India has completed the Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya with 114 medals, its best-ever return at the continental event. The final tally comprised 30 gold, 35 silver and 49 bronze medals, placing the team fourth in the standings. It is a significant final outcome after the early stages of the competition, when India had 11 medals, and it establishes a new national benchmark at the Games.
The competition ran in Japan from 18 to 24 October and brought together athletes from 45 national paralympic committees across 18 sports. India entered 167 athletes in 11 sports. The final result placed the team behind China, Japan and Uzbekistan, while India finished ahead of South Korea. Fourth place is India’s highest position at an Asian Para Games as well as its largest overall medal total.
Para athletics supplied the largest share of the Indian medals. The discipline delivered 65 medals: 22 gold, 19 silver and 24 bronze. That made athletics responsible for more than half of the final total. Para badminton added 16 medals, including three gold. Swimming brought 11 medals, while archery contributed six, with three gold and three silver. Shooting added five medals, including two gold, two silver and one bronze.
The outcome was also shaped by repeated success from individual competitors. Twenty-six Indian athletes won more than one medal during the programme, and six of them secured more than one gold. Sheetal Devi completed a three-medal archery campaign with two gold medals and a silver. In athletics, Dilip Gavit, Nishad Kumar, Pranav Soorma and Simran Sharma each won two gold medals. Mona Agarwal also won two gold medals in shooting.
The final figures mark the latest step in a longer rise in India’s results at the event. India won 14 medals at the first Asian Para Games in Guangzhou in 2010, then 33 in Incheon in 2014 and 72 in Jakarta in 2018. At Hangzhou in 2023, the eventual revised total was 108 medals. The Aichi-Nagoya tally is six higher than that revised figure, while the 30 gold medals are also above the previous campaign’s 27.
The scale of the result is notable because the team in Japan was smaller than the contingent sent to Hangzhou. India fielded 167 athletes in Aichi-Nagoya, compared with 309 at the previous edition. A smaller group nevertheless returned with a higher overall medal tally and a better position in the standings. The comparison does not measure individual performance in isolation, as competitors can enter different numbers of events, but it underlines the strength of the team’s combined campaign.
The closing standings offer a clearer picture than an early medal-table snapshot could provide. India’s final total reflects results accumulated across the full programme, with athletics forming the core of the haul and contributions coming from badminton, swimming, archery and shooting. The fourth-place finish leaves a new reference point for India at the Asian Para Games and confirms that the team’s strongest performance came at the end of the competition rather than at its opening stage.
