It’s an action-packed day at the Asian Game 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya with Indian athletes involved in various events, and there are big chances for India to shoot up the medal table with potential medals especially in kabaddi, shooting, and athletics
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Here are today’s events:
LIVE:
Kabaddi – India vs Iran in men’s final (medal event).
Badminton – Ayush Shetty vs Chou Tien-Chen
Athletics – Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad in men’s decathlon high jump.
COMPLETED:
Kabaddi – India beat Iran 37-34 in women’s final, win GOLD
Athletics – Sawan Barwal wins SILVER in men’s marathon with national record time of 2:11:37.
Shooting – Ashi Chouksey, Tilottama Sen and Vidarsa Vinod win team SILVER in women’s 50m rifle 3P; Tilottama (3rd, 590) and Vidarsa (65th, 588) into final.
Squash – Joshna Chinappa-Velavan Senthilkumar earn BRONZE after losing their mixed doubles semifinal against Tang Ming Hong-Lee Ka Yi of Hong Kong.
Squash – Anahat Singh beats Satomi Watanabe of Japan 3-2 in women’s singles semifinal, into final.
Squash – Abhay Singh beat Muhammad Irfan of Pakistan 3-0 in men’s singles semifinal, into final
Hockey – India beat Japan 2-0 in men’s Pool A match.
Boxing – Priya beat Oh Yeonji of South Korea in women’s 60kg round of 16 bout.
Badminton – Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand beat Mayu Matsumoto-Yuki Fukushima of Japan women’s doubles second round match.
Badminton – Unnati Hooda beat PK Wardani in women’s singles third round match, into quarters
Sailing – India in fifth after mixed dinghy opening series race 2
Esports – India lose to Japan 0-2 in Pokémon Unite in group match
Archery – Kumkum Mohod finished 10th, Kirti 18th, and Ankita Bhakat 26th in women’s recurve qualifying.
Archery – Sahil Jadhav finished 5th, Thirumuru Ganesh Mani Ratnam 14th, and Kushal Dalal 16th in men’s compound individual qualifying.
Boxing – Kapil Pokhariya beats Sam Estaki of Iran in men’s 90kg in round of 16 bout, enters quarterfinal
Boxing – Jadumani Singh loses to Carlo Paalam of Philippines in men’s 55kg round of 16 bout.
Shooting – Tilottama Sen finishes fourth and Vidarsa Vinod finishes fifth in women’s 50m rifle 3P positions individual final.
Badminton – PV Sindhu beat Chiu Pin-chian of Chinese Taipei in women’s singles second round match.
Badminton – Ayush Shetty beat Makhsut Tajibullayev of Kazakhstan in men’s singles second round match.
Badminton – Unnati Hooda beat Wong Ling China of Malaysia in women’s singles second round match.
Archery – Chikitha Taniparthi (705, 1st,), Jyothi Surekha Vennam (699, 13th), Prithika Pradeep (695, 20th) were second in team qualification (2099).
Archery – Dhiraj Bommadevara (698, 1st, Asian & National Record), Neeraj Chauhan (676, 20th), Yashdeep Bhoge (665, 25th) finished third in the men’s team recurve qualification.
Athletics – Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad were fifth (865) and seventh (856) after the men’s decathlon 100m heat event.
Canoe Sprint – Harshwardhan Shaktawat finished fifth in men’s kayak single 500m semifinal, into Final B.
Fencing – India beat Indonesia 45 – 24 in women’s foil team round of 16, into quarterfinal.
Canoe Sprint – Parvathy Geetha and Prasanna Kumar finished second in mixed kayak double 500m semifinal, into Final A.
Table Tennis – Yashaswini Ghorpade lost to Miwa Harimoto of Japan in women’s singles round 3.
Athletics – Tejaswin Shankar finished first (7.53m) and Thowfeeq Noushad third (7.37m) in men’s decathlon long jump. Tejaswin is second (1807 pts) and Thowfeeq fourth (1759 pts) in the overall standings.
Badminton – Lakshya Sen lost to Loh Kean Yew of Singapore 12-21, 21-15, 14-21 in men’s singles second round match.
Esports – Paritosh lost 0-5 to Dongshin Kang in Puyo Puyo Champions quarterfinal.
Fencing- India beat Philippines 45-27 in men’s sabre team round of 16, into quarterfinal.
Canoe Sprint – Raju Rawat and Neha Devi Leichonbam finish eighth in mixed canoe double 500 final.
Fencing – India lost 25-45 to South Korea in men’s sabre team quarterfinal.
Fencing – India lost 14-41 to Japan in women’s foil team quarterfinal.
Athletics – Tejaswin Shankar finished fifth (13.16m, 677pts) and Thowfeeq Noushad tentn (10.76m, 531 pts)in men’s decathlon shot put. Tejaswin is third (2484), Thoufeeq ninth (2290) in the overall standings.
Athletics – Animesh Kujur finishes top of his men’s 200m heat, into semifinal.
Table Tennis – Manush Shah lost 0-4 to Lin Shidong in men’s singles round 3.
Surfing – Kamali Prakash, Sugar Shanti Gayen and Sivaraj Babu in men’s and women’s shortboard heats (postponed to tomorrow)
Hriday Vipul Chheda / Dono Di Maggio finished eleventh (135.059), Jai Sud / Goofy La Perle was 13th (133.559) and Shruti Vora was 24th (129.941) at the end of the second qualifiers in the individual dressage event.
UPCOMING
4:04 p.m.: Athletics – Jyothi Yarraji in women’s 100m hurdles heats.
4:12 p.m.: Athletics – Nandhini Kongan in women’s 100m hurdles heats.
4:30 p.m.: Badminton – PV Sindhu vs Tomoka Miyazaki
4:30 p.m.: Athletics – Tajinderpal Singh and Karanveer Singh in men’s shot put final (medal event).
4:33 p.m.: Athletics – Harita Bhadra in women’s 200m heats.
4:41 p.m.: Athletics – Unnathi Bolland in women’s 200m heats.
5:05 p.m.: Athletics – Praveen Chitravel and Karthik Unnikrishnan in men’s triple jump (medal event).
5:21 p.m.: Athletics – Yoonus Shah in men’s 1500m heats.
5:31 p.m.: Athletics – Gulveer Singh in men’s 1500m heats.
5:50 p.m.: Athletics – Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad in men’s decathlon 400m heats.
6:15 p.m.: Athletics – Prachi and Kiran in women’s 400m final (medal event).
6:33 p.m.: Athletics – Vishal TK in men’s 400m final (medal event).
6:45 p.m.: Athletics – Pooja and Parul Chaudhary in women’s 1500m final (medal event).
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