Asian Games 2026, Day 9 Live Updates: Esha Singh 2nd in 25m pistol qualification; Manu Bhaker 8th

India at Asian Games 2026 Day 9: Today's medal tally, results and Live Updates: Real-time news about India's Day 9 campaign at the 2026 Asian Games across all events with a spotlight on shooting, squash and athletics

It’s an early start as far as medal events for Indians go on the ninth day of the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. Right at the top will be Manju Rani and Priyanka Goswami in the women’s racewalk final. India’s archers will be in action shortly after that in the recurve, compound and mixed team events. A couple of hours later, Manu Bhaker will be back hoping to leave the disappointment of the 10m pistol shooting event behind her as she takes part in the women’s 25m pistol individual qualification precision and team precision, along with Esha Singh and Rahi Sarnobat.

India’s squash trailblazers Abhay Singh and Anahat Singh will play their respective gold medal matches in the afternoon. There will then be a slew of athletics finals in women’s 200m (Harita Bhadra and Unnathi Bolland), men’s 200m (Animesh Kujur), men’s high jump (Sarvesh Kushare and J Aadarsh Ram), women’s 100m hurdles (Nandhini Kongan) and women’s 3000m steeplechase (Parul Chaudhary and Ankita).

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LIVE TRACKER: India's Asian Games medallists so far (Click on ➕ sign on the right 👉 to expand)
#1: Gold in women's cricket

#2: Gold in shooting: 10m air pistol mixed team event, with Suruchi Singh and Kamaljeet, who were paired at the last minute, converting this second opportunity into gold after both had endured disappointment in their individual events.

#3: Gold in women's kabaddi: India defended their gold by defeating Iran 37-34 in a close-fought final.

#4: Gold in men's kabaddi: India defended their gold with a 40-34 win over Iran

#5: Silver in shooting: The Indian trio of Niraj Kumar, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, and Rudrankksh Patil claimed a silver in 50m 3P men's team event.

#6: Silver in weightlifting by Mirabai Chanu in women's 49kg

#7: Silver in shooting by women's 10m air rifle team (Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar, Vidarsa Vinod)

#8: Silver in shooting by Elavenil Valarivan in women's 10m air rifle event

#9: Silver in shooting by men's 10m air rifle team (Rudrankksh Patil, Parth Mane, Himanshu Dhillon)

#10: Silver in shooting by Himanshu Dhillon in men's 10m air rifle event

#11: Silver in wushu by Naorem Roshibina Devi in women’s sanda 60kg event

#12: Silver in 4x400m mixed relay

#13: Silver in marathon running by Sawan Barwal

#14: Silver in women’s 50m rifle 3 Position team event by Tilottama Sen, Vidarsa Kochalumkal and Ashi Chouksey

#15: Silver in men's shot put for Tajinderpal Singh Toor

#16: Bronze in shooting by Rudrankksh Patil in men’s 10m air rifle

#17: Bronze in shooting by women's skeet team (Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan and Parinaaz Dhaliwal)

#18: Bronze in shooting by men's skeet team (Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Ahmed Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill)

#19: Bronze in soft tennis by Jay Meena in Men's singles

#20: Bronze in men's team badminton

#21: Bronze for Satnam Singh and Salman Khan in Men's Double Sculls

#22: Bronze for Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Parinaaz Dhaliwal in skeet shooting mixed team event

#23: Bronze for Seema Kumari in the women's 10,000m

#24: Bronze for Manush Shah and Diya Chitale in mixed doubles table tennis event.

#25: Bronze for Manpreet Kaur in women's shot put

#26: Silver for Gulveer Singh in men's 10,000m event

#27: Bronze for Baranica Elangovan in women's pole vault

#28: Bronze for Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar in mixed doubles squash

#29: Bronze in MMA by Suchika Tariyal in Women’s traditional -60kg

#30: Bronze in women's 400m for Prachi Choudhary
Significant results of Indians today - September 27 (Click on ➕ sign on the right 👉 to expand)
Badminton: Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand Pullela bow out in the WD quarter-finals, losing 18-21, 9-21 to WR5 Pearly Tan & Thinaah Muralitharan

Badminton: Dhruv Kapila and Tanisha Crasto go down fighting 14-21, 21-18, 18-21 to WR1 Feng Yanzhe & Huang Dongping in the XD quarter-finals.

Athletics: Manju Rani ended sixth (last among the walkers who finished in a seven-woman field) while Priyanka Goswami was disqualified in women's marathon race walk.

Archery - The Indian women's compound archery troika of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep, Taniparthi Chikitha defeated Kazakhstan 233-230 in the quarters. Earlier in the day, they had defeated Mongolia 238-223.

Archery The men’s team of Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru, Kushal Dalal and Sahil Jadhav beat Bhutan 235-232 to enter the semis. Earlier in the day, the trio had taken down UAE 235-215.

On Day 9, we’ll have Mihir Vasavda joining us with updates from Nagoya, while our team of sports experts like Shivani Naik, Nitin Sharma, Pritish Raj, Bhuvan Gupta, Amit Kamath and Nihal Koshie will chip in with updates on everything that needs to be tracked.

Live Updates
Sep 27, 2026 08:34 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Archery update

Pritish Raj: Indian mixed teams in both Compound and Recurve Archery have entered the semi-final.

Indian compound team defeated Kazakhstan while the recurve team defeated Vietnam

Sep 27, 2026 08:30 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Why did Manu Bhaker apologise?

"The scores were shocking and I do not know what happened. It should have been better. There no excuse because we have done whatever needs to be done."

"I genuinely tried my best and really feel that my performance was significantly better than what I have been facing, the challenges I've been facing in my training in Japan," Manu told reporters.

"I feel really sorry that I was not able to make it to the podium and I really hope that I will be able to do better," she added.

Sep 27, 2026 08:17 AM IST
Shivani Naik has some thoughts about India's flagbearers at the Closing Ceremony

It's a million years away, the closing ceremony of this Asian Games. But since he was deprived of the chance in opening ceremony because his dress did not reach in time, Tajinder Singh Tour should be handed the honour at closing ceremony. 2 Gold + 1 Silver is phenomenal. Why the ceremonial outfits didn't reach T&Fers remains a mystery.

(As an aside, read Nitin Sharma's exceptional piece on Toor and why he dedicated his silver medal to his young daughter)

Sep 27, 2026 08:07 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Shooting update

Over in the 25m Pistol Women's qualification event, Manu Bhaker has been pushed to 8th spot after her precision round while Esha Singh is now second in the standings with a score of 290. Manu had shot 287.

here's how Esha's three series went:

Precision Series 1: 99

Precision Series 2: 194

Precision Series 3: 290

Sep 27, 2026 08:03 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Equestrian update

Both Indian riders are out of medal contention now after China's Jiayi Yu and Jackpoint earns 75.050 with their routine!

This means Hriday Vipul Chheda is fourth now with a score of 72.680. And Jai Sud, who was leading the individual dressage event at the halfway mark, is now fifth.

Three more riders left.

Sep 27, 2026 07:59 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Equestrian update

The second Indian rider, Hriday Vipul Chheda, comes out with Goofy La Perle and he's third in the standings with a score of 72.760. This pushes Jai Sud into fourth place. Jai Sud was in the top of the standings with a chance of winning gold till the halfway mark of the final. AND NOW he's out of medal standings!

The judges are looking for technical accuracy and artistic presentation.

Sep 27, 2026 07:49 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Athletics update

Tejaswin Shankar clocks 14.33 in the 110m hurdles and still leads the Decathlon but his lead has thinned with both Chen and Maruyama getting more points in this.

Sadly other Indian in fray, Thowfeeq N didn't start and will not finish the event

From Pritish Raj

Sep 27, 2026 07:46 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Equestrian update

The Chinese Taipei rider has taken the top spot in the standings in the Dressage Individual final, which means Jai Sud, who was in gold contention since the early parts of this final, is now in silver medal places.

Sep 27, 2026 07:38 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Athletics update

Tejaswin Shankar clocks 14.33 in the 110m hurdles and still leads the Decathlon but his lead has thinned with both Chen and Maruyama getting more points in this.

Sadly other Indian in fray, Thowfeeq N didn't start and will not finish the event

Sep 27, 2026 07:36 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Treesa Jolly & Gayatri Gopichand Pullela bow out in the WD quarter-finals, losing 18-21, 9-21 to WR5 Pearly Tan & Thinaah Muralitharan

Dhruv Kapila & Tanisha Crasto go down fighting 14-21, 21-18, 18-21 to WR1 Feng Yanzhe & Huang Dongping in the XD quarter-finals.

Sep 27, 2026 07:35 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes: Tan-Thinaah are a gear slower than Chinese conquerors Liu-Tan who have revolutionised women's doubles badminton with power & speed. But the Malaysians are tactically very pickled in the placement arts (good 'ol Malaysian trix) and were still enough.

Going forward, Treesa-Gayatri will need to counter those.

Effectively, no medal yet in Individuals this edition.

Down to Unnati (vs Akane Yamaguchi) & Sindhu (vs Chen Yufei)

Sep 27, 2026 07:32 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes: Huang Dongping is a Colossus of doubles badminton. Dhruv-Tanisha have done well to go deep into the third. But the big breakthrough eludes

Sep 27, 2026 07:31 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes: It's a big learning for Treesa Jolly on days when the "connection" just doesn't ... buffer, for want of better word.

If the keeps and putaways don't fetch up, you can't lose confidence . Easier said than done.

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Treesa-Gayatri go down 21-18, 21-9.

Sep 27, 2026 07:28 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Mihir Vasavda writes: Dhruv Tanisha have gone on full attacking mode after the time iut and made it 17-18. A fast, body smash at Tanisha, she squats to return but finds the net. 18-19

Sep 27, 2026 07:24 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes: Pearly Tan, a World Championships silver medallist, is what Gayatri will eventually want to model her offensive game over. She really attacks ferociously from the net

Sep 27, 2026 07:23 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes: Tan-Thinaah lead 11-4. Court conditions are slow, so Treesa Jolly smash will not travel. So it needs placement badminton

Sep 27, 2026 07:22 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes: There's enough and more former players in badminton who are supremely articulate. Ashwini Ponappa, Aparna Popat, Aravind Bhat. Even Jwala Gutta. Why can't broadcasters bring in any of them to explain doubles? Sigh

Sep 27, 2026 07:21 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

From Mihir Vasavda: Tanisha needed a medical help, looked like a minor sprain. There was a short time out and they are back again. She has slipped again on the court. Down 10-17

Sep 27, 2026 07:20 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes: Pearly Tan is back from a very tough knee injury and a rehab that seems to have gone well.

What it has done, is make Thinaah Muralitharan take on more attacking responsibilities than she already did. But she's a fairly offense-friendly shuttler anyway

Sep 27, 2026 07:20 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

From Mihir Vasavda: A body smash at Dhruv, a service error and quick, flat winners mean the Chinese duo has now raced to 14-9 in the third.

(Dhruv and Tanisha lost the first game 21-14 before winning the second 21-18 to force a decider.)

Sep 27, 2026 07:18 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Equestrian update

Meanwhile, in the Dressage Individual final, Jai Sud astride Goofy La Perle, is in gold medal contention.

His overall score is 71.490. Here's a look at the scores by judges:

Judge E: 72.825 (Rank 1)

Judge H: 70.500 (Rank 2)

Judge C: 71.250 (Rank 1)

Judge M: 71.850 (Rank 1)

Judge B: 71.025 (Rank 3)

Seven riders done. Eight more riders to go (including the second Indian rider in the fray, Hriday Chheda riding Dono di Maggio.

Sep 27, 2026 07:12 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes

Thinaah Muralitharan asks for a backline review. But it seemed IN which could make it 20-18.

20-18 it is

Sep 27, 2026 07:12 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes

Tanisha-Dhruv and Zhe-Dongping still spotted on adjacent court. So that's still alive

Tan-Thinaah 20-16 up

Sep 27, 2026 07:12 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes

What Gayatri does is the neutral lifts -- she deflates the lift of all pace, which lulls the ability of Malaysian ability to smash down. Just follow the trajectory of Gayatri lifts.

But Tan-Thinaah are themselves a pair similar in style to Treesa-Gayatri. So they attack relentlessly, to go from 13-14 down to 17-14.

Treesa drops begin a-dropping.

Her drop has more value than smashes in WD where smashes get retrieved

Sep 27, 2026 07:11 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes

Indians tilt the fulcrum to 12-11, though Pearly Tan is on the offensive.

Her and Treesa easily might boast of the hardest smash. Besides Liu-Tan of China

Sep 27, 2026 06:58 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes

Tan-Thinaah 11-10 up against Treesa-Gayatri

What Gayatri Gopichand brings to this pairing is precisely that: the capability to blunt frenzied attacks. How she stubs out the pace of the drives. And redirects flat parallels. It's important to de-chaos the chaos of Malaysians to incite Indian chaos of unpredictable.

Sep 27, 2026 06:57 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Shooting update

Double Olympic medallist from Paris 2024, Manu Bhaker is currently in fifth place in the 25m Pistol Women event after three series in the precision round. Of course, there are many more shooters to go, including India's Esha Singh and Rahi Sarnobat.

Here are Manu's scores:

Precision Series 1: 96

Precision Series 2: 191

Precision Series 3: 287

Sep 27, 2026 06:53 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik on Treesa-Gayayri vs Tan-Thinaah

Unlike the Japanese who retrieve, the Malaysians are a highly attacking pair. That will need countering

Sep 27, 2026 06:52 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik on the Women's doubles Quarterfinals

Treesa Jolly - Gayatri Gopichand vs Pearly Tan - Thinaah Muralitharan of Malaysia

Bronze medal (minimum) up for the taking.

Oma Gill Clark was on commentary till 1 am India time. So she's unlikely to fetch up (it would be cruel to expect her to).

So it's Indian commentators, who are now busy praising each other and their long acquaintance and their experience of watching badminton.

But they try to make badminton accessible. So Yay!

Sep 27, 2026 06:42 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes

In this world of fragmented, OTT-ified and streamed sports coverage of highly questionable quality and p***-poor scheduling by organisers, the greatest competition to (struggling to) watch sport is SLEEP.

Watching Tanisha-Dhruv on the corner of screen at 6 a.m or SLEEP? That is the big question.

PV Sindhu match later in day also on Court 4 - non TV court. 👽 To mimic the objectively terrible Asiad mascot.

Sep 27, 2026 06:36 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Zhe-Dongping go from 6-2 to 21-14 (I think)

From Shivani Naik

Sep 27, 2026 06:19 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes

Korean and Chinese coaches more and more with face masks. Wonder what's up.

Meanwhile, Zhe-Ping 6-2 up

Sep 27, 2026 06:14 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Badminton update

Shivani Naik writes

Tanisha Crasto - Dhruv Kapila vs Feng Yang Zhe - Huang Dongping , the top pair of China, about to start

But it's on Court 3. So this shall be followed the old-style: from snatches of sightings from adjacent court to Court 1, which is on TV. Tallied with Live Score, like the good ol' Tournament Software days

Sep 27, 2026 06:13 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Archery update

Both of India's compound archery team have entered the semi-finals at the Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Square.

The men’s team of Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru, Kushal Dalal and Sahil Jadhav has beaten Bhutan 235-232 while the women’s compound archery team of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep, Taniparthi Chikitha has defeated Kazakhstan 233-230 in the quarters.

Sep 27, 2026 05:38 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Archery update

So some good news from archery at the Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Square. The men's team of Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru, Kushal Dalal and Sahil Jadhav has brushed aside the UAE trio of Sultan Almenhali, Yousef Alhosani and Abdalla Almansoori by a 235-215 margin.

Meanwhile, the women's compound archery team of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep, Taniparthi Chikitha has defeated Mongolia 238-223.

Both teams are already competing in the quarter-finals. While the Indian men are in action against Bhutan, the women are duelling Kazakhstan.

Sep 27, 2026 05:35 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Athletics update

Manju Rani finishes 6th, Priyanka disqualified in women's marathon racewalk event.

Sep 27, 2026 05:22 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Today we learnt

So Indian's sports contingents in the past have had athletes called David Beckham and Ronaldo Singh (both cyclists for India) and London Singh ( a diver). But here's another unique name, Sugar Shanti Gayen. She's a surfer competing in Nagoya for India right this moment. And she seems to be ahead against her Chinese Taipei opponent Chen Wan-yu.

Sep 27, 2026 05:11 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Archery update

The women's compound archery troika of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Prithika Pradeep, Taniparthi Chikitha has amassed a whopping 178-169 lead over the archers from Mongolia in the 1/8 Elimination Round at the Okazaki Chuo Sogo Park Multipurpose Sq.

Sep 27, 2026 05:09 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Archery update

The Indian men's compound archery team of Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru, Kushal Dalal and Sahil Jadhav lead the trio of United Arab Emirates archers Sultan Almenhali, Yousef Alhosani and Abdalla Almansoori by a 175-160 margin at the moment in the 1/8 elimination round.

Sep 27, 2026 05:02 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Athletics update

Manju Rani in fourth place. After Priyanka's disqualification, Manju has fallen back to fourth place, just outside the medal spots. She was leading the race after the 3km mark, slipped to second by the 4km mark, stayed in second spot till the 6km mark. Then briefly rose to second spot by the 9th and 10km mark.

But now, as we cross the 12km mark, she's just outside the medal spots.

Sep 27, 2026 04:58 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: Athletics update

India's Priyanka disqualified in the women's marathon racewalk event! The Indian racewalker cannot win a medal in the seven-woman event because she has been shown four cards! Two cards for knee flexion and two cards for loss of contact!

Sep 27, 2026 04:22 AM IST
Asian Games Day 9 Live: In action in Nagoya

The first Indian of the day in action today in Nagoya is surfer Kamali Moorthy in action in the Women’s Shortboard event. And the first medal chances come from Priyanka and Manju Rani in the Women's Marathon Race Walk event.

Sep 27, 2026 04:17 AM IST
Namaste

Another early morning from Nagoya awaits us sports fans. It's a day where history in squash beckons for Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh and Manu Bhaker returns to the shooting ranges to ensure she makes up for her setback in the 10m air pistol events.

It promises to be a medal-filled day, and we'll have all the live updates all throughout. Make yourself a stiff coffee and keep this blog open on a tab.

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