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Asian Games Day 9 Top Performer: Vithya Ramraj

BD Narayankar
Aichi-Nagoya, Sept 28 (UNI) Forty-two years is a long time for any record to survive. In Indian athletics, P.T. Usha’s 55.42 seconds in the 400m hurdles had begun to look less like a mark on a stopwatch and more like a monument. On Monday, Vithya Ramraj did what generations before her had failed to do — she knocked it down.
The 28-year-old ran 54.75 seconds for bronze, slicing 0.67 seconds off Usha’s national record and, in the process, giving India’s biggest medal day at the Asian Games its most resonant moment.
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Asian Games: Nitesh’s historic silver headlines India’s six-medal haul on Day 12

01 Oct 2026 | 7:15 PM

Tridib Baparnash
New Delhi, Oct 1 (UNI) Nitesh Siwach became the first Indian Greco-Roman wrestler in 64 years to win an Asian Games silver as India collected six medals on a packed Day 12 in Aichi-Nagoya on Thursday. The 23-year-old reached the men’s 97kg final before losing 0-4 to Japan’s Yuri Nakazato, ending India’s wait for a Greco-Roman wrestling finalist since the 1962 edition.

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Pune wrestler Yuvraj Khopade wins gold at International Kesari Wrestling Championship

01 Oct 2026 | 7:13 PM

Pune, Oct 1 (UNI) Wrestler Yuvraj Mohan Khopade from the district clinched the gold medal in the 95-kg category at the first International Kesari Wrestling Championship held in London from September 23 to 27, bringing laurels to Maharashtra and India.

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Sailing: Harshita Tomar, Shital Verma clinch women’s skiff bronze

01 Oct 2026 | 6:45 PM

Gamagori, Oct 1 (UNI) Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma clinched the bronze medal in the women’s skiff event at the Asian Games here on Thursday, adding another medal to India’s sailing campaign at Aichi-Nagoya.

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Manu, Prince win India’s first Asian Games silver in men’s skiff

01 Oct 2026 | 6:35 PM

New Delhi, Oct 1 (UNI) India won their first Asian Games silver in men’s skiff sailing on Thursday as Manu Francis and Prince Kurisinkal Noble finished runners-up in Aichi-Nagoya, adding to the country’s medal tally in the event.

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ICC revamps Playing Conditions across Tests, ODIs and T20Is with effect from Oct 1

01 Oct 2026 | 6:14 PM

New Delhi,Oct 1 (UNI) The International Cricket Council (ICC) has introduced a series of changes to its Playing Conditions, covering time-wasting, ball specifications, fielding laws and several format-specific regulations.

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