Shooters led India's medal hunt on the opening day of 2014 Asian Games at Incheon, where pistol-shooter Jitu Rai won India's first gold in the 50m event, shortly after Shweta Chaudhry opened India's account with a bronze in the 10m Women's Pistol event.
Jitu held his nerves to clinch the yellow metal off his last short in the final, edging out silver medal-winner from Vietnam, Hoang Phuong Nguyen, while Chinese Wei Pang settled for bronze.
Rai accumulated 186.2 points in comparison to Phuong's 183.4 and Zhiwei stood a distant third with 165.6 points. This was India's second medal at the Games after Shweta Chaudhry opened account with a bronze in the 10m air pistol event.
Jitu has won six medals in last six competitions since June 2014.
Lucknow boy Jitu is also the first Indian shooter to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics after bagging a quota place with an impressive silver medal-finish at the 51st Shooting World Championships in August. Jitu also won a gold medal in the 50m pistol event in Commonwealth Games at Glasgow.
But he is not finished yet at Incheon, with his favourite 10m Pistol event, where he is ranked world No.1, scheduled for Sunday.
Earlier, Shooter Shweta Chaudhry gave India their first medal of the 17th Asian Games after the Faridabad girl clinched bronze in the Women's 10m Air Pistol final.
Shweta looked focused from the start as she sailed through even after her much fancied teammates Heena Sidhu and Malaika Goel failed to make the finals cut. The World No.146 had a topsy-turvy ride in the finals as she led the standings after 3 shots but soon slipped to sixth and then improved to third.
In badminton, the Indian women's team lived up to its potential to reach the semi-final at the Asian Games.
The shuttlers first beat Macau 3-0 in the Round of 16 and then came up with a brilliant performance to oust a strong Thailand 3-2 in the quarter-finals. Reaching the last four, where they will take on South Korea Sunday, the team assured India of at least a bronze, their first in the discipline since 1986.
However, it was the end of the road for the men's team who lost their opening round match to hosts South Korea.
In Judo, Thoudam Kalpana Devi missed out on a possible bronze after losing her repechage bout against Kazakhstan's Lenariya Mingazova in the 52 kg category, ending a disappointing day for the Indian team on the mat.
Except Kalpana, who reached the repechage round, the two other Indians - Navdeep Channa (men's 60 kg) and Likmabam Sushila Devi (women's 48 kg) - were eliminated in the earlier rounds.
Channa, a silver medallist at the recently concluded Glasgow Commonwealth Games, lost his pre-quarterfinal bout against Boldbaatar Ganbat of Mongolia after having beaten Abdulla Almaraghy of Kuwait in the first round.
Sushila beat Uzbekistan's Mukkadas Kubeeva in the pre-quarter-final before losing to Asian champion and world No. 5 Emi Yamagishi of Japan as the champion judoka won via 'Ippon'.
With Yamagishi reaching the final, Sushila got a a chance in the repechage but lost to Wu Shugen of China.
The only Indian judoka left in the fray is Rajwinder Kaur in the 75 kg category.
In tennis, the women's team was off to a winning start as it blanked Oman 3-0 in the first round on Saturday. Prarthana Gulabrao Thombare and Ankita Raina notched up contrasting singles victories before the pairing of Natasha Marie Anne Palha and Rishika Sunkara was handed a walkover in the doubles match.
The Indian handball team started its Asian Games campaign on a disappointing note, going down 20-39 to Chinese Taipei in their opening Group D match. In a rather lopsided contest, the Indians were trailing 11-24 at the end of the first 30-minute period before losing the next period 9-15.
The Indian men's volleyball team got off to a brilliant start by notching up a 3-1 win over Hong Kong in their opening Group C game. Playing at the Ansan Sangroksu Gymnasium, Indian men beat Hong Kong 23-25, 25-18, 25-16 and 25-21 in an hour and 29 minutes .
However, the women were not so lucky as they went down 0-3 to hosts South Korea in a Group A encounter at the Songnim Gymnasium, losing 2-25, 12-25, 13-25.
Indian track cyclists - both men's and women's teams - failed to qualify for their sprint finals.
In the men's section, the team comprising Alan Baby, Amrit Singh and Amarjit Singh Nagi finished seventh out of nine teams, managing to clock 24.747 seconds, 19.661 seconds and 20.236 seconds to put up a combined score of 1 minute and 4.644 seconds.
In the women's event, the team of Kezia Vargheese and Deborah finished seventh and last in the heat. The duo timed 27.063 seconds on Lap 1 and 21.845 seconds on Lap 2 to come out with a combined time of 48.908 seconds.
In squash, Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa won their respective Round of 16 matches in the singles event and will face each other in the quarterfinals, thereby, assuring India of a maiden medal in the women's event.
In men's category, India's Saurav Ghosal moved into the quarter-final of singles after beating Jordan's Alsaraj Ahmad Khaleel Ahmad 11-2, 11-4, 11-3. But Harinder Pal Singh lost 4-11, 6-11, 2-11 against Kuwait's Abdullah Almezayen in Men's Singles Round of 16.
In Wushu, India began their campaign on a mixed note with two players making it to the quarter-finals while four of them making an early exit.
Narender Grewal beat Mangal Prasad Tharu of Nepal in 'win by round' verdict in his Round of 16 Sanda 60kg contest. The Indian won 2-0. Grewal will take on Abdullah of Pakistan in the quarter-finals on Monday.
Yumnam Sanathoi Devi also made it to the quarter-final round in women's Sanda 52kg event after defeating Kamalova Mubarak of Uzbekistan. The Indian won her Round of 16 contest in a 'win by round' verdict as she registered a 2-0 victory. Sanathoi now faces Amgalanjargal Sangidorj of Mongolia in the quarter-finals on Monday.
But Santosh Kumar lost in Men's Sanda -56kg Round of 16 and Bimoljit Singh was also knocked out in Sanda -65kg.
In men's Changquan final, Anjul Namdeo finished ninth with a score of 9.03. In women's category, Sandhyarani Devi lost to Vietnam's Tan Thi Ly in Sanda -60kg Round of 16.
In Equestrian, India finished 6th in Dressage Team Prix St-Georges.
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