Asian Para Games 2023 medals tally Highlights: October 26 - India eighth with 18 golds; China closes in on 400 medal mark

Asian Para Games 2023, October 26: India is currently in eighth with 82 medals.

File - Sachin Sarjerao Khilari during the Para Athletics World Championships in Paris. | Photo Credit: Twitter/@Media_SAI

India secured its record-breaking 18th gold medal of the Asian Para Games happening in Hangzhou on Thursday.

Sachin Sarjerao Khilari won the 16th gold for India in the men’s F-46 shot put. He breached the Games Record mark by registering 16.03m.

Sachin’s gold meant that India overtook it’s best-ever gold medal tally in the Asian Para Games, going past its numbers from 2018.

Rohit Kumar added a bronze for India from the same event with a best throw of 14.56m.

Bhagyashri Madhavrao Jadhav won India its first silver medal of the day by finishing second in women’s shot put-F34.

Sidhartha Babu added one more gold medal for India by finishing first in Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1.

India’s 18th gold medal came from archery, with Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar winning the Mixed Team Compound - Open final.

Here are the medal standings:

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	157	128	108	393
2	IR Iran	32	36	28	96
3	Japan	30	33	41	104
4	South Korea	20	21	27	68
5	Uzbekistan	20	19	23	62
8	India	18	23	41	82

As on October 26.