Sachin Khilari Retains Shot Put F46 Gold at Asian Para Games

Indian para athlete Sachin Khilari has held on to his continental title in the Men's Shot Put F46 event at the Asian Para Games 2026, taking the gold medal with a throw that was his best of the season. Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed the result in a message issued on 21 October 2026, describing the thrower as an exemplary champion whose steadiness and drive make him an example for other sportspersons.

A title kept, not won afresh

Khilari went into the event as the reigning champion of the discipline, having stood on the top step at the previous edition of the Games. Finishing first again means he has now won the men's shot put in his classification at two straight editions of Asia's biggest multi-sport meet for para athletes. The Prime Minister's message singled out exactly this: holding on to a title, he said, is harder than winning one, and doing it with a season's best throw made the effort more remarkable still.

An Indian clean sweep of the podium

The bigger story of the event was that every place on the podium went to an Indian. Mohd Yasser took the silver in the same Men's Shot Put F46 final, also with a season-best throw of his own, and the Prime Minister noted in a separate message that Yasser's rise since the last edition of the Games was built on years of patient work and a refusal to settle. A sweep of this kind is rare in international athletics and points to the depth India now has in throwing events in the F46 class, which groups athletes with arm impairments.

Why it matters for Indian para sport

Shot put has become one of India's strongest para-athletics disciplines, and the gold and silver together added two medals to the national tally from a single final. For the aspirant, the facts worth carrying away are the athlete, the event, the classification, the fact that the title was defended and the detail that the whole podium was Indian.