Asian Para Games
2026 Asian Para Games: Mona, Nishad clinch gold; Rinku, Soumya shine in athletics โ Highlights
Catch all the Highlights from Day 1 of the Asian Para Games.
Indian contingent officially began their campaign at the Asian Para Games, including medal events in para shooting, para athletics, para swimming, para judo, para cycling and para powerlifting on Monday.
In athletics, Paralympic medalists Nishad Kumar and Ajeet Singh Yadav, and World champion Rinku Hooda, clinched medals on the opening day.
Para table tennis and para badminton, for which action began two days before the opening ceremony, continued with their group stage matches.
Para archers including Sheetal Devi, Payal Nag, Harvinder Singh, Bhawna and Toman Kumar took part in their respective qualification rounds.
Paralympic medalist Avani Lekhara and Mona Agarwal had a double podium in the women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event.
Indian para athletes were also in action in boccia and blind football.
As it happened:
Live Updates
- 19 Oct 2026 3:18 PM IST
Swimming, Men's 100m Freestyle S13: SILVER for Ravi Karthik Budigina
Ravi Karthik Budigina clocked 56.80s to bag first swimming medal at the Asian Para Games 2026. He finished second behind Uzbekistan's Egor Bolotov with 52.90s.
- 19 Oct 2026 2:59 PM IST
Para Athletics, Men's Long Jump T47: Nishad Kumar wins GOLD with a leap of 7.11m
Nishad wins his first international medal in the long jump, clinching the title in Japan with the best leap of 7.11m in the final.
He started with a 6.95m on his first attempt and then improved it to 7.09m on the second and 7.11m on the third to confirm the gold medal.
This is the first athletics medal for India in this edition.
- 19 Oct 2026 2:30 PM IST
Para Judo, Women's 52Kg J2 Final: Kokila wins Silver after losing the bout on Ippon
The world No. 1 Aibike Kyzy took just 21 seconds to wrap up the final and hand Kokila a defeat on Ippon.
This is Kokila's second consecutive Asian Para Games medal, following a bronze at the 2022 Hangzhou Games.
- 19 Oct 2026 2:15 PM IST
Para Table Tennis, Women's Class 4-5: Bhavina Patel confirms a medal with a quarterfinal win
India has now confirmed four medals in singles from the Para Table Tennis contingent.
- 19 Oct 2026 1:53 PM IST
Para Powerlifting, Women's 45Kg Final: Jaspreet Kaur finishes 4th and misses out on a medal
The reigning Asian medalist Jaspreet Kaur misses out on a medal for the second consecutive Asian Games, finishing 4th with a best lift of 100kg in the final.
She started with a lift of 100Kg to finish the first end in third place. She then tried to extend her lift to 102Kg but failed to do so on her second attempt.
Kazakhstan's Berimkulova overtook Jaspreet on the third attempt with a lift of 101 kg, and then the latter came in for her third attempt and missed out again and finished 4th.
- 19 Oct 2026 1:50 PM IST
Women's 400m Freestyle S8: Vaishnavi Vinod Jagtap finishes sixth
Vaishnavi Vinod Jagtap finished sixth in the women's 400m freestyle S8 final. She clocked 6:22.72s. China's Tingting Zheng took the gold in 5:15.40s.
- 19 Oct 2026 1:41 PM IST
Men's 400m Freestyle S7: Niranjan Mukundan, Gopichand Lingutla finish 4th, 5th respectively
Niranjan Mukundan and Gopichand Lingutla failed to make a splash in the pool. Swimming in men's 400m Freestyle S7, Niranjan finished fourth with 5:38.77s and Gopichand clocked 5:40.44s to finish 5th out of six finalists.
- 19 Oct 2026 1:26 PM IST
Boccia, men and women individual BC3: Sachin exits
India's Anjali Devi suffered an 0-8 defeat against South Korea's Ye Jin Choi in the women's individual BC3 pool at the Asian Para Games 2026. This was her second pool match, having opened her campaign with a 9-0 win over Japan's Yuika Sakai.
Anjali will next face Singapore's Mohammad Nurulasyiqah on Tuesday.
In the men's individual BC3 event, Sachin Chamaria lost both his matches on Monday. He first went down 1-5 against Japan's Kazuki Takahashi before suffering a 1-7 defeat to South Korea's Howon Jeong.
Sachin has been eliminated after losing two of his three pool matches.
- 19 Oct 2026 1:09 PM IST
Para Table Tennis, Women's Singles Class 3: Sonalben Patel assures a medal
Sonalben defeated Thailand's Dararat Asayut 3-1 in the quarterfinals, winning the match 11-7, 8-11, 11-5, 11-5 to book her place in the semi-finals.
She will next face the top-seeded South Korean player Jiyu Yoon in the semi-final on Tuesday.
