Union Sports Minister Mandaviya hails boxers, wrestler Sujeet for sensational Asian Games 2026 golds

New Delhi [India], October 2 (ANI): Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya hailed Indian boxers Parveen Hooda, Ankush Pangal and wrestler Sujeet Kalkal for his or her Asian Games gold medals on Friday. 

The gold rush for Team India at Asian Games on Friday was at full swing as a number of gold medals poured in from archery, boxing and wrestling. Sujeet Kalkal secured a historic gold medal on the ongoing Asian Games 2026, defeating Tajikistan’s Abdulmazhid Kudiev within the males’s freestyle 65kg wrestling ultimate at Aichi-Nagoya on Friday. Down and out at 2-9 with a minute and 40 seconds to go, Sujeet produced takedowns after takedowns, altering tides in his favour and sealing the gold medal with eleven seconds left. In boxing, Parveen Hooda (ladies’s 65 kg) and Ankush Panghal (males’s 80 kg) sealed gold medals for India.

Posting on X, Mandaviya congratulated pugilist Parveen, writing, ‘Unstoppable within the ring! Congratulations to Parveen Hooda for hanging GOLD within the Women’s 65kg Boxing occasion on the #AsianGames2026. Keep shining, champ!  #Cheer4Bharat.’

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Congratulating Ankush for his sensational efficiency, Mandaviya wrote, ‘GOLDEN PUNCH A sensational efficiency by Ankush as he defeats Kim Minseong of South Korea to clinch GOLD within the Men’s 80kg Boxing occasion at #AsianGames2026. #Cheer4Bharat.’

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Expressing awe at Sujeet’s distinctive wrestling, Mandaviya wrote, ‘Last-Minute Turnaround, Sujit Wins Gold for India! #AsianGames2026 #Cheer4Bharat.’

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India has 75 medals on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, with 15 golds, 25 silver medals and 35 bronze medals. 

Earlier, India’s sepaktakraw group received a cause to rejoice on the again finish of the Asian Games 2026 marketing campaign as the lads’s quadrant secured a bronze medal after a defeat to Japan within the semifinal of their occasion.

The Indian males’s quadrant of Malemnganba Singh Sorokhaibam, Ram Kumar Sharma, Bobby Kumar and Akash Yumnam secured the bronze, shedding 0-2  (12-15, 13-15) to Japan within the semis, as per ESPN. 

This marks India’s third medal in sepaktakraw on the Asian Games, having beforehand received two bronze medals: within the males’s group regu within the 2018 version in Jakarta and the 2022 version bronze within the ladies’s group regu occasion. 

The Indian quadrant loved an amazing run to the medal, beating the World Cup winners Myanmar within the group stage and ensuring that the contingent didn’t return dwelling empty-handed. 

Earlier, to begin off the day, India produced a shocking upset in ladies’s recurve archery as Kumkum Mohod, Ankita Bhakat and Kirti Sharma defeated South Korea 5-3 within the gold medal match on the Asian Games 2026 on Friday to say the nation’s first-ever medal within the self-discipline on the continental showpiece.

The Indian trio held their nerve towards the dominant South Korean aspect, with 17-year-old Kumkum rising because the star of the ultimate and delivering two essential 10s within the closing phases to seal a historic victory, based on ESPN.

Kumkum Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara settled for silver within the blended recurve archery group occasion on the Asian Games 2026 after shedding 3-5 to China’s Zhu Jingyi and Li Mengqi within the gold-medal match.

Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain celebrated her twenty ninth birthday in memorable trend as she defeated China’s Bao Ziyi 5-0 within the ladies’s 75kg ultimate to win the gold medal on Friday. 

Indian sailor Nethra Kumanan secured the bronze medal within the ladies’s dinghy occasion on the Asian Games 2026 on Friday, including one other medal to India’s crusing haul on the Aichi-Nagoya Games.

Nethra recovered strongly within the second and ultimate race of the finals after a troublesome opening race to complete on the rostrum. She ended stage on factors with Hong Kong’s Stephanie Louise Norton, however her superior head-to-head outcomes towards Norton gave her the bronze medal.

The medal provides to India’s spectacular efficiency in crusing on the Asian Games, with Indian sailors having already received medals within the males’s and ladies’s skiff occasions.

In the third recurve archery medal of the day, India secured a silver medal within the males’s recurve group occasion on the Asian Games 2026 after shedding 1-5 to South Korea within the ultimate right here on Friday, including one other medal to a memorable day for the nation’s archers.

Dhiraj Bommadevara, Yashdeep Sanjay Bhoge and Neeraj Chauhan had been unable to duplicate the ladies’s group’s earlier upset over South Korea, because the Koreans’ consistency below stress proved decisive, based on ESPN. (ANI)