Asian Games 2026: Indian boxer Parveen clinches girls’s 65 kg gold

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], October 2 (ANI): Indian boxer Parveen Hooda secured the second boxing gold of the day for India, defeating Chinese Taipei’s Chen Nien-Chen within the ultimate of the ladies’s 65 kg occasion on the ongoing Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya on Friday. 

Parveen secured the gold medal by 3-2 by way of break up determination, making it the second gold for the nation in boxing after Olympic medalist Lovlina Borgohain’s girls’s 75 kg gold. After having misplaced her 2022 Asian Games bronze as a result of a doping whereabouts failure, this win over a former world champion for a gold marks a large redemption for the Indian, as per ESPN. 

This is India’s 73rd medal on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, with 13 golds, 25 silver medals and 35 bronze medals. 

The Indian was cautious within the begin and, regardless of some jabs from her opponent, managed to make some counter-punches, and each pugilists exchanged some 1-2s. Parveen additionally bought a number of physique pictures whereas Chen delivered a quick proper hook. India took the primary spherical 5-0. 

In the second spherical, Parveen stored her distance in opposition to the opponent properly and made an excellent use of her attain to land a number of punches and breach Chen’s defence. However, Chen managed to battle again and took the second spherical. 

In the ultimate spherical, the Chinese Taipei boxer landed a number of jabs because the Indian regarded cautious. Parveen additionally managed to get some fast 1-2s, and the match bought shut. Chen tried a number of determined punches, solely to be met by counter-punches from Parveen, who ultimately gained the shut conflict 3-2 by way of break up determination. 

Earlier, India’s sepaktakraw crew bought a motive 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 gained two bronze medals: within the males’s crew regu within the 2018 version in Jakarta and the 2022 version bronze within the girls’s crew regu occasion. 

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

Earlier, to start out off the day, India produced a shocking upset in girls’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 assert the nation’s first-ever medal within the self-discipline on the continental showpiece.

The Indian trio held their nerve in opposition to the dominant South Korean facet, 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 crew 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 style as she defeated China’s Bao Ziyi 5-0 within the girls’s 75kg ultimate to win the gold medal on Friday. 

Indian sailor Nethra Kumanan secured the bronze medal within the girls’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 in opposition to 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 gained 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 crew 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 crew’s earlier upset over South Korea, because the Koreans’ consistency beneath stress proved decisive, based on ESPN. (ANI)