The Asian Games 2023 will officially begin on September 23. The qualifying rounds of some of the events have started today. India's men's volleyball team will be in action today against Cambodia from 4:30 pm onwards while India's men's football team will take on China from 5 pm onwards.
Rowing, sailing and fencing will start tomorrow, followed by women's cricket and women's football on September 21. India's table tennis and men's hockey teams will also open their campaigns before the opening ceremony on September 23.
After the games officially begin, the medal rounds of multiple events will take place on every day until the closing ceremony on October 8. The Indian athletes are a part of many sports events at Asian Games 2023. Here's a look at the complete schedule.
Asian Games 2023 schedule of Indian athletes (with timings in IST)
Asian Games Day -4: September 19
Men's Volleyball: India vs Cambodia, 4:30 pm.
Men's Football: India vs China, 5 pm.
Asian Games Day -3: September 20
Rowing (Round 1) - Heats start from 6:30 am.
- Parminder Singh and Satnam Singh (Men’s Double Sculls)
- Charanjeet Singh, Dhananjay Pande, Naresh Kalwania, Neeraj, Neetish Kumar, Ashish, Bheem Singh, Jaswinder Singh and Punit Kumar (Men’s Eight)
- PB Aswathi, Mrunmayee Salgaonkar, Priya Devi Thangjam, Rukmani (Women’s Fours),
- Kiran and Geetanjali Gurugubelli (Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls)
- Arun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh Lightweight (Men’s Double Sculls)
- Babulal Yadav and Lekh Ram (Men’s Pair)
Rowing (Round 1) - Heats start from 12:30 pm IST.
- Geetanjali Gurugubelli, Ritu Kaudi, Sonali Swain, Tendenthoi Devi Haobijam, Varsha Babu, PB Aswathi, Mrunmayee Salgaonkar, Priya Devi, Rukmani (Women’s Eight)
- Balraj Pawar (Men’s Single Sculls)
- Ashish, Bheem Singh, Jaswinder Singh and Punit Kumar (Men’s Four)
- Parminder Singh, Satnam Singh, Jakhar Khan, Sukhmeet Singh (Men’s Quadruple Sculls)
Modern Pentathlon (Fencing): Mayank Chaphekar, 12 pm.
Men's Volleyball: India vs Korea, 4:30 pm.
Asian Games Day -2: September 21
Rowing: Repechage round, 6:30 am.
Sailing - 9 am onwards.
Women's Cricket: India vs TBD, Quarterfinal match, 6:30 am.
Men's Football: India vs Bangladesh, 1:30 pm.
Women's Football: India vs Taipei, 5 pm.
Asian Games Day - 1: September 22
Volleyball: Quarterfinals/Playoff Matches.
Rowing: Semifinals, 6:30 am.
Table Tennis Women's and Men's Team: Round 1, 7:30 am.
Table Tennis Women's and Men's Team: Round 2, 1:30 pm.
Asian Games Day 0: September 23
Table Tennis Women's and Men's Team: Round 3, 7:30 am.
Opening Ceremony.
Asian Games Day 1: September 24
Shooting: Women’s 10m air rifle (Individual & Team) - Ramita, Mehuli Ghosh, Ashi Chouksey, 6 am.
Rowing: Finals 6:30 am.
Wushu: Round 1 to finals, 6:30 am to 5 pm.
Women's Cricket: Semifinals, 6:30 am.
Table Tennis Women's and Men's Team: Round 4 and Quarterfinals, 7:30 am onwards.
Tennis, Round 1 : Sumit Nagal, Ankita Raina, Karman Thandi, Singles and Mixed Doubles,7:30 am onwards.
Men's Hockey: India vs Uzbekistan, 8:45 am.
Women's Rugby: India vs Hong Kong, 9:30 am.
Women's Rugby: India vs Japan, 2:30 pm.
Boxing, Round 1: Nikhat Zareen, Jaismine Lamboria, Shiva Thapa, Lakshya Chahar, 11:30 am.
Women's Football: India vs Thailand, 1:30 pm.
Boxing, Round 1: Parveen Hooda, Sanjeet, 4:30 pm.
Men's Football: India vs Myanmar, 5 pm.
Asian Games Day 2: September 25
Wushu: Round 1 to finals, 6:30 am onwards.
Tennis: Singles and doubles matches, 6:30 am onwards.
Shooting: Men's 10m air rifle (Individual & Team) - Divyansh Singh Panwar, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil, 6:30 am.
Rowing: Final, 6:30 am.
Shooting: Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol (Individual & Team) - Anish, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh, 6:30 am.
Judo: Garima Choudhary, 7:30 am onwards.
Table Tennis: Women's and Men's Team semifinals, 7:30 am onwards.
Swimming (Round 1 to Finals): Likhith SP, Dhinidhi Desinghu, Hashika Ramachandran and Virdhawal Khade, 7:30 am onwards.
Gymnastics (Qualifying): Pranati Nayak, 7:30 am.
Table Tennis: Manika Batra/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Mixed doubles Round 1, 7:30 am.
Women's Rugby: India vs Singapore, 8:30 am.
Women's Basketball: India vs Uzbekistan, 11:30 am.
Women's Cricket: Gold medal match, 11:30 am.
Boxing (Round 1): Arundhati Chaudhary, Deepak Bhoria, 11:30 am onwards.
Handball: India vs Japan, 11:30 am.
Men's Basketball: India vs Uzbekistan, 5:30 pm.
Asian Games Day 3: September 26
Tennis: Singles and doubles, 6:30 am onwards.
Men's Hockey: India vs Singapore, 6:30 am.
Shooting: Air rifle mixed team - Divyansh Singh Panwar/Ramita; Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar/Mehuli Ghosh, 6:30 am onwards.
Fencing (Round 1 to Finals): Bhavani Devi, 6:30 am onwards.
Swimming (Round 1 to Finals): Anand AS, Aneesh Gowda, Advait Page, Tanish Mathew, Palak Joshi, 7:30 am onwards.
Cycling (Round 1 to Finals): Women's and Men's team sprint, 7:30 am onwards.
Judo (Round 1 to Finals): Indubala Devi, Avtar Singh, Tulika Maan, 7:30 am onwards.
Boxing (Round 1): Nishant Dev, Sachin, Lovlina Borgohain, Sanjeet, 11:30 am onwards.
Squash (Round 1): Women's and men's Teams.
Asian Games Day 4: September 27
Equestrian: Dressage, Semifinals, 5:30 am.
Tennis: Singles and doubles, 7:30 am onwards.
Fencing (Preliminary to Finals): Men's Foil Team - Akash Kumar, Bibish Kathiresan, Dev, Arjun, 6:30 am.
Shooting: Women’s 50m rifle 3-position (Individual & Team) - Sift Kaur Samra, Ashi Chouksey, Manini Kaushik, 6:30 am.
Shooting: Men's and Women's Skeet (Individual & Team) - Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Gurjoat Singh Khangura and Ganemat Sekhon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Darshana Rathore, 6:30 am onwards.
Shooting: Women’s 25m pistol (Individual & Team) - Rhythm Sangwan, Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh, 6:30 am.
Cycling (Men's Sprint, Preliminary Round): Ronaldo Singh, Rojit Singh, David Beckham, Esow Alban, 7:30 am.
Squash (Round 1): Women's Team - Joshna Chinappa, Dipika Pallikal Karthik, Anahat Singh, Tanvi Khanna, 7:30 am.
Swimming (Round 1 to Finals): Maana Patel, Lineysha AK, 7:30 am onwards.
Table Tennis (Round 1 & 2): Sreeja Akula, Sharath Kamal, Ayhika Mukherjee/Sutirtha Mukherjee, Diya Chitale/Sreeja Akula, Manika Batra, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manav Thakkar/Manush Shah, Sharath Kamal/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manika Batra/Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, 7:30 am onwards.
Sailing: Finals, 9 am onwards.
Fencing (Preliminary to Finals): Women's Epee Team - Taniksha Khatri, Ena Arora, Yashkeerat Kaur, Jyotika Dutta, 9:30 am.
Women's Hockey: India vs Singapore, 10 am.
Squash (Round 1): Men's Team - Saurav Ghosal, Abhay Singh, Mahesh Mangaonkar, Harinderpal Singh Sandhu, 10 am.
Boxing (Round 2): Shiva Thapa, Sanjeet, 11:30 am onwards.
Women's Basketball: India vs China, 11:30 am.
Gymnastics (Final): Pranati Nayak, 12:30 pm.
Women's Handball: India vs Hong Kong, 4:30 pm.
Wushu (Semifinals): Onilu Tega, Roshibina Devi, Vikrant Baliyan, Surya Singh, Sunil Singh, 5 pm.
Men's Basketball: India vs Macau, 5:30 pm.
Esports: EA Sports FC Online Final, 6 pm onwards.
Asian Games Day 5: September 28
Golf (Round 1): Anirban Lahiri, Shubhankar Sharma, Shiv Chawrasia, Khalin Joshi, Aditi Ashok, Avani Prashanth and Pranavi Urs, 3:30 am onwards.
Shooting: Skeet mixed team - Anantjeet Singh Naruka/Ganemat Sekhon and Gurjoat Singh Khangura/Parinaaz Dhaliwal, 6:30 am.
Shooting: Men’s 10m air pistol (Individual & Team) - Sarabjot Singh, Shiva Narwal, Arjun Singh Cheema, 6:30 am.
Wushu: Individual Gold Medal matches, 6:30 am.
Swimming (Round 1 to finals): Aneesh Gowda, Aryan Nehra, Vritti Agarwal, 7:30 am.
Table Tennis (Round 2, 3, QFs): 7:30 am onwards.
Tennis (Quarterfinals, Semifinals): 7:30 am onwards.
Cycling: Men's Sprint QFs to finals, 7:30 am.
Cycling: Women's Sprint - Celestina, Triyasha Paul, Mayuri Lute, Sashikala Agase, 7:30 am.
Squash (Quarterfinals): Women's and Men's Teams, 10 am onwards.
Badminton (Round 1): Men's Team, Women's Team, 10:30 am onwards.
Boxing (Round 2): Deepak Bhoria, Jaismine Lamboria, 11:30 am onwards.
Men's Basketball: India vs China, 3:30 pm.
Men's Hockey: India vs Japan, 6 pm.
Asian Games Day 6: September 29
Golf: Round 2, 3:30 am onwards
Athletics: 5:30 am onwards.
Shooting: Women’s 10m air pistol (Individual & Team) - Divya TS, Esha Singh, Palak, 6:30 am.
Shooting: Men’s 50m rifle 3-position (Individual & Team) - Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Swapnil Kusale, Akhil Sheoran, 6:30 am.
Swimming (Round 1 to finals): Sajan Prakash, Kushagra Rawat, Nina Venkatesh 6:30 am.
Table Tennis (Round 3, Mixed Doubles semifinals): Singles and doubles, 7:30 am.
Tennis: Men's Doubles, Women's Singles finals, 7:30 am.
Tennis: Men's Singles, Women's Doubles, Mixed Doubles semifinals, 7:30 am.
Squash (Semifinals): Women's Team, 8:30 am.
Boxing (Round 2, Quarterfinals): Parveen Hooda, Nikhat Zareen, Lakshya Chahar, Sanjeet 11:30 am onwards.
Cycling (quarterfinals to finals): Women's Sprint, 11:30 am onwards.
Badminton (Round 2): Women's and Men's Teams, 10:30 am onwards.
Squash (Semifinals): Women's Individual, 12:30 pm.
Squash (Semifinals): Men's Team, 1:30 pm.
Men's Basketball: India vs Malaysia, 12 pm.
Women's Handball: India vs China, 3:30 pm.
Women's Hockey: India vs Malaysia, 4 pm.
Asian Games Day 7: September 30
Golf: Round 3, 3:30 am onwards.
Equestrian: Eventing Team and Individual, 5:30 am onwards.
Shooting: Air pistol mixed team - Sarabjot Singh/Divya TS; Shiva Narwal/Esha Singh, 6:30 am.
Roller Sports: Aarthy Kasturi Raj, 6:30 am.
Kurash: Round 1 to Semifinals 7 am onwards.
Canoeing & Kayaking: Round 1 to Semifinals, 7 am onwards.
Table Tennis (Quarterfinals): Singles and doubles, 9:30 am onwards.
Badminton: Women's and Men's Teams Semifinals, 10:30 am onwards.
Boxing (Quarterfinals): Lovlina Borgohain, Nishant Dev, Sachin, 11:30 am onwards.
Women's Handball: India vs Nepal, 11:30 am.
Squash: Men's Team Finals, 11:30 am.
Squash: Women's Team Finals, 1 pm.
Weightlifting: Mirabai Chanu, Bindyarani Devi, 1:30 pm, 4:30 pm.
Athletics: 3:30 pm onwards.
Diving: Siddharth Pardeshi, London Singh, 5 pm.
Men's Hockey: India vs Pakistan, 6 pm.
Asian Games Day 8: October 1
Golf: All Finals, 3:30 am onwards.
Equestrian: Eventing Team and Individual, 5:30 am onwards.
Archery: Individual Ranking Rounds - Dhiraj Bommadevara, Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, Atanu Das, Tushar Shelke, Ankita Bhakat, Bhajan Kaur, Simranjeet Kaur, Avneet Kaur, Mrinal Chauhan, Abhishek Verma, Ojas Deotale, Rajat Chauhan, Prathamesh Jawkar, Prachi Singh, Parneet Kaur, 6:30 am onwards.
Men's Trap: Prithviraj Toindaman, Kynan Chenai, Zoravar Singh Sandhu, 6:30 am onwards.
Bridge (Round 2): Men's and Women's Pairs, Mixed Team, 6:30 am onwards.
Canoeing & Kayaking: Round 1 to Semifinals, 7 am onwards.
Kurash: Round 1 to Finals, 7 am onwards.
Badminton: Men's Team finals, 10:30 am.
Badminton: Women's Team finals, 4:30 pm.
Boxing (quarterfinals and semifinals): Parveen Hooda, Jaismine Lamboria, Arundhati Chaudhary, Shiva Thapa, Lakshya Chahar, Sanjeet, 11:30 am onwards.
Women's Hockey: India vs Korea, 1:30 pm.
Athletics: 3:30 pm onwards.
Diving: Siddharth Pardeshi, London Singh, 5 pm.
Asian Games Day 9: October 2
Roller Sports (Round 1 to finals): Men's and Women's Speed Skating Relay teams 6:30 am onwards.
Archery: Individuals Round 1-3, Team Round 1, 6:30 am onwards.
Canoeing & Kayaking: Finals, 7 am.
Badminton (Round 1): 11:30 am onwards.
Squash (Round 1): Mixed Doubles, Men's and Women's Individual, 12:30 pm onwards.
Equestrian: Eventing Team and Individual, 12:30 pm onwards.
Men's Hockey: India vs Bangladesh, 1 pm.
Athletics: 3:30 pm onwards.
Diving: Siddharth Pardeshi, London Singh, 4:30 pm.
Asian Games Day 10 - October 3
Archery: Individual Quarterfinals, Semifinals, 6 am.
Men's Cricket (quarterfinal): India vs TBC, 6:30 am.
Bridge (Semifinals): Men's and Women's Pairs, Mixed Team, 6:30 am onwards.
Canoeing & Kayaking: Finals, 7 am onwards.
Women's Hockey: India vs Hong Kong, 7:30 am onwards.
Sport Climbing: Speed Individual - Aman Verma, Dhiraj Dinka, Anisha Verma, Shivpreet Pannu, 7:30 am onwards.
Soft Tennis: Round 1 to quarterfinals, 7:30 am onwards.
Badminton (Round 2): Singles and doubles, 10:30 am onwards.
Boxing (semifinals and finals): Nikhat Zareen, Lovlina Borgohain, Jaismine Lamboria, Deepak Bhoria, Nishant Dev, Sachin, Shiva Thapa, Narender, Sanjeet, 11:30 am onwards.
Sepak Takraw: Men's and Women's Quadrant Semifinals, 11:30 am onwards.
Squash (Quarterfinals): Mixed Doubles, Men's and Women's Individual, 12:30 pm onwards.
Athletics: 3:30 pm onwards.
Asian Games Day 11 - October 4
Archery: Mixed Teams quarterfinals to Final, 6:30 am onwards.
Sepak Takraw: Men's and Women's Quadrant Finals, 6:30 am onwards.
Soft Tennis: semifinals and finals, 7:30 am onwards.
Wrestling (Greco-Roman): Gyanendra, Neeraj, Vikash, Sunil Kumar, 7:30 am onwards.
Squash (semifinals): Mixed Doubles, Men's Individual, 9:30 am onwards.
Badminton (quarterfinals): Singles and doubles, 10:30 am onwards.
Boxing (Finals): Lovlina Borgohain, Jaismine Lamboria, Parveen Hooda, Lovlina Borgohain, Deepak Bhoria, Nishanth Dev, Shiva Thapa, Sachin, Lakshya Chahar, 11:30 am onwards.
Men's Hockey: Semifinals, 1:30 pm onwards.
Athletics: 3:30 pm onwards.
Asian Games Day 12 - October 5
Archery: Compound Men's and Women's Teams QFs to Final, 6:30 am onwards.
Jiu-Jitsu: Qualification to finals, 6:30 am onwards.
Wrestling: Greco Roman - Narender Cheema, Naveen, 7:30 am onwards.
Wrestling: Women's Freestyle - Pooja Gehlot, Antim Panghal, Manshi, 7:30 am onwards.
Badminton: Quarterfinals and Semifinals, 10:30 am onwards.
Boxing (Finals): Parveen Hooda, Arundhati Chaudhary, Deepak Bhoria, Nishant Dev, Sachin, Lakshya Chahar, Narender, 11:30 am onwards.
Squash: Individual, 11:30 am onwards.
Squash: Mixed Doubles Finals, 11:30 am onwards.
Women's Hockey: Semifinal matches, 1:30 pm.
Asian Games Day 13 - October 6
Equestrian: Dressage Team and Individual final standings, 5:30 am.
Archery: Recurve Women's and Men's Teams Quarterfinals to Final, 6:30 am.
Men's Cricket: Semifinals, 6:30 am onwards.
Bridge (Finals): Men's and Women's Pairs, 6:30 am.
Bridge (Finals): Mixed Team, 6:30 am.
Jiu-Jitsu: Qualification to finals, 6:30 am.
Kabaddi: Women's Semifinals, 7 am onwards.
Kabaddi: Men's Semifinals, 7 am onwards.
Wrestling: Women's Freestyle - Sonam Malik, Radhika, Kiran, 7:30 am onwards.
Wrestling: Men's Freestyle - Aman Sehrawat, Bajrang Punia, 7:30 am onwards.
Sepak Takraw: Men's and Women's Regu Semifinals, 11:30 am onwards.
Men's Hockey: Final, 4 pm onwards.
Badminton: Men's Singles Semifinals, 4:30 pm onwards.
Asian Games Day 14 - October 7, Saturday
Archery: All Individual Finals, 6:30 am.
Sepak Takraw: Men's and Women's Regu Final, 6:30 am.
Jiu-Jitsu: Qualification to finals, 6:30 am.
Kabaddi: Women's Final, 7 am.
Wrestling: Men's Freestyle, Yash, Deepak Punia, Vicky and Sumit, 7:30 am.
Badminton: Men's Singles Finals, 10:30 am onwards.
Badminton: Women's Singles Finals, 10:30 am onwards.
Badminton: Men's Doubles Finals, 10:30 am onwards.
Men's Cricket: Final, 11:30 am.
Kabaddi: Men's Final, 12:30 pm.
Women's Hockey: Final, 4 pm.
Asian Games Day 15 - October 8
Asian Games 2023 Closing Ceremony.
This promises to be an exciting edition of Asian Games. It will be interesting to see which nation finishes with the maximum number of medals.
