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Asian Games 2026: Manu Baker finishes 5th; Mirabai Chanu wins silver – Highlights
Get all the Highlights from the Asian Games 2026 on September 23, with plenty of action across weightlifting, shooting, badminton, hockey, kabaddi and more.
Asian Games 2026 LIVE: Mirabai Chanu headlines India’s medal hunt – Blog, updates (Photo credit: PTI)
India built on its first medal tally of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Wednesday, adding five more medals from the day with Mirabai Chanu winning the weightlifting silver.
The country has now collected twelve medals, including one gold, five silver and six bronze, but has slipped down to 13th in the medal tally.
Mirabai Chanu won silver in the women’s 49kg category with a 198kg total, securing her maiden Asian Games medal. The Olympic silver medallist won an Asian Games weightlifting medal for India since Karnam Malleswari’s silver in 1998.
Manu Bhaker finished fifth in the women’s 10m air pistol final as India finished the women's air pistol event without any medal.
However, India won bronze in both the men’s and women’s skeet team events, and Jay Meena secured India’s first-ever Asian Games medal in soft tennis with a men’s singles bronze.
India lost 1-3 to China in the men’s team semifinal and settled for bronze. Indian Kabaddi teams continued their winning streak and advanced to the semis to confirm medals.
As it happened:
Live Updates
- 23 Sept 2026 12:15 PM IST
Hockey, India W v/s Thailand: 29' - Sakshi Rana opens her account
Navneet Kaur's drag flick blocked by the goalkeeper but Sakshi Rana pounces on the rebound to score her first.
IND 11-0 THA
- 23 Sept 2026 12:13 PM IST
Hockey, India W v/s Thailand: 29' - Goal No 10, INDIA!
More than a minute left in the first half and India have touched ten goals.
A foul inside the circle and India are handed a penalty stroke. Navneet Kaur steps up and scores her second.
IND 10-0 THA
- 23 Sept 2026 12:09 PM IST
Hockey, India W v/s Thailand: 26' - Lalremsiami scores her first!
Easy-peasy for the experienced Indian forward. Lalremsiami is marked, but she fools the defender with ease.
Turns around and just puts it in nonchalantly.
IND 9-0 THA
- 23 Sept 2026 12:08 PM IST
Equestrian, Eventing Individual: Ashish Limaye finishes in 12th place
Ashish Limaye was in 6th place after day 1, but then he dropped to 12th place after losing 9 more penalty points in the cross-country event.
He ended with 44.50 penalty points and missed out on any medal; meanwhile, Fouaad Mirza, who was in 24th place after day 1, decided to retire from the cross-country event.
- 23 Sept 2026 12:07 PM IST
Hockey, India W v/s Thailand: 24' - Guess what?
Hey there, it is Deepika Sehrawat again. From a penalty corner.
Not a immediate full blooded flick, but she gets a small run up before she slots it in.
Goal No 8 for India, Deepika has scored 50% of it.
IND 8-0 THA
- 23 Sept 2026 12:01 PM IST
Badminton, Men’s Team Semifinals: Lakshya loses 16-21
Four game point opportunities for the Chinese and he does at the first opportunity itself.
Lakshya loses 16-21 in the opening game lasting 25 minutes.
- 23 Sept 2026 12:00 PM IST
Hockey, India W v/s Thailand: 19' - Neha with a stunnerrrr!
Navneet Kaur looks to penetrate the circle from the right and loses the control of ball as she is surrounded.
Neha Goyal is in front of the goal, but the ball rolls away to no-woman's land. Goyal races back, takes it in control and launches a beautiful reverse hit. Into the net.
The goalkeeper's reaction (above) sums it up!
IND 7-0 THA
- 23 Sept 2026 11:58 AM IST
Badminton, Men’s Team Semifinals: Shi YuQi two points away
From 13-17, Lakshya has managed to narrow down the margin but is still three points behind at 16-19.
The last time Shi Yuqi lost to an Indian, it was at the 2026 BWF World Championships in New Delhi. Ayush Shetty stunned the Chinese star in the opening round.
- 23 Sept 2026 11:53 AM IST
Badminton, Men’s Team Semifinals: Lakshya trailing first game
Lakshya levels the match at 13-all before Shi YuQi sets up a rally and closes it with a smash to lead 14-13.
- 23 Sept 2026 11:53 AM IST
Rowing, Men's Lightweight Double Sculls Heats: Rohit/Ujjwal advance to medal final
Rohit and Ujjwal Singh finished fourth in their heats with a time of 6:51.30s.
However, they still qualified for the final as one of the non-automatic qualifiers, having tied for the 4th-best time in the heats.
Meanwhile, Ajay Tyagi failed to qualify for the lightweight single sculls final, finishing just outside the top 6 in 7th place with a time of 7:35.27s
