India records best-ever 114-medal haul and fourth place at Asian Para Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, with world records and multiple podium sweeps

Key facts

• India finished fourth in the overall standings at the Asian Para Games 2026 held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, with a record 114 medals - 30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze.
• The tally surpassed India's previous best of 111 medals (29 gold, 31 silver, 51 bronze, fifth place) at the Hangzhou Asian Para Games in 2023.
• Para athletics was India's biggest medal contributor with 65 medals including 22 gold, while the remaining eight golds came from para archery, para badminton and para shooting.
• Sheetal Devi won three medals including two gold and one silver; Thulasimathi Murugesan (one gold, two silver), Ravi Karthik (two silver, one bronze) and Himanshu Nandal (three bronze) also won three medals each.
• Mona Agarwal, Nishad Kumar, Pranav Soorma, Simran and Dilip Gavit each won two gold medals at the Games.
• Indian athletes set world records: Haney with 60.49m in men's javelin F37/38, Sandeep with 52.28 seconds in men's 400m T64, Mona Agarwal in women's 50m rifle three positions SH1, and Sheetal Devi and Toman Kumar with a world-best 1,402 points in compound mixed team archery qualification.
• India swept all three podium places in the men's shot put F46, discus throw F43/F44/F62/F64 and high jump T42/T63 events.
• Two-time Paralympic champion Sumit Antil defended his men's javelin throw F42-44/61-64 gold with a 72.46m throw, leading an Indian sweep with Mahendra Gurjar (silver, 59.03m) and Sandip Sanjay Sargar (bronze, 64.48m), while Pranav Soorma defended his men's club throw F51 gold with a Games record of 32.87m ahead of Korea's Jiwon Jung (silver, 28.40m) and India's Dharamvir (bronze, 27.71m).
• In para badminton, Nitesh Kumar beat fellow Indian and two-time champion Pramod Bhagat 21-18, 21-16 for the men's singles SL3 gold, while Naveen Sivakumar defeated Indonesia's Fredy Setiawan 21-9, 21-17 in 36 minutes for the SL4 gold.
• Thulasimathi Murugesan lost 18-21, 11-21 to China's Yang Qiuxia in the SU5 final and Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan lost 12-21, 13-21 to China's Li Fengmei in the SH6 final, both settling for silver.
• Mahendra Gurjar ranked ahead of Sandip Sanjay Sargar despite the shorter throw because combined-event rankings use RAZA points, and Gurjar had the higher RAZA points score.