India lands in Aichi–Nagoya, Japan for the 20th Asian Games (19 September – 4 October 2026) with one job on its mind: beat the number that changed everything. Two years ago in Hangzhou, India crossed a century of medals for the first time — 107 in all (28 gold, 38 silver, 41 bronze) — and finished fourth on the table. This time a 492-athlete contingent across 35 sports is out to prove that haul wasn’t a one-off. This is your live hub for the campaign: the medal tracker, the schedule, the squad, and exactly how to watch it all from India. We refresh the data right through the fortnight.
India Medal Tracker — Asian Games 2026
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Live totals appear here once competition starts. For context, India won 107 medals at Hangzhou 2023 — its best-ever return.
India in Action Today
| Date | India’s key events today |
|---|---|
| — | Fixtures appear here once the Games get going. |
India’s first athletes step out early: teqball on 17 September, followed by the women’s cricket quarter-final on 18 September — before the Opening Ceremony has even lit up.
India’s Medals So Far
Every medal an Indian athlete wins will be logged here as it happens (🥇 gold · 🥈 silver · 🥉 bronze).
- No medals yet — check back once the action begins.
India at a glance
| Games | 20th Asian Games, Aichi–Nagoya (Japan) |
|---|---|
| Dates | Sep 19 – Oct 4, 2026 (Indian action from Sep 17) |
| Contingent | ~492 athletes across 35 sports (265 men, 227 women) |
| Best-ever result | 107 medals — 28 gold, 38 silver, 41 bronze (Hangzhou 2023) |
| Headline draws | Cricket (defending champs, both teams) · PV Sindhu · Manu Bhaker |
| Watch in India | Sony Sports Network (TV) · Sony LIV (streaming) |
A small piece of history travels with the team too: for the first time at an Asian Games, India’s delegation includes a dedicated safeguarding officer, a sign of how much the setup around the athletes has grown.
The stars India will be watching
Squads are locked in sport by sport, but these are the names most Indian fans will be refreshing their phones for.
The cricketers — India’s biggest draw. Both the men’s and women’s teams arrive as reigning Asian Games champions. Shreyas Iyer captains a men’s T20 side stacked with names like Jasprit Bumrah and teen sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi; Harmanpreet Kaur leads the women, with Smriti Mandhana as her deputy. Two gold medals to defend, and a nation that lives for this game — no prizes for guessing where the eyeballs go first.
PV Sindhu (badminton). A two-time Olympic medallist and the face of Indian badminton, headlining a 20-strong shuttler squad that also features Lakshya Sen and the Olympic men’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty.
Manu Bhaker (shooting). India’s double Olympic medallist anchors a shooting squad that has quietly become the country’s most reliable medal factory — it delivered 22 of the 107 in Hangzhou.
Mirabai Chanu (weightlifting). The Olympic medallist leads a five-strong lifting team and remains one of India’s surest podium bets.
Aman Sehrawat (wrestling) and Lovlina Borgohain (boxing). Two Olympic medallists carrying India’s combat-sport hopes — and the boxers arrive fresh off a record Commonwealth Games run of 10 medals.
One big absence to note: reigning Asian Games javelin champion Neeraj Chopra has withdrawn after an ankle injury, so the men’s javelin gold India has grown used to is up for grabs this time.
India Squad for Asian Games 2026: The Full Sport-by-Sport List
This is India’s complete, up-to-date squad for the 20th Asian Games in Aichi–Nagoya, Japan (19 September – 4 October 2026) — every athlete, listed by sport, with their event, weight class or discipline. It’s a big, deep contingent chasing an even bigger number: India’s record 107-medal haul from Hangzhou 2023. We keep this page current as late changes come through, so bookmark it and check back through the fortnight.
Latest squad changes (live status)
A few names have shifted since the first list, so here’s what’s actually locked in:
- Neeraj Chopra (javelin) — OUT. The reigning champion has withdrawn with an ankle injury, taking one of India’s surest golds off the board.
- Jemimah Rodrigues (women’s cricket) — OUT, replaced by Pratika Rawal after a hamstring injury during The Hundred.
- Mukul Dahiya and Deepanshu (wrestling) — removed following doping-related violations.
- Gaurav Kumar Masoori (shooting) — dropped, replaced by Aakash Bharadwaj.
- Show-jumping team — excluded for not meeting the Sports Ministry’s selection criteria.
Entries can still change before the Games for injury, eligibility or selection reasons — treat the lists below as the current picture, not the final word.
Archery
Men: Dhiraj Bommadevara (recurve ind./team) · Neeraj Chauhan (recurve ind./team) · Yashdeep Bhoge (recurve ind./team) · Sahil Jadhav (compound ind./team) · Kushal Dalal (compound ind./team) · Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru (compound ind./team)
Women: Kirti Sharma (recurve ind./team) · Kumkum Mohod (recurve ind./team) · Ankita Bhakat (recurve ind./team) · Jyothi Surekha Vennam (compound ind./team) · Chikitha Taniparthi (compound ind./team) · Prithika Pradeep (compound ind./team)
Artistic Gymnastics
- Pranati Nayak — Women’s Vault, All-Around
Athletics
Men: Gurindervir Singh (100m) · Animesh Kujur (100m/200m/mixed 4x100m) · Rajesh Ramesh (400m/4x400m) · Vishal Thennarasu Kayalvizhi (400m/4x400m) · Krishan Kumar (800m) · Mohammed Afsal Pulikkalakath (800m) · Yoonus Shah (1500m) · Gulveer Singh (1500m/5000m/10,000m) · Sawan Barwal (marathon) · Kartik Karkera (marathon) · Yashas Palaksha (400m hurdles) · Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan (400m hurdles) · Avinash Sable (3000m steeplechase) · Pranav Pramod Gurav (mixed 4x100m) · Mohammed Ashfaq (4x400m) · Dharmveer Choudhary (4x400m) · Jay Kumar (4x400m/mixed 4x400m) · Manu Thekkinalil Saji (4x400m/mixed 4x400m) · Aadarsh Ram Jothi Shankar (high jump) · Sarvesh Kushare (high jump) · Kuldeep Kumar (pole vault) · Dev Meena (pole vault) · Murali Sreeshankar (long jump) · Shahnavaz Khan (long jump) · Praveen Chithravel (triple jump) · Karthik Unnikrishnan (triple jump) · Karanveer Singh (shot put) · Tajinderpal Singh Toor (shot put) · Damneet Singh (hammer) · Praveen Kumar (hammer) · Rohit Yadav (javelin) · Yash Vir Singh (javelin) · Thowfeeq Noushad (decathlon) · Tejaswin Shankar (decathlon)
Women: Harita Bhadra (200m) · Prachi Choudhary (400m) · Kiran Pahal (400m) · Gowthami Jayaraman (800m) · Pooja (800m/1500m) · Parul Chaudhary (1500m/5000m/3000m steeplechase) · Seema (5000m/10,000m) · Priyanka Goswami (marathon race walk) · Manju Rani (marathon race walk) · Jyothi Yarraji (100m hurdles) · Nandhini Kongan (100m hurdles) · Unnathi Aiyappa Bolland (200m) · Anu Raghavan (400m hurdles) · Vithya Ramraj (400m hurdles) · Ankita Dhyani (3000m steeplechase) · Tamanna (4x100m/mixed 4x100m) · Nithya Gandhe (4x100m) · Srabani Nanda (4x100m) · Abinaya Rajarajan (4x100m) · Sneha Sathyanarayana (4x100m/mixed 4x100m) · Sudeshna Shanuvalli (4x100m) · Rashdeep Kaur (4x400m/mixed 4x400m) · Ansa Babu (4x400m/mixed 4x400m) · Machettira Raju Poovamma (4x400m) · Kumari Saloni (4x400m) · Neeru Pathak (4x400m) · Pooja Singh (high jump) · Supriya Sindigere Basavaraju (high jump) · Baranica Elangovan (pole vault) · Sindhushree G (pole vault) · Shaili Singh (long jump) · Ancy Sojan Edappilly (long jump) · Niharika Vashisht (triple jump) · Asha Ilango (triple jump) · Manpreet Kaur (shot put) · Krishna Jayasankar Menon (shot put) · Sanya Yadav (discus) · Seema Kaliramna (discus) · Tanya Chaudhary (hammer) · Anushka Yadav (hammer) · Annu Rani (javelin) · Pooja (heptathlon) · Anamika Kozhinjaparambil Aneesh (heptathlon)
Badminton
Men: Lakshya Sen (singles/team) · Ayush Shetty (singles/team) · HS Prannoy (team) · Kidambi Srikanth (team) · Tharun Mannepalli (team) · Satwiksairaj Rankireddy (doubles/team) · Chirag Shetty (doubles/team) · Hariharan Amsakarunan (doubles/team) · MR Arjun (doubles/team) · Dhruv Kapila (mixed doubles/team)
Women: PV Sindhu (singles/team) · Unnati Hooda (singles/team) · Devika Sihag (team) · Tanvi Sharma (team) · Isharani Baruah (team) · Treesa Jolly (doubles/team) · Gayatri Gopichand (doubles/team) · Kavipriya Selvam (doubles/team) · Simran Singhi (doubles/team) · Tanisha Crasto (mixed doubles/team)
Boxing
Men: Jadumani Singh (55kg) · Sachin Siwach (60kg) · Sumit Kundu (70kg) · Ankush (80kg) · Kapil Pokhariya (90kg) · Narender Berwal (+90kg)
Women: Sakshi Chaudhary (51kg) · Preeti Pawar (54kg) · Priya Ghanghas (60kg) · Parveen Hooda (65kg) · Lovlina Borgohain (75kg)
Canoe
Slalom: Hitesh Kewat · Pradhyumna Singh Rathod · Shikha Chouhan · Pallavi Jagtap · Rina Sen Sprint: Prohit Baroi · Prasanna Kumar Chempadiyil Sathyaprakash · Naocha Singh Laitonjam · Gyaneshwor Singh Philem · Raju Rawat · Harshwardhan Singh Shaktawat · Varinder Singh · Oinam Arun Singh · Neha Devi Leichonbam · Soniya Devi Phairembam · Megha Pradeep · Pooja · Parvathy Geetha · Dhanamanjuri Devi Khwairakpam
Cricket
Men’s team (defending champions): Shreyas Iyer (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
Women’s team (defending champions): Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Pratika Rawal, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh, Gunalan Kamalini, Bharti Fulmali, Sree Charani, Renuka Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Radha Yadav, Nandani Sharma
Full fixtures on our Asian Games 2026 Cricket Schedule page.
Cycling (Track)
Men: Vishavjeet Singh (Madison) · David Beckham Elkatohchoongo (team sprint/sprint) · Jemsh Singh Keithellakpam (team sprint) · Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam (sprint/team sprint) · Harshveer Singh Sekhon (keirin/omnium/Madison) · Rojit Singh Yanglem (team sprint)
Women: Celestina Chelobroy (keirin/team sprint) · Meenakshi Rohilla (team pursuit) · Keerthi Rangaswamy Chikka (team sprint/keirin) · Pooja Baban Danole (team pursuit) · Harshita Jakhar (omnium/team pursuit/Madison) · Sarita Kumari (team sprint/sprint) · Triyasha Paul (team sprint/sprint) · Swasti Singh (Madison/team pursuit)
Equestrian
Dressage: Hriday Chheda / Dono Di Maggio · Gaurav Pundir / Milli · Jai Sud / Goofy La Perla · Shruti Vora / Magnanimous Eventing: Ahaan Kumar / Bolivar Gio Granno · Ashish Limaye / Willy Be Dun · Fouaad Mirza / Camouflage 38 · Arjan Singh Nagra / Cooley Goodwood
Esports
eFootball: Chinmay Sahoo · Danial Shakeel Patel League of Legends: Ahmed Shahid Israr · Rahul Bisht · Sanindhya Malik · Mihir Ranjan · Aakash Shandilya · Akshaj Shenoy Pokémon Unite: Adnan Mohammed Badshah · Reuben Godfrey Fernandes · Sai Krishna Nalluri · Dipjyoti Laxman Nath · Rudra Narayan Nayak · Deepkumar Vipulbhai Patel Puyo Puyo Champions: Paritosh
Fencing
Men: Sachin (foil ind./team) · Aditya Badser (team foil) · Tejas Manoj Patil (team foil) · Hemash Singh Sanasam (foil ind./team) · Lakshay Badser (team sabre) · Gisho Nidhi Kumaresan Padma (sabre ind./team) · Karan Singh (sabre ind./team) · Vishal Thapar (team sabre)
Women: Mina Devi Naorem (foil ind./team) · Joys Ashitha Stalinraj (foil ind./team) · Kanupriya Chawla (team foil) · Sonia Devi Waikhom (team foil) · Mitva Jesangbhai Chaudhari (team épée) · Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer (team épée) · Taniksha Khatri (épée ind./team) · Prachi Lohan (épée ind./team) · CA Bhavani Devi (sabre ind./team) · Shreya Gupta (sabre ind./team) · Jefarlin Jani Rexlin Simla (team sabre) · Shruti Joshi (team sabre)
Golf
Men: Yuvraj Sandhu · Veer Ahlawat · Saptak Talwar (individual stroke play + team) Women: Aditi Ashok · Diksha Dagar · Pranavi Urs (individual stroke play + team)
Hockey
Men’s team (defending champions): Harmanpreet Singh (captain), Mohith HS, Suraj Karkera, Jarmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas, Jugraj Singh, Sanjay, Sumit, Yashdeep Siwach, Rajinder Singh, Raj Kumar Pal, Hardik Singh, Manpreet Singh, Nilakanta Sharma, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Dilpreet Singh, Shilanand Lakra, Sukhjeet Singh, Mandeep Singh, Abhishek
Women’s team: Salima Tete (captain), Savita Punia, Bichu Devi Kharibam, Ishika Chaudhary, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Lalthantluangi, Jyoti, Shilpi Dabas, Nikki Pradhan, Sakshi Rana, Sunelita Toppo, Neha, Deepika Soreng, Lalremsiami Hmarzote, Rutuja Pisal, Navneet Kaur, Deepika, Ishika, Baljeet Kaur, Beauty Dungdung
Both tournaments double as direct qualifiers for the LA 2028 Olympics.
Judo
- Asmita Dey — Women’s -48kg
- Yamini Mourya — Women’s -57kg
- Inunganbi Takhellambam — Women’s -70kg
Kabaddi
Men (defending champions): Sunil Kumar (captain), Ankit Jaglan, Devank Dalal, Rahul Sethpal, Sumit, Jaideep Dahiya, Ayan Lochab, Arjun Deshwal, Aslam Inamdar, Gaurav Khatri, Pawan Sehrawat, Ashu Malik
Women (defending champions): Pushpa Rana (captain), Jyoti Thakur, Nikita Hathwala, Pooja, Raj Rani, Ritu Sheoran, Bhavna Devi, Sanju Devi, Manisha Kumari, Ritu Negi, Pinki Roy, Sonali Vishnu Shingate
Full fixtures on our Asian Games 2026 Kabaddi Schedule page.
Karate
- Chetan Bhatt — Men’s Kumite -84kg
- Alisha Choudhary — Women’s Kumite -55kg
Kurash
Men: Vipin Kumar (-66kg) · Vishal (+90kg) · Yash Kumar (+90kg) Women: Bharti (-57kg) · Sangita Balhara (-57kg) · Pincky Chauhan (-78kg)
Mixed Martial Arts
- Suchika Tariyal — Women’s Traditional MMA -60kg
Rowing
Men: Arvind Singh (single sculls) · Navdeep Singh (double sculls) · Kulwinder Singh (double sculls) · Ujjwal Kumar Singh (lightweight double sculls) · Satnam Singh Ghurde (quad sculls) · Jakar Khan (quad sculls) · Salman Khan (quad sculls) · Balraj Panwar (quad sculls) · Vipul Satish (pair) · Saurav Kumar (pair) · Nitin Kumar (four) · Yogesh Kumar (four) · Jaswinder Singh (four) · Babu Lal Yadav (four) Reserves: Rohit · Ajay Tyagi · Jasmail Singh · Anshika Bharti Women: Poonam · Aleena Anto · Tendenthoi Devi Haobijam · Gurbani Kaur (women’s four)
Rugby Sevens
Women: Amandeep Kaur, Guriya Kumari, Ujjwala Ghuge, Parbati Hansdah, Arti Kumari, Dumuni Marndi, Vaishnavi Dattatray Patil, Kalyani Krishnat Patil, Sandhya Rai, Nirmalya Rout, Bhumika Shukla, Sandhyarani Tudu, Shikha Yadav
Sailing
- Vishnu Saravanan — Men’s Dinghy
- Manu Francis — Men’s Skiff
- Prince Kurisinkal Noble — Men’s Skiff
- Ravindra Kumar Sharma — Mixed Dinghy
- Katya Ida Coelho — Women’s Windsurfing
- Nethra Kumanan — Women’s Dinghy
- Harshita Tomar — Women’s Skiff
- Shital Verma — Women’s Skiff
- Mahi Verma — Girls’ Dinghy
- Shraddha Verma — Mixed Dinghy
Sepak Takraw
Men: Arun, Jasvir, Ashish Chundawat, Shyam Singh, Lokhon Singh Elangbam, Bobby Kumar, Ashok Singh Mayengbam, Ram Kumar Sharma, O Amarjit Singha, Malemnganba Singh Sorokhaibam, Henary Singh Wahengbam, Akash Yumnam Women (doubles): Leirentonbi Devi Elangbam, Prity Langoljam, Menenu Tsukru Women (quadrant): Maipak Devi Ayekpam, Priya Devi Elangbam, Shilpa Elangbam, Chaoba Devi Oinam, Seyiekhrieno Tepa, Malemnganbi Yumnam
Shooting
Men: Kamaljeet (10m air pistol) · Aakash Bharadwaj (10m air pistol) · Kedarling Uchaganve (10m air pistol) · Anish Bhanwala (25m rapid fire pistol) · Himanshu Dhillon (10m air rifle) · Parth Mane (10m air rifle) · Rudrankksh Patil (10m air rifle/50m 3P) · Niraj Kumar (50m 3P/10m mixed) · Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (50m 3P) · Shapath Bharadwaj (trap) · Kynan Chenai (trap/trap mixed) · Ahvar Rizvi (trap) · Bhavtegh Singh Gill (skeet) · Mairaj Ahmad Khan (skeet) · Anant Jeet Singh Naruka (skeet/skeet mixed)
Women: Suruchi Singh (10m air pistol/mixed) · Manu Bhaker (10m air pistol/25m pistol/team) · Esha Singh (10m air pistol/25m pistol) · Rahi Sarnobat (25m pistol) · Vidarsa Kochalumkal Vinod (10m air rifle/50m 3P) · Sonam Uttam Maskar (10m air rifle) · Elavenil Valarivan (10m air rifle/mixed) · Ashi Chouksey (50m 3P) · Tilottama Sen (50m 3P) · Neeru Dhanda (trap/trap mixed) · Aashima Ahlawat (trap) · Manisha Keer (trap) · Maheshwari Chauhan (skeet) · Parinaaz Dhaliwal (skeet/skeet mixed) · Raiza Dhillon (skeet)
Sport Climbing
- Deepu Mallesh — Men’s Speed
- Joga Purty — Women’s Speed
Squash
Men: Suraj Kumar Chand (team/mixed doubles) · Veer Chotrani (singles/team) · Velavan Senthilkumar (mixed doubles/team) · Abhay Singh (singles/team) Women: Anahat Singh (singles/team) · Joshana Chinappa (mixed doubles/team) · Tanvi Khanna (singles/team) · Shameena Riaz (mixed doubles/team)
Surfing
- Kishore Kumar — Men’s Shortboard
- Sivaraj Babu — Men’s Shortboard
- Kamali Moorthy — Women’s Shortboard
- Sugar Shanthi Banarse — Women’s Shortboard
Swimming
- Benediction Rohit Beniston Manickaraj — 50m/100m fly, 100m free, relays
- Rishabh Das — 50m/100m back, medley relay
- Vedaant Madhavan — 200m back, 200m free, 4x200m free relay
- Akash Mani — 50m/100m free, relays
- Srihari Nataraj — 50m back
- Aryan Nehra — 800m/1500m free
- Utkarsh Santosh Patil — 100m/200m back
- Sajan Prakash — 100m/200m fly
- Heer Gitesh Shah — 50m free, 4x100m free relay
- Dhakshan Shashikumar — 400m free, 4x200m free relay
- Aneesh Sunil Kumar Gowda — 200m/400m free, relays
- Danush Suresh — 50m/100m breast, medley relay
Table Tennis
Men: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (doubles/team) · Payas Jain (team/mixed) · Manush Shah (singles/doubles/team) · Manav Thakkar (singles/doubles/team) · Harmeet Desai (doubles/team/mixed) Women: Sreeja Akula (singles/doubles/team) · Diya Chitale (doubles/team/mixed) · Syndrela Das (doubles/team) · Yashaswini Ghorpade (singles/team/mixed) · Sutirtha Mukherjee (team)
Taekwondo
- Rupa Bayor — Women’s Individual Poomsae
- Kashish Malik — Women’s -57kg
- Jyoti Yadav — Women’s +67kg
Tennis
Men: Sumit Nagal (singles) · Yuki Bhambri (doubles) · Dhakshineswar Suresh (doubles) · Anirudh Chandrasekar (doubles) · N. Sriram Balaji (doubles) Women: Ankita Raina (doubles) · Rutuja Bhosale (doubles)
Soft Tennis
- Yogesh Choudhary (men’s team) · Om Yadav (men’s team) · Jay Meena (singles/team) · Aniket Chirag Patel (team/mixed) · Aryan Thakur (singles/team) · Aadhya Tiwari (women’s singles/mixed)
Teqball
- Mohamed Anas Imran Beg — Men’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles
- Declan Marshall Gonsalves — Men’s Doubles
- Quimcy Dsouza — Women’s Singles, Mixed Doubles
Volleyball
Men: Chirag, Amit, Muthusamy Appavu, Jerome Vinith Charles, Muhammad Nihal Chatham Kulangara, John Joseph Eanthungal Joseph, Joel Benjamin Jebaraj, Anand Kottarathil, Om Vasant Lad, Ashwal Rai, Shikhar Singh, Erin Varghese
Weightlifting
- Rishikanta Singh Chanambam — Men’s 60kg
- Mirabai Chanu — Women’s 49kg
- Gyaneshwari Yadav — Women’s 53kg
- Seram Nirupama Devi — Women’s 61kg
- Harjinder Kaur — Women’s 69kg
Wrestling
Women: Dipanshi (50kg) · Antim Panghal (53kg) · Manisha Bhanwala (57kg) · Mansi Ahlawat (62kg) · Nisha Dahiya (68kg) · Priya Malik (76kg) Men’s Freestyle: Aman Sehrawat (57kg) · Sujeet Kalkal (65kg) · Sagar Jaglan (74kg) · Deepak Punia (97kg) · Rajat Ruhal (125kg) Men’s Greco-Roman: Sumit Dalal (60kg) · Deepak (67kg) · Aman (77kg) · Sunil Kumar (87kg) · Nitesh Kumar (97kg)
Wushu
Men: Aryan (56kg) · Vikrant Baliyan (75kg) · Suraj Singh Mayanglambam (Changquan) Women: Nyeman Wangsu (Changquan) · Aparna (52kg) · Divyanshi (60kg) · Langlentombi Devi Hanjabam (Nanquan & Nandao)
India’s medal-machine sports
These are the disciplines that powered India’s Hangzhou surge and shape its 2026 targets.
| Sport | India in 2023 | 2026 venue |
|---|---|---|
| Shooting | 22 medals (7 gold) — India’s biggest single haul | Aichi Prefectural General Shooting Gallery |
| Athletics | 29 medals — the deepest well of all | Paloma Mizuho Stadium |
| Archery | Multiple golds, led by the compound teams | Nagoya City Mizuho Park |
| Cricket (T20) | 🥇🥇 Gold in both men’s & women’s | Kōrogi Sports Park, Nisshin |
| Kabaddi | 🥇🥇 Gold in both men’s & women’s | Tōkai Citizens Gymnasium |
| Hockey | Men’s gold; women’s bronze | Gifu Prefectural Green Stadium |
| Badminton | Historic men’s doubles gold (Satwik–Chirag); men’s team silver | Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium |
| Wrestling | Medals across freestyle & Greco-Roman | Nagoya City Inae Sports Center |
| Squash | First-ever mixed doubles gold in Asian Games history | To be confirmed |
| Boxing | A dependable medal producer, every edition | Nishio Gymnasium |
Cricket — India’s confirmed fixtures
The T20 tournaments run at Kōrogi Sports Park in Nisshin from 17 September to 3 October, and India defends gold in both draws.
Women’s team (defending champions):
| Date | Match | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18 | India vs Japan | Quarter-final |
| Sep 22 | Final / medal matches | Women’s final day |
Men’s team (defending champions):
| Date | Match | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 24 | Men’s tournament begins | — |
| Sep 28 | India’s quarter-final | Direct entry to the last 8 |
| Oct 3 | Final / medal matches | Men’s final day |
Full sport-by-sport cricket dates are on our Asian Games 2026 Cricket Schedule page.
India’s other key confirmed dates
- Teqball: from Sep 17 — India’s earliest action of the Games
- Hockey: Sep 18 – Oct 3 · men open vs Indonesia on Sep 20 (both tournaments double as LA 2028 Olympic qualifiers)
- Badminton: from Sep 20 at Ichinomiya City Municipal Gymnasium
- Kabaddi: Sep 21–26 · semi-finals Sep 25, finals Sep 26 (India defends both titles)
- Athletics (track & field): Sep 23–29 at Paloma Mizuho Stadium
- Squash: from Sep 23
- Sailing: Sep 26 – Oct 3
More venues and windows are on our Asian Games 2026 Schedule hub, with deep dives on the Athletics schedule and Kabaddi schedule.
How to watch India live (in India)
- TV: Live on Sony Sports Network channels, with commentary in multiple Indian languages — Sony’s fourth Asian Games in a row.
- Streaming: Live on Sony LIV, covering the whole Games across India and the wider subcontinent.
- Time difference: Japan (JST) runs 3.5 hours ahead of India (IST). So a 10:00 JST session tips off at 06:30 IST, and an 18:00 JST evening final lands at 14:30 IST — meaning the marquee sessions arrive in the middle of your Indian afternoon. A quick habit that helps: skim the SonyLIV schedule each morning to see which Indian athletes are on that day, since no single channel can carry every parallel event.
The big picture
India’s Hangzhou breakthrough wasn’t luck — it was depth. Shooting and athletics alone accounted for close to half the medals, and the statement wins came in cricket, kabaddi, badminton and hockey. Nagoya asks a harder question: can India do it again without one of its banker golds, now that Chopra is out? The answer probably rides on the same broad base — the shooters, the trackside squad, two cricket teams chasing back-to-back gold, and the grapplers and boxers on the mat. Match 2023 and it’s a triumph. Beat it, and India rewrites its own record books two Games running.
FAQ
When does India start competing at the 2026 Asian Games? India’s first action is teqball on 17 September, with the women’s cricket quarter-final the next day — both before the 19 September Opening Ceremony. The full Games run through to 4 October.
How can I watch India live? On the Sony Sports Network (TV) and Sony LIV (streaming) across India and the subcontinent.
How many medals did India win at the last Asian Games? A record 107 — 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze — at Hangzhou 2023, its best-ever showing.
Which sports are India’s best medal hopes in 2026? Shooting, athletics, archery, cricket, kabaddi, hockey, badminton, wrestling, squash and boxing.
Is Neeraj Chopra competing? No — the reigning champion has withdrawn from the javelin with an ankle injury.
Who is in India’s squad for the 2026 Asian Games? Around 492 athletes across 35 sports. See our regularly updated India squad page for the full sport-by-sport list.
Compiled from official AINAGOC information and Asian Games records. Dates, fixtures and squads are subject to change; reconfirm on official sources.
