However, among the many athletes who won laurels for India, two names in particular stand out – Gulveer Singh and Vithya Ramraj . The duo won three medals each. India has had a decent run at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, so far. The contingent has clinched a total of 52 medals till now and currently stands at 10th position in the medal charts with 6 golds, 21 silvers and 25 bronzes.
Together, their six-medal haul represented one of the most statistically impressive showings by Indian track athletes at a single Asian Games edition.
She won only one individual medal in the women’s 400m hurdles. Vithya Ramraj won a hat-trick of medals for the second Asian Games running. With this medal haul, Gulveer Singh became the first Indian track athlete since P.T. However, her crowning achievement came in the women’s 4x400m relay event. Now.
Gulveer Singh’s campaign was defined by an extraordinary test of capability across three distinctly demanding track disciplines: the 10,000m, the 1,500m, and the 5,000m In the 10,000m final, Gulveer stayed among the lead runners but outside the top three through 25 laps. However, he unleashed a strong closing burst to claim the silver medal with a time of 28:29.38, finishing just two seconds behind Bahrain’s Birhanu Balew, who won gold. In the men’s 1500m, Gulveer Singh adapted quickly to a faster pace, as he clocked a personal-best time of 3:36.72 to secure his second silver medal of the Asian Games 2026. Gulveer concluded his memorable run at Aichi-Nagoya in the men’s 5000m final as he battled through fatigue to capture the bronze medal with a time of 13:32.75. Usha in 1986 to secure three individual medals at a single edition of the Asian Games. He is also only the second Indian male athlete in history to achieve three track medals at a single Asian Games, following Lavy Pinto’s triple medal effort at the inaugural 1951 New Delhi Games. Vithya Ramraj had an Asian Games 2026 to remember as she won all three medal colours – gold, silver and bronze – across the three events she took part in. In the final, she won the bronze with a time of 54.75 seconds. In doing so, she broke the long-standing national record of 55.42 seconds set by the legendary P.T. Usha at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. She became the first Indian woman to run under the 55-second mark. Vithya Ramraj anchored the Indian mixed 4x400m relay squad to a silver medal in a total time of 3:14.46. In the decisive leg of the final, she ran with all her heart, as he ran past all her opponents to seal the gold medal for India with a time of 3:29.69. This was India’s first athletics gold of the Asian Games 2026 so far. In the 2022 event in Hangzhou, she won two silvers and a bronze medal.
