India finished fourth at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, with 85 medals: 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze. Only China, Japan and South Korea finished higher. India sent 496 athletes across 36 sports, with shooter Manu Bhaker and kabaddi player Pawan Sehrawat as flag bearers.
The 21 golds are India’s second-highest at an Asian Games, behind the 28 won at Hangzhou 2023. The full table is on our Asian Games 2026 medal tally page.
India’s gold medals by sport
| Sport | Golds | Winners |
|---|---|---|
| Archery | 5 | Women’s compound team; mixed compound team; men’s compound team; women’s recurve team; Kumkum Mohod (women’s individual recurve) |
| Boxing | 3 | Lovlina Borgohain (women’s 75 kg); Parveen Hooda (women’s 65 kg); Ankush Panghal (men’s 80 kg) |
| Shooting | 3 | Kamaljeet and Suruchi Singh (10m air pistol mixed team); Neeru Dhanda (women’s trap); trap mixed team |
| Cricket | 2 | Women’s team; men’s team |
| Hockey | 2 | Women’s team; men’s team |
| Kabaddi | 2 | Women’s team; men’s team |
| Wrestling | 2 | Including Sujeet Kalkal (men’s freestyle 65 kg) |
| Athletics | 1 | Women’s 4x400m relay (Kiran Pahal, Poovamma Machettira, Prachi Choudhary, Vithya Ramraj) |
| Golf | 1 | Pranavi Urs (women’s individual) |
Archery: India’s best sport
Archery delivered 9 medals: 5 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze. India swept three compound team golds on one day, then added the women’s recurve team title. On the final weekend, 17-year-old Kumkum Mohod from Amravati beat South Korea’s Oh Yejin in a shoot-off to become India’s first individual recurve gold medallist at the Asian Games.
Cricket: two golds, two finals
The women’s team gave India its first gold of the Games, beating Sri Lanka by 147 runs in the final. The men’s team then beat Pakistan by 19 runs in the men’s final, the first time the two sides had met at the Asian Games.
Hockey and kabaddi
Both Indian hockey teams reached the final, the first time that had happened since 1998. The men beat Pakistan 4-3 in the semi-final on their way to gold, and the women’s team also won its final. In kabaddi, India won both the men’s and women’s titles on the same day.
Boxing, wrestling and shooting
Three golds came from Haryana athletes on a single day: Sujeet Kalkal in men’s freestyle wrestling, Ankush Panghal in men’s 80 kg boxing and Parveen Hooda in women’s 65 kg boxing. Lovlina Borgohain added boxing’s third gold at 75 kg. In shooting, Neeru Dhanda won the women’s trap, and India also won the 10m air pistol and trap mixed team events.
Athletics and golf
India’s only athletics gold came in the women’s 4x400m relay. Defending champion Avinash Sable, back from knee surgery, finished fourth in the men’s 3000m steeplechase. Pranavi Urs won the women’s individual golf title on the final weekend.
Updated 7 October 2026. Sources: Khel Now, The Week, Open Magazine, Business Today and UNI reports on the final results.
