Asian Games 2026 Day 5 LIVE: Manu Bhaker aims to qualify for women's 10m Air Pistol final; men shuttlers eye final

Asian Games 2026 Day 5 LIVE updates: Follow all the latest updates from the Indian contingent as India look to add more medals to their tally, with shooting, weightlifting and badminton among the key events in focus.

Asian Games 2026 Day 5 LIVE: Follow Latest Updates. (Amit)

Asian Games 2026 Day 5 LIVE updates: India’s campaign at the Asian Games moves into another busy day with several big medal opportunities on the cards. After adding to their medal tally on Day 4, the Indian contingent will be looking to keep the momentum going on Day 5. Manu Bhaker will be one of the biggest names in action as she takes aim in the women’s 10m air pistol, while Mirabai Chanu is set to compete in the women’s 49kg weightlifting final. The Indian men’s badminton team will also take centre stage, facing China in the semifinal as they eye a place in the gold medal match. There is plenty more action lined up across shooting, kabaddi, hockey, fencing, rowing, squash and wushu.

Follow all the updates here:

• 23 Sept 2026, 06:27:15 AM IST

  India win Sepaktakraw Match 1

  Just like in their campaign opener against Japan, the men’s regu team have won Match 1 against the Philippines 15-7, 15-10. But India will be hoping to avoid a repeat of what happened against Japan in the subsequent matches of that tie, with the team looking to end the group stage on a high.

• 23 Sept 2026, 06:23:29 AM IST

  Manu Bhaker in action!

  Shooting: Women's 10m Air Pistol Qualification - A big qualification round is underway in shooting, with India sending out a formidable women's 10m air pistol line-up. Manu Bhaker, a multiple Olympic medallist, is joined by Esha Singh, who has also won medals at the Asian and World levels

• 23 Sept 2026, 06:12:00 AM IST

  Rowing: Satnam and Salman reach men's double sculls final !

  Satnam and Salman have also secured their place in tomorrow's men's double sculls final after finishing second in their heat. Their timing leaves them fourth overall when the results from both heats are combined, with only a few tenths of a second separating them from the medal positions.

• 23 Sept 2026, 05:56:39 AM IST

  What a start in Sepaktakraw!

  SEVEN straight points and India surge to a 9-5 lead in the first match of India's men's regu team, against the Philippines in a Group B fixture. India currently stand at the bottom of the Group B chart, having earlier lost to Japan and Malaysia. That follows a rolling spike from Lokhon Singh and Arun's serving masterclass from India, and they lead 11-6 in the first set.

  India eventually take the first 14-7. Remember, they were trailing 2-5 right at the start.

• 23 Sept 2026, 05:53:20 AM IST

  Rowing - Balraj finishes third in heat!

  Balraj Panwar has booked his place in the men's singles sculls final after finishing third in his heat with a timing of 6:52.84. He was only 0.31 seconds adrift of Hong Kong's Chi Fung Chan, who finished second in the same heat. Balraj's time puts him fourth overall across the two heats, leaving him just three-tenths of a second outside the medal positions. He will now return for tomorrow's final with a medal within touching distance, but will need to find a little more pace to move into the podium spots.

• 23 Sept 2026, 05:35:33 AM IST

  India's Day 5 gets underway

  India's Day 5 at the Asian Games gets off to an early start, with action across three events. The men's team regu in sepak takraw begins against the Philippines at 5:30 AM, while soft tennis player Jay Meena takes on Sherwin Nuguit in the men's singles quarterfinal at the same time. At 5:40 AM, all eyes will be on rower Balraj Panwar as he begins his men's single sculls heats.

• 23 Sept 2026, 05:28:01 AM IST

  September 23 India complete schedule!

  Here is India’s complete schedule for September 23!

  Soft Tennis

  Men’s Singles – Quarterfinal: Jay Meena vs Sherwin Nuguit (Philippines) | 5:30am

  Men’s Singles – Semifinal: Jay Meena, subject to qualification | 8:30am

  Men’s Singles – Gold Medal Match: Jay Meena, subject to qualification | 12:15pm

  Sepaktakraw

  Men’s Team Regu – Preliminary Round, Group B: India vs Philippines | 5:30am

  Rowing

  Men’s Single Sculls – Heat 2: Balraj Panwar | 5:40am

  Men’s Double Sculls – Heat 3: Satnam Singh, Salman Khan | 6:00am

  Men’s Pair – Heat 2: Jaswinder Singh, Nitin Kumar | 6:50am

  Women’s Four – Heat 1: Gurbani Kaur, Poonam, Tendenthoi Devi, Haobijam | 7:10am

  Men’s Lightweight Double Sculls – Heat 1: Rohit, Ujjwal Kumar Singh | 11:20am

  Men’s Quadruple Sculls – Heat 2: Arvind Singh, Kulwinder Singh, Navdeep Singh, Jakar Khan | 12:10pm

  Men’s Four – Heat 1: Ghurde Vipul Satish, Saurav Kumar, Babu Lal Yadav, Yogesh Kumar | 12:20pm

  Shooting

  Air Pistol Women – Individual Qualification: Suruchi Inder Singh, Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker | 6:15am

  Air Pistol Women – Team Qualification: Suruchi Inder Singh, Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker | 6:15am

  Skeet Men – Individual Qualification Day 3: Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Bhavtegh Singh Gill, Mairaj Ahmad Khan | 6:30am

  Skeet Men – Team Qualification Day 3: Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Bhavtegh Singh Gill, Mairaj Ahmad Khan | 6:30am

  Skeet Women – Individual Qualification Day 3: Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan | 6:30am

  Skeet Women – Team Qualification Day 3: Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan | 6:30am

  Air Pistol Women – Individual Final: Suruchi, Esha Singh, Manu Bhaker | 9:00am

  Skeet Women – Individual Final: Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan | 11:00am

  Skeet Men – Individual Final: Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Bhavtegh Singh Gill, Mairaj Ahmad Khan | 12:30pm

  Canoe Sprint

  Men’s Kayak Four 500m – Heat 1: Harshwardhan Shaktawat, Varinder Singh, L Naocha Singh Oinam, Arun Singh | 6:30am

  Women’s Canoe Single 200m – Heat 1: Megha Pradeep | 6:50am

  Women’s Kayak Double 500m – Heat 1: Parvathy Geetha, Phairembam Soniya Devi | 7:10am

  Men’s Kayak Double 500m – Heat 2: Prsanna Kumar CS, Prohit Baroi | 10:40am

  Women’s Canoe Double 500m – Heat 2: Megha Pradeep, L Neha Devi | 11:00am

  Equestrian

  Eventing Individual, Cross Country – Final Day 2: Ashish Limaye | 6:30am

  Eventing Individual, Cross Country – Final Day 2: Fouaad Mirza | 6:30am

  Table Tennis

  Mixed Doubles – Round of 32: Harmeet Desai/Yashaswini Ghorpade vs Ismael Mohamed/Ali Fathimath (Maldives) | 6:30am

  Mixed Doubles – Round of 32: Manush Shah/Diya Chitale vs Chanul Kulappuwawadu/Bimandee Swarn (Sri Lanka) | 7:10am

  Mixed Doubles – Round of 16: Manush Shah/Diya Chitale, subject to qualification | 10:15am

  Mixed Doubles – Round of 16: Harmeet Desai/Yashaswini Ghorpade, subject to qualification | 10:15am

  Swimming

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

  Men’s 200m Freestyle – Heat 2: Aneesh Sunil Kumar Gowda, Vedaant Madhavan | 7:03am

  Men’s 100m Butterfly – Final: Rohit Benedicton, Sajan Prakash, subject to qualification | 1:38pm

  Men’s 200m Freestyle – Final: Aneesh Sunil Kumar Gowda, Vedaant Madhavan, subject to qualification | 1:54pm

  Fencing

  Women’s Foil Individual – Pool Stage: Naorem Mina Devi and Joys Ashitha Stalinraj | 6:30am onwards

  Men’s Sabre Individual – Pool Stage: Gisho Nidhi K.P. and Karan Singh | 8:15am onwards

  Women’s Foil Individual – Round of 32, subject to qualification | 9:30am

  Men’s Sabre Individual – Round of 32, subject to qualification | 9:50am

  Boxing

  Men’s 80kg – Round of 16: Ankush vs Hamsa Vogel (Bahrain) | 8:30am onwards

  Weightlifting

  Women’s 49kg – Final, Group A: Mirabai Chanu | 10:00am

  Women’s 53kg – Final, Group A: Gyaneshwari Yadav | 1:30pm

  Squash

  Men’s Singles – Round of 32: Abhay Singh vs Arkaradet Arkarahirunya (Thailand) | 10:30am

  Women’s Singles – Round of 32: Tanvi Khanna vs Kim Dami (Republic of Korea) | 11:15am

  Men’s Singles – Round of 32: Veer Chotrani vs Mohamed Shamil Mukthar Wakeel (Sri Lanka) | 12:00pm

  Badminton

  Men’s Team – Semifinal: India vs China | 11:30am

  Hockey

  Women’s Team – Pool B: India vs Thailand | 11:30am

  Wushu

  Women’s Sanda 60kg – Semifinal: Roshibina Devi vs Thania Kusumaningtyas (Indonesia) | 2:30pm onwards

  Women’s Foil Individual – Round of 16, subject to qualification | 10:05am

  Men’s Sabre Individual – Round of 16, subject to qualification | 10:25am

  Women’s Foil Individual – Quarterfinals, subject to qualification | 11:00am

  Men’s Sabre Individual – Quarterfinals, subject to qualification | 11:00am

  Women’s Foil Individual – Semifinals, subject to qualification | 12:50pm onwards

  Men’s Sabre Individual – Semifinals, subject to qualification | 1:30pm onwards

  Women’s Foil Individual – Medal Bout, subject to qualification | 2:10pm

  Men’s Sabre Individual – Medal Bout, subject to qualification | 2:30pm

  Kabaddi

  Women’s Team – Preliminary Round, Group A: India vs Iran | 8:30am

  Men’s Team – Preliminary Round, Group A: India vs Bangladesh | 9:45am

• 23 Sept 2026, 05:14:40 AM IST

  Hello and welcome to our live blog of Asian Games Day 5 as India look to add more medals to their tally today.

  Hello and welcome to our live blog of Asian Games Day 5 as India look to add more medals to their tally today.