Asian Games 2026 Day 9: Athletics leads India’s 8-medal haul, boxing assures extra as close to misses harm
NEW DELHI: India loved one other medal-rich day on the Asian Games 2026 on Monday, successful eight medals throughout athletics, taking pictures and kurash whereas additionally securing extra medals in boxing. Yet the haul got here with a well-known mixture of celebration and disappointment, as a number of Indian athletes got here agonisingly near the rostrum.The eight medals included 4 silver and 4 bronze, with Yashvir Singh and Rohit Yadav successful a javelin double, Murali Sreeshankar taking lengthy leap silver, Gulveer Singh including his second silver of the Games and Esha Singh claiming silver within the ladies’s 25m pistol. Vithya Ramraj, Parul Chaudhary and Pincky Balhara accomplished the day’s bronze-medal haul.India additionally secured at the least three extra medals in boxing as three boxers — Lovlina Borgohain, Priya and Kapil Pokhariya — confirmed podium finishes by successful their respective quarterfinals.Asian Games Full Coverage | Medal Tally | Schedule
Javelin double, Gulveer’s second silver headline athletics haul
In the absence of defending champion Neeraj Chopra, Yashvir Singh and Rohit Yadav ensured India still finished with two athletes on the men’s javelin podium.Yashvir produced a private better of 85.72m to win silver, whereas Rohit took bronze with 84.35m. Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage received gold with 88.55m.Yashvir had began strongly with 83.56m and briefly led the competitors, whereas Rohit moved to the highest with 84.35m. Pathirage ultimately took management with 88.33m earlier than enhancing additional in his remaining try.Gulveer, meanwhile, continued his outstanding campaign by winning his second silver medal. After ending runner-up within the 10,000m, he clocked a private greatest of three:36.72 within the 1500m remaining. Japan’s Kazuto Iizawa received gold, whereas compatriot Nagiya Mori took bronze. India’s Yoonus Shah completed ninth.ALSO READ: India win 8 medals but remain outside top 10 as gold continues to elude
Sreeshankar wins silver regardless of damage
Murali Sreeshankar endured a tense finish to win silver in the men’s long jump.The Indian produced a greatest effort of 8.07m, however injured himself throughout his fourth try and couldn’t take both of his remaining two jumps. Having already moved into silver-medal place, Sreeshankar may solely watch as his rivals tried to overhaul his mark. None succeeded.China’s Yuhao Shi received gold with 8.17m, whereas Uzbekistan’s Anvar Anvarov took bronze with 8.06m. India’s Solomon David completed seventh with 7.70m.There have been additionally bronze medals for Parul Chaudhary and Vithya Ramraj. Parul clocked 15:14.61 to finish third in the women’s 5000m, including one other bronze after her steeplechase medal.Vithya, meanwhile, set a personal best of 54.75 seconds to win bronze in the 400m hurdles and break PT Usha’s greater than four-decade-old nationwide report. Anu Raghavan completed fifth with a private better of 55.88 seconds.
Esha fights by shoot-offs, Balhara provides kurash bronze
Esha Singh had to negotiate multiple shoot-offs before securing silver in the women’s 25m pistol.The global community No. 1 completed with 38 hits, the identical rating as China’s Xiao Jiaruixuan. Xiao ultimately received the gold after the deciding shoot-off, leaving Esha with silver.Esha’s path to the rostrum included three shoot-offs in opposition to South Korea’s Kim Hyon Suk throughout the elimination levels earlier than she secured her place within the medal positions.Pincky Balhara also added a bronze in women’s -78kg kurash. She beat South Korea’s Garam Lim within the quarterfinal earlier than dropping 0-5 to a different South Korean, Sumin Mo, within the semifinals.It was Balhara’s second Asian Games medal, eight years after her silver at Jakarta 2018.
Boxing ensures three extra medals
India’s medal depend will rise additional after three boxers received their quarterfinal bouts.Lovlina Borgohain defeated South Korea’s Seong Suyeon within the ladies’s 75kg quarterfinal to verify a medal. Priya additionally superior to the rostrum by beating Tajikistan’s Mijgona Samadova within the ladies’s 60kg quarterfinal.Kapil Pokhariya accomplished the boxing trio, defeating South Korea’s Kim Gichae within the males’s 90kg quarterfinal.The three victories imply India is assured at the least three extra boxing medals, though their color might be decided by their semifinal and remaining outcomes.
Hockey units up blockbuster Pakistan semifinal
The defending champions produced one in all their most emphatic performances of the Games, crushing Bangladesh 10-0 of their remaining Pool A match.Captain Harmanpreet Singh scored a hat-trick, whereas Abhishek struck 3 times. Jugraj Singh, Sukhjeet Singh, Shilanand Lakra, Sanjay and Mandeep Singh additionally bought on the scoresheet.India completed prime of Pool A with 5 wins from 5 matches and a +45 aim distinction. The outcome units up a blockbuster semifinal in opposition to arch-rivals Pakistan on October 1. Malaysia and South Korea will contest the opposite semifinal.
More close to misses on a busy day
Not all the things went India’s approach. Defending champion and Games report holder Avinash Sable completed fourth within the males’s 3000m steeplechase regardless of producing a season-best 8:21.67. Japan’s Ryuji Miura received gold in a Games report 8:17.36.Seema Kaliramna additionally missed the ladies’s discus podium by a slender margin, ending fourth with a personal-best 59.88m. All three medal winners crossed 60m. India additionally completed fourth within the ladies’s 4x100m relay.Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan was seventh within the males’s 400m hurdles, whereas India’s ladies’s 25m pistol group of Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh and Rahi Sarnobat completed fifth.Elsewhere, India certified for the lads’s 4x400m relay remaining and blended 4x100m relay remaining, whereas Pooja reached the ladies’s 800m remaining. Squash produced a clear sweep of kinds, with India’s ladies’s group beating Japan and China and the lads’s facet defeating China and South Korea.Rain additionally affected the lads’s cricket quarterfinal in opposition to Afghanistan, which was deserted, with India advancing to the semifinal by advantage of upper seeding.After the day’s eight medals, India stood on 45 medals — 4 gold, 20 silver and 21 bronze. The medal haul continued to develop, however the nation’s gold tally remained unchanged, leaving India twelfth within the standings.
