India won 24 medals on the second day of the Asian Para Games in Nagoya, including five golds, lifting their tally to 35. Pranav Soorma set an Asian record in the F51 discus, and Nishad Kumar, Deepthi Jeevanji, Simran Sharma and Devender Kumar also won gold.
Nagoya, Japan: India turned a strong opening into a dominant second day at the Asian Para Games on Tuesday, collecting 24 medals, five of them gold, to follow the 11 won on day one. The haul took the team’s total to 35 after two days of competition.
Five golds, one Asian record
Pranav Soorma provided the standout mark, throwing 11.66 metres in the men’s F51 discus to set an Asian record. Ram Ratan Singh took silver in the same event to make it a one-two for India.
On the track, Deepthi Jeevanji won the women’s 400m T20 in a Games-record 56.36 seconds, and Simran Sharma took the women’s 200m T12 in a Games-record 24.80, with Tejalben Damor adding bronze behind her on debut.
In the field, Nishad Kumar cleared 2.04 metres to win the men’s T47 high jump, his second gold of the Games, while Devender Kumar led an Indian podium sweep of the men’s F43/F44/F62/F64 discus, with Rakesh taking silver and Pardeep Kumar bronze.
Silvers in athletics, shooting and powerlifting
Beyond the golds, India collected six named silvers. Preeti Pal was second in the women’s 200m T35, Pradeep Kumar took silver in the men’s F53/F54 javelin, and Ashok earned a silver in men’s para powerlifting. In shooting, Manish Narwal shot 233.7 for silver in the men’s 10m air pistol SH1, a result that also secured India a Los Angeles 2028 quota.
Bronzes across four sports
The bronze list was the longest and the widest. Ayush Verma finished third in the men’s javelin behind Pradeep Kumar, while Praveen Sharma and Hokato Hotozhe Sema added bronzes in the men’s shot put. Shrishti Arora won bronze in the women’s 10m air pistol SH1, and the pool brought two more, through Niranjan Mukundan in the men’s 200m individual medley SM7 and Himanshu Nandal in the men’s 400m freestyle S11.
Para table tennis supplied five of the bronzes. Four came in the women’s singles, through Baby Sahana Ravi, Bhavina Patel, Sonalben Patel and Prachi Pandey, and Jehan Madan added a fifth in the men’s singles.
What the two days add up to
Combined with the 11 medals from day one, the Tuesday haul gives India nine golds in all. The spread matters as much as the colour: medals have now come in athletics, shooting, swimming, powerlifting and table tennis, a breadth that bodes well for the rest of the Games.
India on day two: 24 medals, including 5 gold. Cumulative after two days: 35 medals, including 9 gold.
