2026 Asian Para Games: Mona, Nishad clinch gold; Rinku, Soumya shine in athletics – Highlights
Para Archery, Compound Women: Sheetal Devi tops ranking round!
Sheetal Devi shoots an excellent 704 to top the women's individual compound ranking round. Payal Nag shoots 675 to finish fifth.
The duo combines for a total of 1379 to help India top the women's compound doubles ranking round!
Sheetal's 704 also equals the world record for women's individual compound!
Para Archery, Men's Recurve Ranking Round: Harvinder, Vijay emerge as best doubles pair
India's Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi combine to top the men's recurve doubles ranking round. They shoot a combined total of 1261.
While Harvinder shot 631 to finish fifth in individual recurve, Vijay shot 630 to be placed seventh!
Para Badminton, Men's singles SH6: Third straight win for Sivarajan
India's Sivarajan Solaimalai defeated Brunei Darussalam's Faiq Zali 21-8, 21-11 in just 16 minutes to register a straight-game win in the men's singles SH6 group match. This was Sivarajan's third consecutive victory in the group stage.
Para Table Tennis, Women's Singles Class 9: Baby Sahana Ravi takes down Kazakhstan
Yet another easy outing for Baby Sahana Ravi of India in women's singles Class 9 table tennis.
She beats Kazakhstan's Altynay Yerzhankyzy 11-4, 11-6, 11-5 in straight games!
Para Table Tennis, Women's Singles Class 3: Third consecutive win for Sonalben Patel
Sonalben Patel continues her merry run at the 2026 Asian Para Games. She registers her third consecutive women's singles Class 3 win in Group B, taking down Chinese Taipei's Chao Pei-Hsi.
Sonal beat the Taipei paddler 11-2, 11-5, 11-4 in a mere 15 minutes!
Para Badminton, Men's singles WH1: Prem Kumar suffers straight-game loss
India's Prem Kumar Ale suffered a straight-game defeat against Malaysia's Muhammad Ikhwan Bin Ramli, losing 14-21, 15-21 in his third group-stage match.
The 39-year-old Indian has won two and lost one of his three group matches so far.
Para Badminton, Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5: Nitesh-Tulasimathi, Manasi-Ruthick win
Both Indian pair of Nitesh Kumar-Tulasimathi Murugesan and Manasi Joshi-Ruthick Ragupathi started off well.
Nitesh-Tulasimathi won their seocnd straight mgroup match against Chinese pair Pengfei Chen-Zixuan Huang 21-4, 21-18 in 23 minutes. They remain undefeated so far in group B.
Meanwhile, Manasi Joshi and Ruthick Ragupathi overturned their two losses and to finally register their first win in three outings. They beat Kathleen Pedrosa-Khian Kyle Urbano 21-5, 21-15.
All pairs will play three group matches and six will advance to the quarterfinals.
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Hello and welcome to The Bridge's LIVE coverage of the 2026 Asian Para Games.
A total of 168 Indian athletes, including Paralympic champions like Avani Lekhara, Sumit Antil and others will be in action over the course of the next week.
India had won a total of 111 medals at the delayed 2022 Hangzhou Asian Para Games three years ago. Can they surpass the tally this time around?
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