Asian Para Games 2026: The para-athletics team has won 13 of India's 14 gold medals so far. India has won a total of 62 medals, including 22 silver (14 in athletics) and 26 bronze (15 in athletics).

Today India won 22 medals, including 5 gold.

Today (Wednesday) was a special day for India at the 2026 Asian Games. India won a record 22 medals, including five gold. Sprinter Simran, high jumper Praveen, and shot putter Sachin won gold medals, setting new records. Track and field athletes won 22 medals, including five gold, on Wednesday, pushing India to fifth place in the medal tally.

Apart from Simran (women's 100m T12), Praveen (men's high jump T44.64) and Sachin (men's shot put F46), Dilip Gavit (men's 100m T47) and Ayush Verma (men's shot put F53) also won gold medals.

India made a clean sweep of all three medals in the men's shot put F46 event. India also won medals in para-archery, para-swimming, and powerlifting. Of India's 14 gold medals so far, 13 have been won by the para-athletics team. India has won a total of 62 medals, including 22 silver medals (14 in athletics) and 26 bronze medals (15 in athletics).  

Simran won her second gold medal of the Asian Para Games by winning the women's 100m T12 event with a Games record time of 12.02 seconds. She had won the 200m event on Tuesday with a new Games record.

Armless compound archer Sheetal Devi won a silver medal in the women's doubles event with Payal Nag. In swimming, Ravi Karthik Budigina won his second silver medal of the Games when he finished second in the men's 100m backstroke S13 category. Himanshu Nandal won his second bronze medal at the Asian Para Games, finishing third in the men's 100m breaststroke S11 event.

In para badminton, Krishna Nagar and Sivarajan Solaimalai won the silver medal in the men's doubles SH6 event while defending champions Suhas LY, Naveen Sivakumar and Abhijeet Sakhuja reached the semi-finals in the SL4 category.

Krishna and Sivarajan finished second after winning one and losing two matches in three. Since there were only four teams, the medals were decided based on group standings.

In powerlifting, Kasturi Rajamani, who is battling polio, won a silver medal in the women's 67 kg category. India is participating in 62 athletics events and hopes to win medals in 60. With two days of competition remaining, India has already won 41 medals.

Three athletes, including Preeti Pal, who won two bronze medals at the Paris Paralympics 2024, have won two medals. Preeti won the women's 100m T35 event. She had finished second in the 200m T35 on Tuesday. Simran won her second gold medal at the Asian Para Games by winning the women's 100m T12 event with a Games record time of 12.02 seconds. She once again beat Iran's Hazar Safarzadeh, who finished second with a time of 12.30 seconds. Simran had won the gold medal in the 200m event on Tuesday with a new Games record.

India's first medal of the day came from Ayush Verma, who added his second medal to his tally by winning gold in the men's shot put F53 event. Ayush took first place with a throw of 8.16 meters in his fifth attempt. Praveen Kumar then won gold in the men's high jump T44/64 event with a new Games record, while Bunty took silver in the same event.

Praveen won the gold medal with a jump of 2.05 meters, while Bunty won the silver medal with a jump of 1.92 meters. In the men's shot put F46 event, Sachin Khilari won the gold medal with a new Asian Para Games record, while Mohammad Yasar of India won the silver medal with a throw of 15.06 meters in his third attempt, while Parveen finished third with 14.94 meters.

In the morning session, Bunty (men's high jump T44/64), Bhagyashree Jadhav (women's shot put F34), Mohammad Yasar (men's shot put F46) and Manjeet (men's javelin throw F12/13) won silver medals. Anubhav Chaudhary (men's 100m T35), Parveen (men's shot put F46) and Rakeshbhai Bhatt (men's 100m T37) won bronze medals.

Dilip Gavit won the gold medal in the men's 100m T47 event, while Mohammed Morsinganakath, also from India, took the silver. Gavit, a T46 athlete, clocked 10.69 seconds to win the gold, while Morsinganakath, a T47 athlete, clocked 10.72 seconds.

Sharath Makanahalli's bronze medal in the men's 1500m T12 event was upgraded to silver after the original gold medallist was disqualified for a rules violation. Makanahalli had won the bronze medal with a season's best time of 4 minutes 11.01 seconds.

Sukhchain won the bronze medal in the men's javelin throw F55 event with an effort of 29.94 metres. Paralympian Karamjyoti Dalal won the bronze medal in the women's discus throw F55 event with a personal best.