- India won eight medals on Day 10 at Aichi-Nagoya: four silver and four bronze, no gold.
- Silver: Esha Singh (women's 25m pistol), Murali Sreeshankar (long jump, 8.07m), Gulveer Singh (1500m, 3:36.72), Yashvir Singh (javelin, personal best 85.72m).
- Bronze: Vithya Ramraj, Rohit Yadav, Parul Chaudhary, Pincky Balhara.
- The men's cricket quarterfinal against Afghanistan was abandoned because of rain. India go into the semifinal on higher seeding.
- Manu Bhaker finished 11th in 25m pistol qualification and is out. Lovlina Borgohain has a boxing medal guaranteed.
- India began the day on 37 medals, so the count should now be 45.
India collected eight medals at the Asian Games in Nagoya on Monday, four silver and four bronze, and the one that got away was the gold Esha Singh lost in a shoot-off. It was also the day rain ended the cricket quarterfinal, Murali Sreeshankar sprained his ankle mid-final and Manu Bhaker failed to make the pistol final.
The team started Day 10 on 37 medals (4 gold, 16 silver, 17 bronze) and eighth in the table. Athletics did most of the work from there.
Esha Singh only just made it. She finished qualification for the women's 25m pistol in eighth place on 580, with 22 inner tens, and the top eight go through. In the final she hit 38, which equals the Games Record, and that was enough to drag the gold medal into a shoot-off. She lost it narrowly and took silver.
The rest of India's pistol group had a rougher morning. Manu Bhaker shot 579 and ended up 11th, so no final for her. Rahi Sarnobat was 30th. India also lodged an appeal, and paid the 50 euro fee, after the last shot of Sarnobat's first series was scored as a frame hit. The jury rejected it and she stayed on 39 for that series. India finished fifth in the team event.
Sreeshankar's long jump final went sideways on his fourth attempt, when he slipped and twisted his ankle. His father said afterwards that it was a sprain, and the jumper took no more attempts. His opening leap of 8.07m had already put him second, and nobody passed it, so the silver stayed.
Javelin was the better story. Rohit Yadav led early with 84.35m, Yashvir Singh sat behind him on 83.56m, and Neeraj Chopra, who had been listed as injured, wasn't in the field at all. Yashvir left it late: his last throw went 85.72m, a personal best, and it lifted him to silver with Rohit taking bronze. Two Indians on the javelin podium in the same final.
Gulveer Singh ran 3:36.72 in the men's 1500m for another silver, his second of these Games after the 10,000m. Vithya Ramraj took bronze in the women's 400m hurdles, and Parul Chaudhary added a bronze in the 5000m a day after her steeplechase medal.
One name missing from the results: Avinash Sable. The defending champion and the biggest gold hope on the schedule in the 3000m steeplechase was not among the medallists in Monday's roundups.
The fourth bronze came off the kurash mat. Pincky Balhara, who has a 2018 Asian Games medal already, beat South Korea's Garam Lim 3-0 in the women's 78kg quarterfinal and then lost the semifinal to Mo Sumin 0-5. Bronze all the same.
In boxing, Lovlina Borgohain beat South Korea's Suyeon Seong 5-0 in the 75kg quarterfinal. Losing semifinalists get bronze, so she is guaranteed a second straight Asian Games medal whatever happens next.
Forecasts had put the rain risk somewhere between 63 and 74 percent, and they were right. India's quarterfinal with Afghanistan at Korogi Sports Park was abandoned because of persistent rain and a wet outfield, the BCCI confirmed, and higher seeding took India through.
The other quarterfinal, Pakistan against Hong Kong, had been washed out too. India are defending champions from Hangzhou 2023 and play the semifinal on October 1.
The men's squash team beat China 3-0, and the women beat them 2-1 after Shameena Riaz lost a five-game opener, with Tanvi Khanna and Joshna Chinappa winning in straight games; the women were due to face Japan later.
In men's volleyball, India beat Hong Kong 25-22, 25-19, and 25-21 to reach the quarterfinals. Rutuja Bhosale and Ankita Raina took the first set 7-5 in women's tennis doubles against Kazakhstan's Anna Danilina and Yuliya Putintseva, then dropped the second 3-6 and lost the tiebreak 5-10.
In compound archery Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru beat fellow Indian Sahil Jadhav 149-148 in the last 16, and Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Chikitha Taniparthi went through as well. The Sepaktakraw women's doubles pair lost to Japan 15-11, 9-15, 15-13.
Neeru led the women's trap qualification after three straight 24s. PV Sindhu, out since her quarterfinal defeat on Sunday, posted that she had been three points from closing the match out.
Adding the eight to the 37 gives 45: four gold, 20 silver and 21 bronze. That is my arithmetic, not the official table, and Lovlina's bronze may not be in it yet since boxing medals are normally confirmed once the semifinal is played.
The Games finish on October 4. Cricket is back on October 1.
