The nineteenth version of the Asian Video games will formally kickstart on September 23 with a grand opening ceremony on the Hangzhou Olympic Sports activities Heart Stadium in China on Saturday, September 23. India is fielding its largest-ever contingent comprising 655 athletes throughout 39 sporting disciplines on this version of the Asian Video games.
Though some sporting occasions like girls’s cricket, crusing, soccer and volleyball amongst others started earlier, September 23 will mark the official starting of the multi-nation spectacle and can get underway with the opening ceremony scheduled to begin at 5:30 IST.
The Hangzhou Asian Video games had been initially scheduled for the yr 2022 however because of the catastrophic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, they needed to be pushed to 2023. The primary-ever Asian Video games had been organised in Delhi in 1951 and the earlier version of the continental occasion was held in Indonesia (2018). Harmanpreet Singh, who’s the captain of the Indian males’s hockey group and Olympic medallist boxer Lovlina Borgohain will likely be India’s flag bearers on the Hangzhou Asian Video games.
| Sport | Timing | Occasion and athletes concerned |
| Crusing | 8:30 AM IST ONWARDS | Males’s Skiff – 49er: KC Ganapathy and Varun Thakkar |
| Crusing | 8:30 AM IST ONWARDS | Combined Dinghy – 470: Sudhanshu Shekhar-Preeti Kongara |
| Crusing | 8:30 AM IST ONWARDS | Boy’s Dinghy – ILCA4: Adhvait Menon |
| Crusing | 8:34 AM IST ONWARDS | Males’s Windsurfing – iQFoil-Jerome Kumar Savarimuthu |
| Crusing | 8:40 AM IST ONWARDS | Ladies’s Skiff – 49erFX: Harshita Tomar-Shital Verma |
| Crusing | 8:40 AM IST ONWARDS | Woman’s Dinghy – ILCA4: Neha Thakur |
| Crusing | 11:30 AM IST ONWARDS | Ladies’s Single Dinghy – ILCA6: Nethra Kumanan |
| Crusing | 11:30 AM IST ONWARDS | Combined Multihull – Nacra 17: Siddeshwar Indar Doiphode and Ramya Saravanan |
| Crusing | 11:30 AM IST ONWARDS | Males’s Windsurfer – RS-X: Eabad Ali |
| Crusing | 11:34 AM IST ONWARDS | Males’s Kite – IKA System Kite: Chitresh Tatha |
| Crusing | 11:40 AM IST ONWARDS | Males’s Dinghy – ILCA7: Vishnu Saravanan |
| Crusing | 11:40 AM IST ONWARDS | Ladies’s Windsurfer – RS-X: Ishwariya Ganesh |
| Sport | Timing | Occasion |
| Desk Tennis | 7:30 AM IST | Ladies’s Preliminary – Group F – India vs Nepal |
| Desk Tennis | 9:30 AM IST | Males’s Preliminary – Group F – India vs Tajikistan |
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