Hangzhou: Indian athletes won 81 medals upto Wednesday in Asian Games 2023 held at Hangzhou in China. India has won 18 Gold, 31 Silver, and 32 Bronze medals to take their tally to 81 medals

With three more days of competitions to go with medal opportunities in archery, badminton, chess, hockey, cricket, and wrestling. Indian athlete Neeraj Chopra won the Gold medal in men’s javelin throw, season’s best throw of 88.88 while Kishore Kumar Jena bagged Silver with a personal best effort of 87.54.

In athletics, Avinash Sable and Harmilan Bains claimed their second medals of this Asian Games, claiming silver medals each in the men’s 5000m and the women’s 800m respectively. On Wednesday Manju Rani and Baboo Ram winning a bronze in the 35km Race Walk Mixed Team event.

The third gold of the day was claimed by the Compound Mixed Team in archery with the pair of Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Pravin Deotale ending the dominance of the Republic of Korea to win the first gold medal in archery in the 19th Asian Games.