Asian Games 2026: India’s complete schedule on September 25; medal events and timing
Animesh Kujur, Gurindervir Singh The Asian Games enters Day 6 in Nagoya and India is set for another eventful day across multiple sports and several medal opportunities.Shooting will offer India an early chance to add to its medal tally, while canoe sprint and weightlifting will also feature medal events involving Indian athletes. Athletics will close the day with four medal events.Apart from the medal competitions, India will participate in several elimination and team competitions. The men’s and women’s kabaddi teams will play their semi-finals, while the fencing teams will begin their knockout campaigns.India will also compete in squash, table tennis, swimming, surfing, hockey and esports as the contingent looks to add more medals on another busy day in Nagoya.Asian Games full coverage | Schedule | Medal countsHere is the complete schedule for Indian athletes on 2026 Asian Games for Thursday, September 25:
- From 4.14am: Surfing – Sugar Shanti Gayen, Kamali Prakash, Kishore Anbarashu, Sivaraj Babu in women’s and men’s shortboard heats.
- 5:55 am: Athletics – Anamika Aneesh and Pooja in women’s javelin heptathlon.
- 6:00 am: Equestrian – Gaurav Pundir, Hriday Vipul Chheda, Shruti Vora and Sud Jai in dressage individual qualification and final.
- 6:00 am: Fencing – Aditya, Hemash Singh, Tejas Patil, Sachin in men’s team round of 16.
- 6.10am: Badminton – Dhruv Kapila-Tanisha Crasto vs Aminath Abdul Razzaq-Nibal Ahmed of Maldives in a mixed doubles first round match.
- 6.15am: Shooting – Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh in the 10m air pistol mixed team qualification.
- 6.30am: Canoe sprint – Prohit Baroi, Prasanna Kumar in men’s 500m doubles semi-final 1.
- 6:30: Athletics – Anamika Aneesh and Pooja in the long jump of the women’s heptathlon.
- 6.30am: Table tennis – Diya Chitale-Manush Shah vs Wong Chun Ting-Doo Hoi Kem of Hong Kong in the mixed doubles quarter-finals.
- 6:30: Table tennis – Harmeet Desai vs. Yashaswini Ghorpade Vs. China’s Lin Shidong-Kuai in the mixed doubles quarterfinals.
- 6.40am: Swimming – Dhanush Suresh in the men’s 50m breaststroke heats.
- 6.50am: Canoe sprint – Megha Pradeep, Neha Leichonbam in women’s canoe 500m doubles semi-final 1.
- 6.58am: Swimming – Rishabh Das in the men’s 200m breaststroke heats.
- 7:00: Squash – Joshana Chinappa-Velavan Senthilkumar vs. David Pelino-Jamesya Aribado of the Philippines in the mixed doubles quarterfinals.
- 7:00 am: Fencing – Anupriya, Mitva Chaudhari, Tanishka Khatri, Yashkeerat Kaur in Women’s Team Round of 16.
- 7:06 AM: Swimming – Utkarsh Patil in the men’s 200m breaststroke heats.
- 7.10am: Swimming – Dhakshan Shashikumar in the men’s 400m freestyle heats.
- 7:15 am: Shooting – APS Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil, Niraj Kumar in Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Position Individual and Team Finals.
- 7.20am: Swimming – Men’s 400m Freestyle heats by Aneesh Sunil.
- 7:30: Hockey – India Vs. Japan in the Women’s Group B match.
- 7.30am: Table Tennis – G Sathiyan-Harmeet Desai Vs. Affan Pratama-Muhammad Negara of Indonesia in the men’s doubles 2nd round match.
- 7.36am: Swimming – Sajan Prakash Men’s 200m Butterfly Heats.
- 7:55am: Esports – India vs South Korea in Pokémon Unite.
- 8:10 am: Canoe sprint – Dhanamanjuri Khwairakpam, Pooja, Soniya Devi Phairembam, Parvathy Geetha in the women’s 500m kayak final.
- 8:30 am: Shooting – Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh in the 10m air pistol mixed team final (if they qualify).
- 9:00 a.m.: Table Tennis – Yashaswini Ghorpade vs. Hend Zaza of Syria in a women’s singles 2nd round match.
- 9.15am: Squash – Abhay Singh vs Ryunosuke Tsukue of Japan in the men’s singles quarter-finals.
- 9.30 am: Kabaddi – India vs Nepal in women’s kabaddi semi-final.
- 9:45am: Table Tennis – Sreeja Akula vs Pyon Song Gyong in Women’s Singles Round 2.
- 10am: Squash – Anahat Singh vs Tanvi Khanna in women’s singles quarter-final.
- 10:15 AM: Boxing – Sachin vs Abu Jajeh Mohammad of UAE in Round of 16 match.
- 10.30am: Table Tennis – Manav Thakkar vs U Tae Ryong of North Korea in Men’s Singles Round 2 match.
- 10.30am: Shooting – APS Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil, Niraj Kumar in Men’s 50m Rifle 3 position finals (if they qualify).
- 10.45am: Kabaddi – India vs Thailand in men’s kabaddi semi-final.
- 10.45am: Squash – Veer Chotrani vs Muhammad Irrfan in men’s singles quarter-final.
- 11.15am: Table Tennis – Manush Shah vs Faraji Benyamin in Men’s Singles Round 2 match.
- 12:00pm: Table Tennis – Sreeja Akula-Syndrela Das vs Man Kuai-Manyu Wang in Women’s Doubles Round 3 match.
- 12.30pm: Badminton – Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty vs Pakkapon Teeraratsakul-Peeratchai Sukphun of Thailand in the men’s doubles first round match.
- 12:45: Table tennis – Diya Chitale-Yashaswini Ghorpade vs. Fan Shuban-Chen Yi of China in the mixed doubles quarterfinals.
- 13:30: Badminton – Treesa Jolly-Gayatroi Gopichand vs. Tsang Hiu Yan-Lui Lok Lok in the women’s doubles first round match.
- 1.30pm: Weightlifting – Nirupama Devi in women’s 61kg (medal placement).
- 13:50: Badminton – Simran Singhi-Kavipriya Selvam vs. Febriana Kusuma-Meilysa Puspitasari of Indonesia in the women’s doubles first round match.
- 14:15: Boxing – Preeti vs Mi Chol Pang of North Korea in the Round of 16 match.
- TBD: Unnati Hooda vs Yu Mi Song of North Korea in a women’s singles first round match.
- 3.35pm: Athletics – Manpreet Kaur and Krishna Jayasankar Menon in women’s throw final (medal placement).
- 4.11pm: Athletics – Gurindervir Singh in men’s 100m semi-final.
- 16:19: Athletics – Animesh Kujur in men’s 100m semi-finals.
- 4.33 pm: Athletics – Sindhusree Ganesha and Baranica Elangoval in the women’s pole vault final (medal event).
- 5.02pm: Athletics – Gulveer Singh Men’s 10,000m (medal race).
- 5.10 pm: Athletics – Damneet Singh and Praveen Kumar in the Men’s Hammer Throw (medal event).
- 17:10: Badminton – Hariharan Amsakarunan-MR Arjun vs. Fajar Alfian-Shohibul Fikri of Indonesia in the men’s doubles first round match.
- 17:53: Athletics – Kiran in the women’s 400m heats.
- 18:01: Athletics – Prachi women, 400m heats.
- 18:21: Athletics – Vishal TK in men’s 400m heats.
- 6.50pm: Athletics – Animesh Kujur, Gurindervir Singh in men’s 100m final (if they qualify).