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Rishabh Das Sets 200m Backstroke National Record as India Miss Swimming Medals
India's swimmers ended the Asian Games 2026 without a medal. Rishabh Das was the standout, finishing sixth in the men's 200m backstroke final in a new national record of 1:58.77 . The time improved his own previous mark of 1:59.84. Das was sixth in the 100m backstroke final as well. The 200m final was won by Japan's Kodai Nishiono in 1:56.42. South Korea's Lee Ju-ho took silver, and China's Xu Jiayu took bronze in 1:56.73. Das finished about two seconds off the podium. Other Indian results were modest. Srihari Nataraj finished 10th in the 50m backstroke final in 25.52. Sajan Prakash was seventh in the 200m butterfly final. India's men's 4x100m medley relay team finished eighth in the final. The 4x200m freestyle relay team was ninth in the heats and missed the final. Aryan Nehra placed 11th in the 800m freestyle and 12th in the 1500m freestyle. India sent an all-male, 12-member swimming squad to Tokyo. No Indian woman qualified. The medal drought now stands at 12 years. The last Indian swimming medal at the Games was Sandeep Sejwal's bronze in the 50m breaststroke at Incheon 2014.
Siobhan Haughey Ends Asian Games With Two Golds and Two Silvers
Siobhan Haughey finished the Asian Games 2026 with two golds and two silvers . The Hong Kong star won the women's 200m and 100m freestyle. She then added silvers in the 50m freestyle and the 4x100m freestyle relay. Haughey won the 200m freestyle in 1:54.96 , ahead of China's Li Jiaping (1:56.58). She followed with the 100m freestyle in 52.45 , 0.76 seconds clear of Yu Yiting of China. In the 50m freestyle she took silver in 24.32 . China's Wu Qingfeng won gold in a Games-record 23.98, and Cheng Yujie of China took bronze. Haughey also helped Hong Kong to silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay. The team clocked a national record 3:36.59 , and she split 52.22 on her leg. Her four medals made up most of Hong Kong's swimming haul. The team finished third in the swimming table with two golds , three silvers and one bronze. Both golds were Haughey's. Ian Ho won silver in the men's 50m freestyle, and Natalie Kan took bronze in the women's 100m butterfly.
Singapore's Gan Ching Hwee Wins Three Distance Silvers Behind Li Bingjie
Gan Ching Hwee of Singapore won three silver medals in the women's distance freestyle events at the Asian Games 2026. She finished second in the 400m , 800m and 1500m . In each race she was beaten by China's Li Bingjie . Gan's times were 4:06.81 in the 400m, 8:26.25 in the 800m and 16:00.45 in the 1500m. The 400m and 1500m swims were both new Singapore national records. Her silver in the 800m came on the final day of swimming. Li won all three events in 4:02.71 , 8:24.02 and 15:53.52 . The 800m gold was her fifth of the Games. Japan's Ichika Kajimoto took bronze in all three distances. Her times were 4:07.45, 8:27.37 and 16:06.83. The three silvers were Singapore's entire swimming medal haul in Tokyo. The country finished seventh in the swimming table with three silvers and no golds.
Bahrain, Kyrgyzstan and Chinese Taipei Make Swimming History at Asian Games
Three nations broke new ground in the pool at the Asian Games 2026 in Tokyo. Bahrain and Kyrgyzstan won their first-ever Asian Games swimming medals. Chinese Taipei won its first men's swimming gold at the Games. Bahrain's Mikhail Arkhangelskiy won the men's 50m butterfly in 22.91 . That equalled the Asian record. Japan's Shoon Mitsunaga took silver in 23.06, and China's Wang Changhao took bronze in 23.25. It was Bahrain's first swimming medal at the Games, and it was gold. Kyrgyzstan's Denis Petrashov took silver in the men's 200m breaststroke in 2:08.67 . He finished behind Japan's Shin Ohashi , who broke the world record in the same race. Chinese Taipei's Wang Kuan-hung won the men's 200m butterfly in 1:55.05 . The 24-year-old edged China's Xu Fang , who clocked 1:55.65. South Korea's Kim Min-seop took bronze in 1:55.94. Wang called the win "a dream come true".
China Wins 30 of 42 Swimming Golds as Asian Games Pool Action Ends
China topped the swimming medal table at the Asian Games 2026 with 30 golds and 54 medals in total. Racing ran from September 20 to 25 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Some 409 swimmers from 37 nations took part. China's 30 golds matched its tally from Hangzhou. Its total medals fell from 62 at the last Games to 54. Japan finished a distant second with seven golds and 37 medals overall. That was an improvement on its third-place finish last time. The other golds went to Hong Kong (2), South Korea (1), Bahrain (1) and Chinese Taipei (1). South Korea led the bronze count with 13 and finished with 20 medals. Singapore won three silvers and Kyrgyzstan one. In all, 42 golds were awarded across the 41 events, because the men's 100m breaststroke ended in a tie for gold. The meet produced one world record , seven Asian records and 24 Asian Games records . The world record came from Japan's Shin Ohashi in the men's 200m breaststroke. India's 12-man squad finished without a medal.
13-Year-Old Yu Zidi Wins Three Individual Golds at Asian Games
China's Yu Zidi , just 13 years old, won three individual golds at the Asian Games 2026. Each one came in a Games-record time. She was the standout swimmer of the meet in Tokyo. She opened with the 200m butterfly on the first night, winning in 2:05.08 . Her China teammate Chang Mohan took silver in 2:08.44, and Japan's Misa Okuzono took bronze. On the second night she won the 200m individual medley in 2:06.10 . That was an Asian record and a world junior record . Compatriot Yu Yiting took silver in 2:07.99, and Japan's Mio Narita took bronze in 2:10.40. Her third gold came in the 400m individual medley in 4:28.56 . Ke Wenxi of China took silver in 4:32.51. Narita again took bronze, in 4:33.45. The three wins were a big part of China's swimming haul in Tokyo. The team won 30 of the 42 golds on offer.
Zhang Zhanshuo Wins Record Seven Swimming Golds at Asian Games
Zhang Zhanshuo of China won a record seven swimming golds at the Asian Games 2026. The 19-year-old swept the men's freestyle events from 200m to 1500m and added three relay titles. That ties the Asian Games all-sports record. His four individual wins came in the 200m (1:43.49, an Asian record), the 400m (3:41.28, a Games record), the 800m (7:42.49, a Games record) and the 1500m (14:42.42). Japan's Kaito Tabuchi took silver in both the 800m and the 1500m. The relays added the rest. China won the 4x100m freestyle in an Asian record 3:10.60 . They won the 4x200m freestyle in 7:00.17 , another Asian and Games record. Zhang anchored that race in 1:42.92 , the fastest relay split in history, and overtook Japan on the final lap. He also earned gold in the 4x100m medley relay after swimming in the heats. His seventh gold came on the final night in the 400m freestyle. Kazushi Imafuku of Japan took silver in 3:45.55, and China's Fei Liwei took bronze in 3:45.78. Zhang was a key part of China's haul of 30 swimming golds in Tokyo.
Shin Ohashi, 17, Breaks Men's 200m Breaststroke World Record at Asian Games
Shin Ohashi broke the men's 200m breaststroke world record at the Asian Games 2026. The 17-year-old from Japan won gold in 2:04.83 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Thursday, September 24. He is the first swimmer to go under 2:05 in the event. Ohashi took control from the start and raced the clock. He finished 3.84 seconds ahead of silver medallist Denis Petrashov of Kyrgyzstan. Cho Sung-jae of South Korea took bronze in 2:08.76. The old record was 2:05.48 . China's Qin Haiyang set it in July 2023. Ohashi cut more than half a second off that mark. Qin did not swim the 200m at these Games. It was Ohashi's second gold of the meet. He had earlier shared the 100m breaststroke title with China's Dong Zhihao after a dead heat in 58.64 . A day after the record, he finished third in the 50m breaststroke, so he missed out on a hat-trick of golds. Ohashi said he had Covid and a fever of about 39 degrees days before the Games began. He said the forced rest helped him. "My target has always been to break the world record," he said. He now looks like the man to beat at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Japan Sweep Four of Five Soft Tennis Golds, Meena Wins India's First Medal
Japan dominated soft tennis at the Asian Games, winning four of the five golds on offer, with Chinese Taipei denying them a clean sweep in the mixed doubles. Japan won both team titles, beating Chinese Taipei in the men's final and Chinese Taipei again in the women's, with Indonesia and South Korea taking bronze in the men's event and the Philippines and South Korea sharing bronze in the women's. In the singles, Japan's Toshiki Uematsu beat teammate Takuya Kurosaka for men's singles gold, with India's Jay Meena and Chinese Taipei's Po-yi Chen sharing bronze. Japan's Rena Temma won the women's singles final, with North Korea's Jin Mi Ri taking silver. Chinese Taipei's Yu Kai-wen and Huang Shih-yuan won the mixed doubles gold, beating Japan's Toshiki Uematsu and Rena Temma pairing in the final, with a second Japanese pair and South Korea's Park Jaekyu and Kim Yeon-hwa sharing bronze. Meena's bronze is India's first-ever Asian Games medal in soft tennis, coming after he reached the semi-final on the back of a seven-set quarter-final win over the Philippines.
China Win Six Rowing Golds as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Iran Share the Rest
China dominated the sweep boats and sculling events at the Asian Games rowing regatta in Gifu, winning six golds across the men's and women's programme, with Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Vietnam sharing the rest. China's golds. Wanning Ren and Hongshan Zhu won the women's pair. Xinyu Zhang won the women's single sculls. Sixuan Wang and Shuangmei Shen won the women's double sculls. China also topped the podium in the women's quadruple sculls, the men's quadruple sculls and the men's four. Kazakhstan's Vladislav Yakovlev and Ivan Chernukhin won the men's pair, denying China a clean sweep, with China taking silver and Uzbekistan bronze. Uzbekistan's Shakhzod Nurmatov and Sobirjon Safaroliyev won the lightweight men's double sculls, with Indonesia taking silver and Hong Kong bronze. Hong Kong's Hin Chun Chiu won the lightweight men's single sculls ahead of Iran and South Korea. In the lightweight women's events, Iran won both. Fatemeh Mojallaltopraghghale won the single sculls, with Hong Kong taking silver and Thailand bronze, while Kimia Zarei and Zeinab Norouzi Tazeh Kand won the double sculls ahead of Hong Kong and Japan. Vietnam won the women's four, ahead of China and Uzbekistan.
Iran's Ali Alipour Wins Men's 95kg Weightlifting Gold
Iran's Ali Alipour won gold in the men's 95kg weightlifting final at the Asian Games in Nagoya. Kazakhstan's Nurgissa Adiletuly took silver, and China's Yi Tu claimed bronze. The gold is Iran's latest medal in a weightlifting programme that North Korea and China have otherwise dominated, with North Korea taking seven golds and China three across the earlier weight categories at these Games.
Uzbekistan Add Two More Kurash Golds, India's Balhara Takes Bronze
Uzbekistan added two more kurash golds at the Asian Games, taking the men's -81kg and women's -78kg titles. In the men's -81kg final, Akxror Ziyodullaev won gold for Uzbekistan. Iran's Ramin Ahmadzadeh took silver. Kazakhstan's Adilet Akhmetgali and Japan's Ken Oyoshi shared bronze. In the women's -78kg final, Pokizakhon Kamoldinova won gold for Uzbekistan. South Korea's Sumin Mo took silver. India's Pincky Balhara and Uzbekistan's Shokhista Nazarova shared bronze. The results extend Uzbekistan's dominance in the sport at these Games. The country has now won four of the six kurash golds decided so far, after already topping the podium in the women's -57kg and men's +90kg finals earlier in the week.
China Sweep All Five Individual Table Tennis Golds
China swept all five individual table tennis titles at the Asian Games, taking every gold and silver on offer across the men's and women's singles and doubles, and the mixed doubles. Lin Shidong completed a hat-trick of golds: men's doubles with Huang Youzheng , mixed doubles with Kuai Man (beating fellow Chinese pair Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin in that final), and men's singles, beating Wang Chuqin in an all-China final. India's Diya Chitale and Manush Shah had earlier secured bronze in the mixed doubles. In the women's events, Wang Manyu beat compatriot Sun Yingsha for singles gold, with Japan's Miwa Harimoto and Hina Hayata sharing bronze. Wang then paired with Kuai Man to win women's doubles gold as well, beating Japan's Harimoto and Hayata in that final. The results add to China's dominant campaign in the sport, having already won three of the four team golds on offer, with only the men's team title going to Japan.
China and South Korea Win Street Skateboarding Golds After Japan's Park Sweep
China and South Korea won the street skateboarding golds at the Asian Games, breaking up Japan's earlier sweep of the park events. Yuanling Zhu won the women's street title for China, with Japan's Yumeka Oda taking silver and China's Chenxi Cui bronze. In the men's final, South Korea's Juni Kang won gold, with Japan's Toa Sasaki and Ginwoo Onodera taking silver and bronze. Japan had earlier swept both park skateboarding titles through Mizuho Hasegawa and Izuru Nagahara.
China Sweep Four More Diving Golds Across Synchronised and 1m Springboard Events
China continued to dominate the diving pool at the Asian Games, adding four more golds across the synchronised 3m and 10m events and the individual 1m springboard. In synchronised diving, China's Yiwen Chen and Jia Chen won the women's 3m springboard ahead of South Korea and Malaysia, while Hao Yang and Junjie Lian topped the men's 10m platform, with Malaysia taking silver and South Korea bronze. China also swept the 1m springboard podiums. Shan Lin beat teammate Yiping Long to women's gold, with South Korea's Suji Kim taking bronze, while Zongyuan Wang won men's gold ahead of South Korea, with teammate Chengzan Liu taking bronze.
China Win Six of Eight Wushu Taolu Golds Across Changquan and Nanquan
China dominated wushu's taolu (forms) events at the Asian Games, winning six of the eight golds decided across changquan, taijiquan, nanquan and daoshu/gunshu disciplines, with Macau and Hong Kong sharing the rest. In changquan, Macau's Kuong Chi Hin won men's gold, while Hong Kong's Sham Hui Yu Lydia topped the women's event. China's Tong Xin won the women's taijiquan/taijijian title, with Japan taking silver, and China's Dewen Liu claimed the men's taijiquan/taijijian gold ahead of Chinese Taipei. China completed the sweep in nanquan and daoshu, with Jianming Li and Yaling Zhang winning the men's and women's nanquan titles, and Xiaobin Gao and Yang Yao winning the men's daoshu/gunshu and women's jianshu/qiangshu events respectively. Indonesia, Chinese Taipei, South Korea, Brunei and Singapore picked up minor medals across the events, with Hong Kong, Japan and Vietnam also featuring on the daoshu/gunshu podium.
Vietnam Win Women's Team Kata Gold as Jordan and Malaysia Top Kumite
Karate's second day of finals at the Asian Games produced golds for Jordan, Malaysia, Iran and Vietnam across four weight categories and the women's team kata. Jordan's Mohammad Alja'Fari won the men's kumite -84kg title, while Malaysia's Adeola Fay Robert took women's -55kg gold. Iran's Morteza Nemati added the men's -75kg title to the country's growing tally in the discipline. In the women's team kata final, Vietnam won gold ahead of Iran, with the Philippines and Chinese Taipei sharing bronze.
Nishiyama and Ono Give Japan Kata Double on Karate's Opening Day
Karate opened its Asian Games programme in Nagoya with golds shared across five nations, headlined by home favourite Kakeru Nishiyama in the men's individual kata. In kumite, Kazakhstan's Zholaman Bigabyl won the men's -55kg title, Kuwait's Abdullah Shaaban took -60kg gold, and Uzbekistan's Abdul Vakhkhob Rashidov won -67kg. In the women's divisions, Kazakhstan's Sofya Berultseva won +68kg, China's Li Gong and Qiaoqiao Li won -61kg and -68kg respectively. In kata, Japan completed a home double as Nishiyama won the men's individual title and Maho Ono won the women's, both ahead of Hong Kong medallists in each event.
China Take Five of Eight Canoe Sprint Golds as Korea and Uzbekistan Share the Rest
China won five of the eight canoe sprint golds decided over the first two days of finals at the Asian Games. South Korea took two and Uzbekistan one. China's golds. Shengyue Wu and Bowen Ji won the men's canoe double 500m. Ji then won the men's canoe single 500m. Shimeng Yu and Mengdie Yin won the women's kayak double 500m. Mengya Sun and Yanan Ma won the women's canoe double 500m. China also won the women's kayak four 500m. Korea and Uzbekistan. South Korea won the men's kayak four 500m. Gwang Hee Cho and Hyobin Kim won the men's kayak double 500m for Korea as well. Uzbekistan's Shohsanam Sherzodova won the women's canoe single 200m, ahead of China's Changwen Shuai and Indonesia's Herlin Aprilin Lali. Other medals. Uzbekistan took silver in the men's canoe double (Artur Guliev and Vladlen Denisov), the men's canoe single (Denisov), the women's kayak four and the women's canoe double (Sherzodova and Nilufar Zokirova). Kazakhstan's Sergey and Timofey Yemelyanov won men's canoe double bronze. Japan took silver in the men's kayak double and bronze in the men's kayak four. Iran, Chinese Taipei and Vietnam also won bronze medals.
Asian Games Medal Table: China Lead With 132 Golds, Japan Second on 172 Medals
China leads the Asian Games medal table by a wide margin after Monday's finals in Nagoya, with 132 golds , 53 silvers and 45 bronzes for a total of 230 medals. Japan is second on 41 golds, but leads every country in silvers (68) and bronzes (63), for 172 medals in total. South Korea is third with 21 golds and 91 medals, followed by Uzbekistan (12 golds, 42 medals). Three countries are level on nine golds. Kazakhstan is fifth with 13 silvers and 23 bronzes, 45 medals in all. Thailand is sixth with 29 medals, and Bahrain is seventh with 14 medals, eight of its nine golds coming in athletics. Iran (8 golds), North Korea (7), Malaysia (6) and Hong Kong (5) complete the top 11. India is 12th with four golds, 20 silvers and 21 bronzes. Its 45 medals match Kazakhstan's and are more than Thailand's, Iran's and Malaysia's. Chinese Taipei has three golds but 34 medals, and Vietnam has one gold but 17 bronzes among its 19 medals. The table does not yet include cricket medals.
Japan Sweep BMX Racing Golds Through Asuma Nakai and Sae Hatakeyama
Japan won both BMX racing golds at the Asian Games, with Asuma Nakai taking the men's title and Sae Hatakeyama the women's on home soil. In the men's final, Nakai won gold and his teammate Hyoga Kiuchi took silver, giving Japan a 1-2 finish. China's Haochao Lin took bronze. In the women's race, Hatakeyama won gold ahead of China's Wanyi Liao in silver. Indonesia's Jasmine Azzahra Setyobudi took bronze. The wins add to a strong Games for the hosts. Japan sits second in the medal table with 41 golds and 172 medals in total, and has won more silvers (68) and bronzes (63) than any other country. The racing golds follow the freestyle BMX park titles, which Japan and China shared.
Japan, Qatar and China Win Athletics Golds on Asian Games Day 9
Athletics at the Asian Games in Nagoya produced golds for Japan , China , Qatar , Sri Lanka , Bahrain and the UAE on Monday, with China taking both 4x100m relays. Track. Japan's Kazuto Iizawa won the men's 1500m in 3:36.35, with teammate Nagiya Mori taking bronze. Japan also won the 3000m steeplechase through Ryuji Miura in 8:17.36, with Ryoma Aoki taking silver and Qatar's Zakaria Elahlaami bronze. Qatar's Bassem Hemeida won the men's 400m hurdles in 47.82, ahead of Japan's Taiju Goto . In the women's 400m hurdles, the UAE's Mariam Kareem took gold, with Kazakhstan's Adelina Zems in second. Relays. China won the men's 4x100m in 38.17, ahead of Chinese Taipei and South Korea. The Chinese women then won their 4x100m in 42.96, with Thailand taking silver and Japan bronze. Field. China's Yuhao Shi won the men's long jump with 8.17m, with Uzbekistan's Anvar Anvarov taking bronze. China's Bin Feng won the women's discus, and her teammate Zhichao Jiang took silver, with Thailand's Subenrat Insaeng third. Sri Lanka's Rumesh Pathirage won the javelin and Bahrain's Winfred Yavi won the women's 5000m. The athletics programme finishes on Tuesday with nine more finals.
Rumesh Pathirage Wins Javelin Gold for Sri Lanka With 88.55m Final Throw
Sri Lanka's Rumesh Pathirage won the men's javelin at the Asian Games in Nagoya with a throw of 88.55m on his final attempt. It is Sri Lanka's only gold so far in the medal table. Pathirage took the lead with 88.33m on his fourth throw and then improved it with his last one to close out the title. India's Yashvir Singh took silver with a personal best of 85.72m, and his teammate Rohit Yadav took bronze with 84.35m. The 23-year-old came to Nagoya as the favourite. He had won all but one of the competitions he entered this year and is one of only four throwers in history to have passed 92m in a single year. He has said he wants to go after Arshad Nadeem's Asian record of 92.97m. The winning mark today is just short of the 88.88m that won gold at Hangzhou. The javelin final was one of several athletics finals held on Monday. Japan, China and Qatar also took golds on the track and in the field.
Winfred Yavi Wins 5000m to Complete Distance Treble for Bahrain
Winfred Yavi won the women's 5000m at the Asian Games in Nagoya on Monday, taking her third gold of the Games and completing a distance treble for Bahrain . She won in 15:10.18 . Japan's Nozomi Tanaka took silver, the same colour she won behind Yavi in the 10,000m. India's Parul Chaudhary took bronze, her second medal in two days after her steeplechase bronze on Sunday. Yavi opened her Games with 10,000m gold on September 25, winning in 32:39.18. Two days later she won the 3000m steeplechase in an Asian Games record of 9:04.36 . The 5000m completes the set. At the previous Games in Hangzhou she won the 1500m and the steeplechase. Her wins are a big part of Bahrain's medal haul. Eight of the country's nine golds so far have come in athletics, and the team sits seventh in the medal table with nine golds and 14 medals in total. Yavi also won the 2024 Paris Olympic gold in the steeplechase.