India won the women’s compound team gold at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on September 30, defeating China 238-234 in the final. The victory gave India its first gold medal in archery at the 2026 Games. The Indian team of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Chikitha Taniparthi and Prithika Pradeep maintained the lead throughout the final. China started with three 9s, while all three Indian archers opened with 10s. India held a three-point advantage at the halfway stage. China responded with a perfect 60 in the third end, but India stayed ahead with a score of 59. The Indian team then finis
Thailand's Puripol Boonson has set his sights on more records after completing a sprint double at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games with another record-breaking performance. The 20-year-old won the men's 200-metre final in Nagoya on September 27 in 19.88 seconds, tying the Asian record and breaking the Asian Games record of 20.10 seconds that he had set in the preliminary round. The victory came two days after Boonson won the 100-metre final in an Asian Games record time of 9.90 seconds. Boonson finished more than half a second ahead of China's Huang Youwen, who took silver in 20.45 secon
Leylah Fernandez won the Singapore Tennis Open on September 27, beating Australia’s Talia Gibson 7-5, 6-0 in the final. It is the Canadian’s sixth career WTA title, her first of 2026, and her second at WTA 500 level after the Washington title in July 2025. Gibson, playing her first tour-level final, twice recovered from breaks and held a set point at 5-4 in the opener. Fernandez saved it, broke for 6-5 and took the set 7-5. She then won the final nine games of the match, sweeping the second set 6-0 to finish in one hour and 38 minutes. She won 81.8 per cent of her first-serve points in
India beat the West Indies by eight wickets in the first ODI in Thiruvananthapuram on September 27, chasing 296 with 50 balls to spare. Virat Kohli finished on 139 not out from 88 balls, and India reached 300 for two in 41.4 overs. Kohli’s 74-ball hundred was his 55th in ODIs and his third-fastest. He hit nine sixes, his most in an ODI innings. The knock took him to 15,080 ODI runs, making him the second batter after Sachin Tendulkar, who finished on 18,426, to pass 15,000. Kohli reached the mark in 303 innings, 74 fewer than Tendulkar’s 377. He also became the first player to score
India’s Kamaljeet Singh and Suruchi Singh won gold in the 10m air pistol mixed team event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on September 25. The pair finished with 484.6 points to give India its second gold medal of the Games. The Indian pair had topped qualification with 587 points before advancing to the four-team final. They maintained the lead throughout the competition and finished 6.6 points ahead of South Korea’s Suhyeon Hong and Gaeun Choo, who took silver with 478.0. Iran won bronze with 415.8. Their final score also set a new Asian Games record. The Indian pair had bee
India won silver medals in the mixed 4x400m relay and women’s 60kg wushu at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on September 24. The two medals came during a day that also saw India win bronze in the women’s 10,000m event. The mixed relay team of Poovamma Raju, Vishal Thennarasu, Vithya Ramraj and Manu TS finished second in 3:14.46. Bahrain won the gold medal in a Games-record time of 3:12.87, while India matched its silver-medal finish from the previous Asian Games in Hangzhou. India’s other silver came from Roshibina Devi Naorem in the women’s 60kg Sanda event. She lost 0-2 to
Japan’s Shoon Mitsunaga set a new Asian Games record in the men’s 50m butterfly preliminaries on September 24 at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. He won his heat in 23.19 seconds, becoming the fastest qualifier for the final. Mitsunaga’s time was 0.10 seconds faster than the previous Asian Games record of 23.29 seconds, set by South Korea’s Baek In-chul at the Hangzhou Games in 2023. His swim also placed him ahead of Bahrain’s Mikhail Arkhangelskiy, the Asian record holder in the event. Arkhangelskiy qualified second after recording 23.23 seconds. China’s Xu Fang finished third
India won the women’s T20 cricket gold medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games after defeating Sri Lanka by 147 runs in the final on September 22. The victory gave India its second Asian Games gold in women’s cricket after the team also won the event at Hangzhou in 2023. Batting first after winning the toss, India scored 216 for three in 20 overs. Smriti Mandhana led the innings with 79 runs from 45 deliveries, while Shafali Verma scored 48. Richa Ghosh finished unbeaten on 49 from 22 balls to take India past the 200-run mark. Mandhana and Verma put on 99 runs for the opening wicket.
India won bronze medals in both the men’s and women’s skeet team events at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on September 23. The women’s team secured India’s first-ever Asian Games medal in the women’s skeet team event. Raiza Dhillon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Maheshwari Chauhan finished third in the women’s competition with a combined score of 331. Raiza and Parinaaz each recorded 111 hits out of 125, while Maheshwari contributed 109. China won gold with 357, while Kazakhstan took silver with 336. The men’s team consisted of Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Bhavtegh
Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich set a new women-only half-marathon world record at the World Athletics Road Running Championships in Copenhagen on September 20. She finished in 1:05:15, taking one second off the previous record of 1:05:16 set by fellow Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir in 2020. Ngetich led from the start and reached 5km in 15:12, with a 10-second advantage over the chasing group. She extended that lead to 26 seconds by 10km before reaching 20km in 1:01:56. She finished 50 seconds ahead of teammate Veronica Loleo, who took silver in 1:06:05. Rwanda’s Florence Niyonkuru fini