India Women's 4x100m Relay Team Beats China To Win Gold At Asian Relay Championships 2026

India's women's 4x100m relay team won the gold medal on the final day of the Asian Relay Championships 2026 in Shangyu, China, clocking a season's best time of 43.85 seconds on Sunday. The quartet of Srabani Nanda, Sneha Shanuvalli, Sudeshna Shivankar, and Tamanna finished ahead of hosts China in second place and Thailand in third, wrapping up a strong two-day campaign for Indian athletics at this year's championships.

Winning on Chinese soil against the host nation made this result particularly satisfying for the Indian team, and the victory was huge which rounded off a positive overall showing for India across the relay events, with the country ending the championships with a gold, a silver, and a bronze. Tamanna and Sneha Shanuvalli were among the standout performers over the two days, both finishing the championships with two medals each after also contributing to India's bronze in the mixed 4x100m relay on Saturday alongside Animesh Kujur and Pranav Gurav.

India's 4x400m relay teams could not match the shorter sprint squads over the course of the championships. As both the men's and women's 4x400m teams fell short to win the medal but the silver medals they had claimed at the inaugural edition of these championships in Bangkok back in 2024, finishing outside the medal positions this time around. India will have another opportunity to improve on those results when the country hosts the third edition of the Asian Relay Championships in Chandigarh in 2027.

Sportscape feels that beating China in their homeland is never a straightforward result in athletics, and the women's sprint relay team deserves a full credit for producing their best time of the season when it mattered most. Three medals across two days also shows real depth in Indian relay athletics right now, not just in one or two events but across multiple sprint categories. With the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games both coming up later this year, the confidence this squad takes from Shangyu could prove valuable when the bigger tests arrive.