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Asian Games 2026 Day 6 LIVE Updates: Anant Jeet Singh Naruka & Parinaaz Dhaliwal Book Place In Final

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Published: 24 September 2026

Asian Games 2026 Day 6 LIVE Updates: Anant Jeet Singh Naruka & Parinaaz Dhaliwal Book Place In Final

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Asian Games India LIVE Coverage: India’s Day 6 schedule at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, features key clashes in hockey and kabaddi alongside a squash outing for teenage star Anahat Singh. The men’s hockey team takes on Korea in a Pool A fixture at 11:30 AM IST, looking to build on their campaign so far. On the kabaddi mat, the men’s team faces Chinese Taipei in their Group A match at 9:45 AM, while the women’s team squares off against hosts Japan later at 4:15 PM. In squash, Anahat Singh begins her women’s singles Round of 16 campaign at 10:30 AM against Singapore’s Wai Iynn Au Yeong, with fellow Indian Tanvi Khanna also in action in the same round against another Singaporean opponent. Here we go! Junior World Champion Anahat Singh starts her Asian Games campaign against Singapore’s Wai Iynn Au Yeong in the Round of 16. India’s other entrant, Tanvi Khanna, is also in action and faces Wai Iynn’s sister, Wai Yhann Au Yeong. India’s Sumit is all set to take on Iraq’s Ali Qasim Hamdan Al-Sarray in the Round of 16 of the men’s boxing 70kg category shortly. Stay tuned for all the updates! Bhavani Devi has joined fellow Indian Shreya Gupta in the Round of 16 after beating Mongolia’s Oulen Tugsjargal 15-8. The former will next face China’s Rao Xueyi. Bhavani Devi will face Mongolia’s Oulen Tugsjargal in the Round of 32 of the women’s individual sabre. Shreya, meanwhile, has received a bye into the Round of 16, where she will take on Korea’s Jeon Hayoung. China have ended a 12-year wait for gold in the women’s team badminton event, defeating hosts Japan 3-0 in the summit clash. Wang Zhi Yi set the tone with a come-from-behind 14-21, 21-19, 21-17 victory over Akane Yamaguchi before Liu Sheng Shu and Tan Ning beat Yuki Fukushima and Mayu Matsumoto 21-16, 25-23 to make it 2-0. Chen Yu Fei then sealed the title with a 21-10, 21-11 win against youngster Tomoka Miyazaki. It is China’s 11th gold in the women’s team event. Later in the day, the Chinese men will look to complete a double when they take on Indonesia in the final as they bid to defend their title. It was another disappointing outing for India in the 10m air pistol event. Kamaljeet missed out on the final, finishing ninth with 580 points, just one point behind the final qualifier. Aakash Bharadwaj finished 11th with 579, while Kedarling Balakrishna Uchaganve was 35th with 568. In the team standings, the Indian trio finished fourth with a combined score of 1,727, behind Japan (1,730), Indonesia (1,743) and China (1,743). Anant Jeet Singh Naruka and Parinaaz Dhaliwal finished fourth in the qualification round with a combined score of 138, bagging the final qualification spot. Qatar’s Rashid Saleh MA Al-Athba and Reem Ghanem AH Al-Sharshani topped the standings with 145, followed by the Republic of Korea’s Lee Jongjun and Jang Kookhee (143) and China’s Lyu Jianlin and Jiang Yiting (140). The final is scheduled for 11:15 am IST today. Shreya finished the women’s individual sabre pool stage with three victories and two defeats in Pool 2. In Pool 4, Bhavani Devi recorded two wins and three losses. Their Round of 32 opponents are yet to be confirmed. In the women’s high jump, Anamika finished second with a best clearance of 1.74m, earning 903 points to take her overall tally to 1,771. Pooja, meanwhile, cleared 1.71m to add 867 points and raise her total to 1,761. India’s Manush Shah booked his place in the second round of the men’s singles with a 4-0 (11-9, 14-12, 11-7, 11-4) victory over Malaysia’s Qi Shen Wong. He will face North Korea’s U Tae Ryong in the second round. Sumit will face Iraq’s Hamdan Al-Sarray in the men’s 70kg Round of 16 later today. Sakshi will take on Kazakhstan’s Alua Balkibekova in the women’s 51kg Round of 16, while Parveen will face Tajikistan’s Malika Nozimova in the women’s 65kg Round of 16. In an all-Indian mixed doubles Round of 16 clash, Joshna Chinappa and Velavan Senthilkumar registered a 2-0 (11-7, 11-10) victory over Suraj Kumar Chand and Shameena Riaz. The Indian duo will face the Philippines’ David Pelino and Jemyca Aribado in the quarterfinals on Friday. An all-Indian Round of 16 clash in mixed doubles squash will see Velavan Senthilkumar and Joshna Chinappa take on Suraj Kumar Chand and Shameena Riaz. India’s quartet of Naocha Singh Laitonjam, Varinder Singh, Oinam Arun Singh and Harshwardhan Singh Shaktawat will compete in the men’s kayak four 500m final in canoe sprint. Shreya Gupta and S. Bhavani Devi will be in action in the women’s individual sabre pool stage in fencing. It was a disappointing outing for India’s quartet of Aneesh Gowda, Akash Mani, Benedicton Rohit and Heer Gitesh Shah in the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay heats. They finished last in their heat in 3:23.51s, placing 12th overall among 13 teams. After a bright start, Kamaljeet is now in danger of missing out on the final. He has finished with a score of 580 and is seventh, while Aakash sits ninth with 579 and is already out of contention for a final spot. Thirty more shooters, including India’s Kedarling Balakrishna Uchaganve, are yet to start their qualification rounds. Despite a tight third game, India’s Sreeja Akula and Syndrela Das registered a 3-0 (11-5, 11-4, 12-10) victory over Mongolia’s Burenjargal Sanjaa and Bolor-erdene Batmunkh. The Indian duo will face China’s Kuai Man and Wang Manyu in the third round, where they will face a formidable challenge. India’s Gurbani Kaur, Aleena Anto, Tendenthoi Devi Haobijam and Poonam finished sixth in the women’s four rowing final with a time of 6:55.32s. They were fifth after 500m and remained in the same position at the halfway mark before slipping to the last spot after 1,500m. China won gold in 6:34.87s, while Uzbekistan (6:38.05s) took silver and Vietnam (6:43.86s) claimed bronze. India’s quartet of Kiran, Jay Kumar, Poovamma Raju Machettira and Manu TS finished second in their 4x400m mixed relay heat to qualify for the final. The final is scheduled for 6:45 pm IST. India’s Benedicton Rohit clocked 23.87s in the 50 m butterfly heats, missing out on a place in the final. Singapore’s Tzen Wei Teong bagged the final qualification spot after finishing 10th overall with a time of 23.78s. Rohit is the second reserve for the final. India’s women’s doubles pair of Yashaswini Ghorpade and Diya Chitale brushed aside Iran’s Setayesh Iloukhani and Mahshid Ashtari 3-0 (11-2, 11-2, 11-4). India’s Anamika Kozhinjaparambil and Pooja have started their women’s heptathlon campaign. In the opening event, the 100m hurdles, Anamika finished fifth in Heat 1 with a time of 14.80s, earning 868 points. Pooja also finished fifth in Heat 2, clocking 14.61s for 894 points. Their next event is the high jump, scheduled for 7:10 am IST. It was time for the gold medal clash between India’s Roshibina Devi and China’s Xiaoyu Zhang, but the Indian had to settle for another silver. The former lost 0-2 to Zhang in the final, bagging the third Asian Games medal of her career. Roshibina won bronze in 2018 and silver in 2023. India’s Roshibina Devi will soon be in action in the women’s 60kg wushu final, where she takes on China’s Xiaoyu Zhang. The former has won bronze in 2018 and silver in 2023. She will now be aiming to complete the set with gold. The bout is scheduled to start at 6:10 am IST. India’s Satnam Singh and Salman Khan win bronze in the men’s double sculls final after a thrilling race. The Indian duo were third at the halfway mark before surging into second with 500m to go, but could not hold on to the position. China’s Xudi Yi and Yide Nie won gold in 6:09.77, while Uzbekistan’s Pavel Sorin and Mekhrojbek Mamatkulov took silver in 6:10.49. The Indians finished third in 6:13.25. India’s Satnam Singh and Salman Khan are in action in the men’s double sculls final. A heartbreaking finish for India’s Balraj Panwar. He was in silver-medal position with 500m to go but slipped out of the podium places in the closing stages. China’s Zhiwei Deng won gold in 6:38.98, while Uzbekistan’s Shakhboz Kholmurzaev took silver in 6:41.83 and Japan’s Tatsuya Sakurama claimed bronze in 6:46.78. Balraj finished fourth with a time of 6:54.80. The final is underway and India’s Balraj Panwar is in silver-medal position at the halfway mark, behind China’s Zhiwei Deng. But Uzbekistan’s Shakhboz Kholmurzaev is close behind, leaving the former with plenty to fight for. Can the Indian hold on to silver? Indian rower Balraj Panwar is all set to compete in the men’s single sculls final. Hello and welcome to Day 6 of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. We will try and bring you all the latest updates throughout the day. Stay tuned!