Asian Games 2026: Sumit Kundu’s males’s 70 kg boxing marketing campaign ends attributable to harm in R16

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 24 (ANI): Indian boxer Sumit Kundu’s males’s 70 kg marketing campaign on the ongoing Asian Games got here to an finish attributable to an harm, ending his run within the round-of-16 competitors. 

The Indian boxer got here out all weapons blazing within the first spherical, throwing some huge punches and utilizing his superior peak and weight in opposition to Iraq’s Ali Al-Sarray rather well to take the primary spherical. He additionally took the second spherical 3-2, regardless of a struggle from Ali. However, when the third spherical began, he began to hobble after slipping and misplaced the competition by way of ‘Referee Stops Contest’ attributable to a knee harm, as per ESPN. 

Sumit superior to the lads’s 70kg spherical of 16 on the Asian Games 2026 after defeating Thailand’s Bunjong Sinsiri by unanimous resolution within the preliminary bout on Monday.

Sinsiri got here out aggressively, touchdown a number of efficient punches within the early exchanges. However, Sumit steadily settled into the competition and located his rhythm because the opening spherical unfolded. Despite Sinsiri’s efforts, the judges awarded the primary spherical 4-1 in Sumit’s favour.

The Indian boxer appeared simpler within the second spherical as he patiently picked his punches. With Sinsiri needing to step up his aggression, Sumit grew in confidence and produced some sturdy assaults within the remaining 30 seconds to take the spherical. Holding the benefit, Sumit adopted a extra measured method within the third spherical. He prevented pointless exchanges whereas persevering with to land efficient punches and management the competition.

Sumit dominated the ultimate spherical, with all 5 judges scoring it in his favour, and accomplished a 5-0 sweep to seal a unanimous-decision victory. With the win, Sumit progressed to the spherical of 16 within the males’s 70kg class on the Asian Games.

Roshibina Devi secured her second consecutive silver medal on the Asian Games, shedding to China’s Zhang Xiaoyu within the ladies’s sanda 60 kg remaining at Aichi-Nagoya on Thursday. Earlier, the pairing of Satnam Singh and Salman Khan secured a bronze medal within the males’s double sculls remaining on Thursday. 

Roshibina, additionally a 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games silver medalist, misplaced each rounds by a 0-5 scoreline, and the Chinese opponent sealed the match 2-0, as per ESPN.

Roshibina loved a formidable 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 gained a gold, including the sixth silver to the tally. India has additionally gained seven bronze medals to this point. 

Coming to rowing, Satnam-Salman clocked a time of 6:13.25, simply 3.48 seconds in need of China’s gold medalists Yi Xudi / Nie Yide and a pair of.76 seconds behind the silver medalists Mekhrojbek Mamatkulov / Pavel Sorin, as per ESPN. 

Satnam-Salman maintained the second place at 500m, 1000m and 1500m however fell away in the direction of the tip. At one level, they have been simply half a second behind the Chinese pair. 

In males’s singles sculls competitions, Balraj Panwar missed out on a medal, ending fourth. Balraj managed to remain second on the 500m, 1000m and 1500m marks, however later discovered himself outdone by Shakhboz Kholmurzaev of Uzbekistan and Tatsuya Sakurama of Japan in the course of the remaining 500 m stretch, and he misplaced the medal. 

Balraj maintained a five-second lead over Sakurama forward of the ultimate stretch however completed eight seconds in need of him, clocking a time of 6:54.80, 15 seconds behind the gold medalist Zhiwei Deng of China. (ANI)