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Parveen Hooda Secures Gold in Women's 65kg Boxing at Asian Games 2026
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Firstpost•02-10-2026, 15:51
Parveen Hooda Secures Gold in Women's 65kg Boxing at Asian Games 2026
- •Parveen Hooda clinched India's second boxing gold at the Asian Games 2026, defeating Chen Nien-Chen of Chinese Taipei in the women's 65 kg final.
- •The victory, a 3-2 split decision, marks a significant redemption for Hooda after losing her 2022 Asian Games bronze due to a doping whereabouts failure.
- •India's medal tally at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games reached 73, including 13 golds, 25 silvers, and 35 bronzes.
- •Other Indian athletes also achieved success, with the men's sepaktakraw quadrant winning bronze, women's recurve archery team securing a historic gold, and Lovlina Borgohain claiming gold in women's 75kg boxing.
- •Nethra Kumanan earned a bronze in women's dinghy sailing, and India secured silver medals in both mixed and men's recurve archery team events.
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Parveen Hooda secured the women's 65 kg gold medal by defeating Chinese Taipei's Chen Nien-Chen 3-2 via a split decision in the final at Aichi-Nagoya.
Parveen lost her 2022 Asian Games bronze medal and an Olympic quota after being handed a 22-month suspension by WADA in May 2024 due to three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period.
Kumkum Mohod, Ankita Bhakat, and Kirti Sharma pulled off a stunning upset by defeating South Korea 5-3 in the women's recurve archery gold medal match, claiming the country's first-ever discipline title at the continental showpiece.
