Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], October 2 (ANI): India defeated China 5-1 within the girls’s recurve group semifinal on the Asian Games 2026 on Friday to e book a spot within the gold medal match, the place they’ll face South Korea.
Kumkum Mohod, Ankita Bhakat and Kirti Sharma mixed to provide a composed efficiency and secured the semifinal with scores of 53-51, 54-52 and 51-51 throughout the three units, in keeping with ESPN.
The Indian trio made a sluggish begin, trailing China 25-26 after the primary rotation of the opening set. However, a powerful end noticed India rating 28 factors within the second rotation to take the set 53-51 and transfer 2-0 forward.
India maintained the momentum within the second set. Kirti started with a ten earlier than Ankita and Kumkum added an eight and 9 respectively, giving India a two-point benefit after the primary rotation.
China completed the set with 52 factors, however India closed on 54, with Kumkum producing a ten with the ultimate arrow to place her facet 4-0 forward.
China fought again within the third set, with each groups stage at 25 after the primary rotation. India then took a one-point lead after the second rotation, however China completed on 51.
India wanted solely a tied set to seal the semifinal, and so they held their nerve to complete on 51 and draw the third set, finishing a 5-1 victory.
The outcome sends India into the ladies’s recurve group ultimate towards South Korea later within the day.
The Indian archers will probably be wanting so as to add one other gold medal to the nation’s tally, with the recurve group occasions additionally carrying significance within the context of LA 2028 Olympic qualification.
India may have additional alternatives in recurve archery on Friday, with the combined group and males’s group semifinals additionally scheduled.
Kumkum Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara will face Japan within the combined group semifinal, whereas Dhiraj, Neeraj Chauhan and Yashdeep Bhoge will tackle Iran within the males’s group semifinal.
The combined recurve group occasion gives a further incentive, with the champion National Olympic Committee set to earn one males’s and one girls’s quota for the LA 2028 Olympics.
India’s girls’s hockey group may even be chasing gold later within the day when it takes on defending champion China within the ultimate at 3:30 PM IST. A victory would give India its first Asian Games girls’s hockey gold since 1982 and safe a direct qualification quota for LA 2028.
Boxing will present three extra gold-medal alternatives, with Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain dealing with China’s Ziyi Bao within the girls’s 75kg ultimate at 10 AM. Parveen Hooda will meet Olympic medallist Chen Nien-Chin of Chinese Taipei within the girls’s 65kg ultimate at 2:15 PM, adopted by Ankush Panghal’s males’s 80kg ultimate towards Republic of Korea’s Minseong Kim.
Wrestling may even see 4 Indians start their campaigns, whereas India is already assured of a medal within the males’s quadrant sepaktakraw after reaching the semifinals.
Track biking, crusing, golf, canoe slalom, rugby sevens, taekwondo and volleyball will full India’s action-packed Day 13 on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. (ANI)