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Indian para-athletes produced record-breaking performances and historic firsts across several sports at the Asian Para Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. In a report published on October 23, DD India highlighted medal-winning efforts in para-athletics, archery, badminton, table tennis and swimming, noting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had congratulated athletes for their results, title defences and milestone achievements.
Solairaj Dharmaraj won gold in the men’s long jump T44/T62/T64 event, surpassing his own Asian record. In the men’s high jump T42/T63, India occupied all three podium places: Shailesh Kumar won gold with a new Games record, Varun Singh Bhati took silver and Rahul claimed bronze.
The report also noted successful title defence by Dilip in the men’s 400 metres T47. In the women’s 400m T47, Anjanaben won gold and Jayanti earned silver. Tejalben Damor took silver in the women’s 400m T12, while Ravanni Valasanini won bronze in the women’s 400m T11. Haney added a bronze in the men’s discus F37 with a personal-best throw.
These results illustrated the breadth of India’s athletics contribution, from jumping and throwing events to track races. They also included performances measured against different classification groups, which are used in para-sport to organise competition according to athletes’ eligible impairments and the requirements of each event.
In para archery, Sheetal Devi retained the women’s individual para compound title, winning gold for the second consecutive Asian Para Games edition. She then partnered with Toman Kumar to win gold in the para compound mixed-team event.
Swati Chaudhary secured silver on her Asian Para Games debut in women’s W1 archery. DD India described it as India’s first-ever medal in that event at the Games, adding another milestone to the team’s archery campaign.
Bhavina Patel and Shubham Wadhwa won bronze in mixed doubles class XD7 table tennis. The medal was identified in the report as India’s first mixed doubles table tennis medal at the Asian Para Games.
Badminton also brought a first for India in a specific event category. Naveen Sivakumar and Surya Kant Yadav claimed bronze in men’s doubles SL3-SU5, the country’s first medal in that category at the Games. Manisha Ramadass won bronze in women’s singles SU5 for the second consecutive edition and teamed with Pramod Bhagat to earn another bronze in mixed doubles SL3-SU5.
Other badminton medallists included Sanjana Kumari, who won bronze in women’s singles SL3, and Abhijeet Sakhuja, who took bronze in men’s singles SL4 on his Games debut. Suhas L. Yathiraj also secured bronze in men’s singles SL4, while Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan and Krishna Nagar added a bronze in mixed doubles SH6.
India’s swimmers contributed medals across several classes. Kapil Kumar won silver in the men’s 400m freestyle S10. Swatik Patil earned bronze in the men’s 100m breaststroke SB9, Tejas Nandkumar took bronze in the men’s 100m backstroke S7, and Ravi Karthik Budigina secured bronze in the men’s 50m freestyle S13.
The October 23 report formed part of a running account of Indian medal performances during the Games. By the conclusion of the event, India finished with 114 medals—30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze—its best-ever tally at the Asian Para Games, according to the Press Information Bureau’s October 25 release. India finished fourth overall, and para-athletics was the country’s largest medal contributor.
Modi’s congratulations, as reported by DD India, covered performances across disciplines and recognised both established medallists and athletes achieving milestones for the first time. The achievements included title defences, Games and Asian records, personal bests and first medals in specific events.
For India’s para-sport programme, the results offer evidence of medal-winning depth across more than one discipline. The historic-first medals in W1 archery, mixed doubles table tennis and men’s doubles badminton are especially notable because they expand the range of events in which Indian athletes have reached the podium. The final 114-medal total placed those individual performances within India’s most successful Asian Para Games campaign to date.
