India finish fourth with record 114 medals at Asian Para Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya
India concluded its campaign at the Asian Para Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on October 23, 2026, securing a record 114 medals and finishing fourth overall.
The final haul comprised 30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze, surpassing the country’s previous best at the continental event. Para-athletics supplied the bulk of the medals with 65 podium finishes, including 22 golds, while para-badminton contributed 16 medals and para-swimming 11; India also took six medals in para-archery and five in para-shooting.
Sumit Antil retained his title in the men’s javelin throw F42–F44/F61–F64 with a best mark of 72.46m, earning 1112 Raza Points, and India swept the podium as Mahendra Gurjar took silver and Sandip Sanjay Sargar won bronze, each credited with 1066 Raza Points. Haney established a world record of 60.49m to claim gold in the men’s javelin F37/F38, and Navdeep secured bronze in the men’s javelin F40/F41 with a throw of 42.55m.
Sandeep rewrote the world record in the men’s 400m T64 with a winning time of 52.28 seconds, while Ajay Kumar took bronze in that race in 53.61. Sandeep also won bronze in the men’s 100m T44 in 11.67 seconds; Rakeshbhai Bhatt added a bronze in the men’s 200m T37 in 23.64 seconds and Parmod earned silver in the men’s 1500m T46 with a time of 4:09.65.
Several athletes finished just off the podium: Anubhav Choudhary ran a personal-best 26.48 to place fourth in the men’s 200m T35, Sharath Makanahalli was fourth in the men’s 5000m T12/T13 in 15:27.97, Praveen Sharma recorded 30.64m for fourth in the men’s discus F11, and Amisha Rawat placed fourth in the women’s shot put F45/F46 with 11.16m.
Para-badminton accounted for multiple golds as Naveen Sivakumar beat Fredy Setiawan 2–0 to win the men’s singles SL4 title, Nitesh Kumar defeated Pramod Bhagat 2–0 to claim the men’s singles SL3 crown, and Thulasimathi Murugesan paired with Manisha Ramadass to beat Yang Qiuxia and Xiao Zuxian 2–0 for the women’s doubles SL3–SU5 gold. India also took silver in the women’s singles SU5 (Thulasimathi), the mixed doubles SL3–SU5 pairing of Thulasimathi and Nitesh, and the women’s singles SH6 (Nithya Sivan), with all three losing their finals to Chinese or Indonesian opponents.
In para-archery Harvinder Singh and Sundeep Vijay won gold in the men’s recurve doubles, while Bhawna and Pooja took silver in the women’s recurve doubles after a defeat to China’s Gao Zihun and Wang Xueqian; the Indian recurve mixed team lost to China in the semifinal and fell 4–5 to Iran in the bronze-medal match. Para-swimming yielded 11 medals overall, including three silver and eight bronze, with Himanshu Nandal taking bronze in the men’s 100m freestyle S11 in 1:05.90 and Chaitanya Vishwas Kulkarni finishing fourth in the men’s 400m freestyle S6 in 5:30.57.
Mona Agarwal won the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 with a world-record score of 457.5 and also produced a Games record in the women’s 10m air rifle standing SH1 event, while Avani Lekhara was fourth in the 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 with 333.2. In the open 25m pistol SH1, Amir Ahmad Bhat finished fifth with 14 hits and Nihal Singh was sixth with 10 hits. India also competed across para-powerlifting (women’s team seventh with 260.25 points), para-cycling (Shaik Arshad DNS in the men’s C1–3 road race), boccia (mixed pairs BC3 beat Chinese Taipei 11–1 but missed the semi-finals) and para-table tennis (Jehan Madan and Shubham Wadhwa lost 0–3 to South Korea’s Park Jincheol and Kim Kyung-hyun in the men’s doubles MD4 group stage).
India added 26 medals on Day 5 and clinched nine golds on Friday, closing the Games with 114 medals and 30 golds while sending around 168 para-athletes; that contrasts with the Hangzhou 2022 campaign of 108 medals (27 gold, 32 silver, 49 bronze) and a 303-athlete contingent, and represents India’s strongest ever Asian Para Games showing by total medals and gold medals.
