India concluded its campaign at the 2026 Asian Para Games with a record total of 114 medals\u2014comprising 30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze, marking its best-ever medal tally at this continental event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indian para-athletes delivered outstanding performances in athletics, badminton, archery, shooting, table tennis and swimming; they set world and Games records and achieved historic victories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the 2023 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, India initially won 111 medals, but three were subsequently stripped following anti-doping violations, reducing its official tally to 108. At the 2026 edition, India fielded a 168-member contingent and secured a record 114 medals, including 30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze, finishing fourth in the medal standings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In para-badminton, Nitesh Kumar won the gold medal in the men\u2019s singles SL3 final by defeating his compatriot Pramod Bhagat 21-18, 21-16. In the women\u2019s doubles SL3-SU5 category, Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manasi Joshi also secured a gold medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In para-shooting, Mona Agarwal won gold in the women\u2019s 50m rifle three positions SH1, setting a world record with a score of 357.5. India also secured silver in women\u2019s recurve doubles through Pooja Jatyan and Bhawna Choudhary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Para-athletics emerged as the sport that brought the highest number of medals for India. Heney won gold medal in the men\u2019s F37\/38 javelin event with a world-record of 60.49 meters, while Sandeep secured victory in the men\u2019s 400m T64 event by setting a world record of 52.28 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the men\u2019s javelin throw event, Sumit Antil won the gold medal, while Mahendra Gurjar secured the silver and Sandeep Sanjay Sargar took the bronze; thus, Indian athletes occupied all three spots on the podium. Additionally, Pranav Soorma won the gold medal in the men\u2019s club throw F51 event with a distance of 32.87 meters, setting a new Games record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, para-table tennis players Jehan Dorab Madan and Shubham Wadhwa won a bronze medal in the men\u2019s doubles Class MD4 event, while swimmer Himanshu Nandal secured a bronze medal in the men\u2019s 100m freestyle S11 event. Nandal finished the Games with three bronze medals overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India\u2019s record medal haul highlights the growing strength of the country\u2019s para-sports programme and marks a milestone in its Asian Para Games campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India’s final medal tally:<\/strong> 114 \u2014 30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (DD News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" India concluded its campaign at the 2026 Asian Para Games with a record total of 114 medals\u2014comprising 30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze, marking its best-ever medal tally at this continental event. Indian para-athletes delivered outstanding performances in athletics, badminton, archery, shooting, table tennis and swimming; they set world and Games records and achieved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[462,461,27],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asianparagames","tag-asianparagames2026","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamilnadutribune.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}