Asian Para Games 2026: Six Bronze and One Swimming Silver

The late hours of 21 October 2026 brought Indian competitors seven more medals at the Asian Para Games 2026: one silver and six bronze, divided between the swimming pool and the athletics track. Prime Minister Narendra Modi put a word of praise on record for each of the winners through posts shared by his office.

Silver in the backstroke

The single silver in this set of results went to Ravi Kartik Budigina in the men's 100m backstroke S13. His swim was called excellent, and he was credited with bringing the country pride through his skill and the work behind it. In para swimming the letter S marks the classes used for freestyle, backstroke and butterfly, while SB marks the breaststroke classes, which is why the two sets of event names look different.

Two bronze medals in breaststroke

Himanshu Nandal added to the tally with bronze in the men's 100m breaststroke SB11, finishing with what was described as a very good timing. Rohit Kumar took bronze in the men's 100m breaststroke SB4, and that result carried an extra line in the record books because the medal came on his first appearance at these Games.

Three sprint bronzes on the track

The 100 metres produced three bronze medals in three different classification groups. Pranav Desai was third in the men's 100m T64 after a fine sprint. Rakeshbhai Bhatt finished third in the men's 100m T37 and bettered his own previous mark on the way. Anubhav Choudhary was third in the men's 100m T35, a personal best produced on a debut appearance at the Games.

A leap of 5.57m

Shailesh Kumar reached 5.57m in the men's long jump T42/T61/T63 and finished with bronze. The three class codes in one event name show that athletes from three classification groups were ranked together in a single final, an arrangement used where the entry in one class on its own is small.

Why the class belongs in the answer

At a para multi-sport meet the same distance is contested several times over, once in each classification, so a question is fair only when the event and the class are quoted together. For revision, carry the name of the athlete, the colour of the medal and the exact class for each of these seven results.