Asian Para Games 2026: India's record performances, gold medals and para-badminton progress

Key facts

• Indian para-archer Sheetal Devi equalled the world record in the women's compound archery ranking round at the 2026 Asian Para Games on October 19, scoring 704 out of a possible 720 points at the Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Square in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture.
• Turkey's Oznur Cure is the other archer who jointly holds the world record.
• Sheetal Devi bettered her previous Asian record of 698, set in Bangkok, Thailand, in March 2026, by six points, scoring 352 in each half of the qualification round with 32 Xs and 25 10s to finish first.
• Her 704 also set a new Asian Para Games record, surpassing her previous mark of 680 points set at Hangzhou in 2023.
• Sheetal Devi later teamed up with Rakesh Kumar to establish a new world record in the compound mixed team event.
• Fellow Indian Payal Nag scored 675 points with 12 Xs and 20 10s to finish joint fifth, and with Sheetal topped the para compound women's doubles ranking round with a combined 1,379 points.
• The 19-year-old Sheetal Devi is the reigning world champion, won gold in the women's compound individual event at the 2023 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, and took bronze at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
• In the men's recurve archery ranking round, India's Harvinder Singh finished fifth with 631 points and Vijay Sundi was seventh with 630 points.
• The women's 10m air rifle SH1 final scores were 250.0 for Mona Agarwal, 249.6 for silver medallist Avani Lekhara and 227.9 for South Korea's bronze medallist Yunri Lee.
• Mona Agarwal topped qualification with 629.1 points, a new Asian Para Games record surpassing China's Zhang Cuiping's mark and just 0.3 short of the world record of 629.4 jointly held by Avani Lekhara and Slovakia's Veronika Vadovicova; Lekhara qualified second with 626.4.
• The 38-year-old Mona Agarwal from Sikar, Rajasthan, a 2024 Paris Paralympics bronze medallist, climbed from sixth place to overtake defending champion Avani Lekhara, leading by just 0.1 point (239.2 to 239.1) before the final shots and winning by 0.4.
• Mona Agarwal won gold and set a new Asian Para Games record.
• Nishad Kumar won the men's long jump T47 gold with 7.11m on his Asian Para Games debut, ahead of Uzbekistan's Omadbek Khasanov (6.99m, silver) and Sri Lanka's Mohammadu Safran (6.55m, bronze).
• India won 11 medals on October 19 (4 gold, 5 silver, 2 bronze) to stand fourth in the standings, with Soumya taking gold in the women's 1500m T12/T13 in a personal best 5:12.39 ahead of Venkatesh Radha's silver, Rinku winning men's F46 javelin gold with 65.11m ahead of Ajeet Singh's 65.02m silver, Kokila taking judo silver in women's J2 -52kg, Kapil Parmar bronze in men's J1 -70kg, and Ravi Karthik Budigina silver in men's 100m freestyle S13 in 56.68 seconds.
• Manasi Joshi and Thulasimathi Murugesan reached the women's doubles SL3-SU5 semifinals, beating China's Yuemei Liu and Tongtong Li 21-10, 21-17 to assure India of a para-badminton medal, while Nitesh Kumar and Thulasimathi also made the mixed doubles SL3-SU5 semifinals by topping Group B unbeaten.