The pressure was on India’s golden boy Chopra and Qatari sensation Barshim to deliver at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium this evening.

Chopra and Barshim were heavy favourite to win gold medals but were pushed all the way on a gripping night in this Chinese city.

Fellow Indian Kishore Jena emerged as Chopra’s biggest threat as he took the lead in the third round with a throw of 86.77 metres.

Jena turned up the heat on Chopra when he went even further, producing a personal best of 87.54m.

Chopra was up against it, but he rose to the challenge, pulling off a season’s best throw of 88.88m for gold.

"I made my season's best by one centimetre," said Chopra.

"But most of all I'm really happy for Jena.

"The throws he made today - I had a lot of fun.

"We hugged each other as we both won medals for India."

Barshim also came up against tough opposition as he aimed to secure the men’s high jump title for a third successive Asian Games.

South Korea’s Woo Sang-hyeok cleared 2.33m, forcing Barshim to reach the height of 2.35m to win the title.

Barshim got over the bar at the first attempt, equalling his own Asian Games record in the process.

"It feels amazing," the 32-year-old said.

"When I was young, in [Doha] 2006, the previous Asian Games before I competed, I was a volunteer holding the basket for the high jumpers.

"I really wanted to win that so winning today, my third gold after a bad injury [in 2018], I should be really happy and satisfied."

India finished the night with two athletics golds as they also captured the men’s 4x400 metres relay title in a national record time of 3min 01.58sec.

Bahrain were the other big winners on the track as they defeated India to win women’s 4x400m relay gold, while Birhanu Balew triumphed in the men’s 5,000m final.

He clocked 13:17.40 to smash the Asian Games record by almost nine seconds and complete a golden double after winning the 10,000m title.

It was also a night for teenagers to shine as 18-year-old Sri Lankan Tharushi Karunarathna captured the women’s 800m crown in 2:03.20 before 17-year-old Uzbek Sharifa Davronova became the women’s triple jump champion with a personal best distance of 14.09m.

It might not have been China’s evening at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium but they won many more golds in several other events.

China started the day by making their mark in dragon boat racing, triumphing in both the women’s and men’s 200m straight races.

This was soon followed by success on land as Bai Xueying, Qieyang Shijie, He Xianghong, and Wang Qin claimed mixed team 35 kilometres race walk gold after a five-hour battle.

China also enjoyed a sport climbing double as they defeated Indonesia in the men’s and women’s speed relay finals.

Their monopoly on diving continued with Chen Yiwen emerging victorious from the women’s 3m springboard final before Yang Hao struck men’s 10m platform gold.

The hosts also secured the only roller skating title on offer today courtesy of Zhang Hao and Zhu Siyi’s victory in the mixed inline freestyle skating slalom pair final.

Li Qian and Yang Wenlu claimed boxing golds for China, winning the respective women’s under-75 kilograms and women’s under-60kg categories.

Other boxing titles were won by North Korea’s Pang Cholmi in the women’s 54kg, Chinzorig Baatarsukh of Mongolia in the men’s under-63.5kg and Chinese Taipei’s Kan Chia Wei in the men’s under-71kg categories.

Wrestling finals were held for the first time with four gold medals awarded in Greco-Roman categories.

Zholaman Sharshenbekov of Kyrgyzstan clinched the first wrestling gold with a 7-6 win over Japan’s Ayata Suzuki in the 60kg division before his fellow countryman Akzhol Makhmudov won the 77kg category.

Japan’s Katsuaki Endo and Uzbekistan’s Jalgasbay Berdimurtov won the respective 67kg and 87kg divisions.

Myanmar earned their first gold of Hangzhou 2022 came in sepak takraw with a 2-0 win over Indonesia in the men’s quadrant gold-medal match.

Vietnam defeated Indonesian opposition 2-1 to seal women’s quadrant gold.

Japan overcame Chinese Taipei in both soft tennis finals today to win women’s and men’s team gold medals.

Saudi Arabia saw off Qatar and the United Arab Emirates with a perfect performance in the jump-off to claim team jumping gold in the equestrian competition.

There was also a thrilling finish to the women’s cycling road race as Yang Qiangyu of Hong Kong got the better of defending champion Na Ah-reum of South Korea.

Indian archers Ojas Pravin Deotale and Jyothi Surekha Vennam held their nerve to beat South Koreans So Chae-won and Joo Jae-hoon 159-158 in a high-quality mixed team compound 16 arrows 50m final.

Lim Sih-yeon and Lee Woo-seok bagged an archery gold for South Korea with an impressive performance to down Japan 6-0 in the mixed team recurve final.