Asian Games 2026 Day 6, Full India results: Athletics brings two medals for India, tally rises to 17 | Hindustan Times

Asian Games 2026 Day 6: India's medal tally rose to 17 after athletics got the country two medals. A solid day for the contingent. 

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The sixth day at the 2926 Asian Games started on a sensational note for India as the contingent won two medals within the opening hour in Aichi-Nagoya. The first came on bronze in rowing, followed by a historic silver in wushu. Seema Kumari then made the day even better in the evening, winning bronze in the women's 10,000m final, bringing the first athletics medal for the Indian contingent at the Asian Games. A few minutes later, it was double delight for India as the mixed 4x400m relay team (Manu TS, Poovamma MR, Vishal TK and Vithya Ramraj) came second in the final, winning silver.Satnam Singh and Salman Khan kicked off Thursday with a third-place finish in the men's double sculls final, clocking 6:13.25, just 3.48 seconds behind the winners Yi Xudi / Nie Yide of China, and 2.76 seconds behind Mekhrojbek Mamatkulov / Pavel Sorin of Uzbekistan, who earned silver. This was Satnam's second medal at the Asian Games, having won the bronze in 2022 in the men's quadruple sculls team.Roshibina Devi then won the silver medal in women's 60kg Sanda. This was her second consecutive silver at the Games and a third-straight Asiad medal haul, which came after she lost to Zhang Xiaoyu of China by a 2-0 scoreline, losing both rounds 0-5 - (2-6, 3-6, 2-6, 2-6, 2-8) and (2-10, 3-8, 3-7, 3-7, 1-6).Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Anant Jeet Singh Naruka won India's eighth medal in shooting at the Asian Games this year with a bronze haul in mixed team skeet. Overall, India now has 15 medals at the Asiad, and currently stand 14th in the list. Asian Games Day 6 LIVE updatesHere's the full list of results for India on Day 6 at the Asian Games:SwimmingMen's 50m butterfly heatsBenediction Beniston ended joint 12th, failed to qualify for finalMen's 800m freestyle final BAryan Nehra ended 3rdMen's 4x100m freestyle relay heatsIndia ended 12th, failed to qualify for the finalHockey:India 8 - 2 South Korea in the men's Pool A game.Kabaddi:India beat 37-21 Chinese Taipei in a Group A fixture to reach the semifinal, assure medalIndia beat Japan 50-25 in the women's team Group A match - Qualified for semis, medal assuredBoxing:Sumit Kundu loses to Ali Qasim Hamdan Al Sarray (Iraq) in the men's 70kg round of 16 boutSakshi Chaudhary loses to Alua Balkibekova (Kazakhstan) in the women's 51kg round of 16 boutParveen Hooda beats Malika Nozimova of Tajikistan in the women's round of 32 bout (Walkover)eSportsParitosh progresses to next round in Puyo Puyo Puzzle ChampionshipSquash:Anahat Singh beat Au Yeong Wai Lynn of Singapore in women's singles round of 16Tanvi Khanna beats Yeong Wai Yhann of Singapore 3-1 (5-11, 11-4, 11-5, 13-11) in women's singles round of 16Suraj Chand-Shameena Riaz lost 0-2 to Joshana Chinappa-Velavan Senthilkumar in mixed doubles round of 16.Abhay Singh beat Ravindu Laksiri of Sri Lanka 3-0 in men's singles round of 16 match.Veer Chotrani beat Sanjay Jeeva of Malaysia 3-2 in men's singles round of 16 match.AthleticsSeema wins bronze in women's 10,000m final - 32:50:05 (Timing)India win silver in mixed 4x400m relay - 3:14:46 (Timing)India finished 4th, qualified for the 4x400m relay mixed finalAnamika Aneesh is tenth (868) and Pooja (894) is eighth in the heptathlon, after the 100m hurdles event.Animesh Kujur in men's 100m heat 1 - Qualified for semi-finalGurindervir Singh in men's 100m heat 4 - Qualified for semi-finalAnamika Aneesh and Pooja placed seventh and ninth (Day 1) in Heptathlon shot putAsha Ilango finishes fourth, Niharika Vashishth finishes 10th in women's triple jump finalArtistic GymnasticsPranati Nayak finishes sixth in the women's vault final.Canoe sprintWomen's canoe single 200m semi-final - Megha Pradeep ended 4th, failed to qualify for finalWomen's kayak double 500m semi-final - Soniya Devi Phairembam/Parvathy Geetha ended 5th, failed to qualify for finalMen's kayak four 500m final A - India ended 7thRaju Rawat-Gyaneshwor Singh finish ninth (last) in men's canoe double 500m final.Harshawardhan Shaktawat finishes fifth men's kayak single 500m heat 2, qualifies for semifinalShooting:Parinaaz Dhaliwal-Anant Jeet Singh Naruka qualify for skeet mixed team qualification.Akash Bharadwaj, Kamaljeet, Kedarling Balakrishna Uchaganve fail to qualify for men's 10m air pistol individual final.Fencing:Bhavani Devi loses to Rao Xuyi in round of 16 women's sabre individualRowingMen's single sculls final A - Balraj Panwar ended 4thMen's double sculls final A - Satnam Singh/Salman Khan won bronzeMen's pair final B - Jaswinder Singh/Nitin Kumar ended 1stWomen's four final A - India ended 6thArvind Singh, Kulwinder Singh, Navdeep Singh and Jakar Khan finish fifth in men's quadruple sculls final.Table tennisWomen's doubles Round 2Diya Chitale/Yashaswini Ghorpade beat Setayesh Iloukhani/Mashid Ashtari 3-0Sreeja Akula/Syndrela Das beat Bolor-erdene Batmunkh/Burenjargal/Sanjaa 3-0Men's singles Round 1Manush Shah beat Wong Qi Shen of Malaysia 4-0WushuWomen's 60kg finalRoshibina Devi Naorem lost to Xiaoyu Zhang 0-2, won silver