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 11:41 AM IST
Shooting, Mixed Skeet Final: 7/8 in second series for India
Anantjeet Singh Naruka misses his final shot, putting the pressure on Parinaaz Dhaliwal to deliver.
And she delivers in style. 4/4 for her, takes India's total after two series to 14/16.
Qatar has fallen behind in this race at 11/16, so India seem to be locked in for at least a bronze.
The elimination will begin after the next series, with the team at the bottom exiting the competition.
- 24 Sept 2026 11:40 AM IST
Squash, Women's Singles: India confirms a medal with Anahat Singh and Tanvi Sharma facing each other in quarters
Anahat Singh registered a straight-game win over Singapore's Wai Lynn Yeong, while Tanvi Khanna claimed a 3-1 win over Wai Yhann Yeong of Singapore.
The two will face each other in the quarterfinals tomorrow.
- 24 Sept 2026 11:36 AM IST
Hockey, Men’s Group Stage: Its time!
One final huddle before the match kicks off!
- 24 Sept 2026 11:34 AM IST
Shooting, Mixed Skeet Final: A miss for Parinaaz
India are placed third after the first series of eight shots with 7 hits. Korea and China lead with 8/8. Qatar is at 6/8.
- 24 Sept 2026 11:32 AM IST
Shooting, Mixed Skeet Final: Anantjeet Singh Naruka-Parinaaz Dhaliwal
Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Parinaaz Singh Dhailwal are out on the shooting range for the skeet mixed team final.
Can they open India's gold medal tally in shooting?
- 24 Sept 2026 11:31 AM IST
Hockey, Men’s Group Stage: India vs South Korea
Indian men's team has had a tremendous run so far in the group stage matches. The men in blue (not quite lierally!) beat Indonesia 13-1 in the opening match followed by a win over Sri Lanka 16-1.
- 24 Sept 2026 11:27 AM IST
Fencing, Women's Sabre: Shreya Gupta faces an R16 exit; India's individual campaign ends medalless
India's last remaining competitor, Shreya Gupta also bowed out in the last 16, losing 6-15 to the Olympic team medalist Jeon Ha-young of South Korea.
Shreya showed a good fight in the first round, keeping the deficit within reach at 5-8, but then was blasted out 1-7 in the second by Jeon.
This also ended India's individual campaign in Fencing at these Asian Games, with none of the fencers even reaching the quarterfinals.
- 24 Sept 2026 11:09 AM IST
Fencing, Women's Sabre: Bhavani Devi faces a round of 16 exit, losing 5-15 to a Chinese Fencer
Bhavani Devi's Asian Games individual campaign came to an end in the last 16 as she faced a heavy defeat from the Chinese Fencer, Rao Xueyi.
Bhavani was of no match against Rao, as she managed to win only 5 points from the bout, losing 5-15 and being knocked out of the competition.
Shreya Gupta is now the only Indian fencer alive in competition, as she will also compete in her round-of-16 bout later.
- 24 Sept 2026 11:00 AM IST
Boxing, Men's 70Kg: Sumit Kundu faces a pre-quarterfinal exit after a third-round injury walkout
Sumit suffered an unfortunate injury in his pre-quarterfinal match against Iraq’s Ali Qasim Al-Sarray.
He was leading 3-0 after two rounds, but in the third round he faced a heavy punch from Qasim, took an awkward fall, and had to withdraw from the bout while limping from the injury.
