India will have another busy day at the Asian Games 2026 on Wednesday, September 23, with several of the country’s top athletes in action in Aichi-Nagoya.Shooting and weightlifting will lead India’s medal hopes on Day 4, while the men’s badminton team will play for a place in the gold medal match.Double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker will be one of the main attractions of the day. She will compete in the women’s 10m air pistol qualification alongside Suruchi Inder Singh and Esha Singh. The trio will also take part in the team event, and Bhaker, Suruchi and Esha will compete in the individual final if they qualify.Weightlifting will also be in focus as Olympic medallist Mirabai Chanu begins her campaign in the women’s 49kg category. She will be aiming to win her first Asian Games medal. Later in the day, Gyaneshwari Yadav will compete in the women’s 53kg event.India’s men’s badminton team, which has already assured itself of a medal after beating Japan in the quarterfinals, will face China in the semifinal. Lakshya Sen, Ayush Shetty, HS Prannoy, Kidambi Srikanth, Tharun Mannepalli and the doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are part of India’s squad for the tie.India will also be in action in hockey and wushu, along with several other sports, as the contingent looks to add to its medal tally on another packed day at the Games.Asian Games full coverage | Schedule | Medal tallyHere’s the full schedule for Indian athletes at the Asian Games 2026 on Wednesday, September 23.
- 5:30am: Sepaktakraw – India vs Philippines in men’s team regu Group B match.
- 5:30 AM: Esports – Daniel and Chinmay Sahoo in eFootball quarterfinal, subject to qualification.
- 5:40am: Rowing – Balraj Panwar in men’s single sculls heats.
- 5:30am: Soft tennis – Jay Meena vs Sherwin Nuguit in men’s singles quarterfinal
- 5:30am onwards.: Rowing – Multiple Indians involved in heats.
- 6:00am: Rowing – Satnam Singh-Salman Kha in men’s doubles sculls heats.
- 6:15am: Shooting – Manu Bhaker, Suruchi Inder Singh, Esha Singh in 10m air pistol individual qualification and team final.
- 6:30am: Shooting – Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Khan, Bhavtegh Singh Gill in skeet men’s individual and team final, Day 3.
- 6:30am: Shooting – Raiza Dhillon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Maheshwari Chauhan in skeet women’s individual qualification and final, Day 3.
- 6:30am: Table tennis – Harmeet Desai-Yashaswini Ghorpade vs Mohamed Ismail-Fathimath Ali of Maldives in mixed doubles round 2 match.
- 6:30am: Fencing – Mina Devi Naorem, Ashitha Stalinraj in women’s foil individual events. G Nidhi Kumaresan, Karan Singh in men’s sabre individual events. Followed by round of 32, 16, quarterfinal, semifinal and medal bouts.
- 6:30am: Equestrian – Fouaad Mirza/Camouflage 38, Arjan Singh Nagra/Cooley Goodwood, Ashish Limaye/Willy be Dun in Eventing individual and team cross country medal events.
- 6:42am: Swimming – Benedicton Beniston and Sajan Prakash in men’s 100m butterfly heats.
- 6:50am: Rowing – Jaswinder Singh and Nitin Kumar in Men’s Pair heats.
- 7:01am: Swimming – Vedaant Madhavan and Aneesh Sunil in men’s 200m freestyle heats.
- 7:10am: Table tennis – Manush Shah-Diya Chitale vs Chanul Kulappuwawadu-Bimandee Swarna of Sri Lanka in minxed doubles round 2 match.
- 7:10am: Rowing – Gurbani Kaur, Aleena Anto, Tendenthoi Haobijam, Poonam in women’s four heats.
- 8:15 AM onwards: Fencing – Gisho Nidhi K.P. and Karan Singh in men’s sabre individual pool bouts.
- 8:30am: Kabaddi – India vs Iran in women’s team group A match.
- 9:00am Shooting – Manu Bhaker, Suruchi Inder Singh, Esha Singh in 10m air pistol individual final (if they qualify).
- 9:40am: Kabaddi – India vs Bangladesh in men’s team group A match.
- 10:00am: Weightlifting – Mirabai Chanu in women’s 49kg (medal event).
- Around 10:30am: Boxing – Ankush vs Hamsa Vogel of Brunei in men’s 80kg round of 32 bout
- 10:30am: Squash – Abhay Singh vs Arkaradet Arkarahirunya of Thailand in men’s singles round of 32 match.
- 11:10am: Rowing – Ajay Tyagi in men’s lightweight single sculls heats.
- 11:15am: Squash – Tanvi Khanna vs Kim Dami in women’s singles round of 32 match.
- 11:20am: Rowing – Rohit-Ujwal Kumar Singh in men’s lightweight double sculls heats.
- 11:30am: Hockey – India vs Thailand in women’s Pool B match.
- 11:30am: Badminton – India vs China in men’s team semifinal.
- 12:00pm: Squash – Veer Chotrani vs Sri Lanka’s Samil Wakeel in men’s round of 32 match.
- 12:10pm: Rowing – Arvind Singh, Kulwinder Singh, Navdeep Singh and Jakar Khan in men’s quadruple sculls heats.
- 12:20pm: Rowing – Vipul Ghurde, Saurav Kumar, Babu Lal Yadav and Yogesh Kumar in men’s four heats.
- 12:30 PM onwards: Esports – Daniel and Chinmay Sahoo in eFootball semifinals, subject to qualification.
- 1:30pm: Weightlifting – Gyaneshwari Yadav in women’s 53kg (medal event).
- 1:38pm: Swimming – Benedicton Beniston and Sajan Prakash in men’s 100m butterfly final (if they qualify).
- 1:54pm: Swimming – Vedaant Madhavan and Aneesh Sunil in men’s 200m freestyle final (if they qualify).
- 2:30pm: Wushu – Roshibina Devi vs. Thania Kusumaningtyas in women’s 60kg semifinal.
- 3:50 PM: Esports – Daniel and Chinmay Sahoo in eFootball final, subject to qualification. (medal event)
