New Delhi [India], July 23 (ANI): India’s males’s and girls’s kabaddi groups have been positioned in Group A for his or her respective occasions on the forthcoming Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, with the group-stage attracts confirmed on Thursday.
The Asian Games 2026 are scheduled to happen in Japan’s Aichi prefecture from September 19 to October 4, with the kabaddi competitions set to be held on the Tokai Citizens Gymnasium from September 21 to 26.
A complete of 10 groups will compete for the lads’s kabaddi title, with the perimeters divided into two teams of 5. The ladies’s event will see eight groups divided into two teams of 4, in accordance with Olympics.com.
The Indian males’s crew will compete towards Bangladesh, South Korea, Chinese Taipei and hosts Japan in Group A. Group B contains Nepal, Thailand, Pakistan, Malaysia and Iran, protecting the 2 conventional kabaddi powerhouses, India and Iran, aside within the opening stage, in accordance with Olympics.com.
In the ladies’s occasion, India have been drawn in Group A alongside Iran, Japan and Bangladesh, whereas Group B options Sri Lanka, Thailand, Chinese Taipei and Nepal.
As per the format adopted for the reason that 2006 Asian Games, the highest two groups from every group on the finish of the round-robin stage will advance to the semi-finals.
Asian Games 2026 males’s kabaddi draw:
Group A: Bangladesh, Republic of Korea, Chinese Taipei, Japan, IndiaGroup B: Nepal, Thailand, Pakistan, Malaysia, Iran
Asian Games 2026 ladies’s kabaddi draw:
Group A: India, Iran, Japan, BangladeshGroup B: Sri Lanka, Thailand, Chinese Taipei, Nepal. (ANI)