Asian Para Games 2026: Simran, Nishad, Devender and Pranav win Gold medals in Para Athletics– Highlights

India is currently in 6th place on the medal tally with 35 medals: 9 Gold, 11 Silver, 15 Bronze

• Athletics:

5 Gold (Deepthi Jeevanji, Pranav Soorma, Devender Kumar, Simran Sharma, Nishad Kumar), 4 Silver (Preeti Pal, Rakesh, Pradeep Kumar, Ram Ratan Singh), 5 Bronze (Praveen Sharma, Hokato Sema, Pardeep Kumar, Tejalben Damor, Ayush Verma)

• Table Tennis:

5 Bronze (Bhavina Patel, Sonalben Patel, Jehan Madan, Baby Sahan Ravi, Prachi Pandey)

• Shooting:

1 Silver (Manish Narwal), 1 Bronze (Shristhi Arora)

• Swimming:

2 Bronze (Himanshu Nandal, Niranjan Mukundan)

• Powerlifting:

1 Silver (Ashok Malik)

Nishad leaps at 2.04m to set a new Games record and win the title, successfully defending his gold from the Hangzhou Asian Para Games.

This is the second gold medal at these Games after the long jump gold on Monday.

Devender Kumar clinched the title with a throw of 49.71m, accumulating 781 points, while Rakesh clinched silver with 771 points after a 49.35m throw.

Meanwhile, Pardeep Kumar, a F64 athlete, threw a new personal best distance of 51.15m to bag 669 Raza points and a bronze medal to complete a podium sweep for India.

She topped Group A after winning three of her four matches to confirm her place in the semi-final and is now just one win away from a medal.

She had a brilliant final day of the group stage, winning both her matches against Singapore and a Chinese athlete, which pushed her from third to first place in her group.

She will next face Thailand's Ladamanee Kla-Han in the semi-final on Wednesday.

The Indian para swimmer clocked 2:57.01, finishing on the podium behind China’s Zhang Yilong and the Philippines’ Ernie Gawilan.

Fellow Indian Suyash Narayan Jadhav also made the final, finishing 5th with a time of 3:03.40s.

This is India's third medal in swimming after a silver from Ravi Budigina and a bronze from Himanshu Nandal.

The Paris 2024 Paralympic bronze medallist ran 29.53s in the Women’s 200m T35 final to finish second.

This is the first Asian Para Games medal for Preeti, who missed out last time, finishing 4th.

Pranav claimed a new Asian record of 11.66m to earn 932 raza points and finish the combined F51, F52, F53 final with a gold medal.

Meanwhile, Ram Ratan Singh, also an F51 athlete, finished second with the best of 10.35s to earn 809 Raza points and win the silver medal.

Raza points are used when two or more classification categories are clubbed together, as this system makes it an even field.

Simran Sharma clocked a new Games record to win the title with 24.08s, while Tejalben registered a new personal best of 25.23m to clinch the bronze medal.