Double gold for India as men’s, women’s kabaddi teams triumph

Defeat Iran 37-34 to retain women’s kabaddi title as Sawan Barwal and rifle trio add silver medals

Chandigarh, September 26

India has plenty to celebrate at the Asian Games 2026 after both its men’s and women’s kabaddi teams won gold. The men team beat Iran 40-34 in the final, while the women defended their title with a 37-34 win over Iran to claim their second straight Asian Games gold. India also picked up silver in the men’s marathon and women’s 50m rifle three-position event.

The Indian women faced a tough contest against Iran before securing gold. In the 2022 edition, India had beaten Chinese Taipei 26-25 to win the women’s kabaddi gold.

Sawan Barwal won a silver medal in the marathon, marking the first medal in 44 years, according to the source material.

India also secured a silver medal in the women’s 50m rifle three-position event through Ashi Chouksey, Tilottama Sen and Vidarsa Vinod.

In mixed doubles, Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar won bronze. Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh advanced to their respective singles finals at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games.

The remaining schedule for Indian athletes includes several athletics events. Jyothi Yarraji and Nandhini Kongan will compete in the women’s 100m hurdles at 4:04 pm and 4:12 pm, followed by the men’s shot-put final featuring Tajinderpal Singh and Karanveer Singh at 4:30 pm.

Harita Bhadra and Unnathi Bolland will compete in the women’s 200m heats, while Praveen Chitravel and Karthik Unnikrishnan will feature in the men’s triple jump.

Yoonus Shah and Gulveer Singh will compete in the men’s 1500m heats. Prachi and Kiran will contest the women’s 400m final, while Vishal TK will compete in the men’s 400m final. Pooja and Parul Chaudhary will feature in the women’s 1500m final.

In badminton, Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand will face Japan’s Mayu Matsumoto and Yuki Fukushima in women’s doubles at 2:30 pm.

In the evening session of The Asian Games 2026 . The Indian contingent perform well where Indian athlete

athlete Tajinderpal Singh Toor won silver in the men’s shot put final at the Asian Games, securing his third medal in three consecutive editions, while Prachi claimed bronze in the women’s 400m final.

Toor had previously won gold at the Jakarta Asian Games in 2018 and the Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023. Karanveer Singh finished 10th in the men’s shot put.

Prachi finished third in the women’s 400m final, while Kiran finished fifth. Animesh Kujur topped Heat 5 of the men’s 200m and advanced to the semifinals.

In the decathlon, Tejaswin Shankar finished fifth in the shot put with 13.16m and 677 points, while Thowfeeq Noushad finished 10th with 10.76m and 531 points. Tejaswin was third overall with 2,484 points and Thowfeeq ninth with 2,290.

Nandhini Kongan qualified for the women’s 100m hurdles semifinals, while Harita Bhadra and Unnathi Bolland advanced to the women’s 200m final. Vishal TK finished fifth in the men’s 400m final. Karthik Unnikrishnan was sixth in the men’s triple jump, while Praveen Chitravel was out injured.

Parul Chaudhary and Pooja finished fourth and sixth respectively in the women’s 1500m final.

India added seven medals to its tally, including two gold medals, to reach 30 medals.

Schedule for the Indian team on 27th September in the Asian Games 2026:

4:00 a.m.: Athletics – Manju Rani and Priyanka Goswami in women’s marathon race walk (medal event).

From 4:45 a.m. onwards – Archery: India’s recurve, compound and mixed teams in action from the round 16 to quarterfinal games.

From 4:54 a.m. onwards: Surfing – Kamali Prakash, Sugar Shanti Gayen and Sivaraj Babu in men’s and women’s shortboard heats.

5:30 a.m.: Sepaktakraw – India vs South Korea in women’s double Group B match.

6:10 a.m. Shooting: Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh and Rahi Sarnobat in women’s 25m pistol individual qualification precision and team precision.

6:30 a.m. Shooting: Ahvar Rizvi, Kynan Chenai and Shapath Bharadwaj in men’s trap individual and team qualification (Day 1).

6:30 a.m. Shooting: Manisha Keer, Aashima Ahlawat and Neeru in women’s trap individual and team qualification (Day 1).

From 6:30 p.m. onwards – Kurash: Sangita, Bharti, Yash Kumar Chauhan and Vishal in women’s 57kg and men’s +90kg round of 32, 16, quarterfinal, semifinal and final bouts.

7:38 a.m. – Athletics: Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad in men’s decathlon 110m hurdles heats.

8:10 a.m. – Athletics: Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad in men’s decathlon discus throws.

8:20 a.m. – Fencing: India vs Indonesia in women’s sabre round of 16 match.

8:35 a.m. onwards – Athletics: Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan and Yashas Palaksha in men’s 400m hurdles heats.

9:05 a.m.- Athletics: Vithya Ramraj in women’s 400m hurdles heats.

9:15 a.m.- Athletics: Sreeshankar Murali and David Solomon in men’s long jump qualification A and B.

9:45 a.m.- Boxing: Ankush vs Nekruz Salimov of Tajikistan in men’s 80kg quarterfinal.

9:50 a.m. – Athletics: Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad in men’s decathlon pole vault.

10:00 a.m. – Weightlifting: Harjinder Kaur in women’s 69kg (medal event).

11:30 a.m.: Sepaktakraw – India vs Philippines in women’s double Group B match.

12:30 p.m. Squash: Abhay Singh vs Ng Eain Yow of Malaysia in men’s singles gold medal match.

12:30 p.m. Volleyball: India vs Vietnam in men’s Pool C match.

1:30 p.m. Squash: Anahat Singh vs Sivasangari Subramaniam of Malaysia in women’s singles gold medal match.

2:00 p.m. Boxing: Parveen vs Navbakhor Khamidova of Uzbekistan in women’s 65kg quarterfinal.

2:45 p.m. Boxing: Sachin Siwach vs Shunsuke Kitamoto of Japan in men’s 60kg quarterfinal.

3:30 p.m. – Hockey – India vs Singapore women’s pool game.

3:35 p.m. – Athletics: Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad in men’s decathlon javelin throw.

3:35 p.m. – Athletics: Shaili Singh and Ancy Sojan in women’s long jump final (medal event).

3:45 p.m.- Boxing: Narender vs Adthapong Saengtep of Thailand in men’s 90+kg quarterfinal.

3:55 p.m. – Athletics: Harita Bhadra and Unnathi Bolland in women’s 200m final (medal event).

4:05 p.m. – Athletics: Animesh Kujur in men’s 200m final (medal event).

4:15 p.m. – Athletics: Sarvesh Kushare and J Aadarsh Ram in men’s high jump final (medal event).

4:53 p.m. – Athletics: Nandhini Kongan in women’s 100m hurdles (medal event).

5:06 p.m. onwards – Athletics: Mohammed Afsal and Krishan Kumar in men’s 800m heats.

5:40 p.m. – Athletics: Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad in men’s decathlon 1500m.

5:52 p.m. onwards – Athletics: Parul Chaudhary and Ankita in women’s 3000m steeplechase final (medal event).

6:25 p.m. – Athletics: India in women’s 4x100m relay heats