Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 25 (ANI): Shooters Suruchi Inder Singh and Kamaljeet clinched India’s second gold medal of the Asian Games 2026 by profitable the 10m air pistol blended workforce occasion, because the nation secured six medals on a productive Day 6 of the continental showpiece right here on Friday.
The Indian pair produced a dominant efficiency within the ultimate, ending with 484.6 factors to say the gold forward of South Korea, who took silver with 478.0 factors. Suruchi and Kamaljeet additionally broke the Asian report of 481.3 factors set by Uzbekistan earlier this yr on the Asian Shooting Championships in New Delhi.
India’s medal haul on the sixth day additionally included two silver medals and three bronze medals, taking its general tally to 23 medals — two gold, 9 silver and 12 bronze.
The first silver got here in taking pictures, the place Rudrankksh Patil, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar and Niraj Kumar completed second within the males’s 50m rifle 3 positions workforce occasion. India registered 1762-94x within the ultimate, narrowly lacking out on gold to China, who completed with 1766-95x. South Korea took bronze with 1751-87x.
Tomar and Niraj additionally competed within the particular person ultimate, ending fifth and eighth respectively.
India’s one other distinguished silver of the day got here from Gulveer Singh, who completed second within the males’s 10,000m on the Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium.
The 28-year-old clocked 28:29.38 to say silver behind Bahrain’s Birhanu Balew, who timed 28:27.51. Balew’s compatriot Albert Kiptoo took bronze in 28:34.38.
Gulveer, a Naib Subedar within the Indian Army, remained among the many main runners for a lot of the race earlier than Balew pulled away within the closing levels. The silver improved on Gulveer’s bronze from the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou.
He has additionally loved a powerful run of type, profitable gold in each the 5,000m and 10,000m on the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships. At the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Gulveer grew to become the primary Indian to win two observe medals at a single version, taking silver within the 10,000m and bronze within the 5,000m.
India’s bronze medal winners on Day 6 included Manpreet Kaur within the girls’s shot put.
Manpreet produced her finest effort of 17.17m on her fourth try to complete third. China’s Song Jiayuan gained gold with 19.40m, whereas compatriot Zhang Linru took silver with 18.14m. South Korea’s Jeong Yu Sun completed fourth with 16.78m, whereas India’s Krishna Jayasankar Menon was fifth with 16.57m.
Baranica Elangovan added one other historic bronze within the girls’s pole vault. The Tamil Nadu athlete cleared 4.15m, matching Russia’s Polina Ivanova, earlier than each failed at 4.25m. The medal was selected countback.
Baranica’s end result gave India its first-ever Asian Games medal in pole vault throughout the lads’s and girls’s occasions.
Table tennis additionally introduced a bronze via Manush Shah and Diya Chitale, who secured a podium end in blended doubles after reaching the semi-finals. The Indian pair misplaced to China’s Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha within the final 4, however have been assured of bronze as there was no separate bronze-medal playoff.
Manush and Diya had earlier pulled off a notable 3-1 victory over Hong Kong’s Wong Chun Ting and Doo Hoi Kem within the quarter-finals.
India additionally assured itself of additional medals in squash, with Joshana Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar advancing to the blended doubles semi-finals after defeating the Philippines’ David Pelino and Jemcya Aribado.
Abhay Singh entered the lads’s singles semi-finals after beating Japan’s Ryunosuke Tsukue 3-0, whereas Anahat Singh additionally progressed to the ladies’s singles final 4 after defeating compatriot Tanvi Khanna. Veer Chotrani, nonetheless, bowed out after dropping to Pakistan’s Muhammad Irfan within the males’s singles quarter-finals.
Both Indian kabaddi groups superior to the finals. The girls’s workforce defeated Nepal within the semi-finals, whereas the lads’s aspect beat Thailand to e book their locations within the title clashes.
In hockey, the Indian girls’s workforce defeated Japan 3-1 of their Pool B encounter.
On the athletics observe, Vishal TK certified for the lads’s 400m ultimate after ending first in his warmth. Kiran and Prachi additionally progressed to the ladies’s 400m ultimate. In the heptathlon, Anamika and Pooja remained seventh and ninth general after the lengthy leap and 800m occasions.
In swimming, Rishabh Das signed off his marketing campaign by setting a brand new nationwide report within the males’s 200m backstroke. The 19-year-old clocked 1:58.77 to complete sixth within the ultimate, bettering his earlier nationwide report of 1:59.84 set earlier this yr. Utkarsh Patil completed seventh in 2:00.94.
Sajan Prakash completed seventh within the males’s 200m butterfly ultimate, whereas Dhanush Suresh missed the 50m breaststroke ultimate after ending twenty first general within the heats.
Badminton noticed blended outcomes, with Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand advancing in girls’s doubles and Unnati Hooda progressing in girls’s singles. Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto additionally superior in blended doubles, whereas Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty suffered a first-round defeat.
In desk tennis, Manush superior in males’s singles, whereas Yashaswini Ghorpade progressed to the third spherical of girls’s singles. Several different Indian pairs and gamers, together with Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini in blended doubles, exited their respective occasions.
India additionally endured exits in fencing, boxing, equestrian, canoe dash, weightlifting and esports on a day that nonetheless strengthened its medal place.
With two gold, 9 silver and 12 bronze medals, India ended Day 6 in twelfth place within the general Asian Games standings. (ANI)