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The 2026 Asian Games is just over . This was the 20th edition of the game held in Aichi – Nagoya in Japan. This  multi-sport event was held in Nagoya city of the Aichi Prefecture in Japan from 19 September to 4 October 2026. This time 46 Nations and 10787 athletes participated in the games. There were 469 events in 43 sports categories. It was opened by Naruhito, the Japanese emperor on 19th September and ended by Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani, the President of the Olympic Council of Asia on 4th October, 2026. The motto of the game was ‘Imagine One Asia.’ China ranked top with 169 Gold, 89 Silver , 83 Bronze and a total of 341 medals. Japan ranked second with 83 Gold, 95 Silver, 91 Bronze and a total of 269 medals. South Korea ranked third with 39 Gold, 43 Silver, 68 Bronze and a total of 150 medals.

India ranked fourth with  21 Gold,  27 Silver, 37 Bronze and a total of 85 medals. A total of 495 competitors participated in 36 sports for India. Manu Bhaker was the Flag bearer for India in the opening ceremony and Neeru Dhanda was the Flag bearer for India in the closing ceremony.

List of Medalists for India –
Gold Medals
Medal – Name – Sport Event
1. Gold – India women’s national cricket team
2. Gold –  Kamaljeet Suruchi Singh – Shooting Mixed 10 m air pistol team
3. Gold- India women’s national kabaddi team
4. Gold – India men’s national kabaddi team
5. Gold – Neeru Dhanda- Shooting Women’s trap
6.  Gold- Kiran Pahal
Poovamma Machettira
Prachi Choudhary
Vithya Ramraj
Women’s 4 × 400 m relay

7. Gold- Chikitha Taniparthi
Jyothi Surekha Vennam
Prithika Pradeep
Archery-Women’s team compound

8. Gold -Chikitha Taniparthi
Sahil Jadhav
Archery- Mixed team compound

9.  Gold- Kynan Chenai
Neeru Dhanda
Shooting- Mixed trap team

10. Gold-Kushal Dalal
Sahil Jadhav
T. G. Mani Ratnam
Archery-Men’s team compound

11. Gold- Ankita Bhakat
Kirti Sharma
Kumkum Mohod
Archery- Women’s team recurve

12. Gold-Lovlina Borgohain -Boxing Women’s 75 kg

13. Gold-Parveen Hooda-Boxing Women’s 65 kg

14. Gold-Sujeet Kalkal-Wrestling Men’s freestyle 65 kg

15. Gold -Ankush Panghal-Boxing Men’s 80 kg

16. Gold-India women’s national field hockey team

17.Gold-Kumkum Mohod -Archery Women’s individual recurve

18.Gold-Pranavi Urs – Golf Women’s individual

19. Gold- India men’s national cricket team

20.Gold- Aman Sehrawat- Wrestling Men’s freestyle 57 kg

21. Gold- India men’s national field hockey team


Silver Medals

1 . Silver – Elavenil Valarivan
Sonam Maskar
Vidarsa Vinod
Shooting- Women’s 10 m air rifle team

2.  Silver -Elavenil Valarivan- Shooting Women’s 10 m air rifle

3.  Silver – Himanshu Dhillon
Parth Mane
Rudrankksh Patil
Shooting – Men’s 10 m air rifle team

4. Silver -Himanshu Dhillon- Shooting Men’s 10 m air rifle

5.  Silver -Mirabai Chanu -Weightlifting Women’s 49 kg

6. Silver -Naorem Roshibina Devi -Wushu Women’s sanda 60 kg

7.  Silver – Manu T. S.
Poovamma Machettira
Vishal T. K.
Vithya Ramraj
Jay Kumar
Kiran Pahal
Athletics – Mixed 4 × 400 m relay

8. Silver – Aishwary Singh Tomar
Niraj Kumar
Rudrankksh Patil
Shooting-Men’s 50 m rifle three positions team

9. Silver-Gulveer Singh -Athletics-Men’s 10,000 m

10.Silver- Sawan Barwal -Athletics -Men’s marathon

11. Silver- Ashi Chouksey
Tilottama Sen
Vidarsa Vinod
Shooting -Women’s 50 m rifle three positions
12. Silver -Tajinderpal Singh Toor-Athletics Men’s shot put

13. Silver -Abhay Singh -Squash Men’s singles

14. Silver -Anahat Singh
-Squash Women’s singles

15.  Silver – Ancy Sojan -Athletics Women’s long jump

16. Silver – Sarvesh Kushare -Athletics Men’s high jump

17. Silver -Esha Singh -Shooting Women’s 25 m pistol

18.  Silver -Gulveer Singh -Athletics Men’s 1500 m

19.  Silver- Murali Sreeshankar -Athletics Men’s Long jump

20. Silver – Yashvir Singh -Athletics Men’s Javelin throw

21.  Silver- Aashima Ahlawat
Manisha Keer
Neeru Dhanda
Shooting – Women’s trap team

22.  Silver – Manu Francis
Prince Noble
Sailing Men’s 49er

23. Silver- Nitesh Siwach
Wrestling Men’s Greco-Roman 97 kg

24. Silver- Kumkum Mohod
Dhiraj Bommadevara
Archery Mixed team recurve

25. Silver- Dhiraj Bommadevara
Neeraj Chauhan
Yashdeep Bhoge
Archery Men’s team recurve

26. Silver -Pranavi Urs
Aditi Ashok
Diksha Dagar
Golf Women’s team

27. Silver- Antim Panghal
Wrestling Women’s Freestyle 53 kg

Bronze Medals

1. Bronze – Suchika Tariyal -Mixed martial arts Women’s 60 kg

2. Bronze -Rudrankksh Patil – Shooting Men’s 10 m air rifle

3. Bronze-  Maheshwari Chauhan
Parinaaz Dhaliwal
Raiza Dhillon
Shooting Women’s skeet team

4. Bronze – Anantjeet Singh Naruka
Bhavtegh Singh Gill
Mairaj Ahmed Khan
Shooting Men’s skeet team

5.  Bronze – Jay Meena -Soft Tennis Men’s Singles

6.  Bronze -Badminton -Men’s team

7. Bronze- Satnam Singh,  Salman Khan
Rowing -Men’s double sculls

8. Bronze- Anantjeet Singh ,Naruka Parinaaz Dhaliwal – Shooting Mixed skeet team

9. Bronze-Seema Kumari -Athletics Women’s 10,000 m

10. Bronze-Diya Chitale Manush Shah
Table tennis – Mixed doubles

11.Bronze -Manpreet Kaur- Athletics – Women’s shot put

12. Bronze – Baranica Elangovan -Athletics – Women’s pole vault

13. Bronze- Velavan Senthilkumar , Joshna Chinappa-  Squash Mixed doubles

14. Bronze – Prachi Choudhary -Athletics Women’s 400 m

15. Bronze – Harita Bhadra – Athletics- Women’s 200 m

16. Bronze – Tejaswin Shankar – Athletics Men’s decathlon

17.  Bronze – Parul Chaudhary -Athletics Women’s 3000 m steeplechase

18. Bronze – Pincky Balhara – Kurash Women’s 78 kg

19.Bronze -Vithya Ramraj -Athletics – Women’s 400 m hurdles

20. Bronze -Parul Chaudhary -Athletics Women’s 5000 m

21. Bronze -Rohit Yadav -Athletics Men’s Javelin throw

22. Bronze – Narender Berwal – Boxing Men’s +90 kg

23. Bronze – Gulveer Singh – Athletics Men’s 5000 m

24. Bronze – Gurindervir Singh
Abinaya Rajarajan
Sneha Gowda
Animesh Kujur
Harita Bhadra
Athletics – Mixed 4 × 100 m relay

25.  Bronze – Pooja Singh -Athletics Women’s high jump

26.  Bronze – Vishal T. K.
Dharmveer Choudhary
Rajesh Ramesh
Manu T. S.
Jay Kumar
Athletics – Men’s 4 × 400 m relay

27.  Bronze – Priya Ghanghas – Boxing Women’s 60 kg

28. Bronze – Kapil Pokhariya -Boxing Men’s 90 kg

29.  Bronze – Sunil Kumar – Wrestling Men’s Greco-Roman 87 kg

30. Bronze- Anahat Singh
Tanvi Khanna
Joshna Chinappa
Shameena Riaz
Squash Women’s team

31. Bronze – T. G. Mani Ratnam – Archery Men’s individual compound

32. Bronze- Abhay Singh
Veer Chotrani
Velavan Senthilkumar
Suraj Chand
Squash Men’s team

33. Bronze- Harshita Tomar
Shital Verma
Sailing Women’s 49erFX

34.  Bronze -Nethra Kumanan -Sailing Women’s ILCA 6

35. Bronze- Arun Raju
Bobby Kumar
Amarjit Singha
Malemnganba Singh Sorokhaibam
Lokhon Singh Elangbam
Akash Yumnam –
Sepak takraw Men’s quadrant

36.  Bronze- Neeraj Chauhan -Archery Men’s individual recurve

37. Bronze- Deepak Punia – Wrestling Men’s Freestyle 97 kg

It is India’s second highest medal tally at the Asian Games after the 2022 edition.

A . Read the passage and answer the questions below – 1×4=4
1 . Asian Games 2026 was organised in which city of Japan ?

2. How many nations participated in the games?

3. How many medals were achieved by
India ?

4. Which country achieved the highest number of Gold medals ?

B. Fill in the blanks with suitable information from the text –   1×3=3

1 . Asian Games 2026 was the ————– edition of the game.

2. ———— ranked second in medal tally.

3. India achieved ————- in total.

C. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false sentences and provide supporting statement – 2×3=6

1 . India didn’t achieve better success in Asian Games before 2026.

Supporting Statement –


2. South Korea achieved more than 35 Gold medals.

Supporting Statement –



3. More than 500 competitors participated for India in Asian Games 2026.

Supporting Statement –


D. Give suitable answer to the questions below –

1 . Who opened and closed the Asian Games ceremony?    2


2. Who was the Flag bearer for India in the opening and closing ceremony?  2


3. In ‘ closing ceremony’ , mention the parts of speech of the word ‘closing.’      1


4. Give a suitable title to the passage and provide reason to choose the title.    2




Writing Skills –

1 . Write a newspaper report based on the achievement of India in the Asian Games 2026.    10



2. Write a paragraph on the Asian Games 2026.     10



3. Write a letter to your friend describing your feelings about the achievement of India in the Asian Games 2026.    10




4. Write a dialogue between your sports teacher and a student about the performance of Indian athletes in the Asian Games
2026.  10





5. Write a notice as the secretary of a club informing all the members to watch the Asian Games 2026 together in the club .      10



6. Write an email to the director of a hockey coaching academy to organise a giant screen to show the final matches of the hockey men’s and women’s team for the trainees of the academy.      10