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Asian Para Games: India climb to fifth with 62 medals as Sachin Khilari sets a Games record in the shot put
India have 62 medals after Day 3: 14 gold, 22 silver and 26 bronze. Sachin Khilari won the F46 shot put gold with a Games record as India took all three medals, and archers Sheetal Devi and Swati Chaudhary play for gold on Thursday.
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India are fifth at the Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya with 62 medals after the third day of competition: 14 gold, 22 silver and 26 bronze. The shot put pit supplied six of the latest medals, and Thursday's schedule puts two of the country's best-known archers in gold-medal matches. On Tuesday's table India were sixth with 35, and the count keeps changing as results come in.
India sent 168 athletes in 11 sports, with a target of about 100 medals. The Games end on 24 October, and the tally needs a rate of roughly 13 medals a day over the days that remain.
A sweep in the shot put
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's shot put F46 | Sachin Khilari, 15.79 m (Games record) | Mohd Yasser, 15.06 m | Praveen, 13.83 m |
| Men's shot put F53 | Ayush Verma, 8.16 m | – | – |
| Women's shot put F34 | – | Bhagyashri Jadhav, 8.19 m (personal best) | – |
| Men's shot put F40 | – | – | Ravi Rongali, 10.02 m |
Data last updated: 22 October 2026, 5:56 AM IST
Khilari set the record on his first throw, and every throw he made went beyond 15 m. Yasser threw a season best for silver. India won all three medals in the F46 event.
The earlier medals came across several sports. Mona Agarwal won the women's 10 m air rifle SH1 with a score of 250.0, an Asian Para Games record, ahead of the defending champion Avani Lekhara, who took silver on 249.6. Nishad Kumar won the men's long jump T47 with 7.11 m, and Soumya Kumar won the women's 1500 m T12-13 in a personal best 5:12.39, with Radha Venkatesh second. Rinku took the men's javelin F46 with 65.11 m, a season best, and Ajeet Singh was second on 65.02 m for an Indian one-two.
Later came Deepthi Jeevanji's gold in the women's 400 m T20 and Simran Sharma's in the women's 200 m T12, with Tejalben Damor taking bronze behind her. Pradeep Kumar won javelin F53/54 silver and Ayush Verma the bronze, Manish Narwal took silver in the men's 10 m air pistol SH1 and earned an Indian quota place for the 2028 Los Angeles Paralympics, and the powerlifter Ashok won silver in the men's 65 kg with 192 kg. Mona Agarwal has a quota place too.
Prachi Pandey won India's first Asian Para Games medal in her category, Class 6 table tennis, and badminton players Nitesh Kumar and Thulasimathi Murugesan, Pramod Bhagat and Manisha Ramdass and others reached semi-finals that guaranteed them medals.
Thursday's hopes
Sheetal Devi equalled the world record of 704 out of 720 in the women's compound qualification and topped it, and with Rakesh Kumar set a new world mark in the mixed team event. On Day 4 she is scheduled to play in the women's compound gold-medal match against Singapore's Nur Alim, and in the mixed compound team event. Swati Chaudhary plays China's Cen Mengkan for the women's W1 gold. Toman Kumar plays China's Zhang Yicheng for compound men's bronze.
On the track and field, the programme includes the women's discus F54 (Suvarna Raj), men's high jump T63, women's 400 m T47, men's javelin F56/F57 (Parveen Kumar) and men's long jump T44/T62/T64 (Solairaj Dharmaraj). Badminton has a long list of semi-finals, and there are swimming finals in the afternoon.
Head coach Satyanarayana has said he expects six medals on the day, including two or three golds. Medal-table counts differ across listings through the day, so figures can vary by a few from one source to another. In India the athletics, shooting and archery finals are on Sony Sports Ten 2, the badminton, table tennis and powerlifting on Ten 3, and DD Sports shows Sheetal Devi's archery final free to air, with streaming on SonyLIV. Blind football has India against Iran, and judo finishes on 21 October. Para-athletics runs until 23 October and archery until 24 October.
China lead by a distance. India's challenge is to keep climbing while closing on the 100-medal target set before the Games. They had a record 111 medals at the last Games in Hangzhou in 2022, with 29 of them gold. Three days remain.
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