2026 Asian Para Games: Mona, Nishad clinch gold; Rinku, Soumya shine in athletics – Highlights

Para Shooting, Men's 10m air rifle SH1 Final: No medals for India

India will return empty handed in men's 10m air rifle standing SH1 event. 

Swaroop Unhalkar finishes just outside the podium, finishing fourth with a score of 205.9 while Rakesh Nidagundi finishes sixth with 141.5!

Para Badminton, Men's Singles SL3 Group Stage: Pramod Bhagat registers second consecutive win

Pramod Bhagat was stretched to a three setter by South Korea's S Lee 16-21, 21-14, 21-13 in one hour 13 minutes. He has now won both his group matches.  

Para Shooting, Men's 10m air rifle standing SH1 Final: Swaroop, Rakesh in action

The men's 10m air rifle standing SH1 final is underway at the 2026 Asian Para Games. India's Swaroop and Rakesh are in contention.

Neither of them had a good outing in the qualification round, taking the last two spots available for the final.

Swaroop has had a decent start to the final and is placed fourth currently, while Rakesh seems to be struggling.

There is no LIVE stream for the event. But stay tuned, we've got you covered!

Para Shooting, 10m air rifle SH1: Four Indians into the final

Four Indians are through to the final in 10m air rifle SH1.

While Mona Agarwal topped the women's qualification round with an Asian Para Games qualification record score of 629.1, Avani Lekhara finished second with 626.4.

In the men's section, India's Rakesh Nidagundi (619.3) and Swaroop Unhalkar (617.4) finished seventh and eighth respectively to reach finals.

All of them will be in action in the final later today!

Para Cycling, Men's Individual Pursuit C1-C2: Arshad finishes last

India's Arshad Shaik clocks 4:22.755 to finish last and crash out of contention in para cycling men's individual pursuit C1-C2.

Para Judo, Women's 52kg J2: Kokila in FINAL!

Kokila stunned the reigning world champion Yi Liu of China in the women's J2 -52kg semifinal. She is now assured atleast a silver. Kolika will take on Kyrgyzstan's Aibike Ulanbek Kyzy in the final at 12:30pm.

Para Swimming, Finals in the evening

The following Indian para swimmers will in action in their respective finals in the evening. Swimming action resumes at 01:30 PM.

Men's 400m Freestyle S7: Niranjan Mukundan and Gopichand Lingutla

Women's 400m Freestyle S8: Vaishnavi Vinod Jagtap

Men's 100m Backstroke S11: Himanshu Nandal

Men's 100m Freestyle S13: Ravi Karthik Budigina

Men's 200m Individual Medley SM9: Satwik Patil

Men's 100m Freestyle S10: Kapil Kumar and Ajay Hindurao Bhosale.

Para Judo, men's J1 -70kg: Kapil Parmar in semis

Paris paralympics bronze medalist Kapil Parmar advanced to the semifinals of the men's J1 -70kg. He beat Mongolia's Bat-erdene Baatarsuren won by Ippon in 4:53.

Para Badminton, Men's Singles SH6: Upsetting result for Krishna Nagar

Two-time Asian Para Games medallist Krishna Nagar suffered his first loss in the group stage of men's singles SH6, going down 15-21, 21-6, 19-21 to China’s Naili Lin. Krishna had won his first two group matches.

Para Archery, Women's W1: Swati Chaudhary will be the top seed

India's Swati Chaudhary will be the top seed in women's W1 archery heading deeper into the competition.

She tops the ranking round with a score of 648 in the six-woman field.