Asian Para Games
Asian Para Games 2026: Simran Sharma, Dilip Gavit clinch gold medals – Highlights
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The 2026 Asian Para Games action continued to roll in thick and fast from Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
India has already climbed to 35 medals in just two days with nine gold medals and was placed sixth in the medal tally.
There were multiple medals on offer for India in sports like para archery, para athletics, para judo, para powerlifting, para swimming, boccia, and more on Wednesday
As it happened:
Live Updates
- 21 Oct 2026 1:51 PM IST
Para Athletics, Women's 100m T35 Final: Preeti Pal wins a Silver medal
Preeti clinches her second medal in Aichi-Nagoya, clocking 13.98s to finish second behind China's Xia Zhou (13.57s).
She had earlier won a silver in the 200m event as well, concluding her campaign with two solid medals.

- 21 Oct 2026 1:41 PM IST
Para Swimming, Women's 100m Freestyle S8: Vaishnavi Jagtap finishes 6th!
Vaishnavi Vinod Jagtap clocks 1:23.69 in women's 100m freestyle final to finish sixth. She was over 5s slower than the bronze medallist.
- 21 Oct 2026 12:56 PM IST
Para Judo, Women's J2 70 Kg: Gulshan, Vrushali More loses in bronze medal bouts
Indian Para Judo campaign came to an end as both Gulshan and Vrushali lost their respective bronze medal bouts.
Gulshan lost on Ippon to Kazakhstan's Ayala Mereke in 28 seconds, and Vrushali bowed to China's Suming Lin on Ippon in just 31 seconds.
India ends its judo campaign with two medals: Silver for Kokila, Bronze for Kapil Parmar.

- 21 Oct 2026 11:30 AM IST
Para Badminton, Women's Doubles WH1-WH2: Alphia-Pallavi wins first ever wheelchair medal
Alphia James and Pallavi Kaluvehalli clinch India’s first-ever wheelchair badminton medal with a bronze in Japan.
The pair took home bronze after going down 3-21, 9-21 to China’s Xu Tingting and Yang Fan in the semi-final.
- 21 Oct 2026 10:40 AM IST
Para Badminton, Men's Doubles SH6: Krishna Nagar and Sivarajan Solaimalai bag a silver medal
In the round-robin format, the Indian pair finished second with one win from three matches. China’s Lin Naili and Zeng Qingtao took Gold after winning all three.
India finished level on points with Indonesia and Hong Kong but edged them both based on game-point difference.
- 21 Oct 2026 10:08 AM IST
Para Badminton, Men's Doubles SH6 Group Stage: India lose to China

Indian men's doubles pair of Krishna Nagar-Shivarajan Solaimalai lost to China's Naili Lin-Qingtao Zeng 6-21, 8-21 in their group stage match. This is Indian pair's second loss in the group stage matches.
- 21 Oct 2026 10:01 AM IST
Para Badminton, Women's Singles SU5 Group Stage: Three Indians, mixed results
Three Indians were in action in women's singles SU5 group matches. Thulasimathi Murugesan won her match while Manisha Ramadass and Shanthiya Vishwanathan lost their respective matches.
Thulasimathi defeated Tongtong Li of China 21-11, 21-17. Manisha lost to China's Qiuxia Yang 14-21, 3-21 while
Shanthiya lost to Indonesia's Warining Rahayu 11-21, 17-21.


- 21 Oct 2026 9:50 AM IST
Para Powerlifting, Women's 67Kg Final: Kasthuri Rajamani wins a silver medal
Kashturi lifted 108kg in the final to confirm a medal, which she missed out on three years back at the Hangzhou Asian Games, finishing 5th.
The Paralympian powerlifter started with a 103 kg lift on her first attempt, but then she failed to lift the 106 Kg on her second.
She then bounced back strongly on her third attempt to lift 108 kg and rose to second place ahead of South Korea's Hyeonghui Kim (107 Kg).
This is India's second Para Powerlifting medal in Aichi-Nagoya, after the silver from Ashok Malik in men's 65kg.

- 21 Oct 2026 9:18 AM IST
Para Ahletics, Men's Javelin F12/F13 Final: Manjeet wins the silver medal
Manjeet Vyas registered a new personal best of 61.41m to collect 838 Raza points and earn a silver medal, behind Japan's Yuta Wakoh (59.66m) at 914 Raza Points.

- 21 Oct 2026 8:41 AM IST
Para Athletics, Women's Shot Put F34 Final: Bhagyashri Jadhav wins a silver medal
Bhagyashri had a personal best throw of 8.19m on her third attempt, confirming her second consecutive Asian Para Games silver medal.
The 6-time Paralympic Champion Lijuan Zou of China won the title with a new Games record of 9.07m.

