New Delhi [India], September 19 (ANI): As India set start its marketing campaign on the twentieth Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, a number of athletes who delivered medal-winning performances on the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2026 shall be among the many nation’s key medal hopes in Japan.
The Indian contingent will characteristic a mixture of skilled campaigners and rising abilities, with athletes from weightlifting, athletics, boxing and judo carrying the momentum of their Commonwealth Games performances into the continental showpiece. India completed its Glasgow CWG marketing campaign with 39 medals, together with 13 gold, 17 silver and 9 bronze.
Here are a few of India’s high medal contenders at Asian Games who impressed at CWG 2026:
Mirabai Chanu – Women’s 48kg Weightlifting
Olympic medallist Mirabai Chanu stays one in all India’s largest medal prospects in weightlifting. The Manipuri lifter clinched gold within the girls’s 48kg class at Glasgow 2026, persevering with her robust file on the Commonwealth Games. Chanu has been a constant performer on the worldwide stage, having received silver on the Tokyo Olympics and a number of medals at World Championships. Her expertise and skill to ship below stress make her a powerful contender in Aichi-Nagoya.
Murali Sreeshankar – Men’s Long Jump
Long jumper Murali Sreeshankar added one other main medal to his profession by profitable silver on the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. He produced an effort of 8.09 metres within the last to complete behind Jamaica’s Tajay Gayle. Sreeshankar, who has crossed the eight-metre mark constantly in worldwide competitions, will look to problem for a podium end on the Asian Games.
Preeti Pawar – Women’s 54kg Boxing
Boxer Preeti Pawar emerged as one in all India’s brightest performers at Glasgow 2026 after profitable gold within the girls’s 54kg class. Pawar, who has represented India at main worldwide occasions, will intention to proceed the nation’s robust boxing custom on the Asian Games. The Indian boxing contingent loved a profitable CWG marketing campaign, profitable a number of medals throughout classes.
Jadumani Singh – Men’s 55kg Boxing
Jadumani Singh secured a silver medal within the males’s 55kg boxing class at Glasgow 2026. The younger boxer shall be aiming to transform his Commonwealth success into a powerful displaying towards Asia’s high fighters, the place boxing stays one in all India’s key medal-winning disciplines.
Lovlina Borgohain – Women’s 75kg Boxing
Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain added one other medal to her worldwide profession by profitable silver within the girls’s 75kg boxing class on the Commonwealth Games. The Assam-born boxer has constantly featured amongst India’s high performers in world competitions and shall be seeking to safe one other main medal on the Asian Games.
Gulveer Singh – Men’s 5000m and 10000m Athletics
Distance runner Gulveer Singh strengthened India’s athletics hopes by profitable silver within the males’s 10,000m and including a bronze medal within the 5000m at Glasgow 2026. Known for his endurance and consistency in long-distance occasions, Gulveer shall be one in all India’s main monitor athletes in Aichi-Nagoya.
Asmita Dey – Women’s 48kg Judo
Asmita Dey created historical past by profitable gold within the girls’s 48kg judo class at Glasgow 2026. Her efficiency added momentum to India’s rising presence in judo and she is going to intention to copy her Commonwealth success on the Asian Games.
India will look to construct on their record-breaking medal haul at Hangzhou 2023 when the twentieth Asian Games get underway in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on Saturday (September 19), with a powerful contingent that includes Olympic medallists and reigning champions throughout a number of disciplines.
The Games will run from September 19 to October 4, with athletes from 45 nations and areas competing throughout 43 sports activities and 469 medal occasions. Japan will host the continental multi-sport occasion for the third time, having beforehand staged it in Tokyo in 1958 and Hiroshima in 1994, in response to Olympics.com.
India completed fourth within the Hangzhou medal standings with 107 medals, together with 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze, and shall be aiming to take care of that momentum in Japan.
The Indian contingent will characteristic 5 particular person Olympic medallists regardless of the withdrawal of defending javelin throw champion Neeraj Chopra as a result of an ankle damage. PV Sindhu will spearhead the badminton marketing campaign, whereas Mirabai Chanu leads the weightlifting contingent.
Hooting will characteristic Manu Bhaker, Lovlina Borgohain will compete in boxing, and Aman Sehrawat will symbolize India in wrestling.
India’s boxers will arrive after a record-breaking Commonwealth Games marketing campaign, the place they secured 10 medals, together with seven gold. Athletics is predicted to be a serious a part of India’s marketing campaign, with greater than 70 monitor and area athletes set to compete.
Gulveer Singh, Tejaswin Shankar and Olympian Sarvesh Kushare are among the many names to look at, whereas Tajinderpal Singh Toor will intention to increase his dominance within the shot put after profitable the title on the earlier two editions. India may even search to defend its males’s and girls’s titles in cricket and kabaddi, together with the lads’s hockey crown.
In males’s cricket, Shreyas Iyer will lead the title defence within the T20 competitors, with teenage batter Vaibhav Sooryavanshi additionally included within the squad. The girls’s group, additionally defending champions, shall be led by T20 captain Harmanpreet Kaur.
Hockey will carry added significance, with the lads’s and girls’s tournaments serving as qualification occasions for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The winners of each competitions will safe direct Olympic qualification.
India may even have alternatives to earn LA 2028 quota locations in archery, crusing, squash, browsing and tennis.
In squash, younger Anahat Singh will return after contributing to India’s girls’s group bronze at Hangzhou 2023. She additionally received a combined doubles bronze alongside Abhay Singh, and shall be among the many gamers anticipated to characteristic prominently in India’s marketing campaign. (ANI)