India at Asian Games 2026 Day 8, September 26: Full schedule, venue, fixtures & time

India enter Day 8 (September 26) of the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya on Saturday with momentum, eyeing two kabaddi golds as both the men’s and women’s teams face Iran in the final. The women’s team will be in action at 9:30 AM and the men’s team at 2:30 PM. The day opens with the women’s shortboard surfing and men’s marathon, followed by a packed archery qualification schedule and Lakshya Sen’s opener against Loh Kean Yew.

The evening belongs to athletics, with Tajinderpal Singh Toor in the shot put final, Jyothi Yarraji in the 100m hurdles and Parul Chaudhary in the 1500m. Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh carry India’s squash hopes in their semifinals, while PV Sindhu and Unnati Hooda feature in badminton.

India moved up to 12th place after securing their second gold. They finished Day 7 with 23 medals, including 2 gold, 9 silver and 12 bronze.

Here are all the Indians in action at the 2026 Asian Games on Day 8 in Aichi-Nagoya:

S. No.	Time (IST)	Sport	Event	Athlete(s)	Round / Stage	Opponent / Team
1	3:58 AM	Surfing	Women’s Shortboard	Kamali Moorthy Prakash	Round 2 Heat 3	Camille Marie (Singapore)
2	4:00 AM	Athletics	Men’s Marathon	Sawan Barwal	Final	All Participating Athletes
3	4:00 AM	Athletics	Men’s Marathon	Kartik Jayaraj Karkera	Final	All Participating Athletes
4	4:30 AM	Archery	Recurve Men’s Individual	Dhiraj Bommadevara	Qualification	All participating athletes
5	4:30 AM	Archery	Recurve Men’s Individual	Neeraj Chauhan	Qualification	All participating athletes
6	4:30 AM	Archery	Recurve Men’s Individual	Yashdeep Bhoge	Qualification	All participating athletes
7	4:30 AM	Archery	Recurve Men’s Team	Dhiraj Bommadevara, Neeraj Chauhan, Yashdeep Bhoge	Qualification	All participating athletes
8	4:30 AM	Archery	Compound Women’s Individual	Jyothi Surekha Vennam	Qualification	All participating athletes
9	4:30 AM	Archery	Compound Women’s Individual	Prithika Pradeep	Qualification	All participating athletes
10	4:30 AM	Archery	Compound Women’s Individual	Taniparthi Chikitha	Qualification	All participating athletes
11	4:30 AM	Archery	Compound Women’s Team	Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep, Taniparthi Chikitha	Qualification	All participating athletes
12	4:54 AM	Surfing	Women’s Shortboard	Sugar Shanti Gayen	Round 2 Heat 7	Wan-yu Chen (Chinese Taipei)
13	5:35 AM	Athletics	Men’s Decathlon – 100m	Thowfeeq Noushad	Decathlon 1	Heat 1 Lane 7
14	5:43 AM	Athletics	Men’s Decathlon – 100m	Tejaswin Shankar	Decathlon 1	Heat 2 Lane 5
15	5:50 AM	Surfing	Men’s Shortboard	Sivaraj Babu	Round 2 Heat 1	Davoud Khadir (Iran)
16	6:00 AM	Badminton	Men’s Singles	Lakshya Sen	Court 1 Round of 32	Loh Kean Yew (Singapore)
17	6:00 AM	Badminton	Men’s Singles	Ayush Shetty	Court 2 Round of 32	Tajibullayev Maksut (Kazakhstan)
18	6:00 AM	Equestrian	Dressage – Individual	Shruti Vora	Qualification	All participating Athletes
19	6:00 AM	Equestrian	Dressage – Individual	Gaurav Pundir	Qualification	All participating Athletes
20	6:00 AM	Equestrian	Dressage – Individual	Hriday Chheda	Qualification	All participating Athletes
21	6:00 AM	Equestrian	Dressage – Individual	Jai Sud	Qualification	All participating Athletes
22	6:00 AM	Fencing	Women’s Foil Team	Joys Ashitha, Stalinraj, Naorem Mina Devi, Kanupriya Chawla, Sonia Devi Waikhom	Table of 16	Team Indonesia
23	6:15 AM	Shooting	50m Rifle 3 Positions Women (Individual)	Vidarsa K Vinod	Qualification Round	All Participating Athletes
24	6:15 AM	Shooting	50m Rifle 3 Positions Women (Individual)	Ashi Chouksey	Qualification Round	All Participating Athletes
25	6:15 AM	Shooting	50m Rifle 3 Positions Women (Individual)	Tilottama Sen	Qualification Round	All Participating Athletes
26	6:15 AM	Shooting	50m Rifle 3 Positions Women Team	Vidarsa K Vinod, Ashi Chouksey, Tilottama Sen	Final	All Participating Athletes
27	6:15 AM	Athletics	Men’s Decathlon – Long Jump	Tejaswin Shankar	Decathlon 2	All Participating Athletes
28	6:15 AM	Athletics	Men’s Decathlon – Long Jump	Thowfeeq Noushad	Decathlon 2	All Participating Athletes
29	6:30 AM	Canoe Sprint	Men’s Kayak Single 500m	Harshwardhan Shaktawat Singh	Semifinal 1	All participating Athletes
30	6:30 AM	Table Tennis	Women’s Singles	Yashaswini Ghorpade	Table 1 Round of 16 Match 4	Miwa Harimoto (Japan)
31	6:45 AM	Esports	Puyo Puyo Champions	Paritosh	Quarterfinals Match 3	Dongshin Kang (Republic of Korea)
32	6:50 AM	Canoe Sprint	Mixed Kayak Double 500m	Parvathy Geetha & Prasanna Kumar	Semifinal 1	All participating Athletes
33	7:00 AM	Fencing	Men’s Sabre Team	Karan Singh, Gisho Nidhi, K.P. Lakshay Badser, Vishal Thapar	Table of 16	Team Philippines
34	7:15 AM Onwards	Esports	Puyo Puyo Champions	Paritosh	Semifinals (Subject to Qualification)	TBD
35	7:45 AM	Esports	Puyo Puyo Champions	Paritosh	Finals (Subject to Qualification)	TBD
36	7:55 AM	Athletics	Men’s Decathlon – Shot Put	Tejaswin Shankar	Decathlon 3	All Participating Athletes
37	7:55 AM	Athletics	Men’s Decathlon – Shot Put	Thowfeeq Noushad	Decathlon 3	All Participating Athletes
38	8:00 AM	Badminton	Women’s Singles	PV Sindhu	Court 1 Round of 32	Chiu Pin Chian (Chinese Taipei)
39	8:00 AM	Badminton	Women’s Singles	Unnati Hooda	Court 2 Round of 32	Wong Ling Ching (Malaysia)
40	8:00 AM	Fencing	Women’s Foil Team	Joys Ashitha, Stalinraj, Naorem Mina Devi, Kanupriya Chawla, Sonia Devi Waikhom	Quarterfinals (Subject to Qualification)	TBC
41	8:00 AM	Fencing	Men’s Sabre Team	Karan Singh, Gisho Nidhi, K.P. Lakshay Badser, Vishal Thapar	Quarterfinals (Subject to Qualification)	TBC
42	8:10 AM	Canoe Sprint	Men’s Kayak Single 500m	Harshwardhan Shaktawat	Final (Subject to Qualification)	All participating Athletes
43	8:20 AM	Canoe Sprint	Mixed Canoe Double 500m	Raju Rawat L, Neha Devi	Final A	All participating Athletes
44	8:30 AM	Canoe Sprint	Mixed Kayak Double 500m	Parvathy Geetha & Prasanna Kumar	Final	All participating Athletes
45	8:30 AM	Esports	Pokemon Unite	Adnan Mohammed Badshah, Deepkumar Vipulbhai Patel, Sai Krishna Nalluri, Dipjyoti Laxman Nath, Rudra Narayan Nayak, Reuben Fernandes	Group C	Team Japan
46	8:30 AM	Squash	Mixed Doubles	Joshna Chinappa & Velavan Senthilkumar	Court 6 Semi-Final Match 1	Lee Ka Yi & Tang Ming Hong (Hong Kong)
47	8:32 AM	Athletics	Men’s 200m	Animesh Kujur	Round 1 Heat 5 Lane 5	All participating Athletes
48	9:00 AM	Archery	Recurve Women’s Individual	Ankita Bhakat	Qualification	All participating athletes
49	9:00 AM	Archery	Recurve Women’s Individual	Kumkum Anil Mohod	Qualification	All participating athletes
50	9:00 AM	Archery	Recurve Women’s Individual	Kirti Sharma	Qualification	All participating athletes
51	9:00 AM	Archery	Recurve Women’s Team	Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod, Kirti Sharma	Qualification	All participating athletes
52	9:00 AM	Archery	Compound Men’s Individual	Sahil Rajesh Jadhav	Qualification	All participating athletes
53	9:00 AM	Archery	Compound Men’s Individual	Thirumuru Ganesh Maniratnam	Qualification	All participating athletes
54	9:00 AM	Archery	Compound Men’s Individual	Kushal Dalal	Qualification	All participating athletes
55	9:00 AM	Archery	Compound Men’s Team	Sahil Rajesh Jadhav, Thirumuru Ganesh Maniratnam, Kushal Dalal	Qualification	All participating athletes
56	9:00 AM	Archery	Compound Mixed Team	TBD	Qualification	All Participating Athletes
57	9:00 AM	Archery	Recurve Mixed Team	TBD	Qualification	All Participating Athletes
58	9:30 AM	Kabaddi	Women’s Team	Pooja, Sonali Vishnu Raj, Rani Pushpa, Bhavna Devi, Ritu Sanju Devi, Ritu Negi, Manisha Kumari, Pinki Roy, Jyoti Nikita	Gold Medal Match	Women Team (Iran)
59	9:30 AM	Sailing	Mix Dinghy/470	Shraddha Verma, Ravindra Kumar	Opening Series Race	TBC
60	9:30 AM	Shooting	50m Rifle 3 Positions Women (Individual)	Vidarsa K Vinod	Final (Subject to Qualification)	All Participating Athletes
61	9:30 AM	Shooting	50m Rifle 3 Positions Women (Individual)	Ashi Chouksey	Final (Subject to Qualification)	All Participating Athletes
62	9:30 AM	Shooting	50m Rifle 3 Positions Women (Individual)	Tilottama Sen	Final (Subject to Qualification)	All Participating Athletes
63	10:15 AM	Boxing	Men’s 55kg	Jadumani Singh Mandengbam	Round of 16	Carlo Paalam (Philippines)
64	10:30 AM	Sailing	Men’s Skiff/49er Team	Prince Noble, Manu Francis	Opening Series Race	TBC
65	10:30 AM	Squash	Women’s Singles	Anahat Singh	Court 1 Semi-Final Match 2	Satomi Watanabe (Japan)
66	10:30 AM Onwards	Fencing	Women’s Foil Team	Joys Ashitha, Stalinraj, Naorem Mina Devi, Kanupriya Chawla, Sonia Devi Waikhom	Semifinals (Subject to Qualification)	TBC
67	10:40 AM	Sailing	Women’s Skiff/49er FX Team	Harshita Tomar, Shital Verma	Opening Series Race	TBC
68	10:45 AM	Boxing	Men’s 90kg	Kapil Pokhariya	Round of 16	Sam Estaki (Republic of Iran)
69	11:15 AM	Squash	Men’s Singles	Abhay Singh	Court 1 Semi-Final Match 2	Irfan Muhammad (Pakistan)
70	11:07 AM	Badminton	Women’s Doubles	Treesa Jolly, Gayatri P Gopichand	Court 2 Round of 16	Yuki Fukushima/Mayu Matsumoto (Japan)
71	12:30 PM	Badminton	Men’s Singles	Lakshya Sen	Round of 16	Subject to qualification
72	12:30 PM	Badminton	Men’s Singles	Ayush Shetty	Round of 16	Subject to qualification
73	12:30 PM	Badminton	Women’s Singles	PV Sindhu	Round of 16	Subject to qualification
74	12:30 PM	Badminton	Women’s Singles	Unnati Hooda	Round of 16	Subject to qualification
75	12:30 PM Onwards	Fencing	Men’s Sabre Team	Karan Singh, Gisho Nidhi, K.P. Lakshay Badser, Vishal Thapar	Semifinals (Subject to Qualification)	TBC
76	1:30 PM	Hockey	Men’s Team	Men’s Team	Pool A Match 12	Japan
77	1:50 PM	Fencing	Women’s Foil Team	Joys Ashitha, Stalinraj, Naorem Mina Devi, Kanupriya Chawla, Sonia Devi Waikhom	Final (Subject to Qualification)	TBC
78	2:15 PM	Boxing	Women’s 60kg	Priya	Round of 16	Oh Yeonji (Republic of Korea)
79	2:30 PM	Kabaddi	Men’s Team	Rahul, Pawan Kumar, Arjun Deshwal, Jaideep, Ankit, Devank, Gaurav Khatri, Ashu Malik, Sumit, Ayan, Sunil Kumar, Aslam Mustafa Inamdar	Gold Medal Match	Men Team (Iran)
80	2:35 PM	Athletics	Men’s Decathlon – High Jump	Tejaswin Shankar	Decathlon 4	All Participating Athletes
81	2:35 PM	Athletics	Men’s Decathlon – High Jump	Thowfeeq Noushad	Decathlon 4	All Participating Athletes
82	2:50 PM	Fencing	Men’s Sabre Team	Karan Singh, Gisho Nidhi, K.P. Lakshay Badser, Vishal Thapar	Final (Subject to Qualification)	TBC
83	3:00 PM	Esports	Pokemon Unite	Adnan Mohammed Badshah, Deepkumar Vipulbhai Patel, Sai Krishna Nalluri, Dipjyoti Laxman Nath, Rudra Narayan Nayak, Reuben Fernandes	Group Stage Last Selection (Subject to Qualification)	TBD
84	4:04 PM	Athletics	Women’s 100m Hurdles	Jyothi Yarraji	Round 1 Heat 1 Lane 5	All Participating Athletes
85	4:12 PM	Athletics	Women’s 100m Hurdles	Nandhini Kongan	Round 1 Heat 2 Lane 3	All Participating Athletes
86	4:30 PM	Athletics	Men’s Shot Put	Tajinderpal Singh Toor	Final	All Participating Athletes
87	4:30 PM	Athletics	Men’s Shot Put	Karanveer Singh	Final	All Participating Athletes
88	4:33 PM	Athletics	Women’s 200m	Haritha Bhadra	Round 1 Heat 2 Lane 5	All Participating Athletes
89	4:41 PM	Athletics	Women’s 200m	Unnati Aiyappa Bolland	Round 1 Heat 3 Lane 8	All Participating Athletes
90	5:05 PM	Athletics	Men’s Triple Jump	Praveen Chithravel	Final	All Participating Athletes
91	5:05 PM	Athletics	Men’s Triple Jump	Karthik Unnikrishnan	Final	All Participating Athletes
92	4:54 PM Onwards	Athletics	Men’s 200m	Animesh Kujur	Semifinals (Subject to Qualification)	TBD
93	5:21 PM	Athletics	Men’s 1500m	Yoonus Shah	Round 1 Heat 1 Lane 3	All Participating Athletes
94	5:31 PM	Athletics	Men’s 1500m	Gulveer Singh	Round 1 Heat 2 Lane 3	All Participating Athletes
95	5:50 PM Onwards	Athletics	Men’s Decathlon – 400m	Tejaswin Shankar	Decathlon 5	TBD
96	5:50 PM Onwards	Athletics	Men’s Decathlon – 400m	Thowfeeq Noushad	Decathlon 5	TBD
97	6:15 PM	Athletics	Women’s 400m	Kiran Pahal	Final Lane 4	All Participating Athletes
98	6:15 PM	Athletics	Women’s 400m	Prachi	Final Lane 2	All Participating Athletes
99	6:33 PM	Athletics	Men’s 400m	Vishal Thennarasu Kayalvizhi	Final Lane 6	All Participating Athletes
100	6:45 PM	Athletics	Women’s 1500m	Parul Chaudhary	Final Lane 4	All Participating Athletes
101	6:45 PM	Athletics	Women’s 1500m	Pooja	Final Lane 3	All Participating Athletes
102	TBD	Table Tennis	Men’s Singles	Manush Shah	Round of 16	Lin Shidong (China)