Asian Para Games
Asian Para Games 2026: Sheetal Devi wins two Golds; Dilip, Shailesh clinch athletics gold– Highlights
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India climbed to the fourth spot in the 2026 Asian Para Games medal tally on Thursday with 88 medals, including 21 gold.
After winning medals in sports like para archery, para table tennis, para badminton, and para athletics during the course of the day on Thursday, India pushed past the 80-medal mark today.
As it happened:
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- 22 Oct 2026 5:45 PM IST
That's it from our coverage of the day from the Asian Para Games 2026
India jumps up to 4th place ahead of the penultimate day of the Para Asiad, with 88 medals: 21 Gold, 26 Silver, 41 Bronze.
- 22 Oct 2026 5:40 PM IST
Para Athletics: Bhavik Kumar stripped of silver in Men’s 400m T47
He has been disqualified for a lane infringement, and the silver medal has been taken away.
- 22 Oct 2026 5:00 PM IST
Para Athletics, Men's Long Jump T64 Final: Solairaj Dharmaraj defends his title to win GOLD
Solairaj leaps a new Asian record of 7.15m to clinch the gold medal, ahead of Malaysian and Japanese athletes in this combined T44/64 Final.
The defending champion Indian jumper started slowly with a 6.88m jump, but he didn't wait long and cleared 7m with his lifetime best jump of 7.15m on his second attempt and confirmed the gold.
This is India's 20th gold medal in Aichi-Nagoya.

- 22 Oct 2026 4:19 PM IST
Para Swimming, Men's 100m Backstroke S7: Tejas Nandkumar wins bronze medal
Tejas clocks 1:18.58s to win his first medal of these games. China’s Ruan Jingsong won Gold in a Games Record time of 1:12.16.
Overall, this was India's 10th medal in swimming.

- 22 Oct 2026 4:16 PM IST
Para Athletics, Women's 400m T11 Final: Ravanni Valasanaini wins bronze
Guided by Tabres Khan, she clocked a Personal Best of 1:03.64 in the final in Nagoya. He Shanshan (CHN) took Gold in 1:00.07.
This is her second bronze medal in Japan after the 1500m bronze medal.

- 22 Oct 2026 3:33 PM IST
Para Swimming, Men's 50m Freestyle S13 Final: Ravi Budigina wins Bronze
Ravi Budigina wins his third medal of these Games with a bronze medal.
- 22 Oct 2026 3:30 PM IST
Para Athletics, Men's 400m T47 Final: Dilip Gavit and Bhavikkumar clinch Gold & Silver medals
He clocked 48.27s to finish at the top, followed by Bhavikkumar Bharwad at 49.48s to complete another double podium today.
This is the second gold medal for Dilip, who had won the 100m title in his category also

- 22 Oct 2026 3:05 PM IST
Para Badminton, Men's Doubles SL3-SU5: Naveen Sivakumar & Suryakant Yadav win a Bronze
The duo of Naveen Sivakumar and Suryakant Yadav clinched the bronze medal after an 8-21, 21-19, 16-21 defeat to Indonesia's Suryo Nugroho and Muh Al Imran in a three-game semifinal.
The duo had a poor start, dropping the first game 8-21, but then bounced back in a topsy-turvy second game to win it 21-19, but eventually lost the decider 16-21.

- 22 Oct 2026 2:56 PM IST
Para Athletics, Men's High Jump T63 Final: India completes a podium sweep! Shailesh wins Gold
Shailesh Kumar wins his second medal in Japan, winning the men's high jump title with a new Games record of 1.89m, following his bronze in the long jump.
Varun Bhati (1.84m) and Rahul Saroha (1.81m) clinch the silver and bronze medals to complete a podium sweep.

- 22 Oct 2026 2:53 PM IST
Para Swimming, Men's 100m Breaststroke SB9: Swatik Patil wins bronze
Swatik Patil clocks 1:13.77s to finish third in the final, behind the two Iranian swimmers to win his first medal of the Games.

