Asian Para Games 2026 India squad: Complete list of 166 athletes across 10 sports, from Sheetal Devi and Pramod Bhagat to Bhavina Patel

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Sheetal Devi, Pramod Bhagat and Bhavina Patel NEW DELHI: India will send 166 athletes across 10 disciplines to the 2026 Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, with the Sports Ministry approving a 275-member contingent for the continental event scheduled for October 18-24. The approved list includes several Paralympic medalists, Pramodvi World Champions, emerging talents and Pramodvi Sheetal talents. and Suhas Yathiraj and para-table tennis player Bhavina Patel.The contingent consists of 111 male and 55 female athletes, along with 94 team officials and support staff and 15 contingent staff. Para-athletics has the largest share with 62 athletes, followed by para-badminton with 28 and para-swimming with 16. Para-shooting has 13 athletes, para-archery and para-table tennis have 11, respectively.The remaining disciplines are blind football (10), para-powerlifting (eight), para-judo (seven) and para-cycling (one).

Sheetal Devi, Pramod Bhagat among the leading names of India

Sheetal Devi, a two-time gold medalist at the previous Asian Para Games, will lead the Indian archery contingent along with 18-year-old Payal Nag. In badminton, former world number one and Tokyo gold medalist Pramoda Bhagat will be joined by Paralympic silver medalist Suhas Yathiraj.India’s para-table tennis team includes Bhavina Patel, who won silver at the Tokyo Paralympics. The shooting contingent includes Paralympic gold medalist Avani Lekhara and recent World Championship silver medalist Mona Agarwal.

Asian Para Games 2026: Complete list of 166 Indian athletes

1. Para-table tennis — 10 athletesFemale (6): Bhavinaben Hasmukhbhai Patel, Sonalben Manubhai Patel, Baby Sahana Ravi, Ekta Bhyan, Prachi Pandey, Savita Vittal Ajjanakatti.Male (4): Dattaprasad Jotiram Chougule, Sandeep Dangi, Jehan Dorab Madan, Shubham Wadhwa.2. Parabadminton — 28 athletesFemale (11): Manisha Ramadass, Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan, Alphia James, Thulasimathi Murugesan, Mandeep Kaur, Neeraj, Shanthiya Vishwanathan, Kanak Singh Jadaun, Manasi Girishchandra Joshi, Pallavi Kaluvehalli Manjunathareddy, Sanjana Kushwanareddy.Male (17): Naveen Sivakumar, Nitesh Kumar, Krishna Nagar, Pramod Bhagat, Sukant Kadam, Surya Kant Yadav, Ruthick Ragupathi, Sivarajan Solaimalai, Abu Hubaida, Prem Kumar Ale, Sudarsan Muthusamy S Saravanakumar, Umesh Harrik, My Saravanakumar, Umesh Harrik Vikram My Abhijeet Sakhuja, Rakesh Pandey, Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj.3. Para-archery — 11 athletesFemale (5): Sheetal Devi, Payal Nag, Bhawna, Pooja, Swati Chaudhary.Male (6): Harvinder Singh, Vijay Sundi, Toman Kumar, Shyam Sunder Swami, Adil Mohammad Nazir Ansari, Vinayak Amol Breed.4. Para-athletics — 62 athletesFemale (16): Anjanaben Rohitbhai Bumbadiya, Deepthi Jeevanji, Nimisha Chakkungalparambil Suresh, Preeti Pal, Simran, Soumya, Jayanti Behera, Tejalben Amraji Damor, Radha Venkatesh, Amisha Rawat, Bhagyashri, Rajhavrao Suchashi, Rahajuti Jadhashi Parida, Suvarna Raj, Ravanni Valasanaini.Male (46): Ajay Kumar, Akira Nandan Banothu, Devender Kumar, Haney, Dilip Mahadu Gavit, Mahendra Gurjar, Manjeet, Mohammed Basil Morssinganakathi, Nishad Kumar, Parveen, Pranav Soorma, Rakeshbhai Bhatt, Ram Ratan Singhera, Rinku, Sachinile Sarhera, Rinku Sharath Makanahalli Shankarappa, Sumit, Ajeet Singh, Ayush Verma, Dharambir, Hokato Hotozhe Sema, Mohd. Yasser, Navdeep, Parmod, Pranav Prashant Desai, Praveen Kumar, Rakesh, Ravi Rongali, Solairaj Dharmarajing, Sairamku Sujihna Varith Man, unvadamku Sujihna Varidala Vishesh, Amit Kumar, Anubhav Choudhary, Banti, Bhavikkumar Dineshbhai Bharwad, Pardeep Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Rahul, Sandeep, Sandip Sanjay Sargar, Soman Rana, Sukhchain, Parveen Kumar, Praveen Sharma.5. Para-judo — 7 athletesFemale (5): Renuka Narayan Salave, Kokila, Gulshan, Vrushali Ashok More, Dimple.Male (2): Kapil Parmar, Bijender.6. Para-swimming — 16 athletesFemale (2): Vaishnavi Vinod Jagtap, Devanshi Satija.Male (14): Kapil Kumar, Ajay Hindurao Bhosale, Ravi Veera Venkata Bhavani Budigina, Abdul Quadir Indori, Suyash Narayan Jadhav, Chaitanya Vishwas Kulkarni, Rohit Kumar, Gopichand Linguta, Vanga Niranjan Mukundan, Patil Na, Tejasn Sandrawatikm Shams Aalam Shaikh, Jahangir Molla.7. Para-shooting — 13 athletesFemale (6): Avani Lekhara, Mona Agarwal, Bhakti Sharma, Rubina Francis, Shrishti Arora, Sumedha Pathak.Male (7): Anandha Krishnan H, Amir Ahmad Bhat, Manish Narwal, Nihal Singh, Rakesh Nidagundi, Rudransh Khandelwal, Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar.8. Para-powerlifting — 8 athletesFemale (4): Suman Devi, Kasthuri Rajamani, Jaspreet Kaur, Seema Rani.Male (4): Ashok, Jhandu Kumar, Manish Kumar, Parmjeet Kumar.9. Football for the blind — 10 athletesMen (10): Boje Marbom, Klingson Marak, Pradeep Patel, Sahil, Shivam Singh, Sovendra Singh, Tushar Kumar, Vishnubhatejuba Vaghela, Aditya Sajwan (Goalkeeper), Sujith Puthankattunikarath Sasi (Goalkeeper).10. Paracycling — 1 athleteMan (1): Arshad Shaik.

India’s Asian Para Games team at a glance

  • Total number of athletes: 166
  • Athletes: 111
  • Female athletes: 55
  • Disciplines: 10
  • Total contingent: 275
  • Team officials and support staff: 94
  • Contingent personnel: 15
  • Event dates: 18.–24. October 2026
  • Organizer: Aichi-Nagoya, Japan