India’s Asian Games medal map changed: 20 Hangzhou golds gone, 13 new routes to gold
India defended only eight of its 28 Hangzhou golds at Aichi-Nagoya, with 20 titles changing hands. All seven shooting golds and all six athletics titles were lost, but the gold medals were replaced from a wider pool. Thirteen came from events where India had won silver or bronze, or had not reached the podium. From Pranavi Urs to Lovlina Borgohain, the medal map changed even as traditional…
India secured 28 gold medals at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, but four years later, at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, the picture changed significantly. Only eight of those titles were retained, representing 28.6 percent of the total gold medals. The biggest shifts occurred in shooting, athletics, and archery. In shooting, India lost all seven of its Hangzhou golds, while in athletics, six golds were replaced by just one in the women's 4x400m relay.
In archery, India retained the three compound team golds but lost the individual compound events and saw different medal winners in the recurve events. Despite these changes, India still won six wrestling medals and five squash medals in Aichi-Nagoya, maintaining its medal count overall.
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