India's Asian Games 2026 Campaign: 85 Medals, Records and Key Results

Key facts

• The Indian women's hockey team defeated China 1-0 to win its first Asian Games gold in 44 years and qualify for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
• Hockey India announced awards of ₹11 lakh for each women's hockey player and ₹5.5 lakh for each support staff member after the gold-medal victory.
• Lovlina Borgohain won women's 75kg boxing gold, defeating China's Ziyi Bao by a 5-0 unanimous decision and becoming the second Indian woman after MC Mary Kom to win Asian Games boxing gold.
• India's women's recurve archery team, comprising Ankita Bhakat, Kirti Sharma and Kumkum Mohod, won its maiden Asian Games gold by defeating South Korea 5-3.
• Sujeet Kalkal won men's 65kg freestyle wrestling gold on 2 October 2026, overcoming a 2-9 deficit to defeat Tajikistan's Abdulmazhid Kudiev 10-9.
• Aman Sehrawat won men's 57kg freestyle wrestling gold, defeating North Korea's Han Chong Song 11-7 in the final.
• Deepak Punia won men's 97kg freestyle wrestling bronze with a 2-1 victory over Mongolia's Gankhuyag Ganbaatar.
• Nitesh Siwach won men's Greco-Roman 97kg wrestling silver after losing the final 4-0 to Japan's Yuri Nakazato.
• India's men's cricket team defended its Asian Games gold medal by defeating Pakistan by 19 runs in the final.
• Vaibhav Sooryavanshi became India's youngest Asian Games gold medallist at 15 years, six months and six days old, as part of the men's cricket team.
• India's men's hockey team retained its Asian Games title by defeating Malaysia 5-1 and qualified for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.
• Pranavi Urs became the first Indian woman to win individual golf gold at the Asian Games, finishing at 15-under 265, one stroke ahead of Yin Ruoning and Shannon Tan.
• Pranavi Urs, Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar secured women's team golf silver with a combined score of 14-under 546, behind China's 22-under 538.
• Kumkum Mohod won women's individual recurve archery gold after defeating South Korea's Oh Yejin in the final, adding to her women's team gold.
• Neeru Dhanda was named women's flag bearer for the Asian Games closing ceremony after winning women's individual trap gold, trap mixed team gold and women's team trap silver.
• India finished its Asian Games 2026 campaign with 85 medals, comprising 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze, and ranked fourth in the medal standings.
• India finished sixth in men's volleyball after losing 2-3 to Thailand, with set scores of 19-25, 25-17, 21-25, 25-17 and 15-17.
• India won six wrestling medals, comprising two gold, two silver and two bronze, and secured two men's freestyle golds at the same Asian Games for the first time since 1978.
• Antim Panghal won women's 53kg wrestling silver after losing the gold-medal bout 1-9 to Japan.
• Sunil Kumar won bronze in men's Greco-Roman 87kg wrestling.
• India's men's recurve archery team won silver after losing the final 1-5 to South Korea.
• Kumkum Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara won mixed recurve archery silver after India lost 3-5 to China in the final.
• Nethra Kumanan won women's dinghy sailing bronze, her first Asian Games medal on her fourth appearance.
• Parveen Hooda won women's 65kg boxing gold after a 3-2 split-decision victory over Chinese Taipei's Chen Nien-chin.
• Ankush Panghal won men's 80kg boxing gold with a 4-0 victory over South Korea's Kim Minseong.
• Neeraj Chauhan won men's individual recurve archery bronze by defeating Dhiraj Bommadevara 6-4.
• India's men's quadrant team won Sepaktakraw bronze after losing 0-2 to Japan in the semifinal.
• India's women's rugby sevens team finished sixth after defeating Singapore 22-5 and losing 0-21 to Kazakhstan in the classification matches.
• Veer Ahlawat and Saptak Talwar finished joint sixth in men's individual golf, Yuvraj Sandhu placed 24th, and India finished sixth in the men's team event.
• Aditi Ashok finished 14th and Diksha Dagar joint 23rd in women's individual golf.
• Mahi Verma finished eighth in girls' dinghy sailing, while Katya Coelho placed seventh in women's windsurfing.
• Kashish Malik and Jyoti Yadav were eliminated in the women's 57kg and +67kg taekwondo round of 16 after 0-2 defeats.
• India's 85-medal total and 21 golds were its second-highest Asian Games tallies, behind the 106 medals and 28 golds won at Hangzhou in 2023.
• Abhishek Sharma scored 61 off 28 balls and Tilak Varma made an unbeaten 51 off 22 balls as India posted 211/6 and restricted Pakistan to 192 for 6 in the cricket final.