Asian Games 2026 Live September 25: India hunt for more athletics medals, shooters and swimmers in action
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of India’s Asian Games campaign on Friday 25th September.
4:16 a.m: Surfing – Sugar Shanti in Women’s Shortboard Round 1 Heat 3.
5:02 am: Surfing – Kamali Moorthy in Women’s Shortboard Round 1, Heat 5.
6:00 a.m: Equestrian – Shruti Vora in Individual Dressage 1st Individual Qualification.
6:00 a.m: Equestrian – Gaurav Pundir in Individual Dressage 1st Individual Qualification.
6:00 a.m: Equestrian – Hriday Chheda in Individual Dressage 1st Individual Qualification.
6:00 a.m: Equestrian – Jai Sud in individual dressage 1st individual qualification.
6:00 a.m: Equestrian – Shruti Vora, Gaurav Pundir, Hriday Chheda and Jai Sud in Dressage Mixed Team Final (Medal Race).
6:00 a.m: Fencing – Sachin Sanasam Hemash Singh, Aditya and Tejas Manoj Patil in Men’s Foil Team Table 16.
6:10 a.m: Badminton – Dhruv and Tanisha vs Abdul Razzaq Aminath Nabeeha Ahmed Nibal of Maldives in Mixed Doubles Round of 32.
6:15 am: Shooting – Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh in the 10m air pistol mixed team qualification.
6:30 am: Canoe Sprint – Prasanna Kumar CS and Prohit Baroi in Men’s 500m Doubles Kayak Semi Final.
6:30 am: Table Tennis – Manush Shah and Diya Chitale vs Wong Chun Ting and Doo Hoi Kem of Hong Kong in the mixed doubles quarterfinals.
6:30 am: Table Tennis – Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini vs Lin Shidong and Man Kuai of China in the mixed doubles quarterfinals.
6:30 am: Athletics – Anamika KA in the women’s heptathlon long jump.
6:30 am: Athletics – Pooja in the women’s heptathlon long jump.
6:40 a.m: Swimming – Danush Suresh in heat 3 men’s 50m breaststroke.
6:50 am: Canoe Sprint – Megha Pradeep and L Neha Devi in Women’s Canoe 500m Doubles Semi Final.
6:58 am: Swimming – Rishabh Das in Men’s 200m Breaststroke Heat 1.
7:00 a.m: Fencing – Taniksha Khatri and Anupriya Mitva Chaudhari Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer in Women’s Pe Team Table 16.
7:00 a.m: Squash – Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar Vs. David Pelino and Jemyca Aribado of the Philippines in the mixed doubles quarterfinals.
7:06 a.m: Swimming – Utkarsh Santosh Patil in Men’s 200m Backstroke Heat 3.
7:10 a.m: Swimming – Dhakshan Shashikumar in Men’s 400m Freestyle heat 1.
7:15 a.m: Shooting – Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar in Men’s 50m 3P Individual Qualification.
7:15 a.m: Shooting – Rudranksh Balasaheb Patil in Men’s 50m Rifle 3P Individual Qualification.
7:15 a.m: Shooting – Niraj Kumar in men’s rifle 50m 3P individual qualification.
7:15 a.m: Shooting – Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil and Niraj Kumar in Men’s 50m Rifle 3P Final (medal event, subject to qualification).
7:20 am: Surfing – Kishore Kumar Men’s Shortboard Round 1 Heat 3
7:22 a.m: Swimming – Aneesh Sunil Kumar Gowda in Men’s 400m Freestyle Heat
7:30 am: Hockey – India Women Vs. Japan in Group B.
7:30 am: Table Tennis – G Sathiyan and Harmeet Desai Vs. Affan Pratama and Muhammad Negara of Indonesia in Men’s Doubles Round of 32.
7:36 a.m: Swimming – Sajan Prakash in Men’s 200m Butterfly Heat 3.
7:55 am: Esports – Adnan Mohammed Badshah, Deepkumar Vipulbhai Patel, Sai Krishna Nalluri, Dipjyoti Laxman Nath, Rudra Narayan Nayak and Reuben Fernandes vs Korea Republic in Pokemon Unite Group C Match 1.
7:55 am: Athletics – Anamika KA in the women’s javelin heptathlon.
7:55 am: Athletics – Pooja in the women’s javelin heptathlon.
8:00 a.m: Canoe Sprint – Prasanna Kumar CS and Prohit Baroi in Men’s 500m Doubles Kayak Final (medal race, subject to qualification).
8:10 a.m: Canoe Sprint – Khwairakpam Dhanamajuri Devi, Phairembam Soniya Devi, Pooja and Parvathy Geetha in the Women’s 500m Kayak Final A (Medal Race).
8:15 a.m: Table Tennis – Manav Thakkar and Manush Shah Vs. Tomokazu Harimoto and Hiroto Shinozuka of Japan in the men’s doubles round of 32.
8:20 am: Fencing – Sachin Sanasam Hemash Singh, Aditya and Tejas Manoj Patil in men’s foil quarter-finals (subject to qualification).
8:20 am: Fencing – Taniksha Khatri, Anupriya, Mitva Chaudhari and Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer in the women’s team pe quarter-finals (subject to qualification).
8:30 am: Canoe sprint – Megha Pradeep and L Neha Devi in the women’s 500m canoe final (medal race, subject to qualification).
8:30 am: Shooting – Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh in the 10m air pistol mixed team final (medal event, subject to qualification).
9:00 a.m: Table Tennis – Yashaswini Ghorpade vs Hend Zaza of Syria Women’s Singles Round of 32.
9:15 a.m: Surfing – Sivaraj Babu in Men’s Shortboard Round 1 Heat 8
9:15 a.m: Squash – Abhay Singh vs Tsukue Ryunosuke of Japan in Men’s Singles Quarter Final.
9:30 a.m: Kabaddi – India Women vs Nepal in Semi Final.
9:38 onwards: Surfing – Sugar Shanti in Women’s Shortboard Round 2, subject to qualification.
9:38 onwards: Surfing – Kamali Moorthy in Women’s Shortboard Round 2, subject to qualification.
9:45 a.m: Table Tennis – Sreeja Akula Vs. Song Gyong Pyon of the People’s Republic of Korea in the women’s singles round of 32.
10:00 a.m: Squash – Anahat Singh vs Tanvi Khanna in Women’s Singles Quarter Final.
10:00 a.m: Squash – Tanvi Khanna vs Anahat Singh in Women’s Singles Quarter Final.
10:15 a.m: Boxing – Sachin vs Abu Jajeh Mohammad of Jordan in Men’s 60kg Round of 16.
10:30 a.m: Shooting – Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar Men’s 50m Rifle 3P Individual Final (Medal Race, Subject to Qualification).
10:30 a.m: Shooting – Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil in Men’s 50m Rifle 3P Individual Final (Medal Race, subject to qualification).
10:30 a.m: Shooting – Niraj Kumar in Men’s Rifle 50m 3P Individual Final (medal race, subject to qualification).
10:30 a.m: Table Tennis – Manav Thakkar vs U Tae Ryong of the People’s Republic of Korea Men’s Singles Round of 32.
from 10:50: Fencing – Sachin Sanasam Hemash Singh, Aditya and Tejas Manoj Patil in men’s foil semi-finals (subject to qualification).
10:45 a.m: Kabaddi – India Men vs Thailand in Semi Final.
10:45 a.m: Squash – Veer Chotrani vs Irfan Muhammad of Pakistan in Men’s Singles Quarter Final.
11:15 a.m: Table Tennis – Manush Shah vs Farazi Benyamin of Iran Men’s Singles Round of 32.
12:00 p.m: Table Tennis – Sreeja Akula and Syndrela Das vs Man Kuai and Manyu Wang of China in Women’s Doubles 16
from 12:30 p.m: Badminton – Dhruv and Tanisha in mixed doubles 16.
from 12:30 p.m: Badminton – Satwik and Chirag Vs. Pakkapon Teeraratsukul and Peeratchai Sukphun of Thailand in Men’s Doubles Round of 32.
from 12:30 p.m: Badminton – Treesa and Gayatri Vs. Lui Lok Lok and Tsang Hiu Yan of Hong Kong in the women’s doubles round of 32.
from 12:30 p.m: Badminton – Kavipriya and Simran Vs. Kusuma Febriana Dwipuji Puspitasari and Meilysa Trias of Indonesia in Women’s Doubles Round of 32.
from 12:30 p.m: Badminton – Hariharan and Arjun Vs. Muh Shohibul Fikri and Fajar Alfian of Indonesia in Men’s Doubles Round of 32.
12:45 p.m: Table Tennis – Diya Chitale and Yashaswini Ghorpade Vs. Chen Yi and Fan Shuhan of China in the women’s doubles 16.
from 12:50 p.m: Fencing – Taniksha Khatri, Anupriya, Mitva Chaudhari and Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer in the women’s team semi-finals (subject to qualification).
1:30 p.m: Weightlifting – Nirupama Devi in Women’s 61kg Group A Final (Medal Event).
1:35 p.m: Swimming – Danush Suresh in the men’s 50m breaststroke final (medal race, subject to qualification).
1:55 p.m: Swimming – Rishabh Das in men’s 200m breaststroke final (medal race, subject to qualification).
1:55 p.m: Swimming – Utkarsh Santosh Patil in the men’s 200m breaststroke final (medal race, subject to qualification).
2:15 p.m: Boxing – Preeti vs Pang Choi Mi of the People’s Republic of Korea in the Women’s 54kg Round of 16.
2:22 p.m: Swimming – Aneesh Sunil Kumar Gowda in the men’s 400m freestyle final (medal race, subject to qualification).
2:22 p.m: Swimming – Dhakshan Shashikumar in men’s 400m freestyle final (medal race, subject to qualification).
2:50 p.m: Fencing – Sachin Sanasam Hemash Singh, Aditya and Tejas Manoj Patil in the men’s foil final (medal event, subject to qualification).
2:51 p.m: Swimming – Sajan Prakash in men’s 200m butterfly final (medal race, subject to qualification).
15:00: Table tennis – Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini in mixed doubles semi-finals.
3:35 p.m: Athletics – Manpreet Kaur in the women’s shot put final (medal event).
3:35 p.m: Athletics – Krishna Jayasankar Menon in the women’s shot put final (medal event).
3:45 p.m: Table tennis – Manush Shah and Diya Chitale in mixed doubles semi-finals.
15:50: Fencing – Taniksha Khatri, Anupriya, Mitva Chaudhari and Yashkeerat Kaur Hayer in the women’s team pe final (medal event, subject to qualification).
4:11 p.m: Athletics – Gurindervir Singh in men’s 100m semi-final heat 2.
4:19 p.m: Athletics – Animesh Kujur in men’s 100m semi-final heat 3.
4:33 p.m: Athletics – Sindhushree Ganesha in the women’s pole vault final (medal event).
4:41 p.m: Athletics – Anamika KA in the women’s heptathlon 800m.
4:41 p.m: Athletics – Pooja in the women’s 800m heptathlon.
5:02 p.m: Athletics – Gulveer Singh in the men’s 10,000m final (medal race).
17:10: Athletics – Damneet Singh in the men’s hammer throw final (medal event).
17:10: Athletics – Praveen Kumar in the men’s hammer throw final (medal event).
17:53: Athletics – Kiran in the women’s 400m run 1st round, heat 2.
6:01 p.m: Athletics – Prachi 400 m women’s 1st round, start 3.
18:21: Athletics – Vishal Thennarasu Kayalvizhi in Men’s 400m Round 1 heat 2
18:50: Athletics – Animesh Kujur in men’s 100m final (medal race, subject to qualification).
18:50: Athletics – Gurindervir Singh in men’s 100m final (medal race, subject to qualification).
TBD: Badminton – Unnati Hooda vs Yu Mi Song of DPR Korea in Women’s Singles Round of 64.