Published: October 20, 2026 at 8:48 pm
Telangana’s Deepthi Jeevanji led India’s record-breaking day as the country’s medal tally at the Asian Para Games 2026 rose to 35 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on Tuesday, with five gold medals taking the country’s overall haul to nine gold, 11 silver and 15 bronze.
Deepthi Jeevanji successfully defended her 400m T20 title, Nishad Kumar struck his second gold of the Games and Simran equalled a new Games record in the 200m T12 as India finished the day sixth in the overall standings.
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Pranav Soorma and Devender Kumar also won gold in the discus throw, with Devender leading an Indian clean sweep of the podium.
Deepthi breaks Asian Para Games record
Deepthi clocked 56.36 seconds in the 400m T20 final to break the Asian Para Games record. She improved on her gold-winning time of 56.59s from the previous edition.
Deepthi Jeevanji clocked 56.36 seconds in the 400m T20 final to break the Asian Para Games record. She improved on her gold-winning time of 56.59s from the previous edition. Pics: X
Nishad, meanwhile, cleared 2.04m to win the high jump T47 title with a new Games record. He had also won the long jump T47 gold on Monday, making him a double champion at Aichi-Nagoya.
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Simran added another gold in the 200m T12, clocking a Games record of 24.80s. The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Hajjar Safarzadeh finished second in 25.02s, while India’s Tejalben Damor claimed bronze with a personal best of 25.23s.
India enjoyed further success in the throwing events. Pranav Soorma won the men’s discus throw F51/F52/F53 gold with an Asian record of 11.66m, scoring 932 Raza points. Ram Ratan Singh secured silver with a 10.35m effort and 809 points.
Nishad Kumar cleared 2.04m to win the high jump T47 title with a new Games record. He had also won the long jump T47 gold on Monday, making him a double champion at Aichi-Nagoya
Because multiple impairment classes competed together, the Raza Point System was used to calculate scores relative to each athlete’s classification rather than determining rankings purely by raw distance.
In the men’s discus throw F43/F44/F62/F64, India swept all three medals. Devender Kumar won gold with a 49.71m effort and 781 Raza points, while Rakesh secured silver with 49.35m and 771 points. Pardeep Kumar took bronze after his 51.15m throw earned 669 points.
Pradeep Kumar won silver in the javelin throw F53/F54 with a personal-best 27.45m. Ayush Verma joined him on the podium with bronze after registering 17.88m.
Preeti Pal added silver in the 200m T35, finishing in 29.53s behind the People’s Republic of China’s Zhou Xia, who set a Games record of 28.03s.
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India also collected two bronze medals in men’s shot put. Praveen Sharma recorded 13.86m in the F11 event, while Hokato Hotozhe Sema finished third in the F56/F57 category with 14.65m.
India’s para table tennis contingent enjoyed a memorable day, winning five bronze medals. Baby Sahana Ravi and Prachi Pandey became the first Indians to win medals in the standing category at the Asian Para Games.
Bhavina Patel also claimed bronze in the women’s singles Class 4-5 after losing her semifinal to China’s Zhang Bian 7-11, 5-11, 7-11. Sonalben Patel finished with bronze in the women’s singles Class 3 following an 11-7, 11-5, 11-6 semifinal defeat to the Republic of Korea’s Yoon Jiyu.
Prachi Pandey and Jehan Dorab Madan secured India’s remaining two table tennis bronze medals. The five-medal haul surpassed India’s previous best of two bronze medals in para table tennis at a single Asian Para Games edition.
Simran added another gold in the 200m T12, clocking a Games record of 24.80s
Manish Narwal won silver in the men’s 10m air pistol SH1 with a score of 233.7 points, improving on his bronze-medal performance from the previous Asian Para Games. He also secured a quota place for the LA 2028 Paralympics.
Debutant Shrishti Arora also reached the shooting podium, winning bronze in the women’s 10m air pistol SH1 with 214.7 points.
In para powerlifting, Ashok Kumar Malik secured silver in the 65kg category with a successful lift of 192kg, improving on his bronze-medal finish at the previous edition.
India also won two bronze medals in para swimming. Himanshu Nandal finished third in the 400m freestyle S11, while Niranjan Mukundan claimed bronze in the 200m individual medley SM7.
India entered the Aichi-Nagoya Games looking to build on its record-breaking campaign at Hangzhou 2023, where the contingent won 111 medals, including 29 gold, to finish fifth overall.
