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Indian contingent makes strong start at Asian Para Games 2026 with 11 medals on opening day

hellohimachalse@gmail.com 19 Oct 2026 1 hour ago

New Delhi: The Indian contingent clinched 11 medals on the opening day of the on Monday, October 19. The medal haul included four gold, five silver and two bronze, helping the country reach in the fourth place in the overall standings.

The medal rush started early in the day with Mona making a sensational comeback in the women’s 10m air rifle (SH1) final to beat compatriot Avani Lekhara for the gold medal. She climbed from sixth position to set an Asian Para Games record, edging two-time Paralympic champion Avani by just 0.4 points.

The 24-year-old Avani settled for the silver with 249.6, securing India a second quota place for the 2028 Los Angeles Paralympics. Mona had already earned one spot at the World Shooting Para Sport (WSPS) World Championships in Changwon, South Korea, last month, where she secured a silver medal.

Nishad Kumar, Soumya and Rinku shine with top finishes in Para-Athletics.

Para-athletes delivered dominating performances in the evening, with two-time Paralympic silver-medallist Nishad Kumar, middle-distance runner Soumya, and javelin thrower Rinku finishing in first position in their respective competitions.

Nishad was competing in an international long jump event for the first time in his career. Nishad, who lost his right arm in a grass-cutting machine accident at the age of six, leapt 7.11m to claim the top spot. In the women’s 1500m T12/T13 event, the visually impaired Soumya clocked a personal best score of 5:12.39sec to clinch the gold medal ahead of compatriot Venkatesh Radha, who won a silver with a finish of 5:30.90sec.

In the T11 category for the visually impaired, India’s Ravanni Valasanaini won the bronze medal after the original third-place finisher Rakshitha Raju was disqualified for a technical violation, involving non-compliance with clothing, shoes, and bib regulations. In the F46 men’s javelin throw, Rinku and Ajeet Singh secured the gold and silver medals with efforts of 65.11m and 65.02m, respectively.

Two medals in judo, one in swimming

India’s visually-impaired judokas claimed two medals, with Kokila securing a silver in the women’s J2 -52kg category and Kapil Parmar winning a bronze in the men’s J1 -70kg division. Hangzhou Asian Para Games bronze-medallist Kokila suffered a defeat to Kyrgyzstan’s Aibike Ulanbek Kyzy in the final.

Kapil, who claimed a silver in the previous edition of the Games, fought for a bronze medal in the ongoing event after losing in the semifinal to another Indonesian, Junaedi, 0-1. India’s Ravi Karthik Budigina also secured silver in the men’s 100m freestyle S13 event, clocking 56.68 seconds.

 

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