Asian Games 2026: Asmita Dey to compete for 48 kg Judo bronze; wrestler Sunil Kumar to contest for males’s 87 kg Greco-Roman bronze

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 30 (ANI): Judoka and Commonwealth Games medalist Asmita Dey might be taking part in for bronze medal within the ladies’s 48 kg Judo competitors on the ongoing Asian Games in Japan on Wednesday. 

After shedding her quarterfinal, Asmita beat Hong Kong’s Wong Ka Lee by Yuko within the repechage spherical and might be taking part in her bronze medal conflict at 1:45 PM towards Malaysia’s Ganbaataryn Narantsetseg, as per ESPN. 

Asmita defeated Vietnam’s Ha Ngoc Chi by ippon within the ladies’s 48kg Round of 16 to advance to the quarterfinals, however misplaced by ippon to three-time world championships medalist Abiba Abuzhakynova of Kazakhstan.

Also, Sunil Kumar, who suffered a defeat within the males’s Greco-Roman 87kg semifinal to Japan’s Taizo Yoshida by technical superiority, will even be preventing for the bronze medal on 3:00 PM IST. 

Sunil had earlier made a robust begin to his Asian Games marketing campaign, defeating Tajikistan’s Muhammad Sultonzoda by technical superiority in his opening bout.

The Indian wrestler dominated the competition, successful 9-0 as his opponent failed to attain a single level. Sunil will now intention to complete his marketing campaign on the rostrum when he takes the mat within the bronze medal match. 

India’s Commonwealth Games 2026 gold medalist boxer Priya Ghanghas needed to accept a bronze medal on the ongoing Asian Games at Aichi-Nagoya on Wednesday, shedding to China’s Yang Chengyu within the semifinal of the ladies’s 60 kg class. 

This is India’s fifty fifth medal on the Asian Games 2026, having received eight golds, 21 silvers and now a twenty sixth bronze medal has been added to the tally. 

Yang regarded extra aggressive within the begin of spherical one, whereas Priya launched some counter-punches and landed a couple of one in all them. Halfway into the spherical, Priya regarded more practical and did some harm along with her mixture punches. However, Yang ended the primary spherical with a stable punch, and judges voted in her favour 3-2, as per ESPN. 

In the second spherical, Priya and Yang traded hits after the Chinese launched a flurry of punches to start out the spherical. Yang took the second spherical 4-1. 

In the ultimate spherical, Priya struggled to land her punches, and Yang maintained a stable defence. The Chinese took the ultimate spherical as properly 4-1, with the Indian settling for the bronze. 

To begin off the day, the Indian archery trio of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Chikitha Taniparthi and Prithika Pradeep secured a sensational gold medal for the nation, beating China within the closing of the ladies’s compound archery crew occasion.

Indian archers had been completely medical within the title conflict towards China, beating them 238-234. India maintained their lead proper from the primary rotation, giving Jyothi her fourth Asian Games gold and a primary Asiad gold medal to Chikitha and Prithika.

Also, archers Chikitha Taniparthi and Sahil Jadhav clinched the Gold medal within the compound combined crew occasion on the Asian Games 2026 after defeating South Korea in an exhilarating shoot-off on Wednesday.

The gold medal win additionally earned India a qualification quota for the compound combined crew occasion on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. 

The Indian duo held their nerve in a tense closing, forcing a shoot-off after the scores had been tied, earlier than sealing the Gold medal with a tense end within the decider. (ANI)