Asian Games 2026: India win six medals on Day 6 in Aichi-Nagoya (25 September)
India added six medals on Friday, September 25 at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, claiming one gold, two silver and three bronze across shooting, table tennis and athletics.
The gold came from the 10m air pistol mixed team, where Kamaljeet and Suruchi Singh finished first; India’s women’s cricket team had already won the country’s first gold earlier in the Games, and Kamaljeet and Suruchi’s victory took India’s gold medal tally to two. The Day 6 haul moved India’s campaign forward across multiple sports, with shooting, table tennis and athletics among the contributors.
In shooting, the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions team of Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil and Niraj Kumar won silver. The report states that shooting has produced 10 medals for India so far.
Table tennis provided a bronze when Manush Shah and Diya Chitale reached the mixed doubles semifinals and secured third place. Athletics yielded three medals: Gulveer Singh won silver in the men’s 10,000m, Manpreet Kaur took bronze in the women’s shot put and Baranica Elangovan earned a joint-bronze in the women’s pole vault.
Gulveer Singh clocked 28:29.38 in the men’s 10,000m, finishing behind Bahrain’s Balew B.; Manpreet Kaur’s best throw was 17.17m in the women’s shot put; Baranica Elangovan cleared 4.15m in the pole vault, a performance described in the report as India’s first-ever Asian Games medal in women’s pole vault.
India’s kabaddi sides progressed to the finals after the men defeated Thailand in the semi-final and the women beat Nepal to reach their final, guaranteeing at least silver for both teams. In canoe sprint, the women’s kayak four 500m quartet of Dhanamanjuri Khwairakpam, Pooja, Soniya Devi Phairembam and Parvathy Geetha finished outside the medal positions; India’s women’s hockey team beat Japan 3-1; and in squash Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh advanced to the singles semi-finals while India also remained in contention in the mixed doubles semifinals.
On the track and in combat sports, Sachin Siwach defeated Jordan’s Mohammad Adnan Abu Jajeh 4-1 to reach the men’s 60kg quarter-finals, while Preeti Pawar lost 0-5 to North Korea’s reigning Asian Games champion Pang Chol-mi in the women’s 54kg round of 16. Kiran Pahal and Prachi Choudhary qualified for the women’s 400m final, Vishal Thennarasu Kayalvizhi progressed to the men’s 400m final, Gurindervir Singh finished fifth in the men’s 100m semi-final in 10.32s and Animesh Kujur was seventh in 10.38s; in the women’s heptathlon Pooja was sixth with 5,368 points and Anamika eighth with 5,234 points, while in the men’s hammer throw Damneet Singh was ninth with 67.56m and Praveen Kumar 11th with 65.24m.
India’s overall medal count after Day 6 stands at 23 medals — two gold, nine silver and 12 bronze — with one passage of the report placing them 12th in the overall standings and another line listing them sixth. The story lists shooting with 10 medals and the remaining medals coming from table tennis, cricket, weightlifting, MMA, soft tennis, badminton, wushu, rowing and athletics; India will have multiple medal opportunities on Day 7, including the women’s kabaddi final against Iran at 9:30 AM and the men’s kabaddi final against Iran at 2:30 PM, the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions team final featuring Ashi Chouksey, Tilottama Sen and Vidarsa Kochalumkal Vinod, the mixed canoe double 500m final with Raju Rawat and Neha Devi Leichonbam, and several athletics finals involving Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Karanveer Singh, Praveen Chithravel, Karthik Unnikrishnan, Kiran Pahal, Prachi Choudhary, Vishal Thennarasu, Pooja, Parul Chaudhary, Sawan Barwal and Kartik Karkera, plus squash mixed doubles and singles semifinals for Joshana Chinappa, Velavan Senthilkumar, Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh.
