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India At Asian Games 2026: Day 5 Medal Winners and Medal Tracker

India has kept up its medal winning trend at the Asian Games 2026 held in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on Thursday, September 24. Day 5 saw medal winning starts in rowing and wushu with Satnam Singh and Salman Khan winning bronze medals in the men’s double sculls followed by Naorem Roshibina Devi winning silver medals in women’s 60kg wushu. With these two medals, India’s total medal count stands at 14 medals with 1 gold, 6 silver, and 7 bronze.

India At Asian Games 2026: Day 5 Medal Winner’s Tally

Medal Total Winners
Gold 0
Silver 1
Bronze 2
Total 3

India’s Overall Medal Tally Asian Games 2026

Medal Total Winners
Gold 1
Silver 6
Bronze 7
Total 11

India’s Medallists on Day 5

Satnam Singh and Salman Khan – Bronze in Men’s Double Sculls

Satnam Singh and Salman Khan won India’s first medal on Day 5 when they claimed bronze in the men’s double sculls rowing event final. The Indian pair finished third with a timing of 6:13.25, behind China’s Yi Xudi and Yide Nie (gold) and Uzbekistan’s Mekhrojbek Mamatkulov and Pavel Sorin (silver).

Naorem Roshibina Devi – Silver in Women’s 60kg Wushu

Naorem Roshibina Devi claimed the silver medal in the women’s 60kg Sanda event, having lost 0-2 to China’s Zhang Xiaoyu in the final round. Zhang won in both rounds with a scoreline of 5-0. Roshibina won the second medal in three consecutive Asian Games, having won bronze at Jakarta 2018 and silver at Hangzhou 2023.

India Records Several Wins in Team Matches

The Indian men’s kabaddi team registered the complete group stage triumph when they won against the Chinese Taipei with the score of 37-21.

This win ensured that the team emerged top of Group A, having won all four matches in the group stage.

In hockey, India’s men’s team locked horns with South Korea in an important Pool A encounter. This contest was one of the major team contest matches of India on Day 5.

Other India’s Results from Day 5

  • Sumit Kundu: Registered a 5-0 win in the first round match against Iran’s Ali Qasim Hamdan in the men’s 70kg Round of 16.
  • Bhavani Devi: Moved to women’s sabre Table of 16 with victory over Mongolia’s Oulen Tugsjargal.
  • Manush Shah: Beat Malaysia’s Wong Qi Shen 4-0 in the men’s singles table tennis contest.
  • Sreeja Akula and Syndrela Das: Won against Mongolia 3-0 in women’s doubles.
  • Diya Chitale and Yashaswini Ghorpade: Won against Iran 3-0 in women’s doubles.
  • Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Parinaaz Dhaliwal: Aided India in making it through to the mixed team skeet final.
  • Men’s 10m air pistol: Kamaljeet came ninth, Aakash Bharadwaj 11th, and Kedarling Uchaganve 35th, with India coming fourth in the team event.
  • Mixed 4x400m relay: India reached the final after timing 3:16.23 and qualifying in fourth place.
  • Anamika Aneesh Kozhinjaparambil: Cleared 1.74m in the heptathlon high jump and climbed to sixth place overall.
  • Pooja: Credited 1.71m in the heptathlon high jump.
  • Balraj Panwar: Claimed fourth in the men’s single sculls final with a timing of 6:54.80.
  • Megha Pradeep: Took fourth in the women’s canoe single 200m semifinal and missed the final.
  • Indian 4x100m freestyle relay team: Ranked 12th in 3:23.51.
  • Joshana Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar: Beat fellow Indians Suraj Chand and Shameena Riaz 2-0 in squash mixed doubles.
  • Women’s sabre: Bhavani Devi progressed, whereas other Indian fencers were eliminated in the knockout rounds.
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