Asian Para Games live, Oct 23: India eye early medal rush with badminton, archery

Here is India's full schedule for Friday, October 23, at the Asian Para Games 2026: 5:30 AM IST: Para Badminton, Women's Singles SU5 Final: Thulasimathi Murugesan vs Yang Quixia (China) (gold medal match). 5:55 AM IST: Para Archery, Recurve Women's Doubles Gold Medal Match: Pooja Jatyan and Bhawna Choudhary vs Wang Xueqian and Gao Zihan (China). 6:15 AM IST: Shooting Para Sport, P3 Open 25m Pistol SH1 Qualification – Precision: Nihal Singh and Amir Ahmad Bhat 6:17 AM IST: Para Athletics, Men's 1500m T46 Final: Parmod Bijarnia (medal event). 6:20 AM IST: Para Badminton, Men's Singles SL3 Final: Pramod Bhagat vs Nitesh Kumar (gold medal match). 6:30 AM IST: Shooting Para Sport, R8 Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1 Qualification: Avani Lekhara and Mona Agarwal 6:30 AM IST: Para Athletics, Women's Long Jump T47 Final: Nimisha Suresh (medal event). 6:35 AM IST: Para Athletics, Men's Discus Throw F11 Final: Praveen Sharma (medal event). 6:44 AM IST: Para Swimming, Men's 400m Freestyle S6 Heat 1: Chaitanya Kulkarni 6:45 AM IST: Para Archery, Recurve Men's Doubles Gold Medal Match: Harvinder Singh and Vijay Sundi vs Zhao Lixue and Yun Duo (China). 6:45 AM IST: Para Table Tennis, Men's Doubles MD4 Group A: Jehan Madan and Shubham Wadhwa vs Jincheol Park and Kyunghyun Kim (South Korea). 7:00 AM IST: Para Badminton, Men's Singles SL4 Final: Naveen Sivakumar vs Fredy Setiawan (Indonesia) (gold medal match). 7:05 AM IST: Para Badminton, Women's Singles SH6 Final: Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan vs Li Fengmei (China) (gold medal match). 7:05 AM IST: Para Swimming, Men's 50m Backstroke S5 Heat 2: Abdul Quadir Indori 7:25 AM IST: Para Athletics, Women's Shot Put F46 Final: Amisha Rawat (medal event). 7:35 AM IST: Para Swimming, Men's 50m Freestyle S6 Heat 2: Chaitanya Kulkarni 7:40 AM IST: Boccia, Mixed Pairs BC3 Pool A: Anjali Devi and Sachin Chamaria vs Chinese Taipei. 8:00 AM IST: Para Athletics, Men's Javelin Throw F37/38 Final: Haney (medal event). 8:05 AM IST: Para Athletics, Men's 400m T64 Final: Ajay Kumar and Sandeep (medal event). 8:30 AM IST: Para Cycling, Men's C1-3 Road Race Final: Arshad Shaikh (medal event). 9:15 AM IST: Shooting Para Sport, R8 Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1 Final: Avani Lekhara and Mona Agarwal (subject to qualification; medal event). 9:20 AM IST: Para Archery, Recurve Mixed Team Semifinal: Harvinder Singh and Bhawna Choudhary vs Zhao Lixue and Wang Xueqian (China). 10:10 AM IST: Para Archery, Recurve Mixed Team Bronze Medal Match: Harvinder Singh and Bhawna Choudhary (subject to qualification). 10:35 AM IST: Para Archery, Recurve Mixed Team Gold Medal Match: Harvinder Singh and Bhawna Choudhary (subject to qualification). 11:00 AM IST: Para Powerlifting, Women's Team Event Heats: Kasthuri Rajamani, Suman Devi and Jaspreet Kaur. 11:50 AM IST: Para Powerlifting, Women's Team Event Head-to-Head Match: Kasthuri Rajamani, Suman Devi and Jaspreet Kaur. 12:35 PM IST: Para Powerlifting, Women's Team Event Bronze Medal Match: Kasthuri Rajamani, Suman Devi and Jaspreet Kaur (subject to qualification). 12:50 PM IST: Para Powerlifting, Women's Team Event Gold Medal Match: Kasthuri Rajamani, Suman Devi and Jaspreet Kaur (subject to qualification). 1:00 PM IST: Shooting Para Sport, P3 Open 25m Pistol SH1 Qualification – Rapid: Nihal Singh and Amir Ahmad Bhat. 1:49 PM IST: Para Swimming, Men's 400m Freestyle S6 Final: Chaitanya Kulkarni (subject to qualification; medal event). 2:02 PM IST: Para Swimming, Men's 50m Backstroke S5 Final: Abdul Quadir Indori (subject to qualification; medal event). 2:12 PM IST: Para Swimming, Men's 200m Individual Medley SM13 Final: Ravi Karthik Budigina (medal event). 2:21 PM IST: Para Athletics, Men's 100m T44 Round 1, Heat 2: Sandeep 2:30 PM IST: Shooting Para Sport, P3 Open 25m Pistol SH1 Final: Nihal Singh and Amir Ahmad Bhat (subject to qualification; medal event). 2:30 PM IST: Para Athletics, Men's 5000m T12/T13 Final: Sharath Makanahalli (medal event). 2:50 PM IST: Para Swimming, Men's 100m Freestyle S11 Final: Himanshu Nandal (medal event). 3:00 PM IST: Para Badminton, Mixed Doubles SL3-SU5 Final: Thulasimathi Murugesan and Nitesh Kumar vs Leani Oktila and Hikmat Ramdani (Indonesia) (gold medal match). 3:10 PM IST: Para Athletics, Men's Javelin Throw F40/41 Final: Ravi Rongali and Navdeep Singh (medal event). 3:17 PM IST: Para Swimming, Men's 50m Freestyle S7 Final: Tejas Nandakumar and Suyash Jadhav (medal event). 3:25 PM IST: Para Swimming, Men's 50m Freestyle S6 Final: Chaitanya Kulkarni (subject to qualification; medal event). 3:30 PM IST: Para Athletics, Men's Club Throw F51 Final: Pranav Soorma, Dharambir Nain and Amit Kumar Saroha (medal event). 3:50 PM IST: Para Athletics, Men's 200m T35 Final: Anubhav Choudhary (medal event). 3:57 PM IST: Para Athletics, Men's 200m T37 Final: Rakeshbhai Bhatt (medal event). 4:01 PM IST: Para Swimming, Men's 100m Butterfly S12 Final: Jahangir Molla (medal event). 4:46 PM IST: Para Athletics, Men's Javelin Throw F42-F44/F61-F64 Final: Sumit Antil, Sandip Sargar and Mahendra Gurjar (medal event). 5:10 PM IST: Para Athletics, Men's 100m T44 Final: Sandeep (subject to qualification; medal event). TBD: Para Badminton, Women's Doubles SL3-SU5 Final: Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manasi Joshi vs Yang Quixia and Xiao Zuxian (China) (gold medal match).