With 88 medals already won, India are just 21 medals away from achieving their best-ever haul at the Asian Para Games, and Day 5 in Aichi-Nagoya Japan promises another medal rush for India.
We have reigning Paralympic, World and Asian champion Sumit Antil in action, as well as other Paralympic gold medallists like Navdeep Singh and Dharambir Nain, as India's Para-Athletics contingent rakes in the medals.
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Pramod Bhagat and Nitesh Kumar are in an all-Indian Para Badminton final, while Avani Lekhara and Mona Agarwal are also in contention in Para Shooting. Harvinder Singh and co. can kick things off in Recurve Para Archery with multiple medals as well, as India faces up to an intense Friday.
Here is the schedule of Indian athletes on October 23, 2026:
NOTE: The event timings are in IST chronological order. Medal events are highlighted.
UPCOMING
05:30 - Para Badminton - Thulasimathi Murugesan vs Yang Quixia of China in Women's Singles SU5 Final
05:55 - Para Archery - Pooja Jatyan / Bhawna Choudhary vs Wang Xueqian / Gao Zihan of China in Recurve Women's Doubles Gold Medal Match
06:15 - Shooting Para Sport - Nihal Singh and Amir Ahmad Bhat in P3 Open 25m Pistol SH1 Qualification - Precision (Rapid and Final later)
06:17 - Para Athletics - Parmod Bijarnia in Men's 1500m T46 Final
06:20 - Para Badminton - Pramod Bhagat vs Nitesh Kumar in Men's Singles SL3 Final
06:30 - Shooting Para Sport - Avani Lekhara and Mona Agarwal in R8 Women's 50m Rifle 3P SH1 Qualification (Final at 09:15)
06:30 - Para Athletics - Nimisha Suresh in Women's Long Jump T47 Final
06:35 - Para Athletics - Praveen Sharma in Men's Discus Throw F11 Final
06:44 - Para Swimming - Chaitanya Kulkarni in Men's 400m Freestyle S6 Heat 1 (Final at 13:49)
06:45 - Para Archery - Harvinder Singh / Vijay Sundi vs Zhao Lixue / Yun Duo of China in Recurve Men's Doubles Gold Medal Match
06:45 - Para Table Tennis - Jehan Madan / Shubham Wadhwa vs Jincheol Park / Kyunghyun Kim of South Korea in Men's Doubles Class MD4 Group A (medals awarded to top four of five contestants in the group)
07:00 - Para Badminton - Naveen Sivakumar vs Fredy Setiawan of Indonesia in Men's Singles SL4 Final
07:05 - Para Badminton - Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan vs Li Fengmei of China in Women's Singles SH6 Final
07:05 - Para Swimming - Abdul Quadir Indori in Men's 50m Backstroke S5 Heat 2 (Final at 14:02)
07:25 - Para Athletics - Amisha Rawat in Women's Shot Put F46 Final
07:35 - Para Swimming - Chaitanya Kulkarni in Men's 50m Freestyle S6 Heat 2 (Final at 15:25)
07:40 - Boccia - Anjali Devi / Sachin Chamaria vs Chinese Taipei in Mixed Pairs BC3 Pool A (already out of semifinal contention)
08:00 - Para Athletics - Haney in Men's Javelin Throw F37/38 Final
08:05 - Para Athletics - Ajay Kumar and Sandeep in Men's 400m T64 Final
08:30 - Para Cycling - Arshad Shaikh in Men's C1-3 Road Race Final
09:15 - Shooting Para Sport - Avani Lekhara and Mona Agarwal in R8 Women's 50m Rifle 3P SH1 Final (if they qualify)
09:20 - Para Archery - Harvinder Singh / Bhawna Choudhary vs Zhao Lixue / Wang Xueqian of China in Recurve Mixed Team semifinal (Bronze match at 10:10, Gold match at 10:35)
10:10 - Para Archery - Harvinder Singh / Bhawna Choudhary in Recurve Mixed Team Bronze Medal Match (if they qualify)
10:35 - Para Archery - Harvinder Singh / Bhawna Choudhary in Recurve Mixed Team Gold Medal Match (if they qualify)
11:00 - Para Powerlifting - Kasthuri Rajamani, Suman Devi and Jaspreet Kaur in Women's Team Event Heats (H2H, Bronze and Gold Medal Matches later)
11:50 - Para Powerlifting - Kasthuri Rajamani, Suman Devi and Jaspreet Kaur in Women's Team Event Group A or B Head-to-Head Match
12:35 - Para Powerlifting - Kasthuri Rajamani, Suman Devi and Jaspreet Kaur in Women's Team Event Bronze Medal Match (if they qualify)
12:50 - Para Powerlifting - Kasthuri Rajamani, Suman Devi and Jaspreet Kaur in Women's Team Event Gold Medal Match (if they qualify)
13:00 - Shooting Para Sport - Nihal Singh and Amir Ahmad Bhat in P3 Open 25m Pistol SH1 Qualification - Rapid (Final at 14:30)
13:49 - Para Swimming - Chaitanya Kulkarni in Men's 400m Freestyle S6 Final (if he qualifies)
14:02 - Para Swimming - Abdul Quadir Indori in Men's 50m Backstroke S5 Final (if he qualifies)
14:12 - Para Swimming - Ravi Karthik Budigina in Men's 200m Individual Medley SM13 Final
14:21 - Para Athletics - Sandeep in Men's 100m T44 Round 1 Heat 2 (Final at 17:10)
14:30 - Shooting Para Sport - Nihal Singh and Amir Ahmad Bhat in P3 Open 25m Pistol SH1 Final (if they qualify)
14:30 - Para Athletics - Sharath Makanahalli in Men's 5000m T12/T13 Final
14:50 - Para Swimming - Himanshu Nandal in Men's 100m Freestyle S11 Final
15:00 - Para Badminton - Thulasimathi Murugesan / Nitesh Kumar vs Leani Oktila / Hikmat Ramdani of Indonesia in Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 Final
15:10 - Para Athletics - Ravi Rongali and Navdeep Singh in Men's Javelin Throw F40/41 Final
15:17 - Para Swimming - Tejas Nandakumar, Suyash Jadhav in Men's 50m Freestyle S7 Final
15:25 - Para Swimming - Chaitanya Kulkarni in Men's 50m Freestyle S6 Final (if he qualifies)
15:30 - Para Athletics - Pranav Soorma, Dharambir Nain and Amit Kumar Saroha in Men's Club Throw F51 Final
15:50 - Para Athletics - Anubhav Choudhary in Men's 200m T35 Final
15:57 - Para Athletics - Rakeshbhai Bhatt in Men's 200m T37 Final
16:01 - Para Swimming - Jahangir Molla in Men's 100m Butterfly S12 Final
16:46 - Para Athletics - Sumit Antil, Sandip Sargar and Mahendra Gurjar in Men's Javelin Throw F42-F44/F61-F64 Final
17:10 - Para Athletics - Sandeep in Men's 100m T44 Final (if he qualifies)
TBD - Para Badminton - Thulasimathi Murugesan / Manasi Joshi vs Yang Quixia / Xiao Zuxian of China in Women's Doubles SL3 - SU5 Final