High jumper Nishad Kumar, Mona Agarwal lead India’s gold rush at Asian Para Games

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Avani Lekhara, Ajeet Singh Yadav and three others win silver as India clinch 11 medals on Day 2

Chandigarh: India’s para athletes won 11 medals, including four gold, five silver and two bronzes, on Monday, i.e. October 19 at the Para Asian Games, with strong performances in athletics, shooting, para judo and swimming.

Nishad Kumar opened India’s gold medal account in the men’s long jump T47 event. Mona Agarwal secured gold in the women’s 10-m air rifle standing SH1 event, giving India its first shooting gold.

Soumya won gold in the women’s 1500-m T12/T13 event, while Rinku Hooda claimed the top position in the men’s javelin throw F46 final.

India also secured five silver medals. Avani Lekhara won silver in shooting, Ajeet Singh Yadav in javelin, Radha Venkatesh in the 1500m event, Kokila in para judo and Ravi Karthik Budigina in para swimming.

Kapil Parmar won bronze in para judo, while Ravanni Valasanaini secured another bronze in athletics.

The fifth edition of the games runs from October 18 to 24 and features 18 sports. India has fielded 168 athletes as part of a 281-member contingent and is targeting more than 100 medals, after securing a record 111 at the 2022 edition in Hangzhou, China.

India’s schedule for October 20

India’s campaign continues on Tuesday across para-archery, shooting, powerlifting, athletics, swimming, badminton and blind football. The official Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games results portal lists the competition schedule and results.

Para-archery

Indian archers are scheduled to compete in the elimination rounds, including:

• Sheetal Devi vs Chan (Hong Kong) in the women’s compound Round of 16
• Harvinder Singh vs Li (Chinese Taipei) in the men’s recurve Round of 16
• Payal Nag vs Chang (Chinese Taipei) in the women’s compound Round of 16
• Vijay Sundi vs Tseng (Chinese Taipei) in the men’s recurve Round of 16
• Bhawna Choudhary vs Sabit (Kazakhstan) in the women’s recurve Round of 16
• Pooja Jatyan vs Loh (Malaysia) in the women’s recurve Round of 16

Other events

• Para-shooting: Rifle and pistol qualification rounds and finals.
• Para-powerlifting: Bench-press events across heavyweight divisions.
• Para-athletics: Track events, heats and sprint finals across multiple T-class categories at Paloma Mizuho Stadium.
• Para-swimming: Freestyle and backstroke events at Nippon Gaishi Hall.
• Para-badminton: Pramod Bhagat, Nitesh Kumar and Suhas Yathiraj continue their campaigns.
• Blind football: India’s men’s team is scheduled to play its next group-stage match.