India begin Asian Games day with golf as shooting and boxing medals loom
India’s athletes face a packed Wednesday schedule at the 2026 Asian Games, beginning with men’s golf and continuing across archery, shooting, wrestling, cycling and sailing. Medal opportunities include archery team events, canoe slalom, boxing and wrestling, while Indian teams also enter crucial knockout contests.
India’s programme at the 2026 Asian Games on Wednesday, September 30, begins with golf and extends across a broad range of sports, with medal events scheduled in archery and canoe slalom. The day also includes important stages in shooting, boxing and wrestling. Veer Ahlawat, Saptak Talwar and Yuvraj Sandhu are due to begin the men’s individual stroke play in golf at 3am.
Pranavi Sharath Urs, Diksha Dagar and Aditi Ashok start the women’s individual stroke play at 7.50am. Archery provides several early medal possibilities. Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep and Taniparthi Chikitha face South Korea in the compound women’s team semi-final, with a bronze-medal match and gold-medal match listed later depending on qualification.
Chikitha and Sahil Rajesh Jadhav also face Thailand in the compound mixed-team semi-final, followed by possible medal matches. Shooting includes Anish in the men’s 25-metre rapid-fire pistol qualification and Kynan Chenai and Neeru in mixed-team trap qualification. Boxing’s scheduled semi-final is the women’s 60kg contest between Priya and China’s Yang Chengyu.
Wrestler Nisha Dahiya is listed to face North Korea’s Sol Gum Pak in the women’s 68kg qualification round, with later quarter-final and semi-final slots possible. Sunil Kumar is scheduled in the 87kg Greco-Roman quarter-finals and could progress to a semi-final. Canoe slalom features Pradhyuman Singh Rathod and Hitesh Kewat in the men’s kayak single semi-finals, with possible finals at 10am.
Rina Sen and Pallai Jagpat compete in the women’s canoe single semi-finals. The schedule also includes tennis, cycling, sailing, squash, judo, esports, sepaktakraw and sports climbing. Tennis players including Sumit Nagal, Dhakshineswar Suresh and Indian doubles pairings are due to compete in third-round or quarter-final matches, while sailing events run across several classes.
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