Another exciting day for India at the Asian Games 2026 saw the nation win five medals - Mirabai Chanu starring with a silver, ending her Asiad medal drought, while four bronzes came from Jay Meena (soft tennis), men's badminton team, women's skeet shooting team and the men's skeet shooting team.
There was disappointment to as the star-studded 10m air pistol contingent ended medal-less. Wushu athlete Roshibina Devi, meanwhile, is on the cusp of history as she looks to convert her 2023 Asiad silver to gold tomorrow after winning her semifinal today.
Here's how it all unfolded on Wednesday.
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COMPLETED:
Weightlifting - Mirabai Chanu WINS SILVER in women's 49kg.
Badminton - India men's team lose to China 3-1 in their semifinal, WINS BRONZE.
Shooting - Raiza Dhillon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Maheshwari Chauhan WINS BRONZE in skeet women's team.
Shooting - Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Ahmed Khan, Bhavtegh Singh WINS BRONZE skeet men's team.
Soft tennis - Jay Meena loses to Takuya Kurosaka, WIN Bronze.
Wushu - Roshibina Devi beatsThania Kusumaningtyas 2-0 of Indonesia in women's 60kg semifinal, reaches final (tomorrow).
Weightlifting - Gyaneshwari Yadav in women's 53kg finishes eighth in final.
Shooting - Anantjeet Singh Naruka finishes fourth in men's skeet individual final
Shooting - Manu Bhaker reaches in 10m air pistol individual final; Suruchi Inder Singh, Esha Singh miss out. Manu finishes fifth
Skeet women individual final - Raiza Dhillon finishes fourth, Parinaaz Dhaliwal finishes eighth
Hockey - India beat Thailand 20-1 in women's Pool B match.
Kabaddi - India beat Bangladesh in men's group A match.
Squash - Abhay Singh beat Arkaradet Arkarahirunya of Thailand 11-1, 11-0, 11-2 in men's singles round of 32 match.
Fencing: GN Kumaresan loses to Artyom Sarkissyan of Kazakhstan in round of 16
Kabaddi - India beat Iran 37-23 in women's team group A match.
Boxing - Ankush beats Hamsa Vogel of Bahrain in men's 80kg round of 32 bout.
Rowing - Balraj Panwar finishes third (fourth overall) in men's single sculls heats, qualifies for final.
Rowing - Satnam Singh-Salman Khan finish second (fourth overall) in men's doubles sculls heats, qualify for final.
Canoe Sprint - Harshwardhan Shaktawat, Varinder Singh, L Naocha Singh Oinam, and Arun Singh finish third in men's kayak four 500m heat 1, qualify for final
Table Tennis - Diya-Manush beat Moosa-Aishath (Maldives) in mixed doubles round of 16
Table Tennis -Yashaswini-Harmeet beat Yiu-Ng (Hong Kong) in mixed doubles round of 16
Fencing - Mina Devi Naorem, Ashitha Stalinraj lose in women's foil round of 32; Karan Singh loses in men's sabre round of 32
Swimming - Benedicton Beniston finishes fourth (13th overall), Sajan Prakash (DNS) in men's 100m butterfly heats and miss out on the final..
Canoe Sprint - Megha Pradeep finishes fifth in women's canoe single 200m heats, qualifies for semifinal.
Canoe Sprint - Prasanna Kumar CS, Prohit Baroi finished fifth in men's kayak double 500m heats and qualified for semifinal
Rowing - Jaswinder Singh and Nitin Kumar finish fourth (and last) in Men's Pair heats, qualify for Final B.
Swimming - Vedaant Madhavan finishes 19th, Aneesh Sunil 17th in their men's 200m freestyle heat, out of final contention.
Rowing - Gurbani Kaur, Aleena Anto, Tendenthoi Haobijam, Poonam finish sixth overall in women's four heats, qualify for Final A.
Table tennis - Harmeet Desai-Yashaswini Ghorpade beat Mohamed Ismail-Fathimath Ali of Maldives in mixed doubles round 2 match.
Manush Shah-Diya Chitale beat Chanul Kulappuwawadu-Bimandee Swarna of Sri Lanka in mixed doubles round 2 match.
Canoe Sprint - Parvathy Geetha, Phairembam Soniya Devi qualify for women's kayak double 500m semifinal.
Sepaktakraw - India beat Philippines 2-1 in men's team regu Group B but miss out on qualifying.
Canoe Sprint - Megha Pradeep, L Neha Devi finished fifth in their women's canoe double 500m heat, qualified for the semifinal.
Rowing - Ajay Tyagi finished fourth in his men's lightweight single sculls heat, qualified for Final B.
Rowing - Rohit-Ujwal Kumar Singh finished fourth in their men's lightweight double sculls heat, into Final A.
Squash - Tanvi Khanna defeats Kim Dami in women's singles round of 32
Rowing - Arvind Singh, Kulwinder Singh, Navdeep Singh and Jakar Khan finish third (fourth overall) in men's quadruple sculls heats, qualify for Final A.
Rowing - Vipul Ghurde, Saurav Kumar, Babu Lal Yadav and Yogesh Kumar finish fourth in men's four heats, out of contention for final
Squash - Veer Chotrani beat Sri Lanka's Samil Wakeel in men's round of 32 match.