Asian Games 2026: Full list of wrestling medals for India till Aichi-Nagoya

Bajrang Punia won silver in the men’s 61kg in Incheon in 2014 before improving to gold in the men’s 65kg in Jakarta four years later. | Photo Credit: PTI

The Wrestling competition at the 20th edition of the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan will begin on September 30.

Indian grapplers will look to improve on the six medals they managed to bag from the discipline at the previous edition of the Games in Hangzhou in 2023.

India has been a regular medallist in wrestling across the years at the multi-nation tournament, finishing on the podium every edition since the 1998 tournament in Bangkok, Thailand. The 1958 edition in Tokyo and the 1994 edition in Hiroshima also saw no wrestling medals for the country.

Here is the full list of Indian wrestling Asian Games medallists in history:

1954, Manila - 2 medals (1 silver, 1 bronze)

Baburao Kashid (Silver, Men’s Freestyle 67 kg), Sohan Singh (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 79 kg).

1962, Jakarta - 12 medals (3 gold, 6 silver, 3 bronze)

Maruti Mane (Gold, Men’s Freestyle 97 kg; Silver, Men’s Greco-Roman 97 kg), Ganpat Andalkar (Gold, Men’s Greco-Roman +97 kg; Silver, Men’s Freestyle +97 kg), Malwa Singh (Gold, Men’s Freestyle 52 kg), Sajjan Singh (Silver, Men’s Freestyle 87 kg; Silver, Men’s Greco-Roman 87 kg), Siripatap Singh (Silver, Men’s Freestyle 63 kg), Laxmikant Pandey (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 57 kg), Udey Chand (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 70 kg; Bronze, Men’s Greco-Roman 70 kg), Narsingh Patel (Bronze, Men’s Greco-Roman 63 kg).

1966, Bangkok - 6 medals (1 silver, 5 bronze)

Bishwanath Singh (Silver, Men’s Freestyle 97 kg), Shamrao Sable (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 52 kg), Bishamber Singh (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 57 kg), Udey Chand (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 70 kg), Sajjan Singh (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 87 kg), Bhim Singh (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle +97 kg).

1970, Bangkok - 5 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze)

Chandgi Ram (Gold, Men’s Freestyle 100 kg), Jit Singh (Silver, Men’s Freestyle 90 kg), Om Prakash (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 57 kg), Randhawa Singh (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 62 kg), Mukhtiar Singh (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 74 kg).

1974, Tehran - 4 medals (4 bronze)

Sukhchain Singh Cheema (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 100 kg; Bronze, Men’s Greco-Roman 100 kg), Satpal Singh (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 82 kg), Prem Nath (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 52 kg).

1978, Bangkok - 3 medals (2 gold, 1 silver)

Rajinder Singh (Gold, Men’s Freestyle 74 kg), Kartar Singh (Gold, Men’s Freestyle 90 kg), Satpal Singh (Silver, Men’s Freestyle +100 kg).

1982, New Delhi - 4 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)

Satpal Singh (Gold, Men’s Freestyle 100 kg), Kartar Singh (Silver, Men’s Freestyle 90 kg), Ashok Kumar (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 52 kg), Jagmander Singh (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 68 kg).

1986, Seoul - 3 medals (1 gold, 2 bronze).

Kartar Singh (Gold, Men’s Freestyle 100 kg), Gurneri Singh (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 74 kg), Ishwar Singh (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 100 kg).

1990, Beijing - 2 medals (1 silver, 1 bronze)

Ombir Singh (Silver, Men’s Freestyle 48 kg), Subhash Verma (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 100 kg).

2002, Busan - 1 medal (1 bronze)

Palwinder Singh Cheema (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 120 kg).

2006, Doha - 6 medals (1 silver, 5 bronze)

Geetika Jakhar (Silver, Women’s Freestyle 63 kg), Vinod Kumar (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 55 kg), Yogeshwar Dutt (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 60 kg), Sushil Kumar (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 66 kg), Palwinder Singh Cheema (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 120 kg), Alka Tomar (Bronze, Women’s Freestyle 55 kg).

2010, Guangzhou - 3 medals (3 bronze)

Mausam Khatri (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 96 kg), Ravinder Singh (Bronze, Men’s Greco-Roman 66 kg), Sunil Kumar Rana (Bronze, Men’s Greco-Roman 96 kg).

2014, Incheon - 5 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze)

Yogeshwar Dutt (Gold, Men’s Freestyle 65 kg), Bajrang Punia (Silver, Men’s Freestyle 61 kg), Narsingh Pancham Yadav (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 74 kg), Vinesh Phogat (Bronze, Women’s Freestyle 48 kg), Geetika Jakhar (Bronze, Women’s Freestyle 63 kg).

2018, Jakarta - 3 medals (2 gold, 1 bronze)

Bajrang Punia (Gold, Men’s Freestyle 65 kg), Vinesh Phogat (Gold, Women’s Freestyle 50 kg), Divya Kakran (Bronze, Women’s Freestyle 68 kg).

2023, Hangzhou - 6 medals (1 silver, 5 bronze)

Deepak Punia (Silver, Men’s Freestyle 86 kg), Aman Sehrawat (Bronze, Men’s Freestyle 57 kg), Sunil Kumar (Bronze, Men’s Greco-Roman 87 kg), Antim Panghal (Bronze, Women’s Freestyle 53 kg), Sonam Malik (Bronze, Women’s Freestyle 62 kg), Kiran Bishnoi (Bronze, Women’s Freestyle 76 kg).

Published on Sep 29, 2026

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