Asian Para Games 2026: Indians in action on October 21 – Full schedule, events and timings

FILE PHOTO: India’s Payal Nag (right) and Sheetal Devi (right) will be in action in the para compound women doubles archery final at the Asian Para Games on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: WORLD ARCHERY

After winning 35 medals, including nine gold, in the first two days of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games, the Indian contingent will look to have another solid outing at the continental showpiece on Wednesday.

The following is the schedule of Indian athletes in action on October 21, with all timings in Indian Standard Time (IST).

PARA ARCHERY

5:55 a.m. - Para Compound Women Doubles Final - India (Sheetal Devi & Payal Nag) vs China (Zhao Jing & Xu Xueqing)

6:20 a.m. - Para Compound Men Doubles Final - India (Toman Kumar & Shyam Sunder Swami) vs China (Zhang Yicheng & AI Xinliang)

11:50 a.m. - W1 Mixed Team Semifinals - India (Swati Chaudhary & Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari) vs South Korea (Kim Okgeum & Park Hongjo)

12:15 p.m. - W1 Mixed Team Final - India (Swati Chaudhary & Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari) vs China (Cen Mengkan & Zhang Tianxin) - Subject to qualification

PARA ATHLETICS

5:35 a.m. - Men’s Shot Put F53 Final - Ayush Verma

5:45 a.m. - Women’s 100m T12 Round 1 Heats - Simran Sharma

6:02 a.m. - Men’s Long Jump T13 Final - Sujith Mandalamkunnath

6:19 a.m. - Men’s 100m T35 Final - Anubhav Choudhary

6:45 a.m. - Men’s High Jump T64 Final - Praveen Kumar, Banti

7:10 a.m. - Women’s Shot Put F34 Final - Bhagyashri Jadhav

7:45 a.m. - Men’s Shot Put F46 Final - Sachin Sarjerao Khilari, Parveen, Mohd. Yasser

7:53 a.m. - Men’s 100m T37 Final - Rakeshbhai Bhatt

8 a.m. - Men’s Javelin Throw F12/F13 Final - Manjeet

1:30 p.m. - Men’s Javelin Throw F55 Final - Sukhchain

1:35 p.m. - Women’s Discus Throw F55 Final - Karamjyoti

1:40 p.m. - Men’s Shot Put F40 Final - Ravi Rongali

1:45 p.m. - Women’s 100m T35 Final - Preeti Pal

3:20 p.m. - Men’s 100m T64 Final - Pranav Desai

3:30 p.m. - Men’s Shot Put F32 Final - Vishesh

3:35 p.m. - Men’s Long Jump T42/T61/T63 Final - Shailesh Kumar, Mahendra Gurjar

3:47 p.m. - Men’s 400m T35/T38 Final - Akira Banothu

4:05 p.m. - Men’s Discus Throw F37 Final - Haney

4:32 p.m. - Men’s 1500m T12/T13 Final - Sharath Makanahalli

PARA BADMINTON

5:30 a.m. onwards

Men’s Singles SL4 Quarterfinals - Sukant Kadam vs Fredy Setiawan (Indonesia)

Men’s Singles SL4 Quarterfinals - Surya Kant Yadav vs Abhijeet Sakhuja

Men’s Singles SL4 Quarterfinals - Suhas Yathiraj vs Cho Nadan (South Korea)

Men’s Singles SU5 Quarterfinals - Ruthick Ragupathi vs Li Mingpan (China)

Men’s Singles SL4 Quarterfinals - Naveen Sivakumar vs Shin Kyung Hwan (South Korea)

Men’s Singles SU5 Quarterfinals - Hardik Makkar vs Taiyo Imai (Japan)

Women’s Singles WH1 Group B - Pallavi Kaluvehalli vs Sena Tomoyose (Japan)

Men’s Singles WH1 Quarterfinals - Prem Kumar Ale vs Park Haeseong (South Korea)

Women’s Doubles WH1-WH2 Semifinals - Alphia James/Pallavi Kaluvehalli vs Xu Tingting/Yang Fan (China)

Women’s Singles SU5 Group A - Manisha Ramdass vs Yang Qiuxia (China)

Men’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Quarterfinals - Nitesh Kumar/Ruthick Ragupathi vs Surya Kant Yadav/Naveen Sivakumar

Women’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Semifinals - Thulasimathi Murugesan/Manasi Joshi vs Cheng Hefang/Huang Zixuan (China)

Women’s Singles SU5 Group A - Shanthiya Vishwanathan vs Warining Rahayu (Indonesia)

Women’s Singles SU5 Group B - Thulasimathi Murugesan vs Li Tongtong (China)

Men’s Doubles SH6 Group Stage - Krishna Nagar/Sivarajan Solaimalai vs Lin Naili/Zeng Qingtao (China)

BOCCIA

8:10 a.m. - Women’s Individual-BC3 Semifinals - Anjali Devi vs Ladamanee Kla-Han (Thailand)

1:10 p.m. onwards - Women’s Individual-BC3 Medal Matches - Anjali Devi

PARA CYCLING

9:45 a.m. - Men’s C1-5 Time Trial Final - Arshad Shaik (C2)

BLIND FOOTBALL

11:30 a.m. - Men Preliminary Round - India vs China

PARA JUDO

6:30 a.m. onwards

Men’s J2 -95kg Round Robin - Bijender vs Davurkhon Karomatov (Uzbekistan)

Women’s J2 +70kg Round Robin - Dimple vs Khabiba Djuraeva (Uzbekistan)

Men’s J2 -95kg Round Robin - Bijender vs Yermek Nurkabayev (Uzbekistan)

Women’s J2 -70kg Quarterfinals - Vrushali More vs Wang Yue (China)

Women’s J2 -70kg Quarterfinals - Gulshan vs Lin Shuming (China)

Women’s J2 +70kg Round Robin - Dimple vs Zarina Raifova (Kazakhstan)

Men’s J2 -95kg Round Robin - Bijender vs Zhanbota Amanzhol (Kazakhstan)

Men’s J2 -95kg Round Robin - Bijender vs Tsukasa Tanaka (Japan)

Women’s J2 +70kg Round Robin - Dimple vs Wang Ping (China)

Women’s J2 -70kg Semifinals - Vrushali More (Subject to qualification), Gulshan (Subject to qualification)

Women’s J2 +70kg Round Robin - Dimple vs Mokhinur Parmonova (Uzbekistan)

Women’s J2 -70kg Contests for Bronze Medals - Vrushali More (Subject to qualification), Gulshan (Subject to qualification)

Women’s J2 -70kg Final - Vrushali More (Subject to qualification), Gulshan (Subject to qualification)

PARA POWERLIFTING

9 a.m. - Women’s Up to 67kg Final - Kasthuri Rajamani

PARA SWIMMING

7:09 a.m. - Women’s 50m Freestyle S8 Heats - Vaishnavi Vinod Jagtap

7:26 a.m. - Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB11 Heats - Himanshu Nandal

7:50 a.m. - Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB4 Heats - Rohit Kumar

1:30 p.m. - Women’s 100m Freestyle S8 Final - Vaishnavi Vinod Jagtap

1:57 p.m. - Women’s 100m Butterfly S10 Final - Devanshi Satija

2:39 p.m. - Men’s 50m Butterfly S7 Final - Niranjan Mukundan, Suyash Jadhav

3:06 p.m. - Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB11 Final - Himanshu Nandal (Subject to qualification)

3:47 p.m. - Men’s 100m Backstroke S13 Final - Ravi Karthik Budigina

3:58 p.m. - Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB5 Final - Chaitanya Kulkarni

4:21 p.m. - Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB4 Final - Rohit Kumar (Subject to qualification)

4:27 p.m. - Men’s 200m Individual Medley SM11 Final - Himanshu Nandal

PARA TABLE TENNIS

6:35 a.m. - Men’s Doubles- Class MD4 Group A - Jehan Dorab Madan/Shubham Wadhwa vs Rakan Alsalmi/Ibrahim Alhassan (Saudi Arabia)

7:10 a.m. - Women’s Doubles - Class WD14 Group B - Savita Ajjanakatti/Prachi Pandey vs Huang Wenjuan/Liu Xiaowu (China)

7:10 a.m. - Women’s Doubles - Class WD5 Group A - Ekta Bhyan/Bhavina Patel vs Suyeon Seo/Jiyu Yoon (South Korea)

12:05 p.m. - Mixed Doubles - Class XD7 Group C - Bhavina Patel/Shubham Wadhwa vs Noriko Batuhan/Smith Cartera (Philippines)

12:05 p.m. - Mixed Doubles - Class XD17 Group C - Savita Ajjanakati/Dattaprasad Chougule vs Minh Tuan Pham/Thi Hoa Nguyen (Vietnam)

12:40 p.m. - Mixed Doubles - Class XD4 Group A - Sandeep Dangi/Sonalben Patel vs Ibrahim Alhassan/Maryam Almyrisl (Saudi Arabia)

1:50 p.m. - Mixed Doubles - Class XD17 Group C - Savita Ajjanakati/Dattaprasad Chougule vs Hong Kyu Park/Kunhea Kim (South Korea)

1:50 p.m. - Mixed Doubles - Class XD17 Group C - Bhavina Patel/Shubham Wadhwa vs Yayang Gunaya/Osrita Muslim (Indonesia)

2:25 p.m. - Mixed Doubles - Class XD4 Group A - Sandeep Dangi/Sonalben Patel vs Nattawut Thinathet/Suthida Saensathan (Thailand)

3:35 p.m. - Mixed Doubles - Class XD17 Group C - Savita Ajjanakati/Dattaprasad Chougule vs Muntadher Al-Sarraji/Hawraa Abualsebah (Iraq)

3:47 p.m. - Mixed Doubles - Class XD17 Group C - Bhavina Patel/Shubham Wadhwa vs Fajer Alkhalaf/Ahmad Alotaibi (Kuwait)

4:10 p.m. - Mixed Doubles - Class XD4 Group A - Sandeep Dangi/Sonalben Patel vs Hyeon-uk Kim/Jiyu Yoon (South Korea)