Asian Games Sep 29 schedule: Shooting and athletics anchor India's medal chances
India faces a packed programme at the 2026 Asian Games on Tuesday, September 29, with medal events scheduled in shooting, athletics, cycling, surfing and kurash. Competition opens at 6:30 AM in shooting and extends into an evening athletics session capped by three relay finals.
Shooting opens the day's medal action with two team finals at 6:30 AM: the men's trap team final featuring Kynan Chenai, Ahvar Rizvi and Shapath Bharadwaj, and the women's trap team final featuring Neeru, Manisha Keer and Aashima Ahlawat. The women's trap individual final, also featuring Neeru, Manisha Keer and Aashima Ahlawat, is scheduled at 10:30 AM. The men's individual trap final involving Kynan Chenai, Ahvar Rizvi and Shapath Bharadwaj is set for noon.
In surfing, Anbarasu Kishore Kumar is scheduled for the bronze and gold medal matches if he progresses through the earlier rounds. Vipin Kumar is on a potential medal path in the men's -66kg kurash event, with his semifinal and final scheduled later in the day. Both surfing and kurash present additional medal opportunities for India beyond the shooting programme.
Cycling has the women's and men's team sprint medal finals scheduled around lunchtime. Those cycling finals follow the morning shooting events. The cycling programme precedes the athletics evening session on the same day.
India's evening athletics schedule includes competitors in the men's pole vault, women's high jump, women's hammer throw, the women's and men's 800m, and the men's 5000m. The session concludes with three relay finals: mixed 4x100m, women's 4x400m and men's 4x400m. Those relay finals bring the athletics programme to a close for September 29.
Taken together, the listed events give India several chances to add to its medal tally on Tuesday, September 29. September 29 could be one of India's biggest medal days yet at the Asian Games. The schedule above sets out the full slate of Indian athletes' medal events for Tuesday, September 29 at the Asian Games 2026, with medals to be decided on that day.