Schedule for Oct 21: India eyes medals in athletics, archery and swimming

India will target a strong medal haul at the Asian Para Games 2026 on October 21, with several finals lined up across para-athletics, archery, swimming and powerlifting. Sheetal Devi and Payal Nag will fight for gold in archery, while multiple Indian athletes will aim for podium finishes in track and field and swimming.Sheetal Devi will be in action in the women's compound doubles gold medal match. Courtesy: PTINew Delhi,Oct 20, 2026 22:03 ISTIndia will look to strengthen their medal tally at the Asian Para Games 2026 on Wednesday, October 21, with a packed schedule featuring several medal events across para-athletics, para-archery, para-swimming, para-powerlifting, para-cycling and boccia.Para-athletics will offer India several opportunities to add to their medal count, with Ayush Verma in the men's shot put F53 final, Sujith Mandalamunnakath in the men's long jump T13 final, and Banti and Praveen Kumar in the men's high jump T44/64 final. Bhagyashri Jadhav, Mohd Yasser, Sachin Sarjerao Khilari and Manjeet are among the other Indians competing in field-event finals. Preeti Pal will also be in action in the women's 100m T35 final.Para-archery presents another major opportunity, with Sheetal Devi and Payal Nag contesting the women's compound doubles gold medal match against China. Toman Kumar and Shyam Sunder Swami will compete for bronze in the men's compound doubles event.India will also have medal prospects in para-swimming, para-powerlifting, para-cycling and boccia. Vaishnavi Vinod Jagtap and Devanshi Satija feature in swimming finals, while Kasthuri Rajamani competes in the women's -67kg powerlifting final. Anjali Devi could fight for a boccia medal, subject to qualification. India will also pursue progress in para-badminton, para-judo and para-table tennis.Here is India's full schedule for Wednesday, October 21, at the Asian Para Games 2026:5:30 AM IST: Para Badminton, Men’s Singles SL4 Quarterfinal: Sukant Kadam vs Fredy Setiawan (Indonesia).5:35 AM IST onwards: Para Badminton, Men’s Singles SL4 Quarterfinal: Abhijeet Sakhuja vs Surya Kant Yadav (India).5:35 AM IST onwards: Para Athletics, Men’s Shot Put F53 Final: Ayush Verma. (Medal event)5:45 AM IST: Para Athletics, Women’s 100m T12 Round 1, Heat 1: Simran.5:55 AM IST: Para Archery, Women’s Compound Doubles Gold Medal Match: Sheetal Devi and Payal Nag vs Jing Zhao and Xueqing Xu (China). (Medal event)6:00 AM IST: Para Badminton, Women’s Singles WH1 Group B: Pallavi K.M. vs Sena Tomoyose (Japan).6:02 AM IST: Para Athletics, Men’s Long Jump T13 Final: Sujith Mandalamkunnath. (Medal event)6:10 AM IST onwards: Para Badminton, Men’s Singles WH1 Quarterfinal: Prem Kumar Ale vs Haeseong Park (Korea).6:10 AM IST onwards: Para Badminton, Men’s Singles SU5 Quarterfinal: Ruthick Ragupathi vs Mingpan Li (China).6:10 AM IST onwards: Para Badminton, Men’s Singles SL4 Quarterfinal: Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj vs Nadan Cho (Korea).6:19 AM IST: Para Athletics, Men’s 100m T35 Final: Anubhav Choudhary. (Medal event)6:20 AM IST: Para Archery, Men’s Compound Doubles Bronze Medal Match: Toman Kumar and Shyam Sunder Swami vs Yicheng Zhang and Xinliang Ai (China). (Medal event)6:30 AM IST onwards: Para Judo, Men’s J2 -95kg Round Robin: Bijender vs Davurkhon Karomatov (Uzbekistan).6:30 AM IST onwards: Para Judo, Women’s J2 +70kg Round Robin: Dimple vs Khabiba Djuraeva (Uzbekistan).6:30 AM IST onwards: Para Judo, Men’s J2 -95kg Round Robin: Bijender vs Yermek Nurkabayev (Kazakhstan).6:30 AM IST onwards: Para Judo, Women’s J2 -70kg Quarterfinal: Vrushali Ashok More vs Yue Wang (China).6:30 AM IST onwards: Para Judo, Women’s J2 -70kg Quarterfinal: Gulshan vs Shuming Lin (China).6:30 AM IST onwards: Para Judo, Women’s J2 +70kg Round Robin: Dimple vs Zarina Raifova (Kazakhstan).6:30 AM IST onwards: Para Judo, Men’s J2 -95kg Round Robin: Bijender vs Zhanbota Amanzhol (Kazakhstan).6:30 AM IST onwards: Para Judo, Men’s J2 -95kg Round Robin: Bijender vs Tsukasa Tanaka (Japan).6:30 AM IST onwards: Para Judo, Women’s J2 +70kg Round Robin: Dimple vs Ping Wang (China).6:30 AM IST onwards: Para Judo, Women’s J2 +70kg Round Robin: Dimple vs Mokhinur Parmonova (Uzbekistan).6:30 AM IST onwards: Para Judo, Women’s J2 -70kg Repechage/Semifinals/Medal Matches: Vrushali Ashok More and Gulshan (subject to qualification). (Medal event)6:35 AM IST: Para Table Tennis, Men’s Doubles MD4 Group A: Jehan Dorab Madan and Shubham Wadhwa vs Rakan Alsalmi and Ibrahim Alhassan (Saudi Arabia).6:45 AM IST: Para Athletics, Men’s High Jump T44/64 Final: Banti and Praveen Kumar. (Medal event)6:50 AM IST: Para Badminton, Men’s Singles SL4 Quarterfinal: Naveen Sivakumar vs Kyung Hwan Shin (Korea).7:09 AM IST: Para Swimming, Women’s 50m Freestyle S8 Heat 1: Vaishnavi Vinod Jagtap.7:10 AM IST onwards: Para Athletics, Women’s Shot Put F34 Final: Bhagyashri Jadhav. (Medal event)7:10 AM IST onwards: Para Table Tennis, Women’s Doubles WD14 Group B: Savita Ajjanakati and Prachi Pandey vs Wenjuan Huang and Xiaowu Liu (China).7:10 AM IST onwards: Para Table Tennis, Women’s Doubles WD5 Group A: Ekta Bhyan and Bhavina Patel vs Suyeon Seo and Jiyu Yoon (Korea).7:26 AM IST: Para Swimming, Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB11 Heat 2: Himanshu Nandal.7:30 AM IST: Para Badminton, Men’s Singles SU5 Quarterfinal: Hardik Makkar vs Taiyo Imai (Japan).7:45 AM IST onwards: Para Athletics, Men’s Shot Put F45/46 Final: Mohd Yasser, Parveen and Sachin Sarjerao Khilari. (Medal event)7:50 AM IST: Para Swimming, Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB4 Heat 2: Rohit Kumar.7:53 AM IST: Para Athletics, Men’s 100m T37 Final: Rakesh BhaiBhatt. (Medal event)8:00 AM IST: Para Athletics, Men’s Javelin Throw F12/F13 Final: Manjeet. (Medal event)8:10 AM IST: Para Badminton, Women’s Singles SU5 Group A: Manisha Ramadass vs Qiuxia Yang (China).8:10 AM IST onwards: Para Badminton, Women’s Singles SU5 Group A: Shanthiya Vishwanathan vs Warining Rahayu (Indonesia).8:10 AM IST onwards: Boccia, Women’s Individual BC3 Semifinal: Anjali Devi vs Ladamanee Kla-Han (Thailand).8:50 AM IST: Para Badminton, Women’s Singles SU5 Group B: Thulasimathi Murugesan vs Tongtong Li (China).9:00 AM IST: Para Powerlifting, Women’s -67kg Final: Kasthuri Rajamani. (Medal event)9:30 AM IST onwards: Para Badminton, Women’s Doubles WH1-WH2 Semifinal: Pallavi K.M. and Alphia James vs Tingting Xu and Fan Yang (China).9:30 AM IST onwards: Para Badminton, Men’s Doubles SH6 Group Match: Krishna Nagar and Sivarajan Solaimalai vs Naili Lin and Qingtao Zeng (China).9:45 AM IST: Para Cycling, Men’s C1-5 Time Trial Final: Arshad Shaik. (Medal event)11:30 AM IST: Blind Football, Men’s Team Preliminary Round: India vs China.11:50 AM IST: Para Archery, W1 Mixed Team Semifinal: Adil Mohamed Nazir Ansari and Swati Chaudhary vs Okgeum Kim and Hongjo Park (Korea).12:05 PM IST onwards: Para Table Tennis, Mixed Doubles XD7 Group C: Bhavina Patel and Shubham Wadhwa vs Noriko Batuhan and Smith Cartera (Philippines).12:05 PM IST onwards: Para Table Tennis, Mixed Doubles XD17 Group C: Savita Ajjanakati and Dattaprasad Chougule vs Minh Tuan Pham and Thi Hoa Nguyen (Vietnam).12:40 PM IST: Para Table Tennis, Mixed Doubles XD4 Group A: Sandeep Dangi and Sonalben Patel vs Ibrahim Alhassan and Maryam Almyrisl (Saudi Arabia).1:10 PM IST: Boccia, Women’s Individual BC3 Gold/Bronze Medal Match: Anjali Devi (subject to qualification). (Medal event)1:30 PM IST onwards: Para Badminton, Men’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Quarterfinal: Nitesh Kumar and Ruthick Ragupathi vs Naveen Sivakumar and Surya Kant Yadav (India).1:30 PM IST onwards: Para Swimming, Women’s 100m Freestyle S8 Final: Vaishnavi Vinod Jagtap. (Medal event)1:35 PM IST onwards: Para Athletics, Men’s Javelin Throw F55 Final: Sukhchain. (Medal event)1:35 PM IST onwards: Para Athletics, Women’s Discus Throw F55 Final: Karamjyoti. (Medal event)1:40 PM IST: Para Athletics, Men’s Shot Put F40 Final: Rongali Ravi. (Medal event)1:45 PM IST: Para Athletics, Women’s 100m T35 Final: Preeti Pal. (Medal event)1:50 PM IST onwards: Para Table Tennis, Mixed Doubles XD17 Group C: Savita Ajjanakati and Dattaprasad Chougule vs Hong Kyu Park and Kunhea Kim (Korea).1:50 PM IST onwards: Para Table Tennis, Mixed Doubles XD7 Group C: Bhavina Patel and Shubham Wadhwa vs Yayang Gunaya and Osrita Muslim (Indonesia).1:57 PM IST: Para Swimming, Women’s 100m Butterfly S10 Final: Devanshi Satija. (Medal event)2:10 PM IST: Para Badminton, Women’s Doubles SL3-SU5 Semifinal: Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manasi Girishchandra Joshi vs Qiuxia Yang and Zuxian Xiao (China).2:25 PM IST: Para Table Tennis, Mixed Doubles XD4 Group A: Sandeep Dangi and Sonalben Patel vs Nattawut Thinathet and Suthida Saensathan (Thailand).2:39 PM IST: Para Swimming, Men’s 50m Butterfly S7 Final: Suyash Narayan Jadhav and Niranjan Mukundan. (Medal event)3:06 PM IST: Para Swimming, Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB11 Final: Himanshu Nandal. (Medal event)3:20 PM IST: Para Athletics, Men’s 100m T64 Final: Pranav Desai. (Medal event)3:30 PM IST: Para Athletics, Men’s Shot Put F32 Final: Vishesh. (Medal event)3:35 PM IST onwards: Para Athletics, Men’s Long Jump T42/T61/T63 Final: Mahendra Gurjar and Shailesh Kumar. (Medal event)3:35 PM IST onwards: Para Table Tennis, Mixed Doubles XD17 Group C: Savita Ajjanakati and Dattaprasad Chougule vs Muntadher Al-Sarraji and Hawraa Abualsebah (Iraq).3:35 PM IST onwards: Para Table Tennis, Mixed Doubles XD7 Group C: Bhavina Patel and Shubham Wadhwa vs Fajer Alkhalaf and Ahmad Alotaibi (Kuwait).3:47 PM IST onwards: Para Athletics, Men’s 400m T35/T38 Final: Akira Nandan Banothu. (Medal event)3:47 PM IST onwards: Para Swimming, Men’s 100m Backstroke S13 Final: Ravi Veera Venkata Bhavani Budigina. (Medal event)3:55 PM IST onwards: Para Athletics, Men’s Discus Throw F37 Final: Haney. (Medal event)3:55 PM IST onwards: Para Athletics, Men’s 1500m T12/T13 Final: Makanahalli Sharath. (Medal event)3:58 PM IST: Para Swimming, Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB5 Final: Chaitanya Vishwas Kulkarni. (Medal event)4:10 PM IST: Para Table Tennis, Mixed Doubles XD4 Group A: Sandeep Dangi and Sonalben Patel vs Hyeon-Uk Kim and Jiyu Yoon (Korea).4:21 PM IST: Para Swimming, Men’s 100m Breaststroke SB4: Rohit Kumar (listed as Heat 2 in the source schedule). (Medal event)4:27 PM IST: Para Swimming, Men’s 200m Individual Medley SM11 Final: Himanshu Nandal. (Medal event) - Ends