Asian Games 2018 Day 12: Jinson Johnson, women's 4x400m relay team win gold

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The 12th day of sporting events at the 18th edition of the Asian Games 2018 kicks-off in Indonesia on August 30, Thursday. India, at the 8th rank, have bagged a total of 59 medals so far, which include 13 Gold, 21 Silver and 25 Bronze medals.

India's 21-year-old Swapna Barman scripted history by winning Gold in the Women’s Heptathlon event. She became the first Indian Heptathlete to win an Asian Games gold. Swapna notched up 6026 points across the seven events in Heptathlon to finish on top.  

The Athletics contingent continued their impressive form as 25-year-old Triple jumper Arpinder Singh clinched Gold with a stunning effort of 16.77m, ending India’s 48-year yellow metal drought in triple jump at the Games. Mohinder Singh Gill had jumped to Gold in the 1970 Thailand Asian Games.   

Sprinter Dutee Chand clocked 23.20 seconds to grab the Silver medal in the Women’s 200m. Dutee Chand had also finished second (11.32s) in the 100m at the Games. 

Earlier, Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra won a bronze medal in Table Tennis Mixed Doubles. It was India’s first-ever Asian Games podium finish in the mixed doubles.  

In Hockey, the women's team edged past China 1-0, advancing to their first Games final since 1998. India, on the brink to win their second-ever Asian Games gold, take on Japan in the final. India Women’s Hockey had finished on top in the 1982 Games.  

Follow the live updates from Day 12: 

30 August 2018

19:55 IST

Hockey, Men's semifinal: Pakistan loses to Japan 0-1. India will take on Pakistan in Bronze medal match on September 1st.

19:28 IST

Table Tennis, women's singles: India's Manika Batra is through to pre-quarterfinal with 4-0 win over Thailand's Komwong Nanthana. The Indian moves on to the Round of 16, finishing with a score of 11-3, 11-7, 11-3, 11-6. 

19:25 IST

Athletics, men's 5000m final: Govindan Lakshmanan finishes 6th.

19:22 IST

Athletics, men's 4x400m Relay: India wins Silver medal. 

18:59 IST

Athletics, women's 4x400m Relay: India wins Gold. This is India's 13th Gold at Asian Games 2018.

18:16 IST

Asian Games 2018: India wins gold in men's 1500m and bronze in women's 1500m.

18:05 IST

Discus Throw, Women's Tournament final: India's Seema Punia wins Bronze in Discus Throw with best attempt of 62.26m. She had won Gold in the 2014 edition.

17:55 IST

Hockey, Men's Tournament Semifinals: India, Malaysia 4-4 in penalty shoot-out.

17:55 IST

Hockey, Men's Tournament Semifinals: India vs Malaysia 2-2 in penalty shoot-out.

17:48 IST

Hockey, Men's Tournament Semifinals: Penalty shoot-out begins.

17:43 IST

Discus Throw, Women's Tournament final: India's Seema Punia finishes third (62.26m) while Sandeep Kumari remains on 5th (54.61m) after fourth attempt.

17:31 IST

Hockey, Men's Tournament Semifinals: Malaysia equalize at 2-2 with less than 2 mins left in the match!

17:30 IST

Hockey, Men's Tournament Semifinals: India still leading 2-1 with 9 mins left in the match.

17:30 IST

Discus Throw, Women's Tournament final: India's Seema Punia finishes third (58.51m) while Sandeep Kumari was on 5th (53.20m).

17:23 IST

Hockey, Men's Tournament Semifinals: India's Surender Kumar suspension ends. 

17:20 IST

Hockey, Men's Tournament Semifinals: India's Surender Kumar shown a yellow card.

17:17 IST

Hockey, Men's Tournament Semifinals: India's Sardar Singh shown yellow card. India lead 2-1 at end of 3rd quarter.

16:22 IST

Hockey, Men's Tournament Semifinals: India leads 2-1 against Malaysia.

16:17 IST

Hockey, Men's Tournament Semifinals: India in 0-0 deadlock vs Malaysia.

15:22 IST

Kurash, Men -90 kg Quarterfinals: India's Danish Sharma goes down 0-10 to Kuwait's Misri Husein. 

15:17 IST

Table Tennis, Men's Singles round of 32 (match 6): India's Sharath Kamal beats Pakistan's Asim Muhammad Qureshi 11-4, 11-8, 11-7, 11-5 and advances to the pre-quarters.

13:51 IST

Diving, Men's 1m Springboard Preliminary round: India's Ramananda Sharma finishes 7th in the standings with 327.40 points. 

13:46 IST

Kurash, Men -90 kg round of 16: India's Divesh is stunned 0-10 by Uzbekistan's Yakhyo Imamov in the pre-quarters. 

13:34 IST

Kurash, Men -90 kg round of 16: India's Danish Sharma outperforms Palestine's Mohanad Abueida 10-0 and storms into the quarterfinals.

13:31 IST

Squash, Women's Team Pool B: Indian team (Joshana Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal, Sunayna Kuruvilla, Tanvi Khanna) lose 1-2 to Hong Kong, China. India finish 2nd in their group and qualify for the semifinal stage, assuring a podium finish for India.   

13:23 IST

Kurash, Women -78 kg round of 16: India's Amisha Tokas goes down 0-5 to Vietnam's Thi Lan Nguyen. 

13:08 IST

Volleyball, Men's Tournament, Classification 11-12: India go down 21-25, 25-18, 25-27, 25-15, 13-15 to Myanmar.

13:05 IST

Kurash, Women -78 kg round of 16: India's Jyoti Tokas loses 0-10 to Turkmenistan's Mariya Lohova in the pre-quarters. 

12:50 IST

Kurash, Men -90 kg round of 32: India's Danish Sharma defeats Indonesia's Dhifa Muhammad Alfais 3-0 and advances to the round of 16. 

12:37 IST

Kurash, Women -78 kg round of 32: India's Jyoti Tokas beats Thailand's Prawanwit Meesri 1-0 and advances to the pre-quarters.

11:22 IST

Table Tennis, Women's Singles round of 32 (match 2): India's Mouma Das is knocked out of the event. She lost 0-4 ( 6-11, 5-11, 6-11, 6-11) to Chinese Taipei's Chen Szuyu.  

10:14 IST

Canoe/Kayak Sprint, Kayak Four (K4) 500m Men FINAL: India's Selvaraj Albert, Laitonjam Singh, Baroi Prohit, Arambam Singh finish 9th. They had clocked 1:40:809 in the final. 

09:44 IST

Judo, Men's -81 kg Elimination round of 16: India's Harshdeep Singh goes down 0S3-10S1 to Korea's Seungsu Lee.  

09:16 IST

Canoe/Kayak Sprint, Kayak Single (K1) 500m Women: India's Soniya Devi Phairembam finishes last (8th position) with a timing of 2:20:606 in the final.

08:16 IST

Athletics, Men's 50km Walk: India's Sandeep Kumar was disqualified halfway into the event. 

07:53 IST

India's schedule for the day: 

8.30 AM

Bridge

Men's Pair, Semifinal 1- Round 1: Pranab Bardhan/Shibhnath Sarkar, Subhash Gupta/Sapan Desai, Sumit Mukherjee/Debabrata Majumder. 

Women's Pair, Semifinal 1- Round 1: Aparna Sain/Feroza Chothia, Marianne Karmakar

Mixed Pair, Semifinal 1- Round 1: Bachiraju Satyanaryana/Kiran Nadar, Rajeev Khandelwal/Himani Khandelwal.

8.40 AM

Canoe/Kayak Sprint (Medal event) 

Kayak Double (K2) 1000m Men: Naocha Singh, Ching Ching Sing. 

9.10 AM

Canoe/Kayak Sprint (Medal event) 

Canoe Double (C2) 1000m Men:  Gaurav Tomar, Sunil Singh. 

9.20 AM 

Judo, Women's 70 KG Round of 16: Garima Choudhary vs Gulnoza Matniyazova. 

10.45 AM 

Table Tennis, Women's Singles round of 32: Mouma Das vs Chen Szuyu. 

11.00 AM

Volleyball, Men's Classification: India vs Myanmar

12.30 PM

Kurash, Women's 78 kg round of 32: Jyoti Tokas vs Meesri Prawanwit

12.36 PM 

Kurash, Men's 90 kg round of 32: Danish Sharma vs Alfais Muhammad Dhifa. 

12.48 PM 

Kurash, Women's 78 kg round of 16: Amisha Tokas vs Nguyen Thi Lan 

12.50 PM 

Diving (Medal event), Men's 1m springboard Preliminary: Ramananda Sharma. 

1.18 PM 

Kurash, Men's 90 kg round of 16: Divesh vs TBA

4.00 PM

Hockey, Men's Semifinal: India vs Malaysia

5.10 PM 

Athletics (Medal event), Women's Discus Throw: Seema Punia, Sandeep Kumari. 

5.50 PM

Athletics (Medal event), Women's 1500m Final: Monika Chaudhary, Chitra Unnikrishnan. 

6.05 PM

Athletics (Medal event), Men's 1500m Final: Manjit Singh, Jinson Johnson

6.30 PM

Athletics (Medal event), Men's 5000m Final: Lakshmanan Govindan

6.50 PM 

Athletics (Medal event), Women's 4x400m Relay Final: India

6.45 PM

Table Tennis, Women's Singles round of 32: Manika Batra vs Komwong Nanthana