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Asian Games 2026: Nitesh Siwach wins Greco-Roman silver after 64 years; Squash men's team wins bronze - Highlights
Follow India's October 1 action featuring hockey, volleyball, cricket, Sumit Nagal, squash, archery, wrestling and more.
Asian Games: India enjoyed its biggest medal haul of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Wednesday, with the compound archers completing a sweep of all three team gold and Neeru Dhanda and Kynan Chenai adding another gold in mixed team trap shooting.
The four gold medals, along with three bronze medals from boxing and wrestling, took India's tally to 60 medals: 10 gold, 21 silver and 29 bronze, moving the country up to seventh in the standings.
India's women's hockey team also booked its place in the final with a 2-0 win over South Korea, setting up a gold-medal clash against China.
The action continues on Thursday with several major medal and knockout events. India will face Pakistan in the men's hockey semifinal at 1:00 PM, while the men's volleyball team takes on Pakistan in a quarterfinal at 6:30 AM.
The men's cricket team will face Sri Lanka in the semifinal at 10:00 AM, while Sumit Nagal will play his men's singles quarterfinal against China at 6:30 AM. India's women's squash team faces Hong Kong in the semifinal at 7:00 AM, followed by the men's team taking on Malaysia at 1:00 PM.
There will also be medal opportunities in archery, shooting, wrestling, judo, canoeing, cycling, taekwondo and sport climbing, making it another packed day for the Indian contingent.
Highlights:
Live Updates
- 1 Oct 2026 11:10 AM IST
Archery, Men's Compound Bronze match: Ganesh Thirumuru returns
Ganesh Thirumuru returns to the podium for his bronze medal match. He is up against Cong Duc Dang of Vietnam.
- 1 Oct 2026 11:05 AM IST
Golf, Women's Round 2: Pranavi Urs remains in second place after day 2
Pranavi Urs (-11) had another exceptional day, scoring seven-under par with a score of 63 on the second day to maintain her second position in the standings, two shots behind the leader, Shannon Tan of Singapore.
The other two Indians, Aditi Ashok (+5) and Diksha Dagar (+4), had yet another disappointing day, carding 74 and 63 respectively and finishing the day outside the top 20.
Meanwhile, Pranvi's brilliant showing helped India to climb up in the team rankings to third place with a combined total of -6 from their top two golfers.
China leads the team tally with -12, followed by Singapore in second with -11.
- 1 Oct 2026 10:49 AM IST
Archery, Men's Compound Semis: Ganesh LOSES!
Ganesh Thirumuru has conceded the men's compound archery semi-final to Kim Jong Ho 144-148.
An extremely poor outing for the Indian in the match and he'll have to sort out whatever went wrong quickly with the bronze medal match just minutes away.
Ganesh shot six 9s in those 15 shots, including two in the final three. He didn't have even a single perfect series
- 1 Oct 2026 10:45 AM IST
Archery, Men's Compound Semis: Kim strengthens his grip
Just not working out for Ganesh at this moment. 10-9-10 from him, while Kim shoots a perfect 30.
Two points to make up with three arrows left and unless there's a massive miss from the South Korean, Ganesh is heading into the bronze medal match.
- 1 Oct 2026 10:43 AM IST
Archery, Men's Compound Semis: Ganesh pulls back a point
Ganesh Thirumuru shoots 9-10-10, but he has managed to reduce the deficit as Kim goes 9-10-9.
With two ends and six arrows remaining, this could swing either ways with scores reading 87-88.
- 1 Oct 2026 10:40 AM IST
Archery, Men's Compound Semis: Kim extends lead
9-10-10 for Ganesh Thirumuru, while Kim has yet another perfect series to extend his lead.
Pressure on the Indian now as he trails by two points at 58-60.
- 1 Oct 2026 10:39 AM IST
Shooting, 25m Men’s Rapid Fire Pistol: Anish in Final!
Anish Bhanwala, the lone Indian shooter in action, advanced to the final of men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol final with a score of 576.
He was the 9th best at the end of qualification round but there were three South Korean shooters at 2nd, 3rd and 4th positions and a maximum of two shooters advance to the final. Hence, Anish qualified for the final.
The final will take place at 12 noon IST.
- 1 Oct 2026 10:38 AM IST
Archery, Men's Compound Semis: Ganesh trails after END 1
Not an ideal start to the first end for Ganesh Thirumuru, who drops a point with his final arrow.
Kim, however, has a perfect 30 to leave the Indian trailing 29-30.
- 1 Oct 2026 10:35 AM IST
Archery, Men's Compound Semis: Ganesh Thirumuru in action
Ganesh Thirumuru is on the podium for his men's compound semi-finals. He goes up against South Korea's Kim Jong Ho.
- 1 Oct 2026 10:32 AM IST
Tennis: Sumit Nagal loses as India ends campaign medal-less after 40 years
Sumit faced a straight-set 4-6, 4-6 defeat to much higher-ranked Wu Yibing of China in the quarterfinals.
The world No. 111 Yibing proved to be too strong for Nagal, as he conceded three breaks in the match while he could manage to break Yibing's serve just once.
India has been one of the consistent teams in tennis at the Asian Games, but with this defeat, India has ended a long 40-year medal streak at the Games in Aichi-Nagoya.
