Asian Games 2026: India’s full schedule on September 26; medal occasions, and timings
India’s marketing campaign on the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, continues on Saturday, September 26, with athletes competing throughout a number of disciplines.The males’s and girls’s kabaddi groups may have an opportunity to win gold medals as each groups face Iran of their respective finals.In athletics, two-time Asian Games gold medallist Tajinderpal Singh Toor will compete within the males’s shot put ultimate, whereas Praveen Chitravel will goal for a medal within the males’s triple soar ultimate.Tejaswin Shankar may also start his decathlon marketing campaign on Saturday. He will compete in 5 of the ten occasions scheduled for the decathlon on the opening day.India may have medal alternatives throughout athletics, taking pictures and kabaddi because the nation’s athletes look so as to add to the medal tally on Day 7.Here’s the total schedule for Indian athletes on the Asian Games 2026 for Saturday, September 26:
- 3:58am onwards: Surfing – Kamali Prakash, Sugar Shanti Gayen and Sivaraj Babu in males’s and girls’s shortboard heats.
- 4:00am: Athletics – Sawan Barwal and Kartik Karkera in males’s marathon ultimate (medal occasion).
- 4:30am: Archery – Dhirag Bommadevara, Jyothi Surekha Vennam and others in recurve and compound particular person and crew occasions qualification.
- 5:30am: Athletics – Thowfeeq Noushad in males’s decathlon 100m warmth 1.
- 5:43am: Tejaswin Shankar in males’s decathlon 100m warmth 2.
- 6:00am: Badminton – Lakshya Sen vs Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in males’s singles second spherical match.
- 6:00am: Equestrian – Gaurav Pundir, Hriday Vipul Chheda, Shruti Vora and Jai Sud in dressage second particular person qualifier.
- 6:00am: Fencing- India vs Indonesia in girls’s foil crew spherical of 16 match.
- 6:15am: Athletics – Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad in males’s decathlon lengthy soar.
- 6:30am: Table Tennis – Yashaswini Ghorpade vs Miwa Harimoto of Japan in girls’s singles spherical 3 match.
- 6:30am: Shooting – Ashi Chouksey, Tilottama Sen and Vidarsa Vinod in girls’s 50m rifle 3P positions particular person qualification and crew ultimate.
- 6:30am: Canoe Sprint – Harshwardhan Shaktawat in males’s kayak single 500m semifinal 1.
- 6:45am: Esports – Paritosh vs Dongshin Kang in Puyo Puyo Champions quarterfinal match.
- 6:50am: Canoe Sprint – Parvathy Geetha and Prasanna Kumar in males’s kayak double 500m semifinal 1.
- 7:00am: Fencing- India vs Philippines in males’s sabre crew spherical of 16 match.
- 7:55am: Athletics – Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad in males’s decathlon shot put.
- 8:15am: Athletics – Shaili Singh and Ancy Sojan in girls’s lengthy soar qualification A and B.
- 8:20am: Canoe Sprint – Raju Rawat and Neha Devi Leichonbam in blended canoe double 500 ultimate (medal occasion).
- 8:30am: Squash – Joshna Chinappa-Velavan Senthilkumar vs Tang Ming Hong-Lee Ka Yi of Hong Kong in blended doubles semifinal.
- 8:32am: Athletics – Animesh Kujur in males’s 200 heats.
- 9:30am: Kabaddi – India vs Iran in girls’s ultimate (medal occasion).
- 9:30am: Shooting – Ashi Chouksey, Tilottama Sen and Vidarsa Vinod in girls’s 50m rifle 3P positions particular person ultimate (in the event that they qualify).
- 10:15am: Boxing – Jadumani Singh vs Carlo Paalam of Philippines in males’s 55kg spherical of 16 bout.
- 10:35am: Squash – Anahat Singh vs Satomi Watanabe of Japan in girls’s singles semifinal.
- 10:45am: Boxing – Kapil Pokhariya vs Sam Estaki of Iran in males’s 90kg in spherical of 16 bout.
- 10:45am: Esports – India vs Japan in Pokémon Unite in group match.
- 11:15am: Squash – Abhay Singh vs Muhammad Irfan of Pakistan in males’s singles semifinal.
- 11:30am: Badminton – Unnati Hooda vs Wong Ling China of Malaysia in girls’s singles second spherical match.
- 12:30 p.m.: Badminton – Ayush Shetty vs Makhsut Tajibullayev of Kazakhstan in males’s singles second spherical match.
- 1:30 p.m.: Hockey – India vs Japan in males’s Pool A match.
- 1:30 p.m.: Badminton – PV Sindhu vs Chiu Pin-chian of Chinese Taipei in girls’s singles second spherical match.
- 2:15 p.m.: Boxing – Priya vs Oh Yeonji of South Korea in girls’s 60kg spherical of 16 bout.
- 2:30 p.m.: Kabaddi – India vs Iran in males’s ultimate (medal occasion).
- 2:30 p.m.: Badminton – Treesa Jolly-Gayatri Gopichand vs Mayu Matsumoto-Yuki Fukushima of Japan girls’s doubles second spherical match.
- 2:35 p.m.: Athletics – Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad in males’s decathlon excessive soar.
- 4:04 p.m.: Athletics – Jyothi Yarraji in girls’s 100m hurdles heats.
- 4:12 p.m.: Athletics – Nandhini Kongan in girls’s 100m hurdles heats.
- 4:30 p.m.: Athletics – Tajinderpal Singh and Karanveer Singh in males’s shot put ultimate (medal occasion).
- 4:33 p.m.: Athletics – Harita Bhadra in girls’s 200m heats.
- 4:41 p.m.: Athletics – Unnathi Bolland in girls’s 200m heats.
- 5:05 p.m.: Athletics – Praveen Chitravel and Karthik Unnikrishnan in males’s triple soar (medal occasion).
- 5:21 p.m.: Athletics – Yoonus Shah in males’s 1500m heats.
- 5:31 p.m.: Athletics – Gulveer Singh in males’s 1500m heats.
- 5:50 p.m.: Athletics – Tejaswin Shankar and Thowfeeq Noushad in males’s decathlon 400m heats.
- 6:15 p.m.: Athletics – Prachi and Kiran in girls’s 400m ultimate (medal occasion).
- 6:33 p.m.: Athletics – Vishal TK in males’s 400m ultimate (medal occasion).
- 6:45 p.m.: Athletics – Pooja and Parul Chaudhary in girls’s 1500m ultimate (medal occasion).
