Industry Odisha Bureau, Sep 25: India faces a crowded Day 6 at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya. Shooting opens the medal hunt before kabaddi and squash knockouts. Evening athletics finals close a long schedule.
India’s Day 6 schedule starts before breakfast and ends under evening lights. India will eye more gold first on the shooting range.
APS Tomar, Rudrankksh Patil and Niraj Kumar contest the men’s 50m rifle three positions. Individual and team medal action begins at 7:15 AM IST.
Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh open earlier in 10m air pistol mixed team qualification. That round starts at 6:15 AM IST. The final follows at 8:30 AM IST, but only if they qualify.
Kabaddi and Squash Knockouts Fill the Morning
Two Indian pairs play table tennis mixed doubles quarter-finals at 6:30 AM IST. Diya Chitale and Manush Shah face Hong Kong’s Wong Chun Ting and Doo Hoi Kem. Harmeet Desai and Yashaswini Ghorpade meet China’s Lin Shidong and Kuai Man.
Squash offers four quarter-finals. Joshana Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar start the mixed doubles at 7:00 AM IST. Abhay Singh faces Japan’s Ryunosuke Tsukue at 9:15 AM IST. Anahat Singh and Tanvi Khanna meet each other in the women’s singles at 10:00 AM IST. Veer Chotrani follows in a men’s singles quarter-final at 10:45 AM IST.
The women’s kabaddi team meets Nepal in the semi-final at 9:30 AM IST. The men’s team faces Thailand in their semi-final at 10:45 AM IST.
The women’s hockey team plays Japan in Pool B at 7:30 AM IST. In canoe sprint, an Indian crew contests the women’s kayak four 500m final. Dhanamanjuri Khwairakpam, Pooja, Soniya Devi Phairembam and Parvathy Geetha race at 8:10 AM IST.
Athletics Takes Over the Evening Schedule
Manpreet Kaur and Krishna Jayasankar Menon contest the women’s shot put final first. It starts at 3:35 PM IST. Sindhusree Ganesha and Baranica Elangoval follow in the women’s pole vault final. That begins at 4:33 PM IST.
Gulveer Singh runs the men’s 10,000m final at 5:02 PM IST. Damneet Singh and Praveen Kumar enter the men’s hammer throw final at 5:10 PM IST.
Gurindervir Singh runs his men’s 100m semi-final at 4:11 PM IST. Animesh Kujur follows at 4:19 PM IST. Both would return for the final at 6:50 PM IST if they qualify.
Badminton, Swimming and Boxing Add Depth
Swimming starts at 6:40 AM IST, with Dhanush Suresh in the 50m breaststroke heats. Other Indians swim 200m backstroke, 400m freestyle and 200m butterfly heats.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty open their first-round men’s doubles at 12:30 PM IST. Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand play their first-round women’s doubles at 1:30 PM IST. Hariharan Amsakarunan and MR Arjun follow at 5:10 PM IST.
Sachin meets UAE’s Abu Jajeh Mohammad in the round of 16 at 10:15 AM IST. Preeti faces North Korea’s Mi Chol Pang at the same stage, at 2:15 PM IST.
A Long Day of Chances
India’s Asian Games schedule thus runs from morning rifle ranges to evening finals. Several medal chances exist across sports, but none is assured.
