India's Preeti Pal won silver in the women's 200m T35 at the Asian Para Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on Tuesday, clocking 29.53 seconds, ANI reported via Latestly and NewKerala. China's Zhou Xia took gold in a Games-record 28.03 seconds. Pal's run was a major personal leap: she had finished fourth in the event at the 2022 Games in 32.19 seconds, and improved that mark by 2.66 seconds to reach the podium this time.

There was more sprint success for India in the women's 200m T12, where Simran Sharma struck gold in a Games record 24.80 seconds, ahead of Iran's Hajjar Safarzadeh, who took silver in 25.02 seconds, IANS reported via IANSLive. Debutant Tejalben Damor completed the podium for India with bronze in a personal best 25.23 seconds.

In the field, Pranav Soorma won gold in the men's discus throw F51/F52/F53 with an Asian-record throw of 11.66 metres, worth 932 Raza points, and Ram Ratan Singh made it an Indian one-two with silver at 10.35 metres (809 points). In the pool, Niranjan Mukundan won bronze in the men's 200m individual medley SM7.

The medals followed a strong Day 2 for India earlier in the Games, when Deepthi Jeevanji won gold in the women's 400m T20 and Pradeep Kumar (silver) and Ayush Verma (bronze) took a double podium in the men's javelin F53/54. With the latest results, India's medal tally at Aichi-Nagoya reached 30 — seven gold, ten silver and thirteen bronze.

Sources: ANI (via Latestly and NewKerala); IANS (via IANSLive); Latestly.