Asian Games 2026: Some pleasure in sepaktakraw as males’s quadrant secures bronze

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], October 2 (ANI): India’s sepaktakraw bought a cause to rejoice on the again finish of the Asian Games 2026 marketing campaign as the boys’s quadrant secured a bronze medal after a defeat to Japan within the semifinal of their occasion on Friday. 

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 crew regu within the 2018 version in Jakarta and the 2022 version bronze within the ladies’s crew regu occasion. 

The Indian quadrant loved a terrific 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. 

This is India’s 72nd medal on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, with 12 golds, 25 silver medals and 34 bronze medals. 

Earlier to begin off the day, India produced a surprising 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, in accordance with ESPN.

Kumkum Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara settled for silver within the combined 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 vogue as she defeated China’s Bao Ziyi 5-0 within the ladies’s 75kg remaining 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 remaining race of the finals after a troublesome opening race to complete on the rostrum. She ended degree 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 crew occasion on the Asian Games 2026 after shedding 1-5 to South Korea within the remaining 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 have been unable to copy the ladies’s crew’s earlier upset over South Korea, because the Koreans’ consistency underneath strain proved decisive, in accordance with ESPN. (ANI)