Nishad Kumar, Deepthi Jeevanji and India’s para athletes in athletics and powerlifting headline the medal opportunities on Day 5 of the 2026 Asian Para Games on Tuesday, October 20, as the Indian contingent prepares for a packed day of competition.
Nishad is scheduled to compete in the men’s high jump T45/T46/T47 final, while Deepthi will feature in the women’s 400m T20 final. India’s athletics medal hopes will also include Ajeet Singh and Rinku in the men’s javelin throw F46 final, along with several other Indian athletes competing in field and track events.
Powerlifting will offer further opportunities, with Jaspreet Kaur, Ashok and Jhandu Kumar among the Indians listed for finals. In swimming, Indian athletes will contest multiple finals, including the men’s 400m freestyle S11 and the men’s 200m individual medley SM7.
Table tennis will also be a key focus, with Bhavina Patel, Sonalben Patel, Prachi Pandey and Baby Sahana Ravi scheduled for semifinal or medal-round action, depending on qualification.
India’s para archers, including Sheetal Devi, Harvinder Singh, Vijay Sundi and Swati Chaudhary, will be involved in elimination rounds and team events. The schedule also features para badminton, judo, cycling, boccia and blind football.
Here is India’s full schedule for Tuesday, October 20, at the Asian Para Games 2026:
- 4:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Men Individual (Round of 16 (Elimination Round 1/8 – 3)): Harvinder Singh vs Bing-yu Li (Chinese Taipei).
- 4:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Men Individual (Round of 16 (Elimination Round 1/8 – 7)): Vijay Sundi vs Lung-hui Tsang (Chinese Taipei).
- 4:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Women Individual (Round of 16 (Elimination Round 1/8 – 2)): Pooja vs Chi Hui Loh (Malaysia).
- 4:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Women Individual (Round of 16 (Elimination Round 1/8 – 8)): Bhawna vs Marzhan Sabit (Kazakhstan).
- 4:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Men Individual (Round of 16 (Elimination Round 1/8 – 5)): Toman Kumar vs Arif Firmansyah (Indonesia).
- 4:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Men Individual (Round of 16 (Elimination Round 1/8 – 7)): Shyam Sunder Swami vs Yuya Oe (Japan).
- 4:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Women Individual (Round of 16 (Elimination Round 1/8 – 1)): Sheetal Devi vs Yuen Wah Chen (Hong Kong).
- 4:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Women Individual (Round of 16 (Elimination Round 1/8 – 3)): Payal Nag vs I-fen Chang (Chinese Taipei).
- 5:30 AM IST: Para Badminton — Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 (Quarterfinal (Court ST-2) Match 1): Manisha Ramadass & Pramod Bhagat vs Chanida Srinavakul & Siripong Teamarrom (Thailand).
- 5:30 AM IST: Para Archery — W1 Men Individual (Quaterfinal): Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari vs Tianxin Zhang (China).
- 5:30 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Men Individual (Quarterfinal (subject to Qualification)): Harvinder Singh.
- 5:30 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Men Individual (Quarterfinal (subject to Qualification)): Vijay Sundi.
- 5:30 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Women Individual (Quarterfinal (subject to Qualification)): Bhawna.
- 5:30 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Women Individual (Quarterfinal (subject to Qualification)): Pooja.
- 5:30 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Men Individual (Quarterfinal (subject to Qualification)): Toman Kumar.
- 5:30 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Men Individual (Quarterfinal (subject to Qualification)): Shyam Sunder Swami.
- 5:30 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Women Individual (Quarterfinal (subject to Qualification)): Sheetal Devi.
- 5:30 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Women Individual (Quarterfinal (subject to Qualification)): Payal Nag.
- 5:40 AM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s Javelin Throw F53/F54 (Final): Ayush Verma. (Medal event)
- 5:40 AM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s Javelin Throw F53/F54 (Final): Pradeep Kumar. (Medal event)
- 5:45 AM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s Long Jump T37/T38 (Final): Rakesh Bhai Bhatt. (Medal event)
- 6:00 AM IST: Para Table Tennis — Women’s Singles Class 4-5 (Semifinal Table 4): Bhavinaben Patel vs Bian Zhang (China). (Medal event)
- 6:10 AM IST: Para Badminton — Mixed Doubles SH6 (Group A (Court ST-2) Match 2): Krishna Nagar & Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan vs Yu-yen Wu and Jia-Siang Lin (Chinese Taipei).
- 6:10 AM IST: Para Badminton — Men’s Singles WH2 (Round of 16 (Court WH-5) Match 2): Haris Mythili Srikumar vs Jianpeng Mai (China).
- 6:15 AM IST: Para Athletics — Women’s 200m T11 (Final): Ravanni Valasanaini. (Medal event)
- 6:15 AM IST: Para Archery — W1 Men Individual (Semifinal (subject to Qualification)): Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari.
- 6:15 AM IST: Para Archery — W1 Women Individual (Semifinal (direct entry as top seed)): Swati Chaudhary.
- 6:15 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Men Individual (Semifinal (subject to Qualification)): Harvinder Singh.
- 6:15 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Men Individual (Semifinal (subject to Qualification)): Vijay Sundi.
- 6:15 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Women Individual (Semifinal (subject to Qualification)): Bhawna.
- 6:15 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Women Individual (Semifinal (subject to Qualification)): Pooja.
- 6:15 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Men Individual (Semifinal (subject to Qualification)): Toman Kumar.
- 6:15 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Men Individual (Semifinal (subject to Qualification)): Shyam Sunder Swami.
- 6:15 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Women Individual (Semifinal (subject to Qualification)): Sheetal Devi.
- 6:15 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Women Individual (Semifinal (subject to Qualification)): Payal Nag.
- 6:20 AM IST: Para Badminton — Women’s Singles WH1 (Group B (Court WH- 1) Match 3): Pallavi K.M. vs Guang-Chiou Hu (Chinese Taipei).
- 6:30 AM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s Shot Put F11 (Final): Praveen Sharma. (Medal event)
- 6:30 AM IST: Para Judo — Women’s J1 -70kg (Quarterfinal Mat 2): Renuka Narayan Salve vs Atsumi Nishimura (Japan).
- 6:30 AM IST: Para Judo — Men’s J1 -70kg (Repechage (Subject to Qualification)): Renuka Narayan Salve.
- 6:30 AM IST: Para Judo — Men’s J1 -70kg (Final of Repechage (Subject to Qualification)): Renuka Narayan Salve.
- 6:30 AM IST: Para Judo — Men’s J1 -70kg (Semifinal (Subject to Qualification)): Renuka Narayan Salve.
- 6:30 AM IST: Para Shooting — P1 10m Air Pistol SH1 Men (Qualification): Manish Narwal, Nihal Singh, Rudransh Khandelwal.
- 6:30 AM IST: Para Shooting — P210m Air Pistol SH1 Women (Qualification): Bhakti Sharma, Rubina Francis, Srishti Arora, Sumedha Pathak.
- 6:35 AM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s Discus Throw F57 (Final): Parveen Kumar. (Medal event)
- 6:45 AM IST: Para Table Tennis — Women’s Singles Class 3 (Semifinal Table 2): Sonalben Patel vs Jiyu Yoon (Korea). (Medal event)
- 6:53 AM IST: Para Athletics — Women’s 400m T20 (Final): Deepthi Jeevanji. (Medal event)
- 7:05 AM IST: Para Swimming — Men’s 50m Butterfly S5 (Heats – Heat 2): Abdul Quadir Indori.
- 7:09 AM IST: Para Swimming — Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB13 (Heats – Heat 1/2): Ravi Veera Venkata Bhavan Budigina.
- 7:30 AM IST: Para Badminton — Men’s Singles SL3 (Quarterfinal (Court ST-3) Match 4): Umesh Vikram Kumar vs Nitesh Kumar.
- 7:30 AM IST: Para Badminton — Men’s Singles SL3 (Quarterfinal (Court ST-3) Match 4): Nitesh Kumar vs Umesh Vikram Kumar.
- 7:30 AM IST: Para Table Tennis — Women’s Singles Class 6 (Semifinal Table 3): Prachi Pandey vs Najlah Al-Dayyeni (Iraq). (Medal event)
- 7:30 AM IST: Para Table Tennis — Women’s Singles Class 9 (Semifinal Table 10): Baby Sahana Ravi vs Jingdian Mao (China). (Medal event)
- 7:38 AM IST: Para Swimming — Men’s 100m Freestyle S6 (Heats – Heat 2): Chaitanya Vishwas Kulkarni.
- 8:10 AM IST: Para Athletics — Women’s 200m T12 (Round1 – Heats): Simran. (Medal event)
- 8:10 AM IST: Para Athletics — Women’s 200m T12 (Round1 – Heats): Tejalben Amraji Damor. (Medal event)
- 8:10 AM IST: Para Badminton — Men’s Singles SL3 (Quarterfinal (Court ST-2) Match 5): Pramod Bhagat vs Daisuke Fujihara (Japan).
- 8:10 AM IST: Para Badminton — Men’s Singles SL4 (Round of 16 (Court ST-3) Match 5): Abhijeet Sakhuja vs Pengfei Chen (China).
- 8:10 AM IST: Boccia — Individual BC3 Women (Pool A Match 7): Anjali Devi vs Mohammad Nurulasyiqah (Singapore).
- 8:15 AM IST: Para Table Tennis — Womens Singles – Class 1 (Group A Table 4): Ekta Bhyan vs Lin Mao (China).
- 8:15 AM IST: Para Table Tennis — Men’s Singles Class 1 (Group A Table 11): Sandeep Dangi vs Ardak Nurmagambetov (Kazakhstan).
- 8:30 AM IST: Para Powerlifting — Men’s Up to 65kg (Final): Ashok. (Medal event)
- 8:30 AM IST: Para Cycling — Men’s 1000m Time Trial (Qualifying): Arshad Shaik.
- 8:40 AM IST: Para Shooting — P1 10m Air Pistol SH1 Men (Final (Subject to Qualification)): Manish Narwal, Nihal Singh, Rudransh Khandelwal. (Medal event)
- 8:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Mixed Team (Quarterfinal): Sheetal Devi & Toman Kumar.
- 8:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Mixed Team (Quarterfinal): Harvinder Singh & Bhawna vs Thailand (Thailand).
- 9:30 AM IST: Para Badminton — Men’s Singles SL4 (Round of 16 (Court ST-3) Match 7): Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj vs Siripong Teamarrom (Thailand).
- 10:10 AM IST: Para Badminton — Mixed Doubles WH1-WH2 (Quarterfinal (Court WH- 1) Match 8): Alphia James Prem Kumar Ale vs Menglu Yin & Jianpeng Mai (China).
- 10:30 AM IST: Para Shooting — P210m Air Pistol SH1 Women (Final (Subject to Qualification)): Bhakti Sharma, Rubina Francis, Srishti Arora, Sumedha Pathak. (Medal event)
- 10:50 AM IST: Para Badminton — Men’s Singles SU5 (Round of 16 (Court ST-3) Match 9): Hardik Makkar vs Suryo Nugroho (Indonesia).
- 11:15 AM IST: Para Archery — W1 Men Doubles (Quarterfinal): Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari & Vinayak Anmol Breed.
- 11:15 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Men Doubles (Quarterfinal): Harvinder Singh & Vijay Sundi.
- 11:15 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Men Doubles (Quarterfinal): Shyam Sunder Swami & Toman Kumar.
- 11:20 AM IST: Para Badminton — Women’s Singles WH2 (Group B (Court WH-5) Match 3): Alphia James vs I-Chen Yang (Chinese Taipei).
- 11:30 AM IST: Blind Football — Men Team (Preliminary Round): Boje Marbom Klingson Marak Pradeep Patel Sahil Shivam Singh Sovendra Singh Tushar Kumar Vishnubhatejubha Vaghela Aditya Sajwan (GK) Sujith Puthankattunikkarathsasi(GK) vs Men Team (Iran).
- 11:30 AM IST: Para Badminton — Women’s Singles SL3 (Quarterfinal (Court ST-2) Match 10): Sanjana Kumari vs Yuemei Liu (China).
- 11:30 AM IST: Para Table Tennis — Women’s Singles Class 3 (Gold Medal Match (Subject to Qualification)): Sonalben Patel. (Medal event)
- 11:30 AM IST: Para Table Tennis — Women’s Singles Class 4-5 (Gold Medal Match (Subject to Qualification)): Bhavinaben Patel. (Medal event)
- 11:30 AM IST: Para Table Tennis — Women’s Singles Class 6 (Gold Medal Match (Subject to Qualification)): Prachi Pandey. (Medal event)
- 11:30 AM IST: Para Table Tennis — Women’s Singles Class 9 (Gold Medal Match (Subject to Qualification)): Baby Sahana Ravi. (Medal event)
- 11:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Women Doubles (Semifinal (direct entry as top seed)): Sheetal Devi & Payal Nag.
- 11:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Men Doubles (Semifinal (subject to Qualification)): Harvinder Singh & Vijay Sundi.
- 11:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Recurve Women Doubles (Semifinal (direct entry)): Bhawna & Pooja.
- 11:45 AM IST: Para Archery — Para Compound Men Doubles (Semifinal (subject to Qualification)): Shyam Sunder Swami & Toman Kumar.
- 12:10 PM IST: Para Badminton — Women’s Singles SL4 (Group B (Court ST-2) Match 11): Kanak Singh Jadaun vs Suzu Nakamura (Japan).
- 12:26 PM IST: Para Cycling — Men’s 1000m Time Trial (Final (Subject to Qualification)): Arshad Shaik. (Medal event)
- 12:30 PM IST: Para Judo — Men’s J1 -70kg (Bronze Medal Match (Subject to Qualification)): Renuka Narayan Salve. (Medal event)
- 12:30 PM IST: Para Judo — Men’s J1 -70kg (Final (Subject to Qualification)): Renuka Narayan Salve. (Medal event)
- 12:30 PM IST: Para Archery — W1 Mixed Team (Quarterfinal): Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari & Swati Chaudhary.
- 12:50 PM IST: Para Badminton — Men’s Doubles WH1-WH2 (Quarterfinal (Court WH- 1) Match 12): Prem Kumar Ale & Abu Hubaida vs Mohd. Ikhwan Bin Ramli and Noor Azwan Bin Noorlan (Malaysia).
- 1:00 PM IST: Para Powerlifting — Men’s Up to 72kg (Final): Jhandu Kumar. (Medal event)
- 1:30 PM IST: Para Swimming — Men’s 400m Freestyle S13 (Final): Ravi Veera Venkata Bhavan Budigina. (Medal event)
- 1:30 PM IST: Para Badminton — Women’s Doubles WH1-WH2 (Group B (Court TBA) Match TBA): Pallavi KM & Alphia James vs Jiaqi Li and Hongyan Li (China).
- 1:30 PM IST: Para Badminton — Men’s Singles SH6 (Quarterfinal (Court ST-2) Match 13): Krishna Nagar vs Natthapong Meechai (Thailand).
- 1:30 PM IST: Para Badminton — Men’s Singles SH6 (Quarterfinal (Court ST-3) Match 13): Sivarajan Solaimalai vs Qingtao Zeng (China).
- 1:35 PM IST: Para Athletics — Women’s Javelin Throw F55/F56 (Final): Suchitra Parida. (Medal event)
- 1:39 PM IST: Para Swimming — Men’s 400m Freestyle S11 (Final): Himanshu Nandal. (Medal event)
- 1:40 PM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s Discus Throw F51/F52/F53 (Final): Pranav Soorma. (Medal event)
- 1:40 PM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s Discus Throw F51/F52/F53 (Final): Ram Ratan Singh. (Medal event)
- 2:15 PM IST: Boccia — Individual BC3 Women (Pool A Match 10): Anjali Devi vs Beibei Yang (China).
- 2:24 PM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s 100m T13 (Final): Sujith Mandalamkunnath. (Medal event)
- 2:30 PM IST: Para Powerlifting — Women’s Up to 61kg (Final): Suman Devi. (Medal event)
- 2:30 PM IST: Para Powerlifting — Women’s Up to 61kg (Final): Seema Rani. (Medal event)
- 2:38 PM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s 100m T45/T46/T47 (Round1): Dilip Gavit. (Medal event)
- 2:38 PM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s 100m T45/T46/T47 (Round1): Mohammed Basil Morssinganakath. (Medal event)
- 3:15 PM IST: Para Athletics — Women’s 200m T12 (Final (Subject to Qualitication)): Simran. (Medal event)
- 3:15 PM IST: Para Athletics — Women’s 200m T12 (Final (Subject to Qualitication)): Tejalben Amraji Damor. (Medal event)
- 3:23 PM IST: Para Athletics — Women’s 200m T35 (Final): Preeti Pal. (Medal event)
- 3:32 PM IST: Para Swimming — Men’s 200m Individual Medley SM7 (Final): Suyash Narayan Jadhav. (Medal event)
- 3:32 PM IST: Para Swimming — Men’s 200m Individual Medley SM7 (Final): Niranjan Mukundan. (Medal event)
- 3:35 PM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s Shot Put F56/F57 (Final): Hokato Sema Hokato. (Medal event)
- 3:35 PM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s Shot Put F56/F57 (Final): Soman Rana. (Medal event)
- 4:05 PM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s High Jump T45/T46/T47 (Final): Nishad Kumar. (Medal event)
- 4:06 PM IST: Para Swimming — Women’s 100m Backstroke S10 (Final): Devanshi Satija. (Medal event)
- 4:17 PM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s Discus Throw F43/F44/F62/F64 (Final): Devender Kumar. (Medal event)
- 4:17 PM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s Discus Throw F43/F44/F62/F64 (Final): Pardeep Kumar. (Medal event)
- 4:17 PM IST: Para Athletics — Men’s Discus Throw F43/F44/F62/F64 (Final): Rakesh. (Medal event)
- 4:37 PM IST: Para Athletics — Women’s 200m T45/T46/T47 (Final): Anjanaben Rohit Bumbadiya. (Medal event)
- 4:37 PM IST: Para Athletics — Women’s 200m T45/T46/T47 (Final): Jayanti Behera. (Medal event)
– Ends
