Asian Games 2010

Guangzhou is the second Chinese city to host the Games, after Beijing in 1990. A total of 476 events in 42 sports will be contested by athletes, making it the largest event in the history of the Games. Guangzhou was awarded the right to host the Games on July 1, 2004, as the sole bidding city. Gymnast Ashish Kumar, swimmer Virdhawal Khade, chess International Master Harika Dronavalli and wushu exponent Bimoljit Singh Tuesday claimed a bronze apiece for India at the Asian Games on a day boxer Suranjoy Singh and paddlers Sharath-Saha advanced into the next round. Kumar's was India's first Asiad medal in the sport, while Khade's came after 24 years.

India were assured of at least a silver in women's wushu with Sandhyarani Devi moving into the finals of the event.

India defeated Vietnam 3-0 in their last group match to book a place in the quarterfinals of the men's volleyball competition.

Commonwealth Games gold medallists Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa lost to second-seeded Chinese Tian Qin and Zhao Yunlei 10-21, 5-21 in the women's doubles pre-quarterfinals. India's medal-winning streak in cue sports came to a halt with Dharmender Singh Lily, Alok Kumar and Manan Chandra crashing out of their respective events.

India's judo campaign also ended.

China head the table with 133 medals (77-28-28), followed by South Korea-66 (22-17-27) and Japan-78 (15-34-29). Ashish Kumar's bronze came in the men's gymnastics floor final with an aggregate score of 14.92 behind gold winner Chenglong Zhang of China (15.40) and South Korean Soo Myun Kim (15.40), who won the silver.

Khade, who narrowly missed the bronze in the 50 metre freestyle event Monday, clocked 24.31 seconds for his third-place finish.

Jiawei Zhou (23.66 secs) won the gold while the silver went to Japan's Masayuki Kishida (24.13 secs).

Harika, with five wins, two losses and one draw, scored 5.5 points to come third in the women's individual chess event, where Chinese top seed Hou Yifan won the gold and compatriot Zhao Xue claimed the silver.

Bimoljit lost 0-2 to Iranian Mohsen Mohammadseifi in the semifinal of the men's wushu event and settled for the bronze medal. Sharath and Saha, who won the doubles gold in the Delhi Commonwealth Games, next face tough opponents in South Koreans Jungwoo Lee and Sang Eun Ho in the round of 16 Thursday.

The other Indian men's doubles pair of Soumyadeep Roy and Anthony Amalraj failed to get past Cheung Yuk and Li Ching of Hong Kong and lost 5-11, 5-11, 7-11.

The men's singles and women's doubles first round matches will be played Wednesday.

Tombi, who was a medal hope along with judo World Cup bronze medallist Kalpana Devi, failed to score a point against Jung Yeon Chung and lost 0/110 in the women's 48kg category. Chinese Taipei players beat their Uzbek rivals 2-1 to take a gold medal in the men's tennis team competition at the 2010 Asian Games, pushing Taiwan's total medal standing to fifth place with three golds, five silvers and 11 bronzes.

Chinese Taipei women's tennis players succumbed to their Chinese counterparts to win silver.

In women's 6-red snooker singles, Lai Hui-shan lost to her Chinese competitor Chen Siming to also settle for silver.

Hsiao Yung-jih of Chinese Taipei won bronze in shadow boxing and taichi sword in the martial arts events.