Asian Games 2026 Day 5 Live: Manu Bhaker and Mirabai Chani are among the Indian stars in action today.

Gear up for more action as India aim to amp up their Asian Games on Day 5 of events across 16 disciplines.

With the medal hunt finally getting a shot in the arm on Day 4, as the women’s cricket team steamrolled their way to gold, the Indian contingent will raise their expectations for the events lined up today.

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Double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker, Suruchi Singh and Esha Singh will take the stage today as India’s shooters compete in the 10m air pistol and skeet individual and team events. There’s also keen anticipation over Mirabai Chanu, India’s legendary weightlifter who’s won it all but has yet to make the Asiad podium.

India's Asian Games medallists so far (Click on ➕ sign on the right 👉 to expand)

#1: Gold in women's cricket

#2: Silver in shooting by women's 10m air rifle team (Elavenil Valarivan, Sonam Maskar, Vidarsa Vinod)

#3: Silver in shooting by Elavenil Valarivan in women's 10m air rifle event

#4: Silver in shooting by men's 10m air rifle team (Rudrankksh Patil, Parth Mane, Himanshu Dhillon)

#5: Silver in shooting by Himanshu Dhillon in men's 10m air rifle event

#6: Bronze in shooting by Rudrankksh Patil in men’s 10m air rifle

#7: Bronze in MMA by Suchika Tariyal in Women’s traditional -60kg

India's full Asian Games for today – September 23 (Click on ➕ sign on the right 👉 to expand)

SWIMMING

6:42 a.m. – Men’s 100m Butterfly – Heat 2 – Benedicton Rohit, Sajan Prakash

7:03 a.m. – Men’s 200m Freestyle – Heat 2 – Vedaant Madhavan, Aneesh Gowda

1:38 p.m. – Men’s 100m Butterfly Final – Benedicton Rohit, Sajan Prakash (Subject to qualification)

1:54 p.m. – Men’s 200m Freestyle Final – Vedaant Madhavan, Aneesh Gowda (Subject to qualification)

BADMINTON

11:30 a.m. – Men’s Team Semifinals – India vs China

BOXING

10:15 a.m. – Men’s 80kg, Round of 16 – Ankush vs Hamsa Vogel (Bahrain)

CANOE SPRINT

6:30 a.m. – Men’s Kayak Four 500m Heats – Oinam Arun Singh, Harshwardhan Singh Shaktawat, Varinder Singh, Naocha Singh Laitonjam

6:50 a.m. – Women’s Canoe Single 200m Heats – Megha Pradeep

7:10 a.m. – Women’s Kayak Double 500m Heats – Parvathy Geetha, Soniya Devi Phairembam

10:30 a.m. – Men’s Kayak Double 500m Heats – Prohit Baroi, Prasanna Kumar Chempadiyil Sathyaprakash

10:50 a.m. – Women’s Canoe Double 500m Heats – Neha Devi Leichonbam, Megha Pradeep

EQUESTRIAN

6:30 a.m. – Eventing Team Cross Country (Medal Round) – Fouaad Mirza, Arjan Singh Nagra, Ashish Limaye

6:30 a.m. – Eventing Individual Cross Country (Medal Round) – Fouaad Mirza, Arjan Singh Nagra, Ashish Limaye

FENCING

6:30 a.m. onwards – Women’s Foil Individual, Pool Stage – Mina Devi Naorem, Joys Ashitha Stalinraj

8:15 a.m. onward – Men’s Sabre Individual, Pool Stage – Gisho Nidhi Kumaresan Padma, Karan Singh

9:30 a.m. onwards – Women’s Foil Individual, Round of 32 – Mina Devi Naorem, Joys Ashitha Stalinraj (Subject to qualification)

9:50 a.m. onwards – Men’s Sabre Individual, Round of 32 – Gisho Nidhi Kumaresan Padma, Karan Singh (Subject to qualification)

10:05 a.m. onwards – Women’s Foil Individual, Round of 16 – Mina Devi Naorem, Joys Ashitha Stalinraj (Subject to qualification)

10:25 a.m. onwards – Men’s Sabre Individual, Round of 16 – Gisho Nidhi Kumaresan Padma, Karan Singh (Subject to qualification)

11 a.m. onwards – Women’s Foil Individual, Quarterfinals – Mina Devi Naorem, Joys Ashitha Stalinraj (Subject to qualification)

11 a.m. onwards – Men’s Sabre Individual, Quarterfinals – Gisho Nidhi Kumaresan Padma, Karan Singh (Subject to qualification)

12:50 p.m. onwards – Women’s Foil Individual, Semifinals – Mina Devi Naorem, Joys Ashitha Stalinraj (Subject to qualification)

1:30 p.m. onwards – Men’s Sabre Individual, Semifinals – Gisho Nidhi Kumaresan Padma, Karan Singh (Subject to qualification)

2:10 p.m. onwards – Women’s Foil Individual, Final – Mina Devi Naorem, Joys Ashitha Stalinraj (Subject to qualification)

2:30 p.m. onwards – Men’s Sabre Individual, Final – Gisho Nidhi Kumaresan Padma, Karan Singh (Subject to qualification)

HOCKEY

11:30 a.m. – Women’s Pool B Match – India vs Thailand

KABADDI

8:30 a.m. – Women’s Team Group A – India vs Iran

9:45 a.m. – Men’s Team Group A – India vs Bangladesh

ROWING

5:40 a.m. – Men’s Single Sculls Heats – Balraj Panwar

6:00 a.m. – Men’s Double Sculls Heats – Satnam Singh, Salman Khan

6:50 a.m. – Men’s Pair Heats – Jaswinder Singh, Nitin Kumar

7:10 a.m. – Women’s Four Heats – Poonam, Aleena Anto, Tendenthoi Devi Haobijam, Gurbani Kaur

11:10 a.m. – Lightweight Men’s Single Sculls Heats – Ajay Tyagi

11:20 a.m. – Lightweight Men’s Double Sculls Heats – Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Rohit

12:10 p.m. – Men’s Quadruple Sculls Heats – Arvind Singh, Kulwinder Singh, Navdeep Singh, Jakar Khan

12:20 p.m. – Men’s Four Heats – Vipul Ghurde, Saurav Kumar, Babu Lal Yadav, Yogesh Kumar

SEPAKTAKRAW

5:30 a.m. – Men’s Regu Team, Group B – India vs Philippines

SHOOTING

6:15 a.m. – 10m Air Pistol Women Individual Qualification and Team Final – Suruchi Singh, Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker

6:30 a.m. – Skeet Men Individual Qualification & Team Final Day 3 – Bhavtegh Singh Gill, Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Anant Jeet Singh Naruka

6:30 a.m. – Skeet Women Individual Qualification & Team Final Day 3 – Maheshwari Chauhan, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon

9 a.m. – 10m Air Pistol Women Individual Final – Suruchi Singh, Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker (Subject to qualification)

11 a.m. – Skeet Women Individual Final – Maheshwari Chauhan, Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon (Subject to qualification)

12:30 p.m. – Skeet Men Individual Final – Bhavtegh Singh Gill, Mairaj Ahmad Khan, Anant Jeet Singh Naruka (Subject to qualification)

SQUASH

10:30 a.m. – Men’s Singles Round of 32 – Abhay Singh vs Arkaradet Arkarahirunya (Thailand)

11:15 a.m. – Women’s Singles Round of 32 – Tanvi Khanna vs Dami Kim (South Korea)

12 noon – Men’s Singles Round of 32 – Veer Chotrani vs Shamil Wakeel (Sri Lanka)

TABLE TENNIS

6:30 a.m. – Mixed Doubles, Round of 32 – Harmeet Desai/Yashaswini Ghorpade vs Mohamed Ismail/Fathimath Ali (Maldives)

7:10 a.m. – Mixed Doubles, Round of 32 – Manush Shah/Diya Chitale vs Chanul Kulappuwawadu/Bimandee Swarna (Sri Lanka)

10:15 a.m. onwards – Mixed Doubles, Round of 16 – Harmeet Desai/Yashaswini Ghorpade, Manush Shah/Diya Chitale (Subject to qualification)

SOFT TENNIS

5:30 a.m. – Men’s Singles Quarterfinals – Jay Meena vs Sherwin Nuguit

8:30 a.m. – Men’s Singles Semifinal – Jay Meena (Subject to qualification)

12:15 p.m. – Men’s Singles Final – Jay Meena (Subject to qualification)

WEIGHTLIFTING

10 a.m. – Women’s 49kg Final – Mirabai Chanu

1:30 p.m. – Women’s 53kg Final – Gyaneshwari Devi

WUSHU

3:00 p.m. – Women’s 60kg Semifinal – Naorem Roshibina Devi vs Thania Kusumaningtyas

On Day 5, we’ll have Mihir Vasavda joining us with updates from Nagoya, while our team of sports experts like Shivani Naik, Nitin Sharma, Pritish Raj, Bhuvan Gupta, Amit Kamath and Nihal Koshie will chip in with updates on everything that needs to be tracked. Scroll past the schedule, results and schedule section below for all the live updates:

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