2:35 p.m. – Women’s Discus Throw Final – Seema, Sanya Yadav 3:09 p.m. – 4 x 100m Relay Mixed Round 1 Heat 2 – India 3:53 p.m. – Women’s 400m Hurdles Final – Vithya Ramraj, Anu Raghavan 4:03 p.m. – Men’s 400m Hurdles Final – Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan 4:13 p.m. – Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Final…
The men’s javelin throw final at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, is scheduled to take place on Monday, September 28. All eyes will be on Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage, who’s been in fine form after notching up 90m+ best efforts in three events this year so far. India’s Rohit Yadav and Yash Vir…
World No. 1 Rumesh Pathirage will look to become the first Sri Lankan to win gold in the javelin throw event at the Asian Games, as he takes the field in the final on Monday. Pathirage has enjoyed a breakthrough year, winning titles at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship and Commonwealth Games. He also broke…
In June, after she qualified for the Asian Games by winning the women’s 200m at the 65th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar, Harita Bhadra took off her racing bib and held it up to the cameras waiting at the finish line. It wasn’t an unusual thing to do. Indian athletes often have messages…
At the start of the final event of the men’s decathlon at the Asian Games, the 1500m, Tejaswin Shankar already knew where he would be on the podium. Gold was certainly out of the question, with Japan’s Yuma Maruyama 194 points ahead. Silver was unlikely unless China’s Chen Xinghua, who had a 105-point lead over…
At the end of the women’s long jump final at the Paloma Mizuho Stadium on Sunday evening, Ancy Sojan looked at China’s Huang Yingying like a traveller at Nagoya Central Station watching someone cut the queue. Hands on her head, the Indian glared across at Huang. There was anger in that stare. And some very…
India’s Harita Bhadra bagged a bronze medal in the women’s 200m event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 in Japan on Sunday. Harita, the 23-year-old sprinter from Maharashtra, finished third with a timing of 23.20s, just one hundredth of a second better than Japan’s Abigeirufuka Ido to secure her place on the podium. Singapore’s Shanti…
Puripol Boonson equalled seven-year-old Area Record in men’s 200m as he clocked 19.88s to achieve the sprint double at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 in Japan on Sunday. Boonson, the 20-year-old sprinter from Thailand, matched the mark set by Xie Zhenye in 2019 as he stormed to his second gold of the continental showpiece. He…
India’s Ancy Sojan clinched her second consecutive silver medal in women’s long jump at the Asian Games while Shaili Singh missed out on a bronze in agonising fashion in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on Sunday. Going into the final round, Hangzhou 2023 silver medallist Ancy (6.53m) was in first place was Shaili (6.42m) was placed third. However,…
India’s Sarvesh Kushare clinched silver in men’s high jump at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 in Japan on Sunday, ending the country’s 56-year wait for a medal in the discipline. Sarvesh, the 31-year-old jumper from Maharashtra, became only the third Indian man after Ajit Singh (gold in 1954) and Bhim Singh (gold in 1966 and…
