India concluded its campaign at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya with an impressive 85 medals, comprising 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze medals. The performance made the 2026 edition India's second-highest medal haul in Asian Games history, behind only the record 106-medal performance at Hangzhou 2023.
India also finished fourth in the overall medal standings, behind the People's Republic of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea.
The campaign featured a combination of established stars, emerging athletes, breakthrough performances and historic firsts. Archery, athletics, shooting, boxing and wrestling were among India's strongest disciplines, while team sports such as hockey, kabaddi and cricket also delivered gold medals.
Several Indian athletes created history by winning medals in events where the country had previously never reached the podium.
India's 2026 campaign was therefore not simply about the final medal count. It also reflected the growing depth of Indian sport across traditional and emerging disciplines, with athletes producing landmark performances and securing important Olympic qualification opportunities along the way.
India finished the Asian Games 2026 with:
Gold medals: 21
Silver medals: 27
Bronze medals: 37
Total medals: 85
Overall position: 4th
India and Uzbekistan both won 21 gold medals, but India finished higher in the standings because it had more silver medals. Uzbekistan ended the Games with 21 gold, 25 silver and 24 bronze medals, compared with India's 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze.
China topped the medal table with 169 gold, 89 silver and 83 bronze medals for a total of 341. Japan finished second with 83 gold, 95 silver and 91 bronze, while the Republic of Korea was third with 39 gold, 43 silver and 68 bronze.
India's 85 medals in Aichi-Nagoya were below the record 106 medals won at Hangzhou 2023, including 28 gold medals. Nevertheless, the 2026 campaign represented India's second-largest medal haul at the Asian Games.
The importance of the performance also lies in the variety of sports in which Indian athletes reached the podium. India collected medals across archery, shooting, athletics, boxing, wrestling, cricket, hockey, kabaddi, golf, squash, sailing, weightlifting, wushu, badminton, rowing, table tennis, kurash, mixed martial arts, sepaktakraw and soft tennis.
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India's strongest medal-producing sport was athletics, which delivered 24 medals. Shooting followed with 15 medals, while archery contributed nine. Boxing and wrestling each produced six medals.
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athletics | 1 | 9 | 14 | 24 |
| Shooting | 3 | 8 | 4 | 15 |
| Archery | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| Boxing | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Wrestling | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| Squash | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Cricket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Hockey | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kabaddi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Golf | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Sailing | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Weightlifting | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Wushu | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Badminton | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kurash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mixed Martial Arts | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Rowing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Sepaktakraw | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Soft Tennis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Table Tennis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 21 | 27 | 37 | 85 |
The sport-wise figures show that athletics alone accounted for nearly a third of India's overall medal haul, while shooting and archery provided substantial contributions across individual, team and mixed events.
Archery was one of the standout disciplines for India, producing nine medals, including five golds. The performance matched India's record archery haul from Hangzhou 2023.
India won all three compound team titles. Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep and Chikitha Taniparthi won women's compound team gold, while Sahil Jadhav, Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru and Kushal Dalal won the men's compound team title.
Chikitha Taniparthi and Sahil Jadhav also secured gold in the mixed compound team event. Their victory was significant because it also secured an LA 2028 Olympic quota.
India also enjoyed an exceptional campaign in recurve archery. The country won medals in all five recurve events, described in the source as India's best-ever Asian Games campaign in the discipline.
Kumkum Mohod won women's individual recurve gold and another LA 2028 quota. She also combined with Dhiraj Bommadevara to win mixed team recurve silver, while the women's team of Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Mohod and Kirti Sharma won gold.
Athletics was India's biggest medal-producing sport, with 24 medals: one gold, nine silver and 14 bronze.
The gold came dramatically on the final day when India's women's 4x400m relay team won the title. Kiran Pahal, Poovamma MR, Prachi Choudhary and Vithya Ramraj formed the gold-medal-winning quartet.
Vithya Ramraj was among India's standout athletes. She won women's 4x400m relay gold, mixed 4x400m relay silver and women's 400m hurdles bronze.
She also broke PT Usha's 42-year-old national record in the women's 400m hurdles, according to the supplied source.
Distance runner Gulveer Singh also enjoyed a remarkable Games. He won silver in the men's 10,000m and 1,500m events before adding a bronze in the 5,000m. His three-medal haul placed him among India's most successful individual performers at the Games.
Other notable athletics performances included Baranica Elangovan's bronze in women's pole vault, India's first Asian Games medal in the event, and Sawan Berwal's marathon silver, which came with a national record.
Shooting contributed 15 medals, including three gold, eight silver and four bronze.
One of the major highlights came from Kamaljeet and Suruchi Singh, who won India's first Asian Games gold in the 10m air pistol mixed team event. Their victory also came with an Asian record.
Neeru Dhanda became the first Indian woman to win an Asian Games shotgun gold medal when she claimed the women's trap title, also setting an Asian record.
She later teamed up with Kynan Chenai to win India's first mixed team trap medal, with the pair taking gold. Dhanda ended the Games with three medals—two gold and one silver.
Other shooting medallists included Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar, Vidarsa Vinod, Rudrankksh Patil, Parth Mane, Himanshu Dhillon, Esha Singh, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Niraj Kumar, Manisha Keer and Aashima Ahlawat, among others.
Indian boxers secured six medals, including three gold and three bronze. The source describes this as India's most successful Asian Games boxing campaign in terms of gold medals.
Lovlina Borgohain won women's 75kg gold and became only the second Indian woman after Mary Kom to win Asian Games boxing gold. Parveen Hooda won women's 65kg gold, while Ankush Panghal secured men's 80kg gold.
India's other boxing medals included bronze for Narender Berwal, Priya Ghanghas and Kapil Pokhariya.
India finished the wrestling competition with six medals, including two gold, two silver and two bronze. The source describes this as India's best wrestling campaign since 1962.
Aman Sehrawat won men's 57kg gold, while Sujeet Kalkal claimed the men's 65kg title. Antim Panghal won silver in women's 53kg, while Nitesh Kumar took silver in men's Greco-Roman 97kg.
Bronze medals were won by Sunil Kumar in men's Greco-Roman 87kg and Deepak Punia in men's 97kg.
Golf produced a historic moment for India when Pranavi Urs became the first Indian woman to win an individual Asian Games golf gold medal. Her victory also ended India's 24-year wait for a golf title at the Games.
Urs then joined Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar to win silver in the women's team event, another first for India in the discipline.
India's team sports produced several of the campaign's biggest celebrations.
The Indian women's hockey team won its first Asian Games title since 1982, while the men's team successfully defended its title. Both victories secured direct qualification for the LA 2028 Olympics.
India also retained both men's and women's kabaddi titles. Cricket delivered two more gold medals, with Team India winning both the men's and women's events.
Mirabai Chanu added another major medal to her career by winning silver in the women's 49kg weightlifting event.
The medal was India's first in weightlifting at the Asian Games since Bangkok 1998 and Chanu's first Asian Games medal.
India's success was not limited to sports in which the country traditionally performs strongly.
Suchika Tariyal won bronze in women's traditional -60kg in mixed martial arts, giving India its first Asian Games medal in MMA as the sport made its Games debut.
In rowing, Satnam Singh and Salman Khan won bronze in men's double sculls, India's first-ever medal in the event.
Roshibina Devi won wushu silver, becoming the first Indian to win medals in the sport at three consecutive Asian Games. India also won its first men's sepaktakraw quadrant medal, taking bronze.
Squash contributed five medals—two silver and three bronze. Abhay Singh won men's singles silver, while Anahat Singh won women's singles silver. Anahat became the first Indian woman to win an Asian Games singles squash silver.
India also won bronze in the men's and women's team events and mixed doubles. The women's team included Anahat Singh, Joshna Chinappa, Tanvi Khanna and Shameena Riaz, while the men's team featured Abhay Singh, Veer Chotrani, Velavan Senthilkumar and Suraj Kumar Chand.
In table tennis, Manush Shah and Diya Chitale won mixed doubles bronze, India's fourth Asian Games medal in the sport's history according to the supplied source.
Four Indian athletes finished the Games with three medals each.
Neeru Dhanda and Kumkum Mohod led the group with two gold medals and one silver each. Gulveer Singh won two silver medals and one bronze, while Vithya Ramraj collected gold in the women's 4x400m relay, silver in the mixed 4x400m relay and bronze in the women's 400m hurdles.
Their performances underline the depth of India's campaign, with multiple athletes contributing across individual, team and mixed events.
India's 85-medal campaign involved athletes and teams across a wide range of disciplines. The supplied medal list includes shooting medallists such as Elavenil Valarivan, Himanshu Dhillon, Rudrankksh Patil, Esha Singh and Neeru Dhanda; athletics stars including Gulveer Singh, Vithya Ramraj, Ancy Sojan, Murali Sreeshankar and Tajinderpal Singh Toor; and archers such as Kumkum Mohod, Chikitha Taniparthi and Sahil Jadhav.
The complete list also features medal-winning teams in cricket, hockey and kabaddi, alongside athletes from boxing, wrestling, golf, squash, sailing, weightlifting, wushu, badminton, rowing, table tennis, kurash, mixed martial arts, sepaktakraw and soft tennis.
India's Asian Games 2026 performance stands out for both its medal total and the number of historic achievements recorded during the competition.
The country finished with 85 medals, making it India's second-highest medal tally at an Asian Games. At the same time, the campaign produced important firsts in women's golf, women's shotgun shooting, mixed martial arts, rowing, sepaktakraw and other disciplines.
The strongest medal contribution came from athletics, while shooting and archery also produced substantial returns. Team sports added a collection of gold medals, and athletes such as Neeru Dhanda, Kumkum Mohod, Gulveer Singh and Vithya Ramraj emerged as multiple-medal winners.
India's fourth-place finish, behind China, Japan and the Republic of Korea, also placed it ahead of Uzbekistan despite both countries winning 21 gold medals. India's advantage came from its larger number of silver medals.
Ultimately, the Asian Games 2026 campaign can be viewed as a broad-based Indian sporting performance. From record-breaking athletics performances and historic archery results to breakthrough medals in emerging disciplines and gold-medal success in hockey, kabaddi and cricket, India's 85-medal haul provided numerous moments of achievement and marked another significant chapter in the country's Asian Games journey.
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 169 | 89 | 83 | 341 |
| 2 | Japan | 83 | 95 | 91 | 269 |
| 3 | South Korea | 39 | 43 | 68 | 150 |
| 4 | India | 21 | 27 | 37 | 85 |
| 5 | Uzbekistan | 21 | 25 | 24 | 70 |
| 6 | Iran | 19 | 18 | 15 | 52 |
| 7 | Thailand | 18 | 13 | 21 | 52 |
| 8 | Kazakhstan | 12 | 24 | 48 | 84 |
| 9 | Hong Kong China | 11 | 19 | 24 | 54 |
| 10 | Bahrain | 11 | 5 | 6 | 22 |
The full medal table supplied with the source records China at the top with 341 medals and India fourth with 85.
The Asian Games 2026 medal tally tells a story that goes beyond India's final total of 85 medals. The campaign combined established champions with emerging talent and produced historic firsts across multiple sports.
With 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze medals, India finished fourth overall and recorded its second-highest medal haul at the Asian Games. Athletics led the medal count with 24, followed by shooting with 15 and archery with nine.
The achievements of Pranavi Urs, Neeru Dhanda, Kumkum Mohod, Vithya Ramraj, Gulveer Singh, Lovlina Borgohain, Aman Sehrawat and many other athletes added individual milestones to the overall team achievement.
For Indian sport, the Aichi-Nagoya Games therefore represented a campaign of strong medal production, historic breakthroughs and growing representation across a diverse range of disciplines.