Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 22 (ANI): Indian wushu star Naorem Roshibina Devi assured herself of a 3rd successive Asian Games medal after storming into the ladies’s Sanda 60kg semifinals with a 5-0 victory over Macao, China’s Chu Man Sin, on the 2026 version right here on Tuesday.
Roshibina, a two-time Asian Games medallist, will add one other medal to her assortment after successful bronze on the 2018 Jakarta Games and silver at Hangzhou in 2023. The semifinal berth ensures her no less than a bronze medal within the occasion, in line with ESPN.
The Manipuri athlete, who acquired the Arjuna Award in 2023, has additionally received gold medals on the 2017 Asian Junior Championships, 2019 South Asian Games and 2023 Moscow Wushu Stars. She was named the International Wushu Federation’s Female Athlete of the Year for 2023.
In smooth tennis, India’s Aryan Thakur suffered a defeat towards Chen Po-yi of Chinese Taipei in his males’s singles Group C contest.
Thakur had begun his marketing campaign with a 4-0 win over Mongolia’s Bold-erdene Altangerel earlier on Tuesday, however couldn’t carry that momentum into his subsequent match.
India additionally had a blended day throughout different disciplines, with the lads’s badminton workforce confirming a medal after defeating Japan 3-0 within the quarterfinals.
The ladies’s cricket workforce delivered India’s first gold medal of the Games, defeating Sri Lanka by 147 runs within the T20 last. India posted 216/3, powered by Smriti Mandhana’s 79 and Richa Ghosh’s unbeaten 49, earlier than bowling Sri Lanka out for 69 in 15.4 overs. Deepti Sharma took three wickets for six runs.
In boxing, Sakshi Chaudhary superior to the ladies’s 51kg spherical of 16 with a unanimous 5-0 determination over Paris Olympics bronze medallist Aira Villegas of the Philippines. Jadumani Singh additionally progressed within the males’s 55kg class after defeating Nepal’s Chandra Bahadur Thapa.
India’s males’s kabaddi workforce registered a 63-31 win over South Korea in Group A, whereas the ladies’s desk tennis workforce defeated Thailand 3-2 within the spherical of 16. The males’s desk tennis workforce misplaced 0-3 to the Republic of Korea within the opening spherical.
In fencing, Taniksha Khatri misplaced to South Korea’s Song Sera within the ladies’s particular person epee quarterfinals, whereas Mitva Chaudhari was overwhelmed by China’s Yang Jingwen within the spherical of 16. Hemash Singh Sanasam and Sachin additionally exited the lads’s particular person foil occasion.
In taking pictures, Elavenil Valarivan and Parth Mane completed fourth within the 10m air rifle blended workforce last after qualifying second. In males’s skeet qualification, Anantjeet Singh Naruka was second, whereas Mairaj Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill had been twenty third and thirty fifth, respectively. In the ladies’s occasion, Raiza Dhillon stood fifth, Parinaaz Dhaliwal ninth and Maheshwari Chauhan sixteenth.
In swimming, Aryan Nehra completed fourth within the males’s 1500m freestyle last B, whereas India’s males’s 4x100m medley relay workforce certified for the ultimate after ending seventh total within the heats.
India’s males’s workforce Regu sepaktakraw facet misplaced 0-3 to Malaysia. In karate, Alisha Choudhary misplaced 1-6 to Indonesia’s Cok Istri Agung Sanistyarani within the ladies’s kumite -55kg spherical of 16, whereas Chetan Bhatt misplaced his males’s 84kg kumite bronze medal match.
In equestrian dressage, Ashish Limaye and Willy Be Dun completed thirteenth, Arjan Nagra and Cooley Goodwood had been twenty third, whereas Fouaad Mirza and Camouflage 38 completed twenty sixth.
In smooth tennis, Jay Meena defeated Pakistan’s Hussain Arain 4-0 in males’s singles Group D, whereas Aadhya Tiwari beat Pakistan’s Kainaat Shallwani however completed second in her group and missed out on the knockout rounds.
India’s eFootball duo of Shakeel Danial Patel and Chinmay Sahoo drew 0-0 with Uzbekistan in Group F.
Roshibina’s assured medal provides to India’s rising tally on the ongoing Games, with the Indian contingent persevering with its marketing campaign throughout disciplines in Aichi-Nagoya. (ANI)