Asian Games 2026 Aichi-Nagoya: India's 85-Medal Haul, Women Athletes' Record 11 Golds, Golf Team Silver and Ishan Kishan's T20I Milestone

Key facts

• India ended the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya with 85 medals — 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze — their second-best Asian Games performance after the record 106-medal haul at Hangzhou 2022.
• Indian women athletes won 37 of India's 85 medals (43.52%) and 11 of the 21 gold medals (52.38%), up from 9 of 28 golds in 2022, even as the women's contingent shrank from 326 athletes in Hangzhou to 231 in Aichi-Nagoya.
• Pranavi Urs, Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar won the women's team golf silver at the Kasugai Country Club East Course on October 3, 2026, at the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya.
• Pranavi Urs became the first Indian woman to win individual Asian Games golf gold.
• Neeru Dhanda became the first Indian woman to win an individual Asian Games shotgun gold with the women's trap title, and also won a team silver.
• Kumkum Mohod, aged 17, became the first Indian woman to win individual recurve gold at the Asian Games, contributed to the women's recurve team gold and won a mixed recurve silver.
• Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep and Chikitha Taniparthi won the women's compound archery team gold, giving India three women's archery golds from six athletes in 2026.
• In women's boxing, Lovlina Borgohain and Parveen Hooda won gold and Priya Ghanghas won bronze, improving on 2022's tally of one silver and two bronzes.
• Anahat Singh, 18, became the first Indian woman to reach an Asian Games women's singles squash final; Baranica Elangovan won India's first women's Asian Games pole vault medal; Suchika Tariyal won India's first Asian Games medal in women's traditional MMA.
• Vithya Ramraj won 400m hurdles bronze with a 54.75-second run that improved PT Usha's 42-year-old national record, and was part of the women's 4x400m relay gold-medal team.
• Roshibina Devi became the first Indian woman to win medals at three successive Asian Games, moving from bronze in 2018 to silver in 2023 and another silver in 2026.
• Lovlina Borgohain upgraded her 2023 silver to gold in the women's 75kg category, while Antim Panghal moved from bronze in 2023 to silver in 2026.
• Mirabai Chanu won her first Asian Games medal, a silver in the women's 49kg weightlifting category.
• In mixed events, Neeru Dhanda won mixed trap gold with Kynan Chenai, Kumkum Mohod won mixed recurve silver, Parinaaz Dhaliwal won mixed skeet bronze, and Harita Bhadra was part of India's mixed 4x100m relay bronze.
• Ishan Kishan became the second Indian batter to reach 1,000 T20I runs in a calendar year, achieving the milestone during the Asian Games cricket final against Pakistan on October 3, 2026.
• In T20Is in 2026, Ishan Kishan scored 1,005 runs at an average of 37.22 and a strike rate of 169.47, with a century and seven fifties and a best score of 103.
• Suryakumar Yadav was the first Indian batter to score 1,000 or more T20I runs in a single calendar year, making 1,164 runs in 31 T20Is in 2022 at an average of 46.56.
• Pakistan's Mohammed Rizwan holds the record for most T20I runs in a calendar year by a batter from a Test-playing nation with 1,326 runs in 2021, while Austria's Karanbir Singh holds the overall record with 1,488 runs in 2025.
• In the Asian Games cricket final, India opted to bat first and posted 211/6 against Pakistan, with Abhishek Sharma scoring 61 off 28 balls, Tilak an unbeaten 51 off 22 balls, Shivam Dube an unbeaten 27 off 15 balls, Ishan Kishan 20 off 18 balls and captain Shreyas Iyer 21, after Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's 15 off nine balls.
• In the semifinal against Sri Lanka, Ishan Kishan played an unbeaten knock of 80 off 46 balls.