Asian Games 2026: India's 85-medal haul, youngest and oldest medallists, and six wrestling medals

Key facts

• The Asian Games 2026 were held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, from September 19 to October 4, with athletes from 46 nations competing.
• India finished fourth in the medal table with 85 medals, including 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze.
• Indian men's and women's teams won gold in cricket, kabaddi and hockey, and it was the first time both Indian hockey teams won gold at the same Asian Games.
• 17-year-old archer Kumkum Mohod became the first Indian woman to win individual recurve gold and finished the Games with two golds and a silver.
• Pranavi Urs won India's first individual golf gold, and Neeru Dhanda became India's first women's trap shooting gold medallist.
• 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi became India's youngest-ever Asian Games gold medallist as part of the men's cricket team that beat Pakistan by 19 runs in the final; he hit two consecutive sixes before being dismissed by Saim Ayub for 15 off nine balls.
• Two-time Olympian Mairaj Ahmad Khan became India's oldest medallist at the 2026 Asian Games at age 50, winning bronze in the men's skeet shooting team alongside Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Bhavtegh Singh Gill; it was his first Asian Games medal, and he is a three-time ISSF World Cup gold medallist.
• Japan's 11-year-old eSports player Yuki Kurihara became the youngest gold medallist in Asian Games history by winning the Puyo Puyo Champions title.
• Kuwait's 63-year-old shooter Abdullah Al-Rashidi was the oldest medallist overall, winning silver in men's skeet.
• Indian wrestlers won six medals at the Games: two gold, two silver and two bronze.
• Aman Sehrawat defeated reigning world champion Han Chong Song 11-7 in the men's 57kg freestyle final to win his first Asian Games gold after a bronze at Hangzhou.
• Sujeet Kalkal beat Japan's Olympic champion Kotaro Kiyooka en route to gold in the men's 65kg freestyle and defeated Tajikistan's Abdulmazhid Kudiev 10-9 in the final after trailing 2-9, restoring India's hold on the 65kg title previously won by Yogeshwar Dutt and Bajrang Punia.
• Nitesh Siwach won silver in the men's 97kg Greco-Roman category, losing 0-4 to Japan's Yuri Nakazato in India's first final in that weight class in 64 years.
• Antim Panghal improved on her Hangzhou bronze with silver in the women's 53kg category, losing 1-9 to Japan's Moe Kiyooka in the final.
• Deepak Punia, who moved to 97kg this year after competing at 86kg and 92kg, defeated Mongolia's Gankhuyag Ganbaatar 2-1 to win bronze.
• Sunil Kumar won bronze in the men's 87kg Greco-Roman category, beating the Philippines' Callum Johnston Roberts 9-0 by technical superiority to become the first Indian Greco-Roman wrestler with two Asian Games medals.