Asian Games close India's medals and firsts

Sep 23

DD India reports the Aichi–Nagoya closing ceremony, Neeru Dhanda as India's flag bearer and India's fourth-place finish with eighty-five medals: twenty-one gold, twenty-seven silver and thirty-seven bronze. The complete roundup recalls both hockey teams' golds and LA 2028 qualification, Kumkum Mohod's first Indian women's individual recurve gold, three golds each in shooting and boxing, Dhanda's trap first and Lovlina's birthday gold. It summarizes cricket/kabaddi double golds, twenty-four athletics medals, five national records and women's relay gold, Baranica Elangovan's first Indian women's pole-vault medal, Pranavi Sharath Urs's historic individual golf gold, Mirabai Chanu's 49-kilogram silver ending India's twenty-eight-year weightlifting podium gap, and Suchika Tariyal's MMA bronze in the sport's first Games inclusion. On-site reporter Suchitra Bhardwaj reflects on the campaign's firsts. These historical firsts and totals are DD India's account.

Mirabai Chanu wins silver in women's 49-kilogram weightlifting at the 2026 Asian Games. DD India calls it her first Games medal and India's return to the weightlifting podium after twenty-eight years. It supplies no lifting total or competitor result.