Asian Para Games Day 5: India Completes Century of Medals

The Asian Para Games 2026 reached a major milestone on its fifth day, with India completing a century of medals. The Indian athletes began Friday's competition in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, with a series of gold and silver finishes across archery, badminton, athletics and javelin.

Bhavna and Pooja were beaten by a Chinese pair in the women's recurve doubles gold medal match and had to be content with silver. China won every set, scoring 38-31, 35-30 and 39-29. Its average of 9.33 stood well above India's 7.50.

In badminton, Thulasimathi Murugesan lost the SU5 women's singles final to China's Qiuxia Yang, 18-21, 11-21, and took silver.

Pramod placed second in the men's 1500m T46 with a time of 4:09.65. He had also won silver at the Hangzhou Para Asian Games.

Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sunda claimed gold in the men's recurve team event. The first set ended 35-35, but they won the next two sets 37-36 and 38-36 to beat China 5-1.

Nitesh Kumar beat compatriot Pramod Bhagat 21-18, 21-16 in the SL3 men's singles final to win gold, and Pramod Bhagat finished with silver.

Naveen Shivakumar won the SL4 badminton gold, defeating Indonesia's Fredy Setiawan 21-9, 21-17.

Nimisha Chakkungalaparambil won silver in the women's long jump T47. Nithya Sri lost the SH6 women's singles final to China's Fengmei Li 12-21, 13-21.

Sandeep Kumar won gold in the men's 400m T64 final, breaking the world record with a time of 52.28 seconds. Ajay Kumar took bronze in 53.61 seconds. Sandeep Kumar also won gold in the men's 400m T44 final, and Ajay Kumar took bronze.

Hanni won the javelin gold. His final attempt of 60.49 metres set a new world record in the F37 category.