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Asiad 2026: India's shooting contingent, full schedule and live streaming

After a record 22-medal haul in Hangzhou, the Indian shooting contingent will be looking for another record run on the podium at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya

Asiad 2026: India open shooting campaign with women's 10m air rifle silver

India began their shooting campaign at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on a high, winning a silver medal in the women's 10m air rifle team event here on Sunday. Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar and Vidarsa Vinod combined for a total of 1898.0 points to finish second behind China, who topped the standings with a world-record score of 1904.2. Hosts Japan finished third with 1897.1 points. This is India's first confirmed medal at the Aichi-Nagoya 20th Asian Games. MMA fighter Suchika Tariyal was the first Indian athlete to assure a medal, reaching the women's Traditional MMA 60kg semifinals. Sonam was India's top scorer with 634.1 points, followed by Elavenil with 633.5 and Vidarsa with 630.4. Elavenil and Sonam also qualified for the individual final, with their scores placing them among the finalists. Elavenil and Sonam will look for a double in the eight-woman individual final to be held later in the day. The silver is an encouraging start to India's shooting campaign after the co

Asiad 2026: India hockey teams' full schedule, squads, match timings

India's women face next Indonesia Sep 21, Thailand Sep 23, Japan Sep 25 and Singapore Sep 27; men meet Sri Lanka Sep 22, Korea Sep 24, Japan Sep 26 and Bangladesh Sep 28

Asian Games 2026 Day 1 Schedule, India events live time (IST), streaming

India's focus shifts to the women's cricket semi-final vs Bangladesh, men's hockey opener vs Indonesia, badminton tie vs Kazakhstan and 10m air rifle final (individual)

Asiad 2026: Quimcy misses bronze, India suffer double Teqball heartbreak

India's Quimcy Dsouza's spirited campaign endured a heartbreaking double setback on Sunday, narrowly missing out on a women's singles bronze before returning minutes later to lose the mixed doubles bronze-medal clash alongside Mohamed Anas Beg at the Asian Games here on Sunday. The Mumbai girl pushed Japanese world No. 7 Yuina Sakamoto all the way in the singles bronze-medal match, going down 0-2 (11-12 11-12), before the physical toll of an intense battle caught up with her in the mixed doubles contest, where the Indian pair lost to Vietnam's Hoang Minh Tan Nguyen and Gia Ngih Trinh 0-2 (9-12 6-12). Playing in front of a partisan home crowd, Sakamoto may have won in straight sets but the scoreline did little justice to the fight Quimcy produced. The match is played in a best-of-three sets format, with the first player to win two sets taking the contest. Quimcy had a set point in the opening game and then raced to a 10-8 lead in the second as she looked to force a decider. She eve

Asian Games 2026 Sept 20-21 schedule: Typhoon Dujuan may hit medal events

Japan's chef de mission Kosei Inoue said some competitions had already faced delays or postponements, with weather concerns around September 21

Asiad 2026: India's shooting contingent hit by accommodation, travel woes

The shooting contingent arrived in Nagoya on September 16 after travelling from India, but the accommodation it found on the ground did not match the booking information provided to the IOA

Asian Games 2026 get underway with grand opening ceremony in Nagoya

The opening programme combined traditional elements with technology as Japan formally welcomed athletes from across the continent

Kylian Mbappe leaves Nike after 20 years; partners with Swiss brand On

Mbappe had been associated with Nike since he was nine years old. His contract with the US sportswear giant expired on July 31, ending a relationship that lasted almost 20 years

Asian Games 2026 September 19: Schedule, live event time (IST), streaming

India's Quimcy Joaquim Dsouza lost in women's singles teqball semifinal match and will now play for bronze medal on Sunday

Asian Games 2026 HIGHLIGHTS: Shafali's all-round show powers IND to semis with easy win vs JPN

Asiad 2026 HIGHLIGHTS: India with the help of all-round show from Shafali Verma (40 not out with bat and 2 wickets with ball) beat Japan by 8 wickets in the fourth and final quarterfinal match

Kerala sports-tech startup Dartle raises $100,000 to expand US footprint

Dartle operates a vertical business-to-business (B2B) software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed for youth sports and football academies

Beauty shelves to training rooms: How collagen has found a place in sport

Collagen is generally consumed as peptides or powder, particularly by athletes returning from injury and those competing in sports that place greater loads on the body

Asian Games 2026 September 18: Schedule, live event time (IST), streaming

India's women's cricket team will begin its gold medal defence at Asian Games 2026 with the quarter-final match against hosts Japan at 10:30 am IST

IND vs AFG: Abhishek's record ton powers India to 127-run win, 3-0 sweep

Abhishek Sharma finished with 108 off 34 balls as India posted 221 for seven after being asked to bat first.

Abhishek Sharma hits fastest T20I ton by a Full Member batter in 30 balls

Abhishek Sharma's 30-ball century against Afghanistan in Delhi broke Rohit Sharma's India record and surpassed the 33-ball hundreds by Sikandar Raza and Finn Allen

Pranati Nayak takes measured approach in bid for maiden Asian Games medal

Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak has learnt to live with injuries and the long road back to competition after those setbacks, but the frustrating cycle has done little to dampen her spirits as she chases a maiden Asian Games medal in her fourth appearance at the mega-event. The 31-year-old, who is the only Indian gymnast selected for the quadrennial event, left for Aichi, Nagoya, Japan on Wednesday night for the Games beginning September 19. It has come about after a carefully managed recovery from plantar fasciitis (inflammation of foot) that bothered her this season. She missed out on the women's vault final at the Commonwealth Games because of this. "I am 100 per cent fit now. Injury is a part of a gymnast's life. A gymnast has a lot of injuries. We have to take care of them," Nayak, who trains at the Odisha AM/NS India Gymnastics High Performance Centre, told PTI. "I had made a mistake while running (in Glasgow) but injury was not the reason behind it. After coming back from ...

A song, 10 men, golden finish: Harbinder relives India's 1966 Asiad victory

Sixty years after India scripted hockey history at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok, Harbinder Singh still gets goosebumps when he hears the song that became the team's companion on its journey to gold. "Whenever we went to a match, Shankar Laxman (India goalkeeper at that time) would play 'Watan ki raah mein watan ke naujawan shaheed ho' in the team bus, and all the players would sing along. This would automatically motivate us," the 83-year-old three-time Olympic medallist told PTI in an exclusive interview. "Even today, when I hear this song, I get goosebumps," he added. It also became a galvanising force before their Asian Games final against arch foes Pakistan, a match that India won to bring home their first ever gold at the continental showpiece. The song and the final remain etched in the memory of the legendary centre-forward, who was also a part of India's 1964 Tokyo Olympics gold-winning team. "We had won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics just two years earlier, and s

Asian Games 2026 HIGHLIGHTS: Pakistan beat Thailand in last-over thriller; reach semi-finals

Asiad 2026 HIGHLIGHTS: India's men's doubles teqball team eliminated after losing both group-stage matches

IND v AFG 3rd T20I: Who should India drop to accommodate Vaibhav in the XI?

With the series sealed 2-0, India could rest Ishan Kishan to fit in Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, while Samson and Abhishek's form complicates selection before the Asian Games gold medal defence