On Sunday, September 24, there are a number of medal events lined up and India are in contention for a few of them at least.
India are going to have 5 medal events in rowing, apart from the Wushu Changquan final, 3 finals in swimming. There's Women's 10m air rifle final in both the individual and team event.
Apart from these, Nikhat Zareen too will begin her Asian Games campaign on Sunday. The boxing world champion who is making her debut in the quadrennial event will face Vietnam's Thi Tam Nguyen in the 50kg category in the round of 32.
The Indian women's team is also set to face Bangladesh in the first semifinal of the cricket competition.
Here's the entire schedule for Day 1 with the timings-
Shooting
Women’s 10m air rifle qualification, individual final and team final (Ashi Chouksey, Mehuli Ghosh, Ramita) - 6:00 AM onwards
Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol qualification phase 1 (Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh) - 6:30 AM onwards
Cricket
Women’s semi-final 1: India vs Bangladesh - 6:30 AM IST
Rowing
Women’s lightweight double sculls Final B (Kiran, Anshika Bharti) - 6:30 AM
Medal event: Men’s lightweight double sculls Final A (Arjun Lal Jat, Arvind Singh) - 7:10 AM
Medal event: Men’s double sculls Final A (Parminder Singh, Satnam Singh) - 8:00 AM
Medal event: Women’s coxless four Final A (Aswathi PB, Mrunamayee Nilesh S, Thangjam Priya Devi, Rukmani) - 8:20 AM
Medal event: Men coxless pair Final A (Babu Lal Yadav, Lekh Ram) - 8:40 AM
Medal event: Men’s coxed eight Final A (Charanjeet Singh, DU Pande, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neeraj, Neetesh Kumar, Ashish, Bheem Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Punit Kumar) - 9:00 AM
Fencing
Men’s foil individual (Dev and Bibish Kathiresan) - 6:30 AM onwards
Women’s epee individual (Ena Arora and Taniksha Khatri) - 10:00 AM onwards
Wushu
Men's changquan final (Anjul Namdeo, Suraj Singh Mayanglambam) - 6:30 AM
Men’s 56kg 1/8 final: Sunil Singh Mayanglambam (IND) vs Arnel Mandal (PHI) - 5:00 PM onwards
Table Tennis
Women’s team round of 16: India vs Thailand - 7:30 AM
Men’s team round of 16: India vs Kazakhstan - 9:30 AM
Swimming
Men’s 100m freestyle heats and final (Anand AS, Tanish George Matthew) - 7:30 AM onwards
Men’s 100m backstroke heats and final (Sriharni Nataraj, Utkarsh Santosh Patil) - 7:30 AM onwards
Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats and final (Janhvi Choudhary, Dhinidhi Desinghu, Maana Patel, Shivangi Sarma) - 7:30 AM onwards
Esports
FC Online Round of 32 and bracket matches (Charanjot Singh and Karman Singh Tikka) - 8:00 AM onwards
Sailing
Qualifying races in multiple categories (multiple athletes) - 8:30 AM onwards
Hockey
Preliminary Men’s Pool A: India vs Uzbekistan - 8:45 AM
Tennis
Men’s doubles round 1: India vs Nepal - 9:30 AM onwards
Men’s singles round 1: Sumit Nagal (IND) vs Marco Ho Tin Leung (MAC) - 9:30 AM onwards
Rugby sevens
Women’s Pool F: India vs Hong Kong - 10:00 AM
Women’s Pool F: India vs Japan - 3:35 PM
Boxing
Women’s 54kg Round of 16:
Preeti Pawar (IND) vs Silina Alhasanat (JOR) - 11:45 AM
Women’s 50kg Round of 32:
Nikhat Zareen (IND) vs Thi Tam Nguyen (VIE) - 4:30 PM
Volleyball
Men’s classification 1st-6th: India vs Japan - 12:00 PM
Chess
Men’s Individual rounds 1 and 2 (Vidit Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi) - 12:30 PM onwards
Women’s individual rounds 1 and 2 (Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli) - 12:30 PM onwards
Football
Women’s first round Group B: India vs Thailand - 1:30 PM
Men’s first round Group A: India vs Myanmar - 5:00 PM
Modern Pentathlon
Men’s team: Mayank Vaibhav Chaphekar - 3:00 PM