh Panwar, Rudrankksh Patil, and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar clinched gold with a record-breaking total of 1893.7 points.
- Shooting: Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Singh Cheema, and Shiva Narwal continued India’s shooting success with gold in the Men’s 10m Air Pistol Team event.
- Shooting: Sift Kaur Samra set a world record to win gold.
- Shooting: Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh, and Rhythm Sangwan clinched gold in the Women’s 25m Pistol Team event.
- Shooting: Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Swapnil Kusale, and Akhil Sheoran secured India’s fifth shooting gold at the Asian Games 2023 with a World Record score of 1769.
- Shooting: Palak Gulia won gold in the women’s 10m air pistol event.
- Cricket: India secured its inaugural Asian Games gold in cricket by defeating Sri Lanka in the final.
- Equestrian: After a 41-year wait, Anush Agarwalla, Hriday Vipul Chheda, Sudipti Hajela, and Divyakriti Singh earned India gold in equestrian.
Other notable medal achievements for India at the Asian Games 2023 include:
- Esha Singh winning silver in women’s 10m air pistol.
- Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan securing a silver medal in the men’s doubles final.
- India winning silver in the women’s 10m air pistol team event.
- Anush Agarwalla earning bronze in the equestrian individual dressage event.
- Roshibina Devi Naorem claiming a silver medal in the Women’s 60 Kg Wushu.
- Esha Singh bagging a silver medal in the Women’s 25 Metre Air Pistol individual event.
- Neha Thakur winning silver in the Girl’s Dinghy sailing event.
- The women’s 10m air rifle team securing a silver medal.
- Several individual athletes contributing to three bronze medals.
- India’s rowing team demonstrating consistency and teamwork, securing two silver medals in the men’s lightweight double sculls and men’s eight categories, along with bronze medals in the men’s pair, men’s four, and men’s quadruple sculls events.
