Asian Games Athletics: India win silver in mixed relay

India's position has been upgraded to silver in the 4x400 mixed relay after Sri Lanka were disqualified.

India's Ancy Sojan wins women's long jump silver medal at Asian Games.

Ancy recorded her Personal Best jump of 6.63m in her fifth attempt to win a silver.

Shaili Singh finishes at 5th spot (6.48m).

Minutes later, the Indian team won bronze in the 4x400 mixed relay.

The quartet of Ajmal, Vithya, Rajesh and Subha clocked a timing of 3:14.34, a new National Record for the podium finish. 

In Women's Pole Vault, Indian Pavithra Vengatesh is outof the medal race as she is unable to clear 4.10m mark in 3 attempts. 

Earlier, India's Parul Chaudhary won a silver medal while Priti pocketed bronze in the in 3000m SC. 

Chaudhary clocked  9:27.63 while Priti completed the race in 9:43.32.

Reigning World Champion Winfred Mutile Yavi of Bahrain won the gold with a Games record timing of 9:18.28 sec.

Kabaddi: In a big shock, the India women's kabaddi team were held to a 34-34 tie by Chinese Taipei in their opening match at the Asian Games.

The Indian Men's hockey team hammered Bangladesh 12-0 in their Pool A match at the Asian Games on Monday.

Captain Harmanpreet and Mandeep Singh scored hat-tricks.

The Indian hockey team wasted little time to add to their goal tally as Mandeep scores one in the 46th minute, followed by a pile driver by Neelkanta Sharma a minute later to take India lead to 10-0.

Bangladesh defence looks clueless as India keep the opponents on their toes.

India added two more goals late in the 4th quarter to win the match 12-0.

India continue in the same vein in the 2nd half as India win an early penalty in the 3rd quarter and Harmanpreet flicks it into the top of the net for his hat-trick. India now up 7-0.

A few minutes later, Lalit missed an opportunity close to goal.

A Bangladesh player gets green carded.

India get another penalty corner three minutes later, as they advantage of the one man deficit in the Bangladesh ranks. 

A superb save on the goal-line denies India another goal.

Bangladesh penetrate into the Indian D for the first time in this half but nothing comes of it. 

On the counter, Abhishek smashes the ball with a reverse stick from the left to increase India's lead to 8-0. 

Earlier, in badminton: Kidambi Srikanth moved into the Round of 32 with a 21-10, 21-9 opening round win. 

It's time for some action from the hockey field now as India take on Bangladesh.

And India race to a 3-0 lead in the 2nd quarter. 

In the first quarter, captain Harmanpreet Singh put India in the lead, scoring off Penalty corners within the first 5 minutes of the match.

In the 2nd quarter, India continued to apply the pressure and scoring three -- Lalit scoring from a tight angle and Mandeep Singh sounding the board twice.

India keep the Bangladesh defence on their toes as the timer counts down the minutes to half time.

Bangladesh give away another penalty corner and India convert it nicely as Amit Rohidas drives in a powerful drag flick into the net. India go up 6-0.

A foul by Mandeep, deemed dangerous by the umpire, disallowing the goal.

India looking superb on the counter and win another penalty corner. 

Samsher will take it and Varun's push was not good and Samsher puts it wide. India have overpowered Bangladesh in this 1st half.

India's Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee went down fighting against North Korea's Cha Suyong and Pak Sugyong in the Table Tennis women's doubles semi-finals at the Asian Games.

Sutirtha and Ayhika suffered a 4-3 (11-7, 8-11, 11-7, 8-11, 9-11, 11-5, 2-11) defeat in the semi-final match to finish with the bronze medal.

In the gold medal match, Suyong and Sugyong will take on South Korea's Yubin Shin and Jihee Jeon, who had beaten Miyuu Kihara and Miwa Harimoto in the other semi-final.

India's canoers and kayakers endured a disappointing outing as none of them managed to secure a podium finish despite featuring in four finals at the Asian Games on Monday.

Niraj Verma finished seventh in the men's single canoe 1000m with a timing of 4:36.314s.

The Indian team of Ribason Singh Ningthoujam and Philem Gyaneshwor Singh finished eighth in the men's canoe double 500m final, clocking 1:54.723s.

The Indian women's teams finished last in the kayak double 500m and canoe double 500m finals.

While the duo of Binita Chanu Oinam and Parvathy Geetha clocked 2:07.440s in the kayak double 500m, Megha Pradeep and Shivani Verma logged 2:17.614s in the canoe double 500m.

India's canoers and kayakers endured a disappointing outing as none of them managed to secure a podium finish despite featuring in four finals at the Asian Games on Monday.

Niraj Verma finished seventh in the men's single canoe 1000m with a timing of 4:36.314s.

The Indian team of Ribason Singh Ningthoujam and Philem Gyaneshwor Singh finished eighth in the men's canoe double 500m final, clocking 1:54.723s.

The Indian women's teams finished last in the kayak double 500m and canoe double 500m finals.

While the duo of Binita Chanu Oinam and Parvathy Geetha clocked 2:07.440s in the kayak double 500m, Megha Pradeep and Shivani Verma logged 2:17.614s in the canoe double 500m.

India's Vithya Ramraj produced a superb run in the women's 400m hurdles, taking top place in the first heat to qualify for the final.

Ramraj clocked 55.42 to equal the legendary P T Usha's national record, which she had achieved at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

India's Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan qualified for the men's 400m hurdles final, after finishing second in Heat 1 with a timing of 49.28. Qatar's Abderrahman Alsaleck, who finished first in the heat with 49.12 also qualified for the final.

Another Indian Yashas Palaksha also made it to the final after finishing second in Heat 3 with 49.61 behind Qatar's Bassem Hemeida.

India's roller skaters clinched two bronze medals in men's and women's 3000m team relay events to match their best ever performance at the Asian Games on Monday.

The women's team of Sanjana Bathula, Karthika Jagadeeswaran, Heeral Sadhu and Aarathy Kasturi Raj opened India's account on the ninth day of competitions, finishing  with a timing of 4:34.861s.

The Indian quartet finished behind gold medallists Chinese Taipei (4:19.447) and South Korea (4:21.146).

Aryanpal Singh Ghuman, Anandkumar Velkumar, Siddhant Kamble and Vikram Ingale then sealed a second bronze with a timing of 4:10.128 in men's team relay. 

Chinese Taipei (4:05.692) and South Korea (4:05.702) took the top-two spots.

Indian roller skaters had won two bronze medals at the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games in men's free skating and pairs skating events.