Asian Games 2026 LIVE Updates, Day 14: Women’s recurve archers defeat China to enter final

India at Asian Games 2026 Athlete Action Result, Medal Tally Today Live Updates: The Indian archers, women's hockey team, wrestlers and others will be in action in medal events on Friday.

Asian Games India Live Today: India will have a chance to add to its medal tally in archery as the women, men and the mixed recurve teams will be in medal events on Friday.  Also, all eyes will be on the Indian women’s hockey team as they look to finish with a gold medal in the final vs China.

Boxers Lovlina Borgohain, Parveen and Ankush will also be in gold medal bouts with high chances of finishing on top of the podium after their stellar show in the Commonwealth Games. The wrestlers will also be in action as they look to qualify for the medal positions.

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We 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, insights, explainers on everything that you need to know. Have questions for our sports desk or need the team to explain something from the Asian Games? You can write to us: sports@indianexpress.com

Live Updates
Oct 2, 2026 06:07 AM IST
HISTORY ALERT: India win to enter final!

A seven from China with a spot in the final on the line!

And that's almost settling the issue. India tie the third set 51-51. and that single set point is enough for the Indian women's recurve archers to create history!

For the first time in women's recurve archery team event, India will be heading to the final!

In 2010 and 2022, they had bronze medal after losing in the semi-final. Not this time!

INDIA FACE THE MIGHTY KOREANS IN THE FINAL

Oct 2, 2026 06:03 AM IST
Asian Games Day 13 Live: India lead

After the first two sets, India have a 4-0 lead over China. The third set is crunch time for the Chinese.

Oct 2, 2026 05:54 AM IST
Asian Games Day 13 Live: Archers in action

here we go! after the compound archers, our recurve archers are in contention next. The Recurve Women’s Team featuring Ankita Bhakat, Kumkum Anil Mohod and Kirti Sharma are up against China in the semi-finals.

Oct 2, 2026 05:34 AM IST
Namaste

Good morning, sports fans. We're in the home stretch of these Asian Games with multiple Indian teams or athletes fighting for gold medals over the next two days.

The question is how close to the 2023 Asian Games medals tally of 106 (and the 28 golds) the Indians can get. At the end of day 13, the Indians were at 64 medals with 10 golds, which put them in the 8th spot.

Just three quick gold medals, and they could jump from 8th spot in the standings t0o 5th spot.

From selling milk to winning Asiad silver – wrestler Nitesh Siwach’s journey

If someone had told Nitesh Siwach 11 years ago that he would one day win an Asian Games wrestling medal, he would have scarcely believed the prediction. After all, at that time, he had sustained a serious knee injury which kept the youngster away from the mat for more than 18 months.

It was then that Nitesh’s father Anand and uncle Naveen asked him to assist them in their dairy work – which involved fetching buffalo milk from their village Jagsi near Gohana and selling it at their shop in Panipat. The 23-year-old’s journey to the silver medal in the men’s 97kg Greco-Roman category at Aichi-Nagoya has been an eventful one. Though he couldn’t win the gold, he became the first Indian Greco-Roman grappler since 1962 (Ganpat Andalkar, 97+kg gold, and Malwa Singh 52 kg gold) to make the final.

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