India’s Deepthi Jeevanji clinched the gold medal within the Asian Para Video games’ ladies’s 400m T20 occasion after clocking a Video games document time of 56.36sec in Nagoya on Tuesday (October 20, 2026).
The 23-year-old from Telangana is a two-time Para World Championships medallist, having gained the gold in 2024. She can be a Paralympic bronze winner in the identical occasion.
On Tuesday (October 20, 2026), Japan’s Niina Kanno (58.92sec) gained the silver and her compatriot Akane Kato (1:00.26sec) took bronze.
The T20 classification covers athletes with mental impairments. Athletes on this class expertise challenges with processing data, focus, and executing race plans or tactical methods.
Pradeep luggage silver, Ayush will get bronze in males’s javelin throw F53/54
Pradeep Kumar claimed his second successive silver medal, whereas Ayush Verma fetched a bronze within the Asian Para Video games’ males’s javelin throw F53/54 occasion.
Pradeep (F54) produced a private greatest throw of 27.45m to complete second.
Ayush (F53) ensured a double podium for India by clinching the bronze after logging Raza factors regardless of a relatively shorter throw of 17.88m.
The 35-year-old completed forward of Thailand’s Sahar-dam Yaena (F54), who threw 23.31m, owing to the upper diploma of his incapacity that fetched him extra Raza factors.
Raza factors is a technique by which performances are transformed to scores taking into consideration the diploma of incapacity when a contest golf equipment totally different classifications into one occasion.
Iran’s Erfan Bandori efficiently defended his gold with a Video games document throw of 30.24m.
F53 athletes sometimes have full operate of their arms and arms, however lack belly muscle tissue and decrease spinal muscle exercise, resulting in no sitting steadiness.
F54 athletes have full higher muscle energy within the arms and partial-to-full trunk muscle energy, although motion within the mid-trunk and legs remains to be affected to a excessive diploma.
Bhavina, Sonalben win bronze
Bhavina Patel and Sonal Patel secured bronze medals after shedding their respective ladies’s singles desk tennis semifinals on the Asian Para Video games.
Bhavina misplaced her Class 4-5 semifinal to China’s eight-time Paralympic champion Zhang Bian 0-3, whereas Sonalben too went down in straight video games to three-time Paralympic medallist South Korea’s Jiyu Yoon within the Class 3 semifinals.
Bhavina, a former Paralympic silver-medallist, went down 7-11, 5-11, 7-11 to finish with a second successive bronze on the mega-event.
She had gained a silver within the 2018 version of the Video games. The 40-year-old Bian was a silver medallist on the earlier Asian Para Video games.
The 39-year-old Indian veteran from Gujarat can be a former Commonwealth Video games gold-winner.
Class 4-5 classification is for athletes who’ve full higher physique management however are on a wheelchair as a result of leg or lower-limb impairments.
Sonalben, who gained the doubles silver on the Jakarta version of the Video games in 2018, was defeated 7-11 5-11 6-11 by defending champion Yoon.
Class 3 is a wheelchair class for athletes with poor sitting steadiness and restricted trunk management, however regular or near-normal arm and hand operate.
Praveen Kumar luggage bronze in shot put F11 with private greatest thro
Praveen Kumar got here up with a personal-best throw to clinch the bronze medal within the males’s shot put F11 occasion of the Asian Para Video games.
The 19-year-old hurled the iron ball to a distance of 13.86 metres to complete third on the rostrum in a area of six athletes.
Amirhossein Alipour of Iran set an Asian document with a throw of 14.99 metres to take the gold medal, whereas his compatriot Mahdi Olad claimed the silver with a throw of 13.93 metres.
The F11 class in shot put is for athletes with full or near-complete visible impairment.
Combined doubles pairs guarantee India of medals in para badminton
The blended doubles pairs of Pramod Bhagat and Manisha Ramdass and Krishna Nagar and Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan moved to the semifinals of their respective occasions, assuring India of two medals in badminton on the Asian Para Video games.
Nagar and Nithya defeated the Chinese language Taipei duo of Wu Yu-yen and Lin Jia-siang 21-15, 21-10 to complete second in Group A and qualify for the semifinals within the SH6 class, which is designated for athletes with quick stature attributable to circumstances comparable to achondroplasia or different genetic variations.
Bhagat and Ramdass, in the meantime, defeated Thailand’s Siripong Teamarrom and Chanida Srinavakul 21-15, 21-14 within the SL3-SU5 quarterfinals.
In para-badminton, SL3 is for gamers with vital lower-limb impairment who compete on half a courtroom, whereas SU5 is for gamers with upper-limb impairment.
In blended doubles SL3-SU5, pairs mix athletes from these two classifications.
Nagar and Bhagat will play their singles quarterfinals later within the day.
Revealed – October 20, 2026 07:46 am IST
