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Asian Games 2026 Updates: Pranati finishes sixth in women's vault final

Thu, 24 September 2026

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16:04

Pranati finishes sixth in women's vault final

Pranati Nayak

India's Pranati Nayak missed out on a medal after finishing sixth spot in eight-women vault final in the artistic gymnastics event at the Asian Games on Thursday.

The 31-year-old, the lone gymnast from India at the quadrennial event, scored identical 12.900 on her first and second vault to aggregate 13.100 with a 0.20 bonus added to her total.

The Indian, who had recovered from a leg injury to make it to the Games, went for a difficulty score of 4.4 and execution score of 8.500 in both her vaults.

Korea's Yeo Seojeong (14.100) won the gold, while North Korea's An Chang Ok (13.033) and Du Siyu (12.800) claimed the silver and bronze medals respectively.

16:03

Paritosh Enters Esports Quarter-Finals

Paritosh

India's debutant Paritosh qualified for the quarter-finals of the Puyo Puyo Champions ESports event at the Asian Games after finishing third in Group B with two wins and two losses on Thursday.

Paritosh began his campaign with a 3-0 win over Mongolia's Munkhzorig Ganbold before edging past Singapore's Koh Mun June Justin 3-2 in the event, which is a puzzle video game.

He then suffered a 0-3 loss to Chinese Taipei's Tzu-ang Kuo and went down 2-3 to Thailand's Tanarak Wongkitikun.

With the top three athletes from each group advancing, Paritosh's third-place finish kept India's campaign alive at Aichi Sky Expo Hall.

The quarter-finals will be held on Saturday.

15:03

Sakshi bows out after loss; Sumit out with injury

Sumit

Indian boxer Sakshi Chaudhary bowed out of the Asian Games following a 2-3 pre-quarter-final loss to Kazakhstan's Alua Balkibekova in the women's 65kg category.

The 26-year-old from Haryana, who won gold in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, struggled to connect her punches as Balkibekova stayed ahead across all three rounds to secure her place in the quarter-finals.

Sakshi attempted combinations but the Kazakh boxer used her right hook effectively and appeared to have the edge, leading 3-2 after the opening round.

The second round began at an aggressive pace with Sakshi showing greater urgency and looking to land clean punches. However, Balkibekova continued to stay ahead, again taking the round 3-2 on the strength of her right-hand blows.

Trailing on the scorecards, Sakshi could not turn the bout around in the final round and bowed out of the competition.

Earlier, Sumit suffered a heartbreak as he was forced to concede his men's 70kg pre-quarter-final bout against Iraq's Al Sarray Ali Qasim Hamdan following an injury at the Asian Games.

The 23-year-old from Haryana was leading after the first two rounds but seemed to suffer a knee injury after coping a punch and falling awkwardly in the third round and was unable to continue. The referee stopped the contest, handing the win to his opponent.

Sumit had beaten Thailand's Bunjong Sinsiri 5-0 in his opening bout.

Among others in fray, Sakshi will face Kazakhstan's Alua Balkibekova in the women's 65kg round of 16, while Parveen will take on Tajikistan's Malika Nozimova in the same round.

13:17

Men's Hockey: India rout South Korea 8-2

The Indian men's hockey continued their rampaging form in the Asian Games as they trounced South Korea 8-2 for their third straight victory in the competition.

Abhishek and Dilpreet Singh scored two goals each to power India to a comfortable victory.

They had beaten Indonesia 13-1 and and Sri Lanka 16-1 in their first two matches at the Asian Games.

12:52

Men's Hockey: India lead 7-1 vs South Korea

Men's Hockey: India lead 7-1 vs South Korea

Dilpreet Singh continued India's romp, scoring the sixth goal in the 32nd minute with a reverse hit.

Abhishek converts an easy rebound for India's seventh goal after Lakra's shot had hit the post.

South Korea finally get on the scoreboard. Jaeho Kim opened South Korea's account with a goal in the 42nd minute.

India lead 7-1 after the third quarter.

12:49

Men's Hockey: India lead 5-0 vs South Korea

Men's Hockey: India lead 5-0 vs South Korea

South Korea fared much better in the second quarter as compared to the first. They conceded just one goal in the second quarter as India cruised to a comfortable 5-0 lead at half time.

Dilpreet Singh converted the goal easily as India continued their domination.

12:27

Men's Hockey: India race to 4-0 lead vs South Korea

Indian men's hockey team

Men's Hockey: India lead 4-0 vs South Korea

India were off to a flying start, racing to a 3-0 lead against South Korea in the men's hockey pool match at the Asian Games on Thursday.

Shilanand Lakra gave India the perfect start as he opened the scoring in the eighth minute with the Korean defence slow to react as he made his way through to score.

Sukhjeet Singh doubled the lead a couple of minutes later as he converted the pass from Hardik Singh before captain Harmanpreet Singh converted the penalty to give India a commanding 3-0 lead in the first quarter.

Lakra then turned provider as Abhishek converted his pass for an easy goal with India taking a 4-0 lead after the first quarter.

12:27

Men's Hockey: India race to 4-0 lead vs South Korea

Indian men's hockey team

Men's Hockey: India lead 4-0 vs South Korea

India were off to a flying start, racing to a 3-0 lead against South Korea in the men's hockey pool match at the Asian Games on Thursday.

Shilanand Lakra gave India the perfect start as he opened the scoring in the eighth minute with the Korean defence slow to react as he made his way through to score.

Lakra then turned provider as Abhishek converted his pass for an easy goal with India taking a 4-0 lead after the first quarter.

11:34

Joshna-Velavan win all-Indian battle; enter mixed doubles quarters

Joshna Chinappa

Veteran Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar advanced to the mixed doubles quarter-finals at the Asian Games after beating fellow Indians Suraj Chand and Shameena Riaz in straight games.

The Asian Championships bronze-medal winning Indian pair defeated Suraj-Shameena 11-7 11-10 in the all-Indian last-16 clash.

The Indian duo will next face the Philippines' David Pelino and Jemyca Aribado in the quarter-finals on Friday.

11:19

Indian men's kabaddi team storms into semis

Indian men's kabaddi team

Defending champions India stormed into the men's kabaddi semi-finals following a 37-21 win over Chinese Taipei in their final Group A fixture in Nagoya on Thursday.

The victory was India's fourth consecutive in the group stage, where the side earlier defeated South Korea, Japan and Bangladesh to sign off unbeaten and be assured of at least a bronze .

India dominated from the outset, taking a 23–11 lead at half-time before maintaining their advantage in the second half, which they won 14–10.

India collected 28 points through successful raids, three bonus points and six points from all-outs.

Since kabaddi became an Asiad sport in 1990, the Indian men's team has won nine medals, including eight gold, maintaining an unparalleled dominance in the sport.

The record streak of golds was only disrupted in 2018 when the side ended with a bronze.

The Indian women's team has also secured consecutive victories in the group stage, defeating Iran 37–23 after beating Bangladesh in its opening match. The team will face host Japan in its next Group A fixture later in the day.

10:11

India misses bronze in 10m air pistol team

Kamaljeet

The Indian men's 10m air pistol team missed out on a bronze medal as it ended fourth while none managed to make the individual finals, adding to the country's underwhelming shooting performance in the Asian Games.

The trio of Kamaljeet, Balakrishna Kedarling Uchaganve and Aakash Bharadwaj finished with a score of 1730 across six series.

China won the gold on account of a higher inner 10 count (1743-70x), ahead of silver-medallists Indonesia (1743-57x) and bronze-winners Japan (1730).

To make it worse for India, none of the three managed to qualify for the individual finals.

Kamaljeet finished ninth, while Akash and Kedarling were positioned at 11th and 35th spots respectively.

On Wednesday, even the women's 10m air pistol campaign had gone haywire and neither the team nor individual medals could be secured.

09:21

Disappointing day for India in canoe sprint

India endured a disappointing day in canoe sprint at the Asian Games on Thursday with all four entries missing out on medals at the Miyoshi Lake Canoe Course near Nagoya.

Raju Rawat and Philem Gyaneshwor Singh finished ninth and last in the men's canoe double 500m final, clocking 1:56.121s.

The Indian pair finished 15.380 seconds behind gold medallists China's Wu Shengyue and Ji Bowen.

Uzbekistan's Artur Guliev and Vladlen Denisov won silver in 1:42.878s, while Kazakhstan's Sergey Yemelyanov and Timofey Yemelyanov claimed bronze in 1:44.972s.

India's men's kayak four finished seventh in the 500m final, with the quartet of Naocha Singh Laitonjam, Varinder Singh, Oinam Arun Singh and Harshwardhan Singh Shaktawat clocking 1:28.982s.

The Indians finished 6.395 seconds behind gold medallists South Korea, while China (1:22.842s) and Japan (1:25.909s) took silver and bronze respectively.

In the women's kayak double 500m, Soniya Devi Phairembam and Parvathy Geetha failed to make the final after finishing last in their semifinal in 2:01.020s.

Megha Pradeep also missed out on the women's canoe single 200m final after finishing fourth in her five-boat semifinal in 51.093 seconds.

Iran's Hiva Afzali won the semifinal, with only the top three advancing to the final.

Megha finished 1.666 seconds behind the winner.

09:14

Benedicton Rohit finishes joint 12th in 50m butterfly heats

Aryan Nehra in action during the men's 800m Freestyle Final B

India's Benedicton Rohit finished joint-12th in the men's 50m butterfly heats at the Asian Games, here on Thursday and was second reserve for the final.

Rohit clocked 23.87 seconds, finishing just 0.09 seconds behind Singapore's Tzen Wei Teong, who secured the eighth and final qualifying spot with a time of 23.78 seconds at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre.

Rohit could still make the final slated later in the day, if two of the eight qualified swimmers withdraw.

India failed to make the final of the men's 4x100m freestyle relay, with the quartet of Aneesh Gowda, Akash Mani, Heer Shah and Benedicton finishing last in their heat in 3:23.51.

The Indian team finished 12th overall among 13 teams.

Indonesia, which secured the eighth and final qualifying spot, was more than two seconds faster than India.

Aryan Nehra finished third in the men's 800m freestyle Final B in 8:02.52.

08:18

India qualify for mixed 4x400m relay final

India's Kiran and Jay Kumar in action during the 4 x 400m Mixed Relay round 1 heat 2

India qualified for the final of the mixed 4x400m relay at the Asian Games after finishing second in Heat 2 on Thursday.

The Indian team comprising TS Manu, MR Povamma, Jay Kumar, and Kiran clocked 3:16.23 to finish behind China.

The Indian quartet's timing was the fourth fastest time overall in the heats, behind Bahrain (3:15.73), China (3:15.97) and Vietnam (3:16.08).

The eight-team final will be held later in the evening.

The Indian team led second and third legs of the race but Kiran, who ran the anchor leg, was pipped by China towards the end.

China finished on top, while UAE (3:17.00) managed third place. South Korea (3:18.66) also made it to the final from Heat 2.

Bahrain, Vietnam, hosts Japan (3:16.52) and Philippines (3:19.68) qualified from Heat 1.

08:17

Sreeja-Syndrela, Yashaswini-Diya in TT pre-quarterfinals

Sreeja Akula

Indian women's doubles pairs Sreeja Akula-Syndrela Das and Yashaswini Ghorpade-Diya Chitale secured lopsided wins over their respective opponents to advance to the pre-quarterfinals of the table tennis competition at the Asian Games on Thursday.

Sreeja and Syndrela cruised past Mongolia's Burenjargal Sanjaa and Bolor-Erdene Batmunkh 3-0 (11-5, 11-4, 12-10) in their second-round match.

The Indians had a relatively comfortable outing in the opening two games before being pushed hard in the third. They eventually held their nerve to close out the match 12-10.

In the last 16, Sreeja and Syndrela face a formidable Chinese combination in Kuai Man and Wang Manyu.

The other Indian pair of Yashaswini and Diya also made a comfortable progress, blanking Iran's Setayesh Iloukhani and Mahshid Ashtari 3-0 (11-2, 11-2, 11-4).

The Indians dominated the contest from the outset and wrapped up the match without dropping a game.

Yashaswini and Diya will next face China's Fan Shuhan and Chen Yi in the pre-quarterfinals.

08:11

Roshibina Devi wins silver in wushu

Roshibina Devi Naorem

India's wushu player Roshibina Devi Naorem signed off with a silver medal in the women's 60kg sanda event at the Asian Games after losing 0-2 to China's Zhang Xiaoyu in the final in Nagoya on Thursday.

Zhang dominated the title bout, winning both rounds 5-0 to take the contest 10-0 on aggregate.

It is third Asian Games medal for Roshibina, who won a silver at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games and a bronze at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games.

Photograph: Olympic Khel/X

08:11

Satnam-Salman script history with rowing bronze

Satnam Singh and Salman Khan

Indian rowers Satnam Singh and Salman Khan won the bronze medal in the men's double sculls event of the Asian Games in Nagoya on Thursday.

The Indian pair stayed in second place until the 1,500m mark before slipping to third in the final 500m, clocking 6:13.25 at the Nagaragawa International Regatta Course.

China's Yi Xudi and Yide Nie won the gold medal with a timing of 6:09.37, while Uzbekistan's Pavel Sorin and Mekhrojbek Mamatkulov claimed silver after clocking 6:10.49.

The Indian duo finished 3.88 seconds behind the gold medallists.

Satnam had won a bronze at the Hangzhou Asian Games in the men's quadruple sculls event.

Earlier, India narrowly missed out on another rowing medal when Balraj Panwar finished fourth in the men's single sculls final, clocking 6:54.80.

Panwar stayed in second place at the 500m, 1,000m and 1,500m marks but slipped to fourth in the final 500m.

China's Deng Zhiwei won the gold medal, finishing in 6:38.98, while Panwar was 15.82 seconds behind the winner.

Photograph: Olympic Khel/X