{"id":898895,"date":"2026-09-20T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898895\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T12:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:34:09","slug":"asian-games-2026-boxing-know-india-schedule-scores-results-and-medal-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/898895\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2026 boxing: Know India schedule, scores, results and medal winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain<\/a> and rising star Sakshi Chaudhary will headline India’s boxing<\/a> challenge at the Asian Games 2026<\/a> in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.<\/p>\n

India will field an 11-member boxing contingent at the Games, comprising five women and six men.<\/p>\n

The team features a mix of experienced campaigners and emerging talents, with Lovlina Borgohain, former Asian champion Parveen Hooda as well as Commonwealth Games<\/a> medallists Sakshi Chaudhary, Narender Berwal and Jadumani Singh in the mix.<\/p>\n

Indian boxing team at Asian Games 2026<\/p>\n

Women: Sakshi Chaudhary (51kg), Preeti Pawar (54kg), Priya Ghanghas (60kg), Parveen Hooda (65kg), Lovlina Borgohain (75kg)<\/p>\n

Men: Jadumani Singh (55kg), Sachin Siwach (60kg), Sumit Kundu (70kg), Ankush Panghal (80kg), Kapil Pokhariya (90kg), Narender Berwal (+90kg)<\/p>\n

Lovlina Borgohain heads into Aichi-Nagoya as one of India’s most decorated boxers. The Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist<\/a> and former world champion won silver at the Hangzhou 2023<\/a> and will compete in the women’s 75kg category.<\/p>\n

Having missed out on direct qualification through the Asian Boxing Championships after failing to reach the final in Ulaanbaatar, Lovlina Borgohain secured her spot in the Asian Games<\/a> team by beating Sanamacha Chanu in the 75kg final at the national trials.<\/p>\n

Sakshi Chaudhary will be another boxer to keep an eye on in Japan and heads into the continental showpiece having won gold at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She made the Asian Games squad after defeating reigning 48kg world champion Minakshi Hooda 5-0 in the 51kg final at the trials and had earlier stunned two-time world champion Nikhat Zareen<\/a> 4-1 in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Priya Ghanghas and Preeti Pawar, also gold medallists from the Commonwealth Games 2026<\/a>, and world championships bronze medallist Parveen Hooda are the other Indian boxers<\/a> in the women\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

Preeti Pawar had also won a bronze medal at the previous edition of the Asian Games.<\/p>\n

In the men’s draw, Sachin Siwach, Jadumani Singh, Ankush Panghal and Narender Berwal head into the Asian Games on the back of medal-winning performances at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Narender is also the only Indian male boxer who won a medal at the 2023 Asian Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain and rising star Sakshi Chaudhary will headline India’s boxing challenge at the Asian Games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-898895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}