India’s para-athletes surpassed all expectations to deliver their best ever show, taking its overall tally to 114 medals, including 30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze at the Asian Para Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
Para Athlete Sumit Antil clinched gold medal in the men’s javelin throw F42-F44/F61-F64 final, while Mahendra Gurjar won Silver and Sandip Sanjay Sargar clinched bronze medal to complete a podium sweep for the country. Sumit, competing in the T64 category and supported under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme, registered a best throw of 72.46 metres to secure gold with 1 thousand 112 points. In Shooting, Mona Agarwal clinched gold in the women’s 50-metre rifle three positions SH1 event, setting a new world record with a score of 357.5 to claim her second gold medal of the Games.
Pranav Soorma won the gold medal and set a new Asian Para Games Record in the Men’s Club Throw F51 event at with a throw of 32.87 meters. Indian para sprinter Sandeep wins bronze medal in men’s 100m T44 event. Para swimmer Himanshu Nandal wins bronze medal, adding another podium finish in the men’s 100m freestyle S11 event. Rakeshbhai Bhatt clinched the bronze medal in the men’s 200m T37 final. He clocked a time of 23.64 seconds to finish third on the podium. In Badminton, Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manasi Girishchandra Joshi beat China’s Yang Qiuxia and Xiao Zuxian to win the women’s doubles SL3-SU5 title. Naveen Sivakumar added the men’s singles SL4 gold, beating Indonesia’s Fredy Setiawan. Nitesh Kumar clinched the men’s singles SL3 gold beating compatriot Pramod Bhagat. Pramod had to settle for silver. Thulasimathi Murugesan and Nitesh Kumar have to settle for silver in the mixed doubles SL3-SU5 event after losing to Indonesia’s Leani Ratri Oktila and Hikmat Ramdani in the final.
In para-athletics, Sandeep Kumar shattered the T44 world record with a time of 52.28 seconds to win gold in the men’s 400 metres, while Ajay Kumar secured bronze in the same event. Haney also struck gold in the men’s Javelin throw F37 event with a world-record effort of 60.49 metres. In Archery, Paralympic champion Harvinder Singh and his debuting partner Vijay Sundi clinched the men’s doubles gold medal, while India’s women’s doubles team settled for a silver in the recurve events.
