India's Asian Games 2026 Aichi-Nagoya medal roundup: relay gold, shooting and athletics podiums lift tally to 52

Key facts

• India won the women's 4x400m relay gold at the Asian Games 2026 in Nagoya, clocking 3 minutes 29.69 seconds, and also took bronze in the men's 4x400m relay.
• Neeru Dhanda became the first Indian woman to win an individual gold medal in the Trap event at the Asian Games, a feat congratulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• Neeru Dhanda, Aashima Ahlawat and Manisha Keer won silver in the women's trap team event with a combined 328 points, behind China's gold-winning 346 and ahead of Kuwait's bronze-winning 325; Neeru's 118/125 was India's best individual score.
• Harita Bhadra won bronze in the women's 200m final on September 27 with 23.20 seconds, holding off Japan's Abigeirufuka Ido by 0.01s; Singapore's Shanti Pereira took gold in 22.78s, China's Yujie silver in 22.93s, and India's Unnathi Aiyappa Bolland finished sixth in 23.46s.
• Vithya Ramraj won bronze in the women's 400m hurdles with a personal-best 54.75 seconds, breaking P T Usha's 55.42s national record from the 1984 Olympics; UAE's Mariam Kareem won gold with a Games record 54.31s and Kazakhstan's Adelina Zems took silver with 54.58s.
• Gulveer Singh won bronze in the men's 5000m with 13:32.75, his third medal of the Games after silvers in the men's 1500m and 10,000m, becoming only the second Indian male athlete after Lavy Pinto to win three track and field medals in a single Asian Games.
• India won bronze in the mixed 4x100m relay with a national record 41.06s through Gurindervir Singh, Sneha Sathyanarayana, Animesh Kujur and Harita Bhadra; China won gold in 40.78s and Thailand silver in 40.87s.
• Esha Singh won silver in the women's 25m pistol, missing gold by one shot in a shoot-off against China's Xiao Jiaruixuan; it was her second individual Asian Games medal after silver in the same event in 2022.
• Manu Bhaker failed to qualify for the 25m pistol final, finishing 11th with 579, and returned without a medal after finishing fifth in the 10m air pistol earlier in the competition.
• Pooja Singh won bronze in the women's high jump at the Asian Games 2026.
• Narender Berwal won bronze in men's boxing plus 90kg after losing 0-5 by unanimous decision to reigning world champion Aibek Oralbay of Kazakhstan in the semi-final.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated javelin thrower Yashvir Singh on winning silver with a personal best and Rohit Yadav on winning bronze at the Asian Games.
• Parul Chaudhary won bronze in the women's 5000m at the Asian Games, an achievement congratulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• Murali Sreeshankar earned a place on the men's long jump podium at the Asian Games.
• Seema Kaliramna finished fourth in the women's discus throw final with a personal-best 59.88m, as all three medallists threw over 60m.
• In archery, Dhiraj Bommadevara and Neeraj Chauhan advanced to the men's recurve individual quarterfinals, with Dhiraj beating Chinese Taipei's Cheng Hsiang-Hui 6-2 and Neeraj beating South Korea's Kim Je-deok 6-4 in the Round of 16.
• India's women's squash team completed a 3-0 clean sweep over Iran in their final pool match and won all three group matches to advance to the quarterfinals.
• 400m hurdler Yashas Palaksha pulled up with an apparent hamstring injury before clearing the first hurdle in his heat and did not finish, Jyothi Yarraji withdrew from her 100m hurdles heat with knee stress, and triple jumper Praveen Chithravel exited with a calf muscle pull recording no mark.
• India moved up to 10th place in the Asian Games 2026 standings with a total of 52 medals: 6 gold, 21 silver and 25 bronze.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Gulveer Singh on winning silver in the men's 1500m at the Asian Games, noting the achievement was a personal best.