It's an action-packed day at the Asian Game 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya with Indian athletes involved in various events, and there are big chances for India to shoot up the medal table with potential medals especially in kabaddi, shooting, and athletics
SEPTEMBER 26 FULL SCHEDULE | ASIAN GAMES MEDAL TALLY | INDIA AT ASIAN GAMES 2026 | KEY DATES AT ASIAN GAMES 2026 | INDIA'S LIVE MEDAL TRACKER
Here are today's events:
COMPLETED:
Kabaddi - India beat Iran 40-34 in men's final, win GOLD
Kabaddi - India beat Iran 37-34 in women's final, win GOLD
Athletics - Tajinderpal Singh wins SILVER and Karanveer Singh finishes 10th in men's shot put
Athletics - Sawan Barwal wins SILVER in men's marathon with national record time of 2:11:37.
Shooting - Ashi Chouksey, Tilottama Sen and Vidarsa Vinod win team SILVER in women's 50m rifle 3P; Tilottama (3rd, 590) and Vidarsa (65th, 588) into final.
Squash - Joshna Chinappa-Velavan Senthilkumar earn BRONZE after losing their mixed doubles semifinal against Tang Ming Hong-Lee Ka Yi of Hong Kong.
Athletics - Prachi wins BRONZE, Kiran finishes 5th in women's 400m final
Squash - Anahat Singh beats Satomi Watanabe of Japan 3-2 in women's singles semifinal, into final.
Squash - Abhay Singh beat Muhammad Irfan of Pakistan 3-0 in men's singles semifinal, into final
Badminton - PV Sindhu beats Tomoka Miyazaki in women's singles round 3, enters quarterfinal
Athletics - Tejaswin Shankar in first and Thowfeeq Noushad in eighth after day 1 of men's decathlon
Athletics - Animesh Kujur finishes second in men's 200m semifinal 2, enters final
Athletics - Harita Bhadra and Unnathi Bolland finished second and third in their respective women's 200m heats, qualify for final
Athletics - Yoonus Shah and Gulveer Singh finish third in their respective men's 1500m heats, advance
Athletics - Nandhini Kongan finishes fourth and enters final, while Jyothi Yarraji DNS in women's 100m hurdles heats
Badminton - Ayush Shetty lost 1-2 to Chou Tien-Chen in round 3 match.
Hockey - India beat Japan 2-0 in men's Pool A match.
Boxing - Priya beat Oh Yeonji of South Korea in women's 60kg round of 16 bout.
Badminton - Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand beat Mayu Matsumoto-Yuki Fukushima of Japan women's doubles second round match.
Badminton - Unnati Hooda beat PK Wardani in women's singles third round match, into quarters
Sailing - India in fifth after mixed dinghy opening series race 2
Esports - India lose to Japan 0-2 in Pokémon Unite in group match
Archery - Kumkum Mohod finished 10th, Kirti 18th, and Ankita Bhakat 26th in women's recurve qualifying.
Archery - Sahil Jadhav finished 5th, Thirumuru Ganesh Mani Ratnam 14th, and Kushal Dalal 16th in men's compound individual qualifying.
Boxing - Kapil Pokhariya beats Sam Estaki of Iran in men's 90kg in round of 16 bout, enters quarterfinal
Boxing - Jadumani Singh loses to Carlo Paalam of Philippines in men's 55kg round of 16 bout.
Shooting - Tilottama Sen finishes fourth and Vidarsa Vinod finishes fifth in women's 50m rifle 3P positions individual final.
Badminton - PV Sindhu beat Chiu Pin-chian of Chinese Taipei in women's singles second round match.
Badminton - Ayush Shetty beat Makhsut Tajibullayev of Kazakhstan in men's singles second round match.
Badminton - Unnati Hooda beat Wong Ling China of Malaysia in women's singles second round match.
Archery - Chikitha Taniparthi (705, 1st,), Jyothi Surekha Vennam (699, 13th), Prithika Pradeep (695, 20th) were second in team qualification (2099).
Archery - Dhiraj Bommadevara (698, 1st, Asian & National Record), Neeraj Chauhan (676, 20th), Yashdeep Bhoge (665, 25th) finished third in the men's team recurve qualification.
Athletics - Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad were fifth (865) and seventh (856) after the men's decathlon 100m heat event.
Canoe Sprint - Harshwardhan Shaktawat finished fifth in men's kayak single 500m semifinal, into Final B.
Fencing - India beat Indonesia 45 - 24 in women's foil team round of 16, into quarterfinal.
Canoe Sprint - Parvathy Geetha and Prasanna Kumar finished second in mixed kayak double 500m semifinal, into Final A.
Table Tennis - Yashaswini Ghorpade lost to Miwa Harimoto of Japan in women's singles round 3.
Athletics - Tejaswin Shankar finished first (7.53m) and Thowfeeq Noushad third (7.37m) in men's decathlon long jump. Tejaswin is second (1807 pts) and Thowfeeq fourth (1759 pts) in the overall standings.
Badminton - Lakshya Sen lost to Loh Kean Yew of Singapore 12-21, 21-15, 14-21 in men's singles second round match.
Esports - Paritosh lost 0-5 to Dongshin Kang in Puyo Puyo Champions quarterfinal.
Fencing- India beat Philippines 45-27 in men's sabre team round of 16, into quarterfinal.
Canoe Sprint - Raju Rawat and Neha Devi Leichonbam finish eighth in mixed canoe double 500 final.
Fencing - India lost 25-45 to South Korea in men's sabre team quarterfinal.
Fencing - India lost 14-41 to Japan in women's foil team quarterfinal.
Athletics - Tejaswin Shankar finished fifth (13.16m, 677pts) and Thowfeeq Noushad tentn (10.76m, 531 pts)in men's decathlon shot put. Tejaswin is third (2484), Thoufeeq ninth (2290) in the overall standings.
Athletics - Animesh Kujur finishes top of his men's 200m heat, into semifinal.
Table Tennis - Manush Shah lost 0-4 to Lin Shidong in men's singles round 3.
Surfing - Kamali Prakash, Sugar Shanti Gayen and Sivaraj Babu in men's and women's shortboard heats (postponed to tomorrow)
Hriday Vipul Chheda / Dono Di Maggio finished eleventh (135.059), Jai Sud / Goofy La Perle was 13th (133.559) and Shruti Vora was 24th (129.941) at the end of the second qualifiers in the individual dressage event.
Athletics - Praveen Chithravel retired hurt and Karthik Unnikrishnan finished sixth in men's triple jump
Athletics - Vishal TK finishes fifth in men's 400m final
Athletics - Pooja finishes 4th and Parul Chaudhary 6th in women's 1500m final (medal event).