Asian Games 2023 roller skating: India’s results and medal winners
A 14-member Indian roller skating squad competed across various events at Hangzhou 2023. Get all results and know India's medal winners.
The Indian roller skating team competed at the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China. India were represented by 14 roller skaters at the event, surpassing the 12-member contingent from 2010.
Roller skating at Asian Games 2023 was held at the Qiantang Roller Sports Centre from September 30 to October 7, wherein skaters contested for 10 gold medals. Introduced at the Asian Games in 2010, roller skating was held for the third time at the continental meet.
Roller skating is a sport where an athlete races on smooth terrains with roller skates, which come in two varieties - four wheels with two on either side of the boot or four wheels inline down the middle.
Artistic skating, inline freestyle skating and speed skating are the different event categories in the sport at the Asian Games.
Indian roller skaters won two bronze medals at the Asian Games 2023 through the men's and women's speed skating 3000m relay teams.
The two medals from Hangzhou takes India's overall medal tally in roller skating at the Asian Games to four - all bronze. The previous two came from Guangzhou 2010. Anup Kumar Yama bagged one bronze in the men’s singles free skating event and clinched the other with compatriot Avani Panchal in the pairs skating competition.
Asian Games 2023 roller skating: India’s roller skaters in Hangzhou
The Roller Skating Federation of India conducted Asian Games final selection trials at Mohali on June 25 and 26. The top skaters made the Indian team for Hangzhou.