Indian para table tennis players win five bronze medals at Asian Para Games 2026 in Nagoya

Key facts

• Indian para table tennis players won five bronze medals at the Asian Para Games 2026 in Nagoya, surpassing their tally of two bronzes from the previous edition.
• Ravi Baby Sahana and Prachi Pandey became the first Indian para table tennis players to win medals in the standing category at the Asian Para Games.
• Sahana lost 8-11, 2-11, 4-11 to five-time Paralympic gold medallist Mao Jingdian of China in the Class 9 semifinal, while Prachi lost 9-11, 2-11, 8-11 to reigning Paralympic champion Najlah Al-Dayyeni of Iraq in the Class 6 semifinal.
• Bhavina Patel, a former Paralympic silver-medallist, lost 7-11, 5-11, 7-11 to China's Zhang Bian in the Class 4-5 semifinal to claim her second successive Asian Para Games bronze; she won silver at the 2018 edition.
• Sonalben Patel lost 7-11, 5-11, 6-11 to defending champion Jiyu Yoon of South Korea in the Class 3 semifinal, while Jehan Madan won bronze in men's singles Class 1 by finishing fourth in a five-paddler field.