Asian Para Games 2026: India luggage 35 medals on Day 2, stays sixth in standings

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], October 20 (ANI): India delivered a powerful efficiency on Day 2 of the Asian Para Games 2026, taking its medal tally to 35, comprising 9 gold, 11 silver and 15 bronze medals, to stay sixth within the general standings.

India accomplished a podium sweep within the males’s discus throw F43/F44/F62/F64 occasion, with Devender Kumar clinching gold, Rakesh securing silver and Pardeep Kumar claiming bronze. 

Other notable performances included silver medals for Preeti Pal, Manish Narwal and para powerlifter Ashok Kumar Malik. Hokato Hotozhe, Praveen Sharma, Ayush Verma and Niranjan Mukundan additionally secured bronze medals, whereas Indian athletes added to the tally with podium finishes in para desk tennis and taking pictures.

The spectacular medal haul marked a memorable day for India on the Asian Para Games, with athletes delivering robust performances throughout a number of disciplines and attaining important milestones.

Indian athletes produced a sequence of record-breaking performances and podium finishes throughout para-athletics, para desk tennis, para taking pictures, para powerlifting and para-swimming, underlining the nation’s robust marketing campaign on the continental occasion.

In para-athletics, Simran Sharma clinched gold within the ladies’s 200m T12 occasion with a Games-record time of 24.80 seconds. India additionally secured bronze within the occasion by way of Tejalben Damor, who clocked 25.23 seconds to register a private greatest.

Iran’s Hajjar Safarzadeh completed an in depth second in 25.02 seconds, simply 0.22 seconds behind Simran. China’s Yaqin Shen completed fourth with a time of 26.49 seconds.

Deepthi Jeevanji efficiently defended her title within the ladies’s 400m T20 occasion, profitable gold in 56.36 seconds and setting one other Games document.

The Paris 2024 Paralympics bronze medallist dominated the race, ending greater than two seconds forward of her closest competitor, Japan’s Niina Kanno, who secured silver for Japan in 58.92 seconds.

In the sector occasions, Nishad Kumar clinched the gold medal within the males’s excessive soar T47 occasion, clearing 2.04 metres to set a brand new Games Record on the fifth Asian Para Games, Aichi-Nagoya 2026, in Japan.

Pranav Soorma additionally struck gold within the males’s discus throw F51/F52/F53 occasion, recording an Asian document of 11.66 metres.

Pranav, who was beforehand a males’s membership throw silver medalist on the Paris Paralympics 2024, tried his hand at discus throw and demolished the Asian document, setting a brand new benchmark of 11.66 m. 

India achieved a podium sweep within the males’s discus throw F43/F44/F62/F64 occasion, with Devender Kumar profitable gold, Rakesh securing silver, and Pradeep Kumar claiming bronze.

Pradeep Kumar added one other medal to India’s tally by profitable silver within the males’s javelin throw F53/F54 occasion, whereas Ayush Verma took bronze. 

Preeti Pal secured silver within the ladies’s 200m T35 occasion. Preeti improved from 4th place (32.19 seconds) within the 2022 Asian Para Games to silver in 2026, bettering her time by 2.66 seconds. China’s Zhou Xia claimed the gold medal with a Games-record time of 28.03 seconds, ending forward of Preeti within the occasion.

Praveen Sharma and Hokato Hotozhe Sema received bronze medals of their respective shot put occasions.

India additionally loved a productive outing in para desk tennis, profitable 5 bronze medals by way of Bhavina Patel, Sonalben Patel, Baby Sahana Ravi, Prachi Pandey and Jehan Dorab Madan.

Baby Sahana Ravi achieved a historic milestone by turning into the primary Indian to win a medal within the ladies’s standing class on the Asian Para Games. The five-medal haul additionally took India’s tally in para desk tennis past its earlier better of two bronze medals on the continental occasion.

In para taking pictures, Tokyo Paralympic champion Manish Narwal received silver within the males’s 10m air pistol SH1 occasion with a rating of 233.7 factors. The efficiency improved on his bronze-medal end in 2022 and earned him a quota place for the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic Games.

Debutant Shrishti Arora additionally made her mark, securing bronze within the ladies’s 10m air pistol SH1 occasion. Shristi completed in third place with a rating of 214.7, having managed 96.3 in her first two sequence. 

She climbed into the third spot quickly after and maintained her spot there; she completed behind Iran’s Sareh Javanmardi (237.0) and Faezeh Ahmadi (237.3), who secured the silver and gold medals respectively. 

India added one other silver medal in para powerlifting, with Ashok ending second within the males’s 65kg class after lifting 192kg. He improved on the bronze medal he received within the 2022 version.

In para-swimming, Himanshu Nandal secured bronze within the males’s 400m freestyle S11 occasion, whereas Niranjan Mukundan claimed one other bronze within the males’s 200m particular person medley SM7 class.

With gold-medal performances, record-breaking efforts and historic achievements throughout a number of disciplines, India continued its robust marketing campaign on Day 2 of the Asian Para Games, taking its general medal tally to 35 and sustaining sixth place within the standings. (ANI)