Last Updated: September 23, 2026, 18:12 ISTWednesday turned into one of India’s most productive days of the Asian Games, with five medals arriving across four disciplines.
Mirabai Chanu ended a 28-year wait for an Indian weightlifting medal with silver, while the shooting range produced two more bronzes through the skeet teams.
(PTI Photo)2 / 5 India's skeet shooters eased the pressure on an inconsistent campaign with two team bronzes.
(Kyodo News via AP)ADVERTISEMENT3 / 5 The men's badminton team secured a second successive Asian Games medal, settling for bronze after a 3-1 semi-final loss to defending champions China.
(PTI Photo)4 / 5 Jay Meena created history by winning India's first-ever Asian Games medal in soft tennis, claiming bronze in the men's singles event.
Last Updated: September 23, 2026, 18:12 IST
Wednesday turned into one of India’s most productive days of the Asian Games, with five medals arriving across four disciplines. Mirabai Chanu ended a 28-year wait for an Indian weightlifting medal with silver, while the shooting range produced two more bronzes through the skeet teams.
1 / 5 Mirabai Chanu won silver in the women's 49kg weightlifting event with a total lift of 198kg (87kg snatch, 111kg clean and jerk), giving India its first Asian Games weightlifting medal since Karnam Malleswari's silver at Bangkok 1998. North Korea's Ri Song-gum took gold with a world-record total of 215kg, retaining the title she has held since 2018. (PTI Photo)
2 / 5 India's skeet shooters eased the pressure on an inconsistent campaign with two team bronzes. The women's trio of Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon and Maheshwari Chauhan combined for 331 to win India's first-ever skeet medal, while the men's team of Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill totalled 346. China won both team golds, including a Games-record 357 in the women's event. (Kyodo News via AP)
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3 / 5 The men's badminton team secured a second successive Asian Games medal, settling for bronze after a 3-1 semi-final loss to defending champions China. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty provided India's only win, beating world champions Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang, while Lakshya Sen and Ayush Shetty both went down in their singles matches against a strong Chinese line-up. (PTI Photo)
4 / 5 Jay Meena created history by winning India's first-ever Asian Games medal in soft tennis, claiming bronze in the men's singles event. The 26-year-old, playing through hip discomfort, lost 2-4 to Japan's Takuya Kurosaka in the semi-final, having earlier overcome the Philippines' Sherwin Nuguit in a seven-game quarter-final thriller to guarantee the medal. (Picture credit: X)
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