India won the women’s 4×400-metre relay at the Aichi–Nagoya Asian Games on September 29. Kiran, Poovamma Machettira, Prachi and Vithya Ramraj completed the final in 3 minutes 29.69 seconds at Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium. Independent result reports from the Indian Express and Times of India agree on the winning quartet and time.
Bahrain finished second in 3:30.21 and China took bronze in 3:31.02. India’s margin over Bahrain was 0.52 seconds, while the first three teams were separated by 1.33 seconds. Those timings make the result a completed medal event, not a projection based on qualification or rankings.
Vithya ran the anchor leg after Kiran, Poovamma and Prachi kept India in contention through the first three legs. Her relay gold followed her bronze in the women’s 400-metre hurdles a day earlier, where she clocked 54.75 seconds and broke the long-standing Indian national record associated with P. T. Usha. The relay and hurdles were separate events and medals.
The Indian Express reported that this was India’s sixth women’s 4×400-metre relay gold across the last seven Asian Games. It was also India’s first athletics gold at the 2026 Games. The result adds to a wider track-and-field medal session, but this report’s confirmed headline finding is the women’s relay victory and the recorded podium times.
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