Asian Para Games 2026: Simran, Nishad, Devender and Pranav win Gold medals in Para Athletics– Highlights
Para Shooting, Women's Air Pistol SH1: Shrishti Arora wins Bronze medal
After a poor start in the first series, Shrishti makes a solid comeback and hovers around the top 4 during the elimination series, eventually winning the bronze medal with 204.0.
Iranian shooters bagged gold & silver medals, while India's second shooter, Sumedha Pathak, finished eighth with a score of 111.4 after 12 shots.
Para Badminton, Mixed Doubles WH1-WH2: Prem-Alphia exit in quarters
Prem Kumar Ale and Alphia James exited the competition in the quarterfinal, losing in straight games (19-21, 16-21) to China's Menglu Yin and Jianpeng Mai.
Para Badminton, Men's Singles SL4: Suhas Yathiraj, Abhijeet Sakhuja advance to quarters
Suhas defeated Thailand's Siripong Teamarrom 21-15, 21-17 in the pre-quarterfinals, while Abhijeet got the better of Pengfei Chen 21-8, 21-12 in his round-of-16 match.
The two shuttlers have now joined Sukant Kadam, Suryakant Yadav and Naveen Sivakumar, who has already earned a bye in the last 8.
Suhas will now face Nadan Cho of South Korea in his quarterfinal, while Abhijeet is going to take on Suryakant in an All-Indian quarterfinal matchup.
Para Powerlifting, Men's 65Kg Final: Ashok wins a silver medal
Ashok finished second in the final with a best of 192kg and secured a silver medal, behind Yi Zou of China.
He started with a 187kg lift before upgrading it to 192kg. He also attempted 201 kg on his final lift but couldn't get a successful lift.
This is India's first medal in Para Powerlifting at these games.
Para Shooting, Men's 10m air pistol SH1: Manish Narwal wins SILVER!
Two-time Paralympic medallist Manish Narwal upgrades his Asian Para Games medal to a silver!
Manish shoots 233.7 in the men's 10m air pistol SH1 final to finish second behind South Korea's Jo Jeongdu, who shot an Asian Para Games record 241.3!
Rudransh Khandelwal, the other Indian in contention, finished seventh.
The silver medal also helped Manish secure a quota place for the upcoming 2028 LA Paralympics!
Para Badminton, Men's Singles SL3: Defending champion Pramod Bhagat confirms a medal
Pramod also registered a straight games win over Japan's Daisuke Fujihara (21-12, 21-10) to reach the semi-finals and secure a medal.
He will join Nitesh Kumar in the semi-final, who has already qualified from the upper half of the draw.
Para Badminton, Men's Singles SL3: Paralympic champion Nitesh Kumar confirms a medal.
Nitesh defeated Umesh Kumar in straight games (21-8, 21-8) in an all-Indian quarterfinal matchup in just 23 minutes.
He will next face Indonesia's Muh Al Imran in the last 4 for a place in his back-to-back Asian Para Games final.
Para Table Tennis, Women's Singles Class 6: Prachi Pandey wins bronze
India has no medals in the standing categories of table tennis at the Asian Para Games, but now it has two after Prachi Pandey added another bronze.
She lost her semi-final match to Iraq's Najlah Al-Dayyeni, 9-11, 2-11, 8-11, but secured a medal.
Para Table Tennis, Women's Singles Class 9: Baby Sahana Ravi wins Bronze
Baby Sahana claims India's first-ever medal in the standing category of Para Table Tennis.
She goes down 0-3 (8-11, 2-11, 4-11) to China's Mao Jingdian in the semi-finals to secure a bronze medal.
This is India's third bronze in table tennis at the 2026 Asian Para Games.
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