India add eight medals on rain-hit Day 10 in Nagoya

India added eight medals on Day 10 of the Asian Games in Nagoya on September 28, 2026, as persistent rain disrupted the schedule. Athletics produced six of the eight podium finishes for the Indian contingent.

Persistent showers forced delays and cancellations across the programme, with the men’s cricket quarter-final washed out and several tennis matches suspended. India ended the day with 39 medals overall — four gold, 17 silver and 18 bronze — while some team events still managed to progress despite the weather.

Yashvir Singh and Rohit Yadav provided a double podium in the men’s javelin, with Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage taking gold with 88.33m, Yashvir claiming silver with an 85.72m throw on his sixth and final attempt, and Rohit recording 84.35m. Murali Sreeshankar won silver in the men’s long jump with an 8.07m effort but injured his ankle on his fourth attempt and was unable to take his final two jumps.

Gulveer Singh clocked a personal best of 3:36.72 to finish second in the men’s 1500m, his second silver of the Games after finishing runner-up in the 10,000m. Parul Chaudhary added bronze in the women’s 5000m behind Bahrain’s Winfred Yavi (gold) and Japan’s Nozomi Tanaka (silver).

Vithya Ramraj ran 54.75 seconds to win bronze in the women’s 400m hurdles, breaking PT Usha’s 55.42-second national record from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics that had stood for 42 years; UAE’s Mariam Kareem won gold in a Games record 54.31, with Kazakhstan’s Adelina Zems second in 54.58. There were near misses elsewhere: Avinash Sable was fourth in the 3000m steeplechase in a season-best 8:21.67, Seema Kaliramna finished fourth in the women’s discus with a personal best of 59.88m, and India’s women’s 4x100m relay placed fourth.

Esha Singh took silver in the women’s 25m pistol after a sequence of shoot-offs, finishing regulation on 38 points before China’s Xiao Jiaruixuan prevailed in the deciding shoot-off; Esha had qualified for the final in eighth place and had missed out in the 10m air pistol earlier in the Games. Manu Bhaker finished 11th in the 25m pistol qualification and Rahi Sarnobat was 30th individually; India finished fifth in the team event comprising Esha, Manu and Rahi. Pincky Balhara secured bronze in the women’s -78kg kurash after beating South Korea’s Lim Garam in the quarterfinal and losing to South Korea’s Mo Sumin in the semifinal, giving her a second Asian Games medal after silver in Jakarta in 2018.

India’s boxing contingent guaranteed three more medals as Lovlina Borgohain, Priya Ghanghas and Kapil Pokhariya advanced to the semifinals; Lovlina beat South Korea’s Seong Suyeon 5-0 in the women’s 75kg quarterfinal, Priya defeated Tajikistan’s Mijgona Samadova by unanimous decision in the women’s 60kg, and Kapil won by unanimous decision over South Korea’s Kim Gichae in the men’s 90kg quarterfinal. They join Ankush Panghal, Parveen Hooda and Narender Berwal as India’s six assured boxing medallists in Nagoya.

Team events produced mixed results: India’s hockey side played through heavy rain to beat Bangladesh 10-0, with Harmanpreet Singh scoring a hat-trick and Shilanand Lakra two goals, while the squash men beat China and South Korea 3-0 and the women beat China 3-0 and Japan 2-1 to reach the quarterfinals. Sumit Nagal’s tennis singles match versus South Korea’s Hong Seongchan was suspended with Nagal leading 3-2 in the opening set, and Ankita Raina and Rutuja Bhosale were eliminated in the women’s doubles first round; the men’s volleyball team beat Hong Kong 3-0 for a second straight win. The mixed 4x100m relay qualified for the final and the men’s 4x400m relay progressed; in archery Chikitha Taniparthi reached the quarterfinals after beating Chinese Taipei’s Chen Yi-Hsuan in a shoot-off and Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru advanced after beating compatriot Sahil Jadhav, while defending champion Jyothi Surekha Vennam was knocked out in the women’s compound individual round of 16 by 14-year-old South Korean Kang Yeonseo. In surfing Kishore Kumar Anbarasu advanced and Sivaraj Babu was eliminated, and India’s women’s sepaktakraw doubles pair lost 1-2 to Japan and exited the competition.

India’s men’s cricket quarter-final was abandoned without a ball because of persistent rain; India progressed to the semifinals on the basis of its higher ICC ranking and will meet the winner of the Sri Lanka–Nepal quarterfinal in the last four. India’s hockey team, having finished top of Pool A with five wins from five, will face Pakistan in the semifinal on October 1.