Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 24 (ANI): Indian wushu athlete Roshibina Devi secured her second consecutive silver medal on the Asian Games, dropping to China’s Zhang Xiaoyu within the girls’s sanda 60 kg ultimate at Aichi-Nagoya on Thursday.Â
Roshibina, additionally a 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games silver medalist, misplaced each her rounds by a 0-5 scoreline, and the Chinese opponent sealed the match 2-0, as per ESPN.Â
Roshibina loved a powerful run in Japan, which included beating 2023 world champion, Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy of Vietnam.
On Wednesday, Roshibina defeated Indonesia’s Thania Kusumaningtyas 2-0 within the semi-final to safe her place within the title conflict.
This is India’s 14th medal on the ongoing occasion, having already received a gold, including the sixth silver to the tally. India has additionally received seven bronze medals thus far.Â
Earlier, the pairing of Satnam Singh and Salman Khan secured a bronze medal within the males’s double sculls ultimate on Thursday.Â
The duo clocked a time of 6:13.25, simply 3.48 seconds wanting China’s gold medalists Yi Xudi / Nie Yide and a couple of.76 seconds behind the silver medalists Mekhrojbek Mamatkulov / Pavel Sorin, as per ESPN.Â
Satnam-Salman maintained the second place at 500m, 1000m and 1500m however fell away in direction of the top. At one level, they had been simply half a second behind the Chinese pair.Â
In males’s singles sculls competitions, Balraj Panwar missed out on a medal, ending fourth. Balraj managed to remain second at 500m, 1000m and 1500m marks, however later discovered himself outdone by Shakhboz Kholmurzaev of Uzbekistan and Tatsuya Sakurama of Japan throughout the ultimate 500 m stretch, and he misplaced the medal.Â
Balraj maintained a five-second lead over Sakurama forward of the ultimate stretch however completed eight seconds wanting him, clocking timings of 6:54.80, 15 seconds behind the gold medalist Zhiwei Deng of China. (ANI)