India reach 23 medals, five of them gold, at the Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya

India had won 23 medals at the Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, by midday on Tuesday, October 20: five gold, eight silver and 10 bronze, according to a tally published by NewsX at 12:36 IST. That put India sixth in the medal table, which is ordered by gold medals first. The Games run from October 18 to 24, ANI reported through The Tribune.

The gold medals

According to the NewsX tally and earlier counts by Sunday Guardian and Dainik Jagran English, India's gold medallists are:

• Mona Agarwal, women's 10m air rifle standing SH1, with a Games record score of 250.0, ahead of compatriot Avani Lekhara on 249.6;
• Nishad Kumar, men's long jump T47, with 7.11m;
• Rinku, men's javelin throw F46;
• Soumya, women's 1500m T12/T13;
• Jeevanji Deepthi, women's 400m T20, listed in the NewsX tally of October 20.

The first four were won by Monday evening. Deepthi's gold appears in the NewsX tally but not in the Monday reports read.

Nishad Kumar's long jump

Nishad Kumar, mainly a high jumper, won the T47 long jump on Monday, October 19, in his first international appearance in the event, ANI reported. His series was 6.95m, 7.09m, 7.11m, a foul, 7.11m and 7.07m. Uzbekistan's Omadbek Khasanov took silver with 6.99m and Sri Lanka's Mohammadu Safran bronze with 6.55m.

The 26-year-old is a two-time Paralympic silver medallist in the high jump, from Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, and won the 2025 world title in that event, according to ANI. His win was India's second gold of the Games and the first in para-athletics.

Silver and bronze

The NewsX tally lists eight Indian silver medals: Ajeet Singh (men's javelin F46), Pradeep Kumar (men's javelin F53/F54), Radha Venkatesh (women's 1500m T12/T13), Kokila (women's J2 -52kg judo), Ashok (men's -65kg powerlifting), Ravi Karthik Budigina (men's 100m freestyle S13), Manish Narwal (men's 10m air pistol SH1) and Avani Lekhara (women's 10m air rifle standing SH1).

Budigina's silver, in 56.80 seconds behind Uzbekistan's Egor Bolotov, was India's first swimming medal of the Games, ANI said. Rinku and Ajeet Singh finished first and second in the F46 javelin, and Soumya and Radha Venkatesh first and second in the 1500m T12/T13, Sunday Guardian reported.

The 10 bronze medals in the NewsX list include Kapil Parmar in judo, Shrishti Arora in the women's 10m air pistol SH1, Praveen Sharma in the men's shot put F11, and five medals in para table tennis singles, among them Bhavina Patel and Sonalben Patel.

How the tally moved

Dainik Jagran English reported 11 medals, four gold, five silver and two bronze, after the first day of competition. Sunday Guardian gave the same count at 19:20 IST on Monday, when India were fourth. By Tuesday's NewsX tally India had 23 medals but had slipped to sixth, behind China (40 gold, 93 medals in all), Japan, South Korea, Uzbekistan and Iran.