Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 29 (ANI): India loved a memorable Day 10 on the Asian Games 2026, with Neeru Dhanda scripting historical past by profitable gold within the ladies’s lure occasion, whereas the ladies’s 4x400m relay group clinched the nation’s first athletics gold of the Games.Â
India secured eight medals on Tuesday, together with two gold, one silver and 5 bronze throughout capturing, athletics and boxing in Aichi-Nagoya.
India’s ladies’s 4x400m relay group delivered a historic efficiency by clinching the nation’s first athletics gold medal on the Games. The quartet of Kiran Pahal, Poovamma MR, Prachi Choudhary and Vithya Ramraj clocked 3:29.69 to complete on prime of the rostrum, with Bahrain profitable silver and China taking bronze.
Earlier within the day, shooter Neeru Dhanda scripted historical past by turning into the primary Indian lady to win a person medal within the ladies’s lure occasion on the Asian Games, securing gold with a rating of 28/30 within the last. China’s Sun Yunong gained silver with 26/30, whereas UAE’s Hajar Abdulmalik claimed bronze with 21/25. Neeru, together with Aashima Ahlawat and Manisha Keer, additionally gained silver within the ladies’s lure group occasion with a complete rating of 328 factors.
In athletics, Gulveer Singh continued his spectacular marketing campaign by including his third medal of the Games, profitable bronze within the males’s 5000m last with a time of 13:32.75. Bahrain’s Birhanu Balew gained gold with 13:30.79, whereas Japan’s Tomonori Yamaguchi secured silver with 13:31.43.
India’s combined 4x100m relay group comprising Gurindervir Singh, Sneha Sathyanarayan, Animesh Kujur and Harita Bhadra additionally secured bronze after clocking 41.06 seconds within the last. China gained gold with 40.78 seconds, whereas Thailand took silver with 40.87 seconds.
Pooja added one other medal to India’s athletics tally by profitable bronze within the ladies’s excessive bounce last with a greatest clearance of 1.84m. She secured the rostrum end on countback after recording a clear card as much as 1.84m.
The males’s 4x400m relay group of Dharmveer Choudhary, Manu Thekkinalil, Jay Kumar and Vishal Thennarasu additionally clinched bronze after clocking 3:01.61. Japan gained gold with 3:00.75, whereas Qatar secured silver with 3:00.93.
In boxing, Narender Berwal gained his second consecutive Asian Games bronze medal within the males’s +90kg class after dropping his semifinal bout to Kazakhstan’s reigning world champion Aibek Oralbay. Meanwhile, Parveen and Ankush Panghal superior to the gold medal bouts of their respective classes after profitable their semifinal contests.
Indian pole vaulter Dev Kumar Meena additionally created historical past on the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, setting a brand new nationwide file within the males’s pole vault last with a clearance of 5.50m on Monday.
Dev surpassed his earlier private better of 5.46m, clearing 5.50m on his second try and turn out to be the highest-clearing Indian pole vaulter within the occasion. However, he couldn’t discover a place on the rostrum and completed seventh within the 12-man occasion.
The 22-year-old started his last’s marketing campaign by passing on the 5.05m mark earlier than clearing 5.20m on his second try and 5.35m on his first try. He then produced a record-breaking bounce of 5.50m on his second try, earlier than narrowly lacking three makes an attempt at 5.60m.
Dev finally completed seventh in a extremely aggressive Asian Games last, however his record-breaking effort marked a significant milestone for Indian pole vault. The athlete, who has solely lately began competing internationally at this degree, delivered a private greatest efficiency on the continental stage.
India additionally recorded victories in a number of different occasions on Tuesday, with the lads’s volleyball group defeating Qatar 3-2, whereas the ladies’s squash group superior to the quarterfinals after beating Iran 3-0. Tennis gamers Sumit Nagal, Dhakshineswar Suresh and the lads’s doubles pair of Anirudh Chandrasekar and N Sriram Balaji additionally progressed of their respective occasions.
However, India additionally confronted setbacks in a number of occasions on Tuesday. Athletes Anushka Yadav and Tanya Chaudhary completed fifth and fourth, respectively, within the ladies’s hammer throw last, whereas Mohammed Afsal completed eighth within the males’s 800m last. Kuldeep Kumar completed tenth within the males’s pole vault last, whereas Pooja completed seventh within the ladies’s 800m last.
In different occasions, Shapath Bharadwaj completed eighth within the males’s lure particular person last after qualifying for the medal spherical, whereas India’s males’s and girls’s observe biking groups missed out on podium finishes. Surfer Kishore Kumar Anbarasu exited within the males’s shortboard quarterfinal, whereas India’s ladies’s group dash biking marketing campaign additionally ended after a defeat to Chinese Taipei. (ANI)