Aichi-Nagoya: Indian shuttlers Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manasi Joshi clinched the gold medal in the women's doubles SL3-SU5 event at the 2026 Asian Para Games on Friday, October 23, PTI reported. The Games' medal list for India also records the pair as gold medallists in the event.

Source: PTI via Daily World

The gold completed an extraordinary three-medal day for Thulasimathi. Earlier on Friday she took silver in the women's singles SU5 final, losing 18-21, 11-21 to China's Yang Qiuxia, and silver in the mixed doubles SL3-SU5 with Nitesh Kumar — the Indian pair won the opening game 21-11 against Indonesia's Leani Ratri Oktila and Hikmat Ramdani before losing the next two 19-21, 14-21, Nation Press reported.

Source: Nation Press

With the doubles gold, India's tally at Aichi-Nagoya stood at 106 medals — 28 gold, 34 silver and 44 bronze — in fourth place, according to the Games' India medal list. Thulasimathi's personal haul for the Games is one gold and two silver medals. The Games run from October 18 to 24, and India are chasing their best-ever Asian Para Games haul of 111 medals, won at the Hangzhou edition.