Aichi-Nagoya, September 26: India won two kabaddi golds and three silver medals at the Asian Games 2026 on Saturday, taking their tally to 30 medals: four gold, 12 silver and 14 bronze.
The women beat Iran 37-34 and the men beat Iran 40-34 to keep both kabaddi titles. Shot putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor, marathon runner Sawan Barwal and the women’s 50m rifle three positions team won silver, and Anahat Singh reached the squash singles final.
Kabaddi gold in both events
The women led 22-16 at half-time but Iran closed to 27-26 with eight minutes left. A Ritu Negi super tackle and raids from Pooja steadied India, who went on to win by three. The men’s final was 20-20 at the break before India pulled away. Read the full kabaddi report.
Toor misses third straight shot put gold
Toor threw 20.64m in the fifth round to take silver, 17cm short of the Iranian winner, who set a Games record of 20.81m. Toor won gold at Jakarta 2018 with 20.75m and at Hangzhou 2023 with 20.36m.
Karanveer Singh finished 10th with a best of 18.40m.
National record for Barwal in marathon silver
Sawan Barwal ran a national record of 2:11:37 to win the men’s marathon silver, 48 seconds behind Japan’s Ichitaka Yamashita (2:10:49). China’s Feng Peiyou took bronze in 2:12:13. Kartik Jayaraj Karkera was 17th in 2:22:41.
In the decathlon, Tejaswin Shankar was second after two events with 1,807 points. Thowfeeq Noushad was fifth with 1,759.
Rifle team silver
Tilottama Sen, Vidarsa Vinod and Ashi Chouksey scored 1763 for silver in the women’s 50m rifle three positions team event. China won with 1773, equalling the Asian record, and Kazakhstan took bronze with 1754.
Tilottama (590, third) and Vidarsa (588, sixth) qualified for the individual final. Ashi was 15th with 585.
Anahat Singh first Indian woman in Asian Games squash final
Anahat Singh came from two games down to beat Japan’s second seed Satomi Watanabe 9-11, 8-11, 12-10, 11-6, 11-3. She is the first Indian woman to reach an Asian Games squash final.
“I think this is the best win of my career. She’s number six in the world but I wasn’t really thinking too much about this, my mentality was that anything is possible on a stage like this,” Anahat said.
She plays Malaysia’s top seed Sivasangari Subramaniam in the final on Sunday at 12.30pm IST. Abhay Singh, the second seed, beat Pakistan’s Muhammad Ashab Irfan 11-3, 12-10, 11-6 and meets Malaysia’s Eain Yow Ng in the men’s final.
Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar took bronze in the mixed doubles after losing their semi-final to Hong Kong, China’s Ka Yi Lee and Tang Ming Hong in sudden death.
Hockey team into semi-finals
India’s men beat hosts Japan 2-0 at the Kawasaki Juko Hockey Stadium in Kakamigahara to make it four wins from four in Pool A and book a semi-final place. Abhishek scored in the 15th minute and Harmanpreet Singh converted a penalty corner in the 40th. Defender Sanjay played his 100th senior international. India’s last pool match is against Bangladesh on September 28.
Sindhu through, Lakshya Sen out
PV Sindhu beat Chinese Taipei’s Chiu Pin-chian 21-19, 21-14 to reach the women’s singles pre-quarter-finals, where she meets Japan’s Tomoka Miyazaki. Unnati Hooda beat Malaysia’s Ling Ching Wong 21-14, 20-22, 21-19 and next faces Indonesia’s sixth seed Putri Kusuma Wardani.
Ayush Shetty beat Kazakhstan’s Makhsut Tajibullayev 21-7, 21-7 and plays third seed Chou Tien Chen of Chinese Taipei next. Lakshya Sen lost 12-21, 21-15, 14-21 to Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew, the 2021 world champion, in a match lasting more than an hour.
Asian Games 2026 medal table (top 10, as on September 26)
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 107 | 41 | 28 | 176 |
| 2 | Japan | 31 | 49 | 49 | 129 |
| 3 | South Korea | 16 | 21 | 36 | 73 |
| 4 | Uzbekistan | 8 | 17 | 9 | 34 |
| 5 | Kazakhstan | 8 | 8 | 19 | 35 |
| 6 | Thailand | 8 | 7 | 9 | 24 |
| 7 | Iran | 7 | 14 | 7 | 28 |
| 8 | Bahrain | 7 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| 9 | North Korea | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
| 10 | India | 4 | 12 | 14 | 30 |
