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Asian Games 2026

20 to 28 September 2026Sky Hall Toyota, Aichi-Nagoya, Japan

Champions

Men's singles champion

Lin Shidong

Beat Wang Chuqin 4-0 in the final

Women's singles champion

Wang Manyu

Beat Sun Yingsha 4-2 in the final11-8, 11-9, 11-13, 11-9, 4-11, 15-13

Men's doubles champions

Huang Youzheng / Lin Shidong

Beat Tomokazu Harimoto / Hiroto Shinozuka 4-2 in the final

Women's doubles champions

Wang Manyu / Kuai Man

Beat Miwa Harimoto / Hina Hayata 4-0 in the final

Mixed doubles champions

Lin Shidong / Kuai Man

Beat Wang Chuqin / Sun Yingsha 4-0 in the final

Men's team champions

Japan

Beat China 3-2 in the final

Women's team champions

China

Beat Japan 3-0 in the final

How it was won

Japan's men ended China's 32-year hold on the Asian Games team title, and Lin Shidong won three gold medals at Sky Hall Toyota.

Japan beat China 3-2 in the men's team final. Wang Chuqin beat Sora Matsushima in the opening match and Tomokazu Harimoto beat Wang 3-0 to level at 2-2, before Matsushima beat Wen Ruibo 3-2 in the decider. China had won the event at every Games since 1994.

Lin won the mixed doubles with Kuai Man, beating Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha 4-0, the men's doubles with Huang Youzheng against Harimoto and Hiroto Shinozuka, and the men's singles against Wang Chuqin on the last day. Two days later both Lin and Wang withdrew injured from the China Smash.

Wang Manyu won the women's singles, beating Sun 4-2 and taking the sixth game 15-13, eight years after her first Asian Games singles title in 2018. She also won the women's doubles with Kuai, and China beat Japan 3-0 in the women's team final.