Asian Games 2026: India's 85 medals, record women's golds, youngest and oldest medallists, wrestling and cricket milestones

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 at the 2026 Asian Games with 85 medals — 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze — its second-best performance after the record 106-medal haul at Hangzhou 2022.
• 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.
• Pranavi Urs won India's first individual Asian Games golf gold, becoming the first Indian woman to win the title.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.