Sheetal Devi bags double gold as India climb to 4th spot with 88 medals at Asian Para Games 2026
New Delhi: India enjoyed another remarkable day as the medal rush continued for the country at the on Thursday. India won 26 medals, including seven gold medals, at the competition in Japan on Thursday to take their overall tally to 88 medals.
Indian athletes won medals across para archery, para swimming, para table tennis and para badminton to help the country climb to the 4th spot on the Asian Para Games 2026 medal table. Armless archer Sheetal Devi led India’s charge at the competition on Thursday with twin gold medals.
Meanwhile, Suvarna Raj, Shailesh Kumar, Anjanaben Bumbadiya, Dilip Mahadu Gavit and Solairaj Dharmaraj also won gold medals in their respective categories on Thursday. India currently have 21 gold, 26 silver and 41 bronze medals in their tally at the Asian Para Games 2026.
Para athletics remains the biggest contributor to India’s medal tally at the Para Asian Games 2026 with 52 medals.
Sheetal Devi bags twin gold
On Thursday, 19-year-old Sheetal successfully defended her women’s compound archery individual gold medal by defeating Singapore’s Alim Nur Syahidah 142-139 in the final. She earlier paired up with Toman Kumar to help India win gold in the mixed team compound event.
Suvarna Raj won the first gold medal for India on the day after clinching the top spot on the podium in the women’s F54 discus throw event with her best effort of 15.66m. Sailesh Kumar took the gold medal in the men’s high jump T63 category while Anjanaben Bumbadiya won the gold medal in the women’s 400m T47 event.
Dilip Mahadu Gavit helped India continue the gold rush by finishing on top of the podium in the men’s 400m T47 competition. Long jumper Dharmaraj Solairaj then successfully defended his Games crown with an Asian record effort of 7.15m in the T44/T62/T64 combined event.
Swati Chaudhary scripted history by becoming the first Indian to win an Asian Para Games medal in the W1 category in archery. Ravi Budigna won the bronze medal in men’s 50m freestyle S13 category, while Kapil Kumar won the silver medal in the men’s 400m freestyle S10 event.
Indian para shuttlers won five bronze medals across multiple categories, while Bhavina Patel and Subham Wadhwa won the bronze medal in the mixed doubles XD7 table tennis competition after losing in the semifinals.