Asian Para Games
2026 Asian Para Games: Mona, Nishad clinch gold; Rinku, Soumya shine in athletics – 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 9:10 AM IST
Para Shooting, Men's 10m air rifle SH1 Final: No medals for India
India will return empty handed in men's 10m air rifle standing SH1 event.
Swaroop Unhalkar finishes just outside the podium, finishing fourth with a score of 205.9 while Rakesh Nidagundi finishes sixth with 141.5!
- 19 Oct 2026 8:57 AM IST
Para Badminton, Men's Singles SL3 Group Stage: Pramod Bhagat registers second consecutive win
Pramod Bhagat was stretched to a three setter by South Korea's S Lee 16-21, 21-14, 21-13 in one hour 13 minutes. He has now won both his group matches.
- 19 Oct 2026 8:50 AM IST
Para Shooting, Men's 10m air rifle standing SH1 Final: Swaroop, Rakesh in action
The men's 10m air rifle standing SH1 final is underway at the 2026 Asian Para Games. India's Swaroop and Rakesh are in contention.
Neither of them had a good outing in the qualification round, taking the last two spots available for the final.
Swaroop has had a decent start to the final and is placed fourth currently, while Rakesh seems to be struggling.
There is no LIVE stream for the event. But stay tuned, we've got you covered!
- 19 Oct 2026 8:35 AM IST
Para Shooting, 10m air rifle SH1: Four Indians into the final
Four Indians are through to the final in 10m air rifle SH1.
While Mona Agarwal topped the women's qualification round with an Asian Para Games qualification record score of 629.1, Avani Lekhara finished second with 626.4.
In the men's section, India's Rakesh Nidagundi (619.3) and Swaroop Unhalkar (617.4) finished seventh and eighth respectively to reach finals.
All of them will be in action in the final later today!
- 19 Oct 2026 8:30 AM IST
Para Cycling, Men's Individual Pursuit C1-C2: Arshad finishes last
India's Arshad Shaik clocks 4:22.755 to finish last and crash out of contention in para cycling men's individual pursuit C1-C2.
- 19 Oct 2026 8:24 AM IST
Para Judo, Women's 52kg J2: Kokila in FINAL!
Kokila stunned the reigning world champion Yi Liu of China in the women's J2 -52kg semifinal. She is now assured atleast a silver. Kolika will take on Kyrgyzstan's Aibike Ulanbek Kyzy in the final at 12:30pm.
- 19 Oct 2026 8:19 AM IST
Para Swimming, Finals in the evening
The following Indian para swimmers will in action in their respective finals in the evening. Swimming action resumes at 01:30 PM.
Men's 400m Freestyle S7: Niranjan Mukundan and Gopichand Lingutla
Women's 400m Freestyle S8: Vaishnavi Vinod Jagtap
Men's 100m Backstroke S11: Himanshu Nandal
Men's 100m Freestyle S13: Ravi Karthik Budigina
Men's 200m Individual Medley SM9: Satwik Patil
Men's 100m Freestyle S10: Kapil Kumar and Ajay Hindurao Bhosale.
- 19 Oct 2026 8:01 AM IST
Para Judo, men's J1 -70kg: Kapil Parmar in semis
Paris paralympics bronze medalist Kapil Parmar advanced to the semifinals of the men's J1 -70kg. He beat Mongolia's Bat-erdene Baatarsuren won by Ippon in 4:53.
- 19 Oct 2026 7:37 AM IST
Para Badminton, Men's Singles SH6: Upsetting result for Krishna Nagar
Two-time Asian Para Games medallist Krishna Nagar suffered his first loss in the group stage of men's singles SH6, going down 15-21, 21-6, 19-21 to China’s Naili Lin. Krishna had won his first two group matches.
- 19 Oct 2026 7:23 AM IST
Para Archery, Women's W1: Swati Chaudhary will be the top seed
India's Swati Chaudhary will be the top seed in women's W1 archery heading deeper into the competition.
She tops the ranking round with a score of 648 in the six-woman field.
