Asian Para Games 2026 Live, Oct 23: India eyes early medal battle with badminton, archery

Here is India’s full schedule for the Asian Para Games 2026 on Friday, October 23:

5:30 IST: Para Badminton Women’s Singles SU5 Final: Thulasimathi Murugesan Vs. Yang Quixia (China) (match for gold).

5:55 IST: Para Archery Women’s Doubles Gold Medal Match: Pooja Jatyan and Bhawna Choudhary Vs. Wang Xueqian and Gao Zihan (China).

6:15 IST: Para Sport Shooting, P3 Open 25m Pistol SH1 Qualification – Accuracy: Nihal Singh and Amir Ahmad Bhat

6:17 IST: Para Athletics Men’s 1500m T46 Final: Parmod Bijarnia (medal event).

6:20 IST: Para Badminton SL3 Men’s Singles Final: Pramod Bhagat vs Nitesh Kumar (Gold Match).

6:30 IST: Para Sport Shooting R8 Women 50m Rifle 3 Position SH1 Qualification: Avani Lekhara and Mona Agarwal

6:30 IST: Para Athletics Women Long Jump T47 Final: Nimisha Suresh (medal event).

6:35 IST: Para Athletics Men’s Discus F11 Final: Praveen Sharma (medal event).

6:44 IST: Para Swimming Men’s 400m Freestyle S6 Heat 1: Chaitanya Kulkarni

6:45 IST: Para Archery Men’s Doubles Gold Medal Match: Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi vs Zhao Lixue and Yun Duo (China).

6:45 IST: Para Table Tennis Men’s Doubles MD4 Group A: Jehan Madan and Shubham Wadhwa Vs. Jincheol Park and Kyunghyun Kim (South Korea).

7:00 IST: Para Badminton SL4 Men’s Singles Final: Naveen Sivakumar vs Fredy Setiawan (Indonesia) (Gold Match).

7:05 IST: Para Badminton Women’s Singles SH6 Final: Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan vs Li Fengmei (China) (Gold Match).

7:05 IST: Para Swimming Men’s 50m Backstroke S5 Heat 2: Abdul Quadir Indori

7:25 IST: Para Athletics Women’s Shot Put F46 Final: Amisha Rawat (medal event).

7:35 IST: Para Swimming Men’s 50m Freestyle S6 Heat 2: Chaitanya Kulkarni

7:40 IST: Boccia Mixed Doubles BC3 Group A: Anjali Devi and Sachin Chamaria vs Chinese Taipei.

8:00 IST: Para Athletics, Men’s Javelin F37/38 Final: Haney (medal event).

8:05 IST: Para Athletics Men’s 400m T64 Final: Ajay Kumar and Sandeep (medal event).

8:30 IST: Para Cycling Men’s C1-3 Road Race Final: Arshad Shaikh (medal event).

9:15 IST: Para Sport Shooting, R8, 50m Rifle, 3 Positions, SH1 Final: Avani Lekhara and Mona Agarwal (subject to qualification; medal race).

9:20 am IST: Para Archery Mixed Team Semi-Final: Harvinder Singh and Bhawna Choudhary vs Zhao Lixue and Wang Xueqian (China).

10:10 IST: Para Archery, Recurve Mixed Team Bronze Match: Harvinder Singh and Bhawna Choudhary (subject to qualification).

10:35 IST: Para Archery Mixed Team Gold Medal Match: Harvinder Singh and Bhawna Choudhary (subject to qualification).

11:00 IST: Para Powerlifting, Women’s Team Competition: Kasthuri Rajamani, Suman Devi and Jaspreet Kaur.

11:50 IST: Para Powerlifting Women’s Team Match Head to Head: Kasthuri Rajamani, Suman Devi and Jaspreet Kaur.

12:35 IST: Para Powerlifting Women’s Team Bronze Match: Kasthuri Rajamani, Suman Devi and Jaspreet Kaur (subject to qualification).

12:50 IST: Para Powerlifting Women’s Team Gold Medal Match: Kasthuri Rajamani, Suman Devi and Jaspreet Kaur (subject to qualification).

13:00 IST: Para Sport Shooting, P3 Open 25m Pistol SH1 Qualification – Rapid: Nihal Singh and Amir Ahmad Bhat.

13:49 IST: Para Swimming Men’s 400m Freestyle S6 Final: Chaitanya Kulkarni (subject to qualification; medal race).

14:02 IST: Para Swimming Men’s 50m Breaststroke S5 Final: Abdul Quadir Indori (subject to qualification; medal event).

14:12 IST: Para Swimming Men’s 200m Medley SM13 Final: Ravi Karthik Budigina (medal event).

14:21 IST: Para Athletics Men’s 100m T44 Round 1 Heat 2: Sandeep

14:30 IST: Para Sport Shooting, P3 Open 25m Pistol SH1 Final: Nihal Singh and Amir Ahmad Bhat (subject to qualification; medal race).

14:30 IST: Para Athletics Men’s 5000m T12/T13 Final: Sharath Makanahalli (medal event).

14:50 IST: Para Swimming Men’s 100m Freestyle S11 Final: Himanshu Nandal (medal event).

15:00 IST: Para Badminton Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 Final: Thulasimathi Murugesan and Nitesh Kumar vs Leani Oktila and Hikmat Ramdani (Indonesia) (Gold Match).

15:10 IST: Para Athletics Men’s F40/41 Javelin Final: Ravi Rongali and Navdeep Singh (medal event).

15:17 IST: Para Swimming Men’s 50m Freestyle S7 Final: Tejas Nandakumar and Suyash Jadhav (medal event).

15:25 IST: Para Swimming Men’s 50m Freestyle S6 Final: Chaitanya Kulkarni (subject to qualification; medal event).

15:30 IST: Para Athletics Men’s Club Throw F51 Final: Pranav Soorma, Dharambir Nain and Amit Kumar Saroha (medal event).

15:50 IST: Para Athletics Men’s 200m T35 Final: Anubhav Choudhary (medal event).

15:57 IST: Para Athletics Men’s 200m T37 Final: Rakeshbhai Bhatt (medal event).

16:01 IST: Para Swimming Men’s 100m Butterfly S12 Final: Jahangir Molla (medal event).

16:46 IST: Para Athletics Men’s Javelin F42-F44/F61-F64 Final: Sumit Antil, Sandip Sargar and Mahendra Gurjar (medal event).

17:10 IST: Para Athletics Men’s 100m T44 Final: Sandeep (subject to qualification; medal event).

TBD: Para Badminton Women’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Final: Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manasi Joshi vs Yang Quixia and Xiao Zuxian (China) (Gold Match).