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Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], October 2 (ANI): Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain celebrated her 29th birthday in memorable fashion as she defeated China’s Bao Ziyi 5-0 in the women’s 75kg final to win the gold medal at the Asian Games 2026 on Friday.

Lovlina produced a composed performance in the gold-medal bout, using her counter-punching effectively against an aggressive Bao to secure a unanimous victory, according to ESPN. cricket-info.homes

The Chinese boxer started the contest on the front foot and threw a flurry of punches in the opening round, but Lovlina remained patient and responded with effective counters. She edged the round 3-2.

Bao continued to press in the second round, but Lovlina grew in confidence and landed the cleaner punches. She took the round 4-1 to establish a 2-0 lead on the judges’ scorecards.

With the gold within reach, Lovlina maintained her strategy in the third round, allowing Bao to come forward while avoiding heavy damage and finding opportunities to counter.

The Indian was awarded the round unanimously to complete a 5-0 victory and claim the Asian Games title.

The gold caps a memorable run for Lovlina, who had earlier defeated Kazakhstan’s Natalya Bogdanova 3-2 in a split decision in the semifinal. That victory made her the first Indian woman boxer to reach consecutive Asian Games finals.

Lovlina, born on October 2, 1997, in Assam’s Golaghat district, had won silver in the women’s 75kg category at the Hangzhou Asian Games. She also won a bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and became world champion in the 75kg category in 2023.

The Indian boxer had also won gold at the 2022 Asian Championships and silver at the 2026 Commonwealth Games.

Her Asian Games triumph adds another major title to a career that has already earned her the Arjuna Award in 2020 and the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in 2021.

The victory also adds to India’s medal tally at the Aichi-Nagoya Games, with the country having 70 medals — 12 gold, 24 silver and 34 bronze. (ANI)

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Another rule change states that play will not end at the fall of a wicket in the last over of the day. Furthermore, batters wasting time will be given two warnings before a penalty of five runs is awarded to the fielding side after a third offence.

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Asian Games 2026, Day 13 Live: Hello everyone and welcome to Day 13 of the Asian Games 2026 as the Indian contigents are willing to add increase their medal to move forward to the events’ points table as they showed an impressive performance by winning bunch of medals in the 20th edition of the Asian Games.

On October 2, several Indian athletes will be in action at the Asian Games. The day will start with Kumkum Mohod, Ankita Bhakat and Kirti facing China in the women’s recurve team semifinal at 6:25 AM. Dipanshi will face Japan’s Yui Susaki in the women’s 50kg wrestling quarterfinal at 7:08 AM, while Rajat Ruhal will take on Kazakhstan’s Yedige Kassimbek in the men’s 125kg freestyle wrestling at 7:25 AM. Kumkum Mohod and Dhiraj Bommadevara will then compete against Japan in the mixed recurve team semifinal at 8:20 AM. Later, Dhiraj Bommadevara, Yashdeep Bhoge and Neeraj Chauhan will face Iran in the men’s recurve team semifinal at 10:55 AM.

In boxing, Lovlina Borgohain will face China’s Ziyi Bao in the women’s 75kg final at 10 AM. Parveen will take on Chinese Taipei’s Nien-Chin Chen in the women’s 65kg final at 2:15 PM, while Ankush will face Korea’s Minseong Kim in the men’s 80kg final at 2:45 PM. In wrestling, Sujeet, Rajat Ruhal, Dipanshi and Priya will also be in action in their respective medal bouts and finals, subject to qualification. India’s women’s hockey team will face China in the final at 3:30 PM. India’s men’s volleyball team will also face Korea at 6:30 AM, while the women’s rugby sevens team will play Malaysia at 8:50 AM.

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Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], October 2 (ANI): Indian sailor Nethra Kumanan secured the bronze medal in the women’s dinghy event at the Asian Games 2026 on Friday, adding another medal to India’s sailing haul at the Aichi-Nagoya Games.

Nethra recovered strongly in the second and final race of the finals after a difficult opening race to finish on the podium. She ended level on points with Hong Kong’s Stephanie Louise Norton, but her superior head-to-head results against Norton gave her the bronze medal.

The medal adds to India’s impressive performance in sailing at the Asian Games, with Indian sailors having already won medals in the men’s and women’s skiff events.

Harshita Tomar and Shital Verma won bronze in the women’s skiff event on Thursday after finishing fourth initially. Their position was upgraded after China, which had originally taken third place, was disqualified.

Earlier on Thursday, Manu Francis and Prince Noble won silver in the men’s skiff event, finishing behind China after nine races. Hong Kong took the bronze medal.

On Day 13, India’s archers also enjoyed a productive outing, with Kumkum Mohod, Ankita Bhakat and Kirti Sharma winning gold in the women’s recurve team event after defeating South Korea 5-3.

Kumkum and Dhiraj Bommadevara subsequently reached the mixed recurve team final after beating Japan 5-3 in the semifinal, before losing 3-5 to China in the gold-medal clash to settle for silver.

In wrestling, Sujeet Kalkal advanced to the men’s freestyle 65kg semifinal with a dominant 10-0 technical superiority victory over Iran’s Abbas Ebrahimzadehsavadkouhi in the quarterfinal. Earlier, he had defeated Afghanistan’s Sayed Omar Zazai 13-3 in the round of 16.

India’s other wrestling results included defeats for Dipanshi against Japan’s Yui Susaki in the women’s 50kg round of 16, Rajat Ruhal against Kazakhstan’s Yedige Kassimbek in the men’s freestyle 125kg round of 16, and Priya against reigning Asian Games champion Kyzy Medet of Kyrgyzstan in the women’s 76kg round of 16.

In other events, India’s women’s rugby sevens team defeated Malaysia 26-5 in a Pool E match, while the men’s volleyball team beat South Korea 3-1 in the classification match for fifth to eighth places.

David Beckham progressed to the men’s keirin semifinal in track cycling, while Ronaldo Singh was eliminated in the repechage.

In canoe slalom, Pradhyumna Singh Rathod qualified for the men’s kayak cross quarterfinal and Shikha Chauhan progressed to the women’s kayak cross quarterfinal, while Hitesh Kewat was eliminated.

Kashish Malik defeated Hong Kong’s Lam Siu Wai in the mixed individual virtual taekwondo round of 16 before losing to Kazakhstan’s Rita Bakisheva in the quarterfinal.

India also suffered a defeat to Thailand in the women’s sepaktakraw quadrant group match, while Vishnu Saravanan finished fourth in the men’s dinghy sailing event.

With Nethra’s bronze, India’s sailing medal haul at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games has now grown further, adding to the silver and two bronze medals secured earlier in the competition.

India currently rank at the sixth place in medal tally with 70 medals, including 12 gold, 24 silver and 34 bronze medals, at the time of writing. (ANI)

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