Logo of Asian Para Games. Photo: Wikipedia Commons
After the successful completion of Asian Games 2026, the para-athletes assembled in Nagoya to participate in the Asian Para Games 2026 in Nagoya which started on October 18. The Games will conclude on October 24, 2026.
Till Friday (October 23, 2026) the games were dominated by China with a medal tally of about 323, while the Indian para-athletes had consistently performed well in all the events they participated. The Indian medals tally has reached the 100-mark with 25 golds, 32 silver and 43 bronze till the time of publishing. With some results trickling in, it is expected that India might add some more medals.
On Thursday (October 22, 2026), Sheetal Devi picked up two gold medals in the space of less than two hours to reaffirm her credentials. In the Asian Para Games, the track-and-field contingent remained the single biggest contributor to India’s tally.
Suvarna Raj clinched the gold medal in the women’s F54 discus throw, while archer Swati Chaudhary settled for silver in the women’s W1 individual recurve archery event.
India had a good outing in table-tennis events by adding four bronze medals eclipsing their previous best of two.
Teenage para swimmer Ravi Budigina completed a hat-trick of medals with a bronze in the men’s 50m freestyle S13 event as three other Indians also finished on the podium. Kapil Kumar clinched silver, while Swatik Patil and Tejas Nandakumar bagged bronze medals in their respective events to take India’s medal haul to 10 in the swimming events.
India para-athletes have also done exceedingly well in the badminton event. On Friday (October 23, 2026), Nitesh Kumar and Naveen Sivakumar clinched gold while Thulasimathi and Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan settled for silver.
Sandeep and Haney won gold medals with world record performances in the men’s 400m T64 and men’s javelin throw F37/38 events respectively at the Asian Para Games in Nagoya on Friday (October 23, 2026).
Sandeep clocked 52.28 seconds, a world record, to win the 400m T64 final at the Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium. He finished 0.85 seconds ahead of Saudi Arabia’s Nour Alsana (53.13, season’s best). Indian compatriot Ajay Kumar took bronze in 53.61, a Games Record, while China’s Huang Ruihua was fourth with a personal best of 54.39.
In the javelin throw F37/38 final at the same venue, Haney produced a world record throw of 60.49m for gold, scoring 1116 Raza points. Iran’s Hormoz Seidikazpounji took silver with a personal best of 50.68m (1009 points), while China’s Yu Chengjie claimed bronze with an Asian record 53.66m (943 points).
India finished fifth in the 2023 Asian Para Games with a medal tally of 111 (29 gold, 31 silver, 51 bronze)
Interestingly, India finished with 85 medals at the recently concluded Asian Game with 21 gold, 27 siler and 37 bronze. Earlier in 2022, India crossed the 100-mark at the Hangzhou Asian Games with a tally of 107 medals (28 gold, 38 silver, 41 bronze) and finished fourth.
Published – October 23, 2026 10:02 am IST
