India create history, smash their highest-ever medal tally at Asian Games.

Delhi: The Indian delegation wrapped their 19th Asian Games journey with an arbitrary number that will go down in Indian sporting history, finishing the continental meet with the largest-ever medal haul after 20 days of intense, glory-filled competition. The Indian contingent bagged a record 107 medals – 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze – in Hangzhou, surpassing their previous best, set at 2018 Jakarta. 

Asian Games 2023 medal tally. Total: 107

Gold: 28

Silver: 38

Bronze: 41

The unprecedented medal haul will also ensure India’s best-ever rank at the Asian Games in over 60 years, with fourth place behind China, Japan and South Korea now secured.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is learnt to have invited each member of India’s 650-plus contingent for a felicitation ceremony in New Delhi on October 10.

India’s previous best performance at the continental showpiece event was in Jakarta five years ago, with 70 medals. Its previous highest overall finish was at the 1962 Asian Games, also in Jakarta, when India finished third. In every edition since then, the Indian team has ranked fifth or lower.