Asian Games
Asian Games 2026: Roshibina wins silver; Bronze in rowing, two medals in Athletics – Highlights
Highlights from India’s Asian Games campaign on September 24 as Roshibina Devi fights for wushu gold, rowers chase medals and India faces South Korea in hockey.
Asian Games 2026, September 24: India return to action on Thursday with a busy medal schedule, led by Roshibina Devi’s women’s 60kg sanda final in wushu and a series of rowing finals in the morning.
Roshibina will be the first major medal contender in action when she takes on China’s Xiaoyu Zhang at 6:05 AM, with gold at stake. The Indian had reached the final with a 2-0 semifinal win over Indonesia’s Thania Kusumaningtyas and will now look to move up from her bronze-medal finishes at the 2018 and 2022 Asian Games.
Rowing will also be a major focus, with the men’s single sculls and double sculls finals scheduled from 5:10 AM. Balraj Panwar will be among India’s medal hopefuls after progressing to the men’s singles sculls final on Wednesday. India will also feature in the women’s four and men’s quadruple sculls finals.
The day will also feature Indian athletes across boxing, squash, table tennis, fencing, canoeing, swimming, gymnastics and athletics.
Animesh Kujur and Gurindervir Singh will compete in the men’s 100m heats, while the evening athletics programme includes the women’s 10,000m final and mixed 4x400m relay final.
Highlights:
Live Updates
- 24 Sept 2026 1:15 PM IST
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea: India beat South Korea 8-2
Shilanand Lakra (4'), Sukhjeet Singh (9'), Harmanpreet Singh (11'), Abhishek (14', 38'), Dilpreet Singh (26', 32') and Rajinder Singh (60') scored for India.
For South Korea Jaeho Kim (42') YongBok Kim (52') were the goal scorers.
- 24 Sept 2026 1:11 PM IST
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea: GOALLLL for India!
Rajinder add a goal (via PC) this time. Attack on South Korean goalkeepers left and get the EIGHTH goal for India.
IND 8-2 KOR
- 24 Sept 2026 1:10 PM IST
Rowing, Men's Quadruple Sculls Final: India finishes 5th; Ends rowing program with one medal
The Indian team of Arvind Singh, Navdeep Singh, Kulwinder Singh, and Jakar Khan finished in fifth place with a time of 5:52.17 and missed out on any medal chances.
They had a slow start and were in fifth place at the first 500m, but there wasn't much difference between the teams. However, the Indian team still couldn't improve their position and finished 5th.
With this, India's rowing programme has come to an end with just one medal, i.e a bronze from the double sculls in the morning.
- 24 Sept 2026 1:09 PM IST
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea: PC for India!
India miss an opportunity as the ball isn’t cleanly received, but they win another penalty corner while continuing the attack.
Another PC follows after Korea fail to make a clean stop. That’s three in succession for India.
Fourth attempt now! Korea are caught in a vicious loop of penalty corners, but they have held on impressively under sustained pressure. Deny any chance in the score.
IND 7-2 KOR
- 24 Sept 2026 1:01 PM IST
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea: GOALL for Korea
Korea strikes again. Kim YongBok charges with the ball inside India's D from the left and take a direct shot. And its a GOAL!
IND 7-2 KOR
- 24 Sept 2026 12:56 PM IST
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea: Korea continue to press, third PC
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea:
Twelve minutes of play remaining in the final quarter. Korea gets another PC, their third in the match.
But same story. Mohit Shivkumar does well to deny the Koreans.
IND 7-1 KOR
- 24 Sept 2026 12:53 PM IST
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea: Second PC for Korea
Manpreet is adjudged to have brought down the Korean forward, and the refree awards a penalty corner to South Korea.
But the decision is upgraded to a penalty stroke. India quickly take their referral, challenging the call. Its converted to a PC. India defends well. No goal
IND 7-1 KOR
- 24 Sept 2026 12:47 PM IST
Hockey, India M v/s South Korea: THIRD quarter ends
South Korea have produced a much stronger display in the third quarter. They first defended some back-to-back penalty corner efforts from India before pulling one back with a beautifully executed field goal, finishing off a move built on precise passing.
For India, it was a subdued one. They scored once but also conceded, maintaining their lead at 7-1.
- 24 Sept 2026 12:46 PM IST
Squash, Men's Singles: Veer Chotrani advances to quarters after a thrilling match
Veer was pushed to the end by the tricky Malaysian player, Sanjay Jeeva, but eventually the Indian player came out as the best, winning 3-2 (11-9, 8-11, 11-6, 15-17, 11-6)
Veer had a 2-1 lead in the match but was then challenged by Jeeva in the fourth game, and he missed out on three match points before losing 15-17 in a 27-minute game.
The decider was, however, much easier with Veer, gaining a good lead right from the start and finished it comfortably with 11-6 to reach the last 8.
He will now face the Pakistani player Muhammad Irfan in the quarterfinals, and the winner of the match will confirm a medal.
