India’s Asian Games campaign ended on a golden note as the men’s hockey team beat Malaysia 5-1 in the final on Saturday, October 3. It was India’s 21st gold medal and 85th overall, securing another top-five finish at the quadrennial multi-sport event.
India’s overall medal tally is 21 fewer than at the previous edition, while the gold-medal count is down by seven compared to the 2022 Hangzhou Games. India had won 106 medals in Hangzhou, crossing the 100-medal mark for the first time. The Aichi-Nagoya campaign was a mixed bag, with some expected results giving way to disappointments before a strong finish changed the complexion of the campaign.
Late medal rush lifts India into top five
As recently as Thursday, India were outside the top 10 in the medal table with just 10 gold medals. Over the final two days, however, the hockey and cricket teams delivered gold, while India also enjoyed spectacular results in archery, boxing and wrestling. The late surge brought 11 more gold medals and propelled India into the top five, giving the campaign a much-needed lift before the Games drew to a close.
Full list of Indian medal winners at the Asian Games
Gold (21)
- Team India: Cricket, women’s event
- Kamaljeet, Suruchi Singh: Shooting, mixed team 10m air pistol
- Team India: Kabaddi, women’s event
- Team India: Kabaddi, men’s event
- Neeru Dhanda: Shooting, women’s trap
- Kiran Pahal, Poovamma MR, Prachi Choudhary, Vithya Ramraj: Athletics, women’s 4x400m relay
- Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep, Chikitha Taniparthi: Archery, women’s compound team
- Chikitha Taniparthi, Sahil Jadhav: Archery, mixed compound team
- Kynan Chenai, Neeru Dhanda: Shooting, mixed trap
- Sahil Jadhav, Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru, Kushal Dalal: Archery, men’s compound team
- Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Mohod, Kirti Sharma: Archery, women’s team recurve
- Lovlina Borgohain: Boxing, women’s 75kg
- Parveen Hooda: Boxing, women’s 65kg
- Ankush Panghal: Boxing, men’s 80kg
- Sujeet Kalkal: Wrestling, men’s 65kg
- Team India: Hockey, women’s event
- Kumkum Mohod: Archery, women’s individual recurve
- Pranavi Urs: Golf, women’s individual
- Team India: Cricket, men’s event
- Aman Sehrawat: Wrestling, men’s 57kg
- Team India: Hockey, men’s event
Silver
- Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar, Vidarsa Vinod: Shooting, women’s 10m air rifle team
- Elavenil Valarivan: Shooting, women’s 10m air rifle
- Rudrankksh Patil, Parth Mane, Himanshu Dhillon: Shooting, men’s 10m air rifle team
- Himanshu Dhillon: Shooting, men’s 10m air rifle
- Mirabai Chanu: Weightlifting, women’s 49kg
- Roshibina Devi: Wushu, women’s 60kg sanda
- Team India: Athletics, mixed 4x400m relay
- Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudranksh Patil, Niraj Kumar: Shooting, men’s 50m rifle 3P team
- Gulveer Singh: Athletics, men’s 10,000m
- Sawan Berwal: Athletics, men’s marathon
- Vidarsa Vinod, Ashi Chouksey, Tilottama Sen: Shooting, women’s 50m rifle 3P team
- Tajinderpal Singh Toor: Athletics, shot put
- Abhay Singh: Squash, men’s singles
- Anahat Singh: Squash, women’s singles
- Ancy Sojan: Athletics, women’s long jump
- Sarvesh Kushare: Athletics, men’s high jump
- Esha Singh: Shooting, women’s 25m pistol
- Gulveer Singh: Athletics, men’s 1500m
- Murali Sreeshankar: Athletics, men’s long jump
- Yash Vir Singh: Athletics, men’s javelin throw
- Neeru Dhanda, Manisha Keer, Aashima Ahlawat: Shooting, women’s trap team
- Prince Kurisinkal Noble, Manu Francis: Sailing, men’s skiff
- Nitesh Kumar: Wrestling, Greco-Roman 97kg
- Kumkum Mohod, Dhiraj Bommadevara: Archery, mixed team recurve
- Dhiraj Bommadevara, Neeraj Chauhan, Yashdeep Bhoge: Archery, men’s team
- Pranavi Urs, Aditi Ashok, Diksha Dagar: Golf, women’s team
- Antim Panghal: Wrestling, women’s 53kg
Bronze
- Rudrankksh Patil: Shooting, men’s 10m air rifle
- Suchika Tariyal: Mixed martial arts, women’s traditional -60kg
- Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan: Shooting, women’s skeet team
- Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Bhavtegh Singh Gill, Mairaj Ahmad Khan: Shooting, men’s skeet team
- Jay Meena: Soft tennis, men’s singles
- Team India: Badminton, men’s team
- Satnam Singh, Salman Khan: Rowing, men’s double sculls
- Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Parinaaz Dhaliwal: Shooting, mixed skeet team
- Seema Kumari: Athletics, women’s 10,000m
- Diya Chitale, Manush Shah: Table tennis, mixed doubles
- Manpreet Kaur: Athletics, shot put
- Baranica Elangovan: Athletics, women’s pole vault
- Joshna Chinappa, Velavan Senthilkumar: Squash, mixed doubles
- Prachi Choudhary: Athletics, women’s 400m
- Haritha Bhadra: Athletics, women’s 200m
- Tejaswin Shankar: Athletics, decathlon
- Parul Chaudhary: Athletics, women’s 3000m steeplechase
- Pincky Balhara: Kurash, women’s -78kg
- Vithya Ramraj: Athletics, women’s 400m hurdles
- Parul Chaudhary: Athletics, women’s 5000m
- Rohit Yadav: Athletics, men’s javelin throw
- Narender Berwal: Boxing, men’s +90kg
- Gulveer Singh: Athletics, men’s 5000m
- Gurindervir Singh, Sneha SS, Animesh Kujur, Harita Bhadra: Athletics, mixed 4x100m relay
- Pooja Singh: Athletics, women’s high jump
- Dharmveer Choudhary, Manu TS, Jay Kumar, Vishal TK: Athletics, men’s 4x400m relay
- Priya Ghanghas: Boxing, women’s 60kg
- Kapil Pokhariya: Boxing, men’s 90kg
- Sunil Kumar: Wrestling, Greco-Roman 87kg
- Anahat Singh, Joshana Chinappa, Tanvi Khanna, Shameena Riaz: Squash, women’s team
- Harshita Tomar, Shital Verma: Sailing, women’s skiff
- Nethra Kumanan: Sailing, women’s dinghy
- Team India: Sepaktakraw, men’s quadrant
- Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru: Archery, men’s compound individual
- Abhay Singh, Veer Chotrani, Velavan Senthilkumar, Suraj Kumar Chand: Squash, men’s team
- Neeraj Chauhan: Archery, men’s individual recurve
- Deepak Punia: Wrestling, men’s 97kg
The two biggest stars
Kumkum Mohod: 3 medals in archery
The 17-year-old from Amravati was the breakout star of India’s archery campaign, finishing her Asian Games debut with two golds and a silver. She helped India win its first-ever Asian Games gold in the women’s recurve team event, then paired with Dhiraj Bommadevara for silver in the mixed recurve event.
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She saved her biggest moment for the individual final, beating South Korea’s Oh Yejin in a shoot-off to become the first Indian woman to win an individual recurve medal at the Asian Games, and the first Indian recurve archer to win an individual Asian Games gold. The victory also secured India an LA 2028 Olympic quota place.
Neeru Dhanda: 3 medals in shooting
The 26-year-old Haryana shooter turned a difficult build-up into a landmark Asian Games campaign, winning two golds and a silver. Dhanda first helped India win silver in the women’s trap team event before producing the defining performance of her Games in the individual event. She shot 28 in the final to set an Asian Games record and became the first Indian woman to win an individual Asian Games gold in trap.
Her victory also ended India’s wait for an individual trap gold at the Asian Games since Randhir Singh’s men’s title in 1978. She later added another gold as part of the mixed trap, joining hands with Kynan Chenai.
Multiple medal winners at Asiad 2026
- Kumkum Mohod (Archery), 3 medals: Gold in women’s recurve team, silver in mixed recurve team, gold in women’s individual recurve
- Neeru Dhanda (Shooting), 3 medals: Silver in women’s trap team, gold in women’s trap, gold in mixed trap team
- Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru (Archery), 3 medals: Gold in men’s compound team, gold in mixed compound team, bronze in men’s individual compound
- Vithya Ramraj (Track), 3 medals: Silver in mixed 4x400m relay, gold in women’s 4x400m relay, bronze in women’s 400m hurdles
- Prithika Pradeep (Archery), 2 medals: Gold in women’s compound team, gold in compound mixed team
- Sahil Jadhav (Archery), 2 medals: Gold in mixed compound team, gold in men’s compound team
- Jyothi Surekha Vennam (Archery), 2 medals: Gold in women’s compound team, gold in mixed compound team
- Chikitha Taniparthi (Archery), 2 medals: Gold in women’s compound team, gold in mixed compound team
- Kushal Dalal (Archery), 2 medals: Gold in men’s compound team, gold in mixed compound team
- Poovamma Machettira (Track), 2 medals: Silver in mixed 4x400m relay, gold in women’s 4x400m relay
- Ankita Bhakat (Archery), 2 medals: Gold in women’s recurve team, silver in recurve mixed team
- Kirti Sharma (Archery), 2 medals: Gold in women’s recurve team, silver in recurve mixed team
- Pranavi Urs (Golf), 2 medals: Gold in women’s individual golf, silver in women’s team golf
- Kiran Pahal (Track), 2 medals: Gold in women’s 4x400m relay, silver in mixed 4x400m relay
- Prachi Choudhary (Track), 2 medals: Gold in women’s 4x400m relay, bronze in mixed 4x100m relay
Total medals by sport
India’s 85-medal haul was spread across 20 sports, with athletics contributing the most medals (24), followed by shooting (15) and archery (9). India won golds in nine disciplines, led by archery (5), while boxing and shooting added three golds each, and wrestling, hockey, kabaddi and cricket contributed two apiece. Cricket, hockey and kabaddi delivered gold medals in both men’s and women’s categories.
- Archery: 5 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze (9 medals)
- Boxing: 3 gold, 0 silver, 3 bronze (6 medals)
- Shooting: 3 gold, 8 silver, 4 bronze (15 medals)
- Cricket: 2 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze (2 medals)
- Hockey: 2 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze (2 medals)
- Kabaddi: 2 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze (2 medals)
- Wrestling: 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze (6 medals)
- Athletics: 1 gold, 9 silver, 14 bronze (24 medals)
- Golf: 1 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze (2 medals)
- Badminton: 0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze (1 medal)
- Kurash: 0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze (1 medal)
- Mixed martial arts: 0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze (1 medal)
- Rowing: 0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze (1 medal)
- Sailing: 0 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze (3 medals)
- Sepaktakraw: 0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze (1 medal)
- Soft tennis: 0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze (1 medal)
- Squash: 0 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze (5 medals)
- Table tennis: 0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze (1 medal)
- Weightlifting: 0 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze (1 medal)
- Wushu: 0 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze (1 medal)
Who stood out
- Neeru Dhanda (Shooting): She became the first Indian woman to win an individual Asian Games gold in trap. More broadly, no Indian woman had previously won an individual medal in trap or skeet at the Asian Games. She also set an Asian record with 28 hits in the final.
- Kumkum Mohod (Recurve archery): The 17-year-old became the first Indian woman to win an individual recurve medal at the Asian Games, and made it gold after beating South Korea’s Oh Yejin in a shoot-off. She also secured India’s LA 2028 Olympic quota.
- Pranavi Urs (Golf): She became the first Indian woman to win individual golf gold at the Asian Games.
- Aman Sehrawat (Wrestling): He became the first Indian to win the men’s 57kg freestyle title at the Asian Games.
- Sujeet Kalkal (Wrestling): He won 65kg gold, the first wrestling gold for India. It was also the first time since 1978 that India won two wrestling freestyle golds at one Asian Games.
- Deepak Punia (Wrestling): His bronze in the men’s 97kg freestyle category ended a wait of roughly 60 years for an Indian medal in that weight class. The previous Indian medals came in 1962 and 1966.
- Lovlina Borgohain (Boxing): Her women’s 75kg gold made her only the second Indian woman boxer after Mary Kom to win Asian Games gold.
Team achievements
- India women’s hockey: The team ended a 44-year wait for Asian Games gold, winning the women’s title for the first time since 1982. The gold also secured direct qualification for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
- India men’s and women’s hockey: For the first time, both Indian hockey teams won Asian Games gold at the same edition. The men retained their title by beating Malaysia 5-1, while the women ended their 44-year wait.
- India women’s recurve archery team: Ankita Bhakat, Kirti Sharma and Kumkum Mohod won India’s first-ever Asian Games gold in the women’s recurve team event, beating South Korea in the final.
Big dips: where the medals were lost
The biggest medal dips came in shooting and athletics, which together accounted for 12 of the overall 21 fewer medals compared to 2022.
- Shooting fell from 22 medals in Hangzhou to 15 in Aichi-Nagoya, with its gold tally dropping from seven to three. Athletics went from 29 medals to 24 and saw an even sharper fall in golds, from six to one.
- Rowing also suffered a significant decline, dropping from five medals to one, while badminton fell from three to one.
- India did not win medals in tennis and equestrian, after winning two medals in each sport in 2022.
- Chess, meanwhile, was not part of the 2026 Asian Games programme, so it does not count as a medal dip.
- Squash was an exception in terms of overall numbers, retaining its five-medal haul, but its gold tally fell from two to zero.
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