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Asian Games 2026: Manu Baker finishes 5th; Mirabai Chanu wins silver – Highlights
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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 10:04 AM IST
Shooting, Men's Skeet Qualification: Bronze for Indian men's team
Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Khan, & Bhavtegh Singh Gill confirmed a team bronze medal for India with 346/375 hits.
The trio made an excellent comeback on the final day, jumping from 5th place to 3rd place with a brilliant 73/75 hits.
This also helped them to edge Kazakhstan, who also had 346 hits but in the final series they shot 66/75 and lost the medal on countback.
Meanwhile, Anantjeet Singh Naruka also confirmed his place in the individual final with 119 hits, finishing 5th.
- 23 Sept 2026 9:47 AM IST
Kabaddi, Women's Team Group Stage: India register a big 37-23 win over Iran
Indian women's kabaddi team made a strong comeback in the second half and completed another dominant win over Iran.
After a slower start and just edging out 19-15 in the first half, the Indian women's team came out strongly in the second half and won 18-8 to confirm their domination once again.
The team now have two out of two wins in the group stage and will take on Japan in their final group match tomorrow to confirm a medal and a place in the semi-finals.
- 23 Sept 2026 9:29 AM IST
Shooting, Air Pistol Women's Individual Final: Manu Bhaker eliminated; finishes 5th
Manu Bhaker once again posted a strong 10.8, which lifted her to third place on her 17th shot.
However, she followed it with a poor 9.6, dropping to fifth and getting eliminated from the competition.
She finished fifth with a total of 181.1.
With this, India ended the women’s air pistol event without any medals, after the team had earlier finished fourth and Manu was the sole Indian in the final.
- 23 Sept 2026 9:26 AM IST
Shooting, Air Pistol Women's Individual Final: Manu Bhaker survives elimination once again; confirms top 5
Vietnam's Thuy Nguyen shot 9.2 on her 16th shot and hence Manu Bhaker survived an elimination with her 10.3 shot.
She is currently in 5th place with 160.7 in 16 shots and is trailing the top 4 by 1 point.
- 23 Sept 2026 9:22 AM IST
Shooting, Air Pistol Women's Individual Final: Manu Bhaker remains in 5th despite a 9.2
Manu had a very bad score of 9.2 on the 13th attempt, and she was dropped to a tied 6th spot and was on the verge of elimination.
But then an excellent 10.8 on her 14th shot kept her alive,e and she remained in contention for af medal.
She currently stands at 140.4 after 14 shots.
- 23 Sept 2026 9:17 AM IST
Shooting, Air Pistol Women's Individual Final: Manu Bhaker drops to 5th after 10 shots
A poor second series of five shots, scoring 49.5, pushed Manu down to 5th place and now need to find high tens to come back to medal positions.
Manu has a total score of 100.3, while Choo G of South Korea remains at the top with 101.6.
- 23 Sept 2026 9:10 AM IST
Shooting, Air Pistol Women's Individual Final: Manu Bhaker in third spot after 5 shots
Manu shot a decent series of 50.8 in the first series of 5 shots, trailing the Korean and Chinese shooters.
She will need to improve this in the following series to rise further in the rankings.
- 23 Sept 2026 9:01 AM IST
Shooting, Women's Skeet Qualification: India women's team clinches bronze medal
The Indian trio of Maheshwari Chauhan (109), Raiza Dhillon (111) and Parinaaz Dhaliwal (111) finished third in the team with 331/375 hits to confirm a bronze.
China won gold with 357 hits, while Kazakhstan took silver with 336 hits.
While Maheshwari missed out on the final, finishing 12th, Raiza and Parinaaz are tied in 8th place with one Qatari shooter and will fight in a 3-way shoot-off for that final spot.
- 23 Sept 2026 8:55 AM IST
Kabaddi, Women's Team Group Stage: 10'- India 11-11
India levels back in the first half with two good raids from Pooija, winning a touch point each.
This will give good confidence to the Indian side, who had a rocky start, trailing big early in the match.
