Asian Games 2026 Day 9 Highlights: Anahat Singh, Abhay Singh settle for squash silver; Harita Bhadra wins bronze

The Indian women’s 4x100m relay team of Tamanna, Sneha SS, Abhinaya Rajarajan and Sudeshna Shivankar won Heat 2 in 43.85 seconds. That result put them through to the final ahead of Japan and the Philippines.

Sarvesh Kushare won silver in the men’s high jump after tying Chinese Taipei’s Chao-hsuan Fu at 2.25m. The Indian finished second on countback after both athletes produced the same best height.

Parul Choudhary claimed bronze in the women’s 3000m steeplechase with a personal best of 9:08.67. Bahrain’s Winfred Yavi took gold in a Games record 9:04.36, with Kazakhstan’s Norah Tanui second in 9:06.82.

Tejaswin Shankar won the concluding 1500m but could not overhaul Japan’s Yuma Maruyama and China’s Xinghua Chen. He finished with bronze, his second Asian Games medal in the decathlon after silver in 2022.

The Indian women’s hockey team wrapped up its group campaign with a 7-0 win over Singapore and finished first in Pool B. That result sends India into Wednesday’s semifinal against South Korea.

Mohammed Afsal finished third in his men’s 800m heat with a time of 1:47.37. That left him 0.01 short of automatic qualification, so his progress now depends on the fastest-loser rankings.

Ancy Sojan led the women’s long jump with 6.53m until China’s Yingying Huang produced 6.55m on her final attempt and took gold. Sojan settled for a second straight Asian Games silver. Mengyi Tan then edged Shaili Singh for bronze with 6.46m.

In women's 110m hurdles, Nandhini Kongan finishes sixth with a time of 13.45s. Japan’s Mako Fukube won gold with 12.74s.

Narender (90+kg) won by RSC against Adthapong Saengtep of Thailand and confirm medal at Asian Games 2026.

Another bronze in athletics for India. Harita Bhadra wins a bronze medal in women's 200m final with a timing of 23.20s. The Indian manages to pip Japan’s Abigeirufuka Ido by one hundredth of a second. Singapore’s Veronica Shanti Pereira wins gold with 22.78s.

Mixed results in boxing for India so far today. Sachin Siwach falls in mens 60kg quarterfinal match. The Indian loses 1-4 to Japanese Shunsuke Kitamoto. Before Sachin, Parveen assured herself and the country at least a bronze after beating Uzbekistan’s Navbakhor Khamidova 5-0 in the women’s 65kg quarterfinal.

Silver for Anahat Singh in women's singles squash final. The 18-year-old goes down 0-3 (4-11, 4-11, 7-11) to Malaysia’s Sivasangari Subramaniam in the gold medal match.

Anahat Singh trails in the gold medal match. The Indian conceded the first two games with identical 4-11 margins against Malaysia’s Sivasangari Subramaniam in the women's single squash final. Anahat has not beaten the World No.5 in either of their previous two encounters.

Silver fo Abhay Singh. He has been outplayed by Eain Yow Ng of Malaysia in the men’s singles final 0-3 (9-11, 5-11, 5-11) by defending champion Eain Yow Ng of Malaysia in the men’s singles final. Abhay settles for silver, who becomes just the second Indian to finish as runner-up after Saurav Ghoshal. His first singles medal in the sport. He had won a mixed doubles bronze in Hangzhou three years ago.

Another setback for Abhay Singh. Eain Yow Ng wins the second game 11-5 to go one step ahead for the gold medal. Can Abhay make a comeback like he did in semis? He now tralis 0-2.

India's Abhay Singh is taking on defending champion Eain Yow NG from Malaysia in the men’s singles squash final. A win will make Abhay India's first individual gold at Asian Games. Abhay loses in the first game. After trailing 3-6 at one stage, Abhay made a valiant effort to comeback at 8-8. But the Malaysian kept his composure to win 11-9 and take 1-0 lead in the final.

Disappointing show by Harjinder Kaur in weightlifting. The Indian lifter finishes lowly ninth in women’s 69kg category with a total of 204kg. She started with a 94kg lift in snatch, but faltered in her second and third attempts at 97 kg. In clean and jerk, Kaur lifted just once at 110kg before not attempting in the rest two.

Another medal for India in shooting. Manu Bhaker, Esha Singh, Rahi Sarnobat help India win team bronze medal in 25m pistol precision. The trio won bronze in the precision stage of the 25m sports pistol women, finishing behind South Korea and China.

Mixed bag for PV Sindhu in her women's single quarterfinal against Chinese Chen Yu Fei. While Sindhu won the first game 21-11, the Chinese shuttler makes it level by winning the second 21-18. In the final game, Yu Fei won 21-10 to march into semis. India's campaign in badminton ends at Asian Games 2026.

Two more Indians in athletics finals. Murali Sreeshankar, David Solomon Patturaj qualify for men's long jump final. Although neither of them gets an automatic qualification mark of 8m in the Heats, but they did enough to book their final spots.