Asian Para Games 2026: Sheetal Devi wins two Golds; Dilip, Shailesh clinch athletics gold– Highlights
Para Athletics, Women's 400m T47: Anjanaben and Jayanti win Gold & Silver medals
Anajanaben Bumbadiya wins gold with a time of 59.97s, while Jayanti Behara settles for silver with a time of 1:00.65s
Para Badminton, women's singles SU5 semis: Thulasimathi in final; Manisha settles for BRONZE!
Manisha Ramadass settled for bronze in the Women's Singles SU5 after losing to compatriot Thulasimathi Murugesan in a hard fought three-game semifinal.
After winning the opening game 21-19, Thulasimathi fought back to take the second 21-15 and the decider 21-13.
Thulasimathi will play China's Qiuxia Yang in the final.
Para Athletics, Women's 400m T12: Tejalben Damor wins silver medal
She clocks 57.60s to finish second behind Iran's Hazar Safarzadeh (56.43s) to win her second medal at these games.
Earlier, she had won a bronze in the women's 200m T12 event a couple of days ago.
Para Badminton, Men's Singles SL3 semis: Pramod Bhagat in Final
India's Pramod Bhagat sealed his place in the final with three game win over South Korea's Lee Seunghu 16-21, 21-18, 21-17.
Bhagat, who led the Indian contingent in the opening ceremony along with Simran Sharma, was trailing 0-7 in the third and final game before recovering and taking lead. He will now take on compatriot Nitesh Kumar in the final.
Para Swimming, Men's 400m Freestyle S10 Final: Kapil Kumar wins silver medal
Kapil Kumar clocks 4:38.44s to finish second behind Japan's Akito Minai (4:27.44s) and wins his first medal in Aichi Nagoya.
This was India's third silver in the swimming programme.
Para Archery, Women's Compound Individual: Sheetal Devi clinches Gold medal
The Indian archer came from 55-59 behind to topple Singapore's Nur Syahidah Alim 142-139 in a thrilling final to clinch gold.
Sheetal had a poor start because of a 26-point second end, but then she bounced back strongly with two perfect 30s and confirmed the title.
This is Sheetal's third medal at the Games, adding to her gold in the Mixed Team event and silver in the Women's Doubles.
Para Table Tennis, Mixed Doubles Class XD7: Bhavina Patel & Shubham Wadhwa clinch a Bronze
Bhavina and Shubham clinch India's first doubles medal in Aichi-Nagoya, bagging a bronze medal after a 1-3 defeat in the semis.
The duo lost 6-11, 11-8, 5-11, 9-11 to South Korea's Yeongjin Jang and Migyu Lee but confirmed a medal.
This is India's 6th table tennis medal at this edition and the second for Bhavina, who had won a bronze in women's singles Class 4-5.
Para Badminton, Men's Singles SL3 semis: Nitesh Kumar in FINAL!!
Paris Paralympics champion Nitesh Kumar stormed into the men's singles SL3, defeating Indonesia's M Imran 21-19, 21-16 in 52 minutes.
Pramod Bhagat will also be in action shortly in other semifinal. If Bhagat wins, it will be an all Idnian final in men's singles SL3.
Para Archery, Compound Mixed Team: Sheetal Devi & Toman Kumar win first archery GOLD of this edition
The two reigning individual world champions combined to earn India's first archery gold medal in Japan, with a win over Indonesia.
The Indian pair started with a 38-37 lead in the first end and then improved to 77-73 with a brilliant score of 39 in the second end.
The duo had a comparatively bad third end of 36 but still maintained a three-point lead going into the final end.
Sheetal and Toman bounced back in the final end with a score of 38 and confirmed a 151-148 win over the Indonesian pair.
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