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India’s Asian Games 2026 report card: The big hits, painful misses and sports that made or broke the campaign

India finished its campaign at the 2026 Asian Games with eighty-five total medals, securing twenty-one gold, twenty-seven silver, and thirty-seven bronze across thirty-six disciplines. Despite fielding a smaller contingent of four hundred ninety-five athletes compared to the previous edition, the nation delivered a strong late surge in disciplines like archery, wrestling, and boxing to wrap up its second-best performance in the history of the competition.

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