India wins 24 medals on Day 2 of Asian Para Games 2026; sits sixth with 35 overall
India added 24 medals, including five gold, at the Asian Para Games 2026 on October 20, with podium finishes across table tennis, swimming, athletics, shooting and powerlifting; after two days the Indian contingent sits sixth in the medal table with 35 medals — nine gold, 11 silver and 15 bronze.
After an 11-medal opening day, India’s Day 2 haul pushed the total to 35 medals and continued a strong showing in athletics, which the report identifies as the chief source of medals; the coverage also notes para-badminton and para-archery as likely contributors to the tally in coming days.
India secured multiple para-table tennis bronze medals on Day 2 as Bhavani Patel, Sonalben Patel, Ravi Baby Sahana, Prachi Pandey and Jehan Madan each finished third in their respective events; Bhavani Patel lost 0-3 to China’s Zhang Bian in the women’s singles Class 4-5 semi-final, Sonalben Patel went down 0-3 to South Korea’s Yoon Jiyu in the women’s singles Class 3 match that lasted 17 minutes, Ravi Baby Sahana lost to China’s Mao Jingdian in the semi-finals, Prachi Pandey was defeated by Iraq’s Al-Dayyeni Najlah in the women’s singles Class 6 semi-final, and Jehan Madan won bronze in the men’s singles Class 1.
Track and field produced several gold medals: Deepthi Jeevanji won the women’s 400m T20 in 56.36 seconds, finishing ahead of Japan’s Niina Kanno by more than two seconds; Simran claimed the women’s 200m T12 in 24.80 seconds with Tejalben Damor third in 25.23 seconds; Nishad Kumar cleared 2.04m to win the men’s high jump T47 and set a new Asian Para Games record according to the report; Preethi Pal recorded 29.53 seconds for silver in the women’s 200m T35.
Discus events delivered multiple podiums for India: Pranav Soorma produced an 11.66m throw, described as an Asian record, to win gold in the men’s discus F51 and was credited with 932 Raza points while Ram Ratan Singh threw 10.35m for silver and is listed with 809 Raza points; in the men’s discus F43/F44/F62/F64 final India completed a podium sweep with Devender Kumar (781 Raza Points) winning gold, Rakesh taking silver with 771 points and Pardeep Kumar bronze with 669 points.
Throwing, shooting, powerlifting and swimming added further medals: Pradeep Kumar took silver in the men’s javelin F54 with 27.45m and Ayush Verma won bronze in the F53 javelin with 17.88m; Manish Narwal claimed silver in the men’s 10m air pistol SH1 behind South Korea’s Jeongdu Jo and Srishti Arora won bronze in the women’s 10m air pistol SH1 (the event gold and silver went to Iran’s Farzeh Ahmadi and Sareh Javanmardi); Ashok Malik lifted 192kg to win silver in men’s 65kg powerlifting, with China’s Yi Zou taking gold; Himanshu Nandal earned bronze in the freestyle 400m S11 behind Japan’s Tomita and China’s Chuanzhen; Praveen Sharma took bronze in men’s shot put F11 and Hokato Hotozhe won bronze in men’s shot put F56/F57 with a best effort of 14.65m.
Other individual outcomes and event progressions included Renuka Salave’s quarter-final exit in women’s J1-70kg judo after an Ippon loss to Japan’s Atsumi Nishimura, Jhandu Kumar finishing fifth in men’s 72kg para powerlifting, Seema Rani sixth and Suman Devi eighth in women’s 61kg powerlifting, Chaitanya Vishwas Kulkarni fifth in the men’s 100m freestyle S6, and archer Sheetal Devi remaining prominent; Shyam Sundar and Toman Kumar lost a semi-final to Indonesia, the pairs of Pooja and Bhawna and Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi advanced to their respective finals, and Manisha Ramdass with Pramod Bhagat progressed to the mixed doubles SL3-SU5 semi-finals after defeating Thailand’s Siripong Teamarrom and Chanida Srinavakul.
Day 3 will present further medal opportunities in archery, athletics, judo, shooting, powerlifting, swimming and table tennis, and India’s early results in archery and badminton mean the contingent already has multiple podium finishes secured as the tournament moves into its third day.
