Asian Games: India win six medals, together with taking pictures gold, as Baranica makes pole vault historical past
NEW DELHI: India loved a six-medal haul on a packed Friday on the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, highlighted by a historic bronze for Baranica Elangovan in girls’s pole vault and a taking pictures gold from Suruchi Singh and Kamaljeet. The day additionally introduced silver medals for Gulveer Singh within the males’s 10,000m and India’s males’s 50m rifle 3-position crew, in addition to bronze medals in girls’s shot put and desk tennis blended doubles.Baranica’s achievement was the landmark second, as she grew to become the primary Indian athlete to win an Asian Games medal in pole vault, throughout each the lads’s and girls’s occasions.The six medals took India’s tally to 23 — two gold, 9 silver and 12 bronze.
Shooting lastly strikes gold
Suruchi and Kamaljeet ended India’s look ahead to a taking pictures gold by dominating the 10m air pistol blended crew closing.The Indian pair mixed for 484.6, with Suruchi contributing 245.7 and Kamaljeet 238.9. Their whole was a Games and Asian report as they led from begin to end.Asian Games Full Coverage | Medal Tally | ScheduleThe gold offered a lift to India’s taking pictures marketing campaign after the contingent had endured disappointment in a number of 10m occasions earlier within the competitors.India additionally secured silver within the males’s 50m rifle 3-position crew occasion via Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil and Niraj Kumar. Their combination of 1762 left them 4 factors behind China, who completed on 1766.Aishwary and Niraj additionally reached the person closing, ending fifth and eighth respectively.
Baranica makes pole vault historical past
Baranica cleared 4.15m to complete joint third within the girls’s pole vault closing. Kazakhstan’s Polina Ivanova additionally cleared 4.15m, and the 2 athletes have been degree on makes an attempt earlier than each didn’t clear 4.25m.With neither in a position to enhance on 4.15m and each tied on the countback, Baranica and Ivanova shared the bronze medal.The outcome marked a primary for Indian athletics on the Asian Games, with Baranica changing into the nation’s first medallist in pole vault.Compatriot Sindhusree Ganesha, in the meantime, completed and not using a legitimate mark. She didn’t clear 3.85m in two makes an attempt earlier than additionally lacking at 4m.
Gulveer improves to silver
Long-distance runner Gulveer Singh added one other athletics medal, upgrading the bronze he gained within the males’s 10,000m on the earlier Asian Games in Hangzhou to silver.The 28-year-old clocked 28:29.38 to complete behind Bahrain’s Birhanu Balew, who produced a late surge to win gold in 28:27.51. Balew’s compatriot Albert Kiptoo took bronze in 28:34.38.A Naib Subedar within the Indian Army, Gulveer stayed with the main pack for a lot of the race and remained in medal rivalry deep into the ultimate levels earlier than Balew pulled clear.Gulveer has additionally been in sturdy kind lately, successful gold in each the 5,000m and 10,000m on the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships. At the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, he grew to become the primary Indian to win two observe medals at a single version, taking silver within the 10,000m and bronze within the 5,000m.
Manpreet provides shot put bronze
India’s different athletics bronze got here from Manpreet Kaur within the girls’s shot put closing.Manpreet produced a finest throw of 17.17m to complete third, whereas compatriot Krishna Jayasankar Menon was fifth with 16.57m.China’s Jiayoan Song gained gold with 19.40m, whereas Linru Zhang took silver with 18.14m.
Badminton setback, squash and kabaddi increase
The day was not with out disappointment for India. Defending badminton champions Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty suffered a first-round exit, dropping 21-12, 19-21, 14-21 to Thailand’s Pakkapon Teeraratsakul and Peeratchai Sukphun.“It’s the psychological half. Whenever we’re mentally free, I believe nobody can beat us. But after we are caught anyplace, we give opponents an opportunity to beat us,” Satwik stated after the defeat.There was higher information elsewhere. India’s males’s and girls’s kabaddi sides stormed into their respective finals, holding two extra gold medals inside attain.In squash, India assured themselves of three medals. Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar entered the blended doubles semifinals, whereas Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh superior to the final 4 in girls’s and males’s singles respectively.Anahat defeated compatriot Tanvi Khanna 11-2, 11-5, 11-3, whereas Abhay beat Japan’s Ryonosuke Tsukue 11-4, 11-3, 11-6.India additionally secured a bronze in desk tennis blended doubles via Manush Shah and Diya Chitale, who misplaced their semifinal to China’s Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha.The girls’s hockey aspect continued its unbeaten run with a 3-1 win over hosts Japan, whereas boxers Sachin Siwach superior to the lads’s 60kg quarterfinals. In athletics, India additionally secured locations within the girls’s 400m closing via Kiran and Prachi, whereas Vishal TK superior to the lads’s 400m closing.
