Aichi-Nagoya: India finished its Asian Games 2026 campaign with 85 medals — 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze — to secure fourth place in the final medal table. The campaign ended on a high on Saturday, with the men’s hockey team defeating Malaysia 5-1 in the final to win India’s 21st gold medal.

India’s final tally was lower than its record-breaking performance at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, where the contingent won 106 medals, including 28 gold, 38 silver and 40 bronze. However, India’s Aichi-Nagoya campaign featured strong performances across archery, shooting, athletics, boxing, wrestling, cricket, kabaddi and hockey.

The final two days proved particularly productive. India added 11 gold medals during the closing stages, with archery, boxing, wrestling, cricket and hockey making major contributions. The men’s hockey gold also secured India’s direct qualification for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

India’s final medal tally

PositionCountryGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1China1698983341
2Japan839591269
3South Korea394368150
4India21273785
5Uzbekistan21252470

India and Uzbekistan both won 21 gold medals, but India’s higher silver-medal count placed it fourth.

India’s 21 gold medals

India’s gold-medal haul came from nine sporting disciplines.

Cricket

  • India women’s team — Women’s T20
  • India men’s team — Men’s T20

Kabaddi

  • India women’s team — Women’s event
  • India men’s team — Men’s event

Hockey

  • India women’s team — Women’s event
  • India men’s team — Men’s event

Shooting

  • Kamaljeet and Suruchi Singh — 10m air pistol mixed team
  • Neeru Dhanda — Women’s trap
  • Kynan Chenai and Neeru Dhanda — Mixed trap team

Archery

  • Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep and Chikitha Taniparthi — Women’s compound team
  • Chikitha Taniparthi and Sahil Jadhav — Mixed compound team
  • Sahil Jadhav, Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru and Kushal Dalal — Men’s compound team
  • Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Mohod and Kirti Sharma — Women’s recurve team
  • Kumkum Mohod — Women’s individual recurve

Athletics

  • Kiran Pahal, Poovamma MR, Prachi Choudhary and Vithya Ramraj — Women’s 4x400m relay

Boxing

  • Lovlina Borgohain — Women’s 75kg
  • Parveen Hooda — Women’s 65kg
  • Ankush Panghal — Men’s 80kg

Wrestling

  • Sujeet Kalkal — Men’s freestyle 65kg
  • Aman Sehrawat — Men’s freestyle 57kg

Golf

  • Pranavi Urs — Women’s individual

The gold-medal list includes several historic achievements, including Pranavi Urs becoming the first Indian woman to win an individual Asian Games golf gold and Kumkum Mohod becoming the first Indian woman to win an individual recurve gold at the Asian Games.

India’s 27 silver medals

Shooting

  • Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar and Vidarsa Vinod — Women’s 10m air rifle team
  • Elavenil Valarivan — Women’s 10m air rifle
  • Rudrankksh Patil, Parth Mane and Himanshu Dhillon — Men’s 10m air rifle team
  • Himanshu Dhillon — Men’s 10m air rifle
  • Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudranksh Patil and Niraj Kumar — Men’s 50m rifle 3 positions team
  • Vidarsa Vinod, Ashi Chouksey and Tilottama Sen — Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions team
  • Neeru Dhanda, Manisha Keer and Aashima Ahlawat — Women’s trap team
  • Esha Singh — Women’s 25m pistol

Athletics

  • India mixed 4x400m relay team
  • Gulveer Singh — Men’s 10,000m
  • Sawan Berwal — Men’s marathon
  • Tajinderpal Singh Toor — Shot put
  • Ancy Sojan — Women’s long jump
  • Sarvesh Kushare — Men’s high jump
  • Gulveer Singh — Men’s 1500m
  • Murali Sreeshankar — Men’s long jump
  • Yash Vir Singh — Men’s javelin throw

Wushu and squash

  • Roshibina Devi — Women’s 60kg sanda
  • Abhay Singh — Men’s singles squash
  • Anahat Singh — Women’s singles squash

Sailing

  • Prince Kurisinkal Noble and Manu Francis — Men’s skiff

Wrestling

  • Nitesh Kumar — Greco-Roman 97kg
  • Antim Panghal — Women’s 53kg

Archery

  • Kumkum Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara — Mixed recurve team
  • Dhiraj Bommadevara, Neeraj Chauhan and Yashdeep Bhoge — Men’s recurve team

Golf

  • Pranavi Urs, Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar — Women’s team

Weightlifting

  • Mirabai Chanu — Women’s 49kg

India’s silver-medal list featured multiple athletes who also contributed to the country’s medal haul in other events. Pranavi Urs, for example, won individual gold and team silver, while Kumkum Mohod collected gold in the individual recurve event as well as silver in mixed recurve.

India’s 37 bronze medals

Athletics

  • Seema Kumari — Women’s 10,000m
  • Manpreet Kaur — Women’s shot put
  • Baranica Elangovan — Women’s pole vault
  • Prachi Choudhary — Women’s 400m
  • Haritha Bhadra — Women’s 200m
  • Tejaswin Shankar — Decathlon
  • Parul Chaudhary — Women’s 3000m steeplechase
  • Vithya Ramraj — Women’s 400m hurdles
  • Parul Chaudhary — Women’s 5000m
  • Rohit Yadav — Men’s javelin throw
  • Gulveer Singh — Men’s 5000m
  • Gurindervir Singh, Sneha SS, Animesh Kujur and Haritha Bhadra — Mixed 4x100m relay
  • Pooja Singh — Women’s high jump
  • Dharmveer Choudhary, Manu TS, Jay Kumar and Vishal TK — Men’s 4x400m relay

Shooting

  • Rudrankksh Patil — Men’s 10m air rifle
  • Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan — Women’s skeet team
  • Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Bhavtegh Singh Gill and Mairaj Ahmad Khan — Men’s skeet team
  • Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Parinaaz Dhaliwal — Mixed skeet team

Boxing

  • Narender Berwal — Men’s +90kg
  • Priya Ghanghas — Women’s 60kg
  • Kapil Pokhariya — Men’s 90kg

Archery

  • Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru — Men’s compound individual
  • Neeraj Chauhan — Men’s individual recurve

Wrestling

  • Sunil Kumar — Greco-Roman 87kg
  • Deepak Punia — Men’s 97kg

Other sports

  • India men’s team — Badminton
  • Jay Meena — Men’s singles soft tennis
  • Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar — Squash mixed doubles
  • Anahat Singh, Joshna Chinappa, Tanvi Khanna and Shameena Riaz — Women’s squash team
  • Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma — Women’s skiff sailing
  • Nethra Kumanan — Women’s dinghy sailing
  • India men’s team — Sepaktakraw quadrant
  • Suchika Tariyal — Women’s traditional MMA -60kg
  • Pincky Balhara — Women’s -78kg kurash
  • Satnam Singh and Salman Khan — Men’s double sculls rowing
  • Diya Chitale and Manush Shah — Table tennis mixed doubles
  • Abhay Singh, Veer Chotrani, Velavan Senthilkumar and Suraj Kumar Chand — Men’s squash team

The complete final list confirms 37 bronze-medal finishes, including India’s medals in newer or less traditionally dominant disciplines such as MMA, kurash, soft tennis and sepaktakraw.

A strong finish after a slow start

India’s campaign did not initially suggest that the contingent would reach 85 medals. The country was outside the top 10 of the medal table as recently as Thursday, with only 10 gold medals. The final two days changed the picture considerably, with India adding 11 gold medals across several disciplines.

Archery produced five gold medals, while boxing contributed three. Wrestling and hockey added two golds each, and the men’s cricket team also retained India’s Asian Games T20 title. The women’s cricket team had earlier opened India’s gold-medal account.

The men’s hockey triumph provided the final gold of India’s campaign. Harmanpreet Singh’s team defeated Malaysia 5-1 in the final, successfully defending India’s Asian Games title and securing direct qualification for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

India finishes fourth with 85 medals

India ended the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games with 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze medals, giving the country 85 podium finishes and fourth place in the final standings.

While the overall haul was 21 medals fewer than the 106 won at Hangzhou in 2022, the final campaign featured significant individual and team achievements across a wide range of sports. The performances of the archers, boxers, wrestlers, shooters, athletes, cricketers and hockey teams were central to India’s late surge.

The 2026 Games therefore ended with India firmly inside the top five, with a medal-winning campaign spread across established Olympic disciplines as well as several emerging sports.