{"id":914182,"date":"2026-09-29T14:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914182\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:56:08","slug":"asian-games-2026-boxing-narender-berwal-wins-second-successive-bronze-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914182\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2026 boxing: Narender Berwal wins second successive bronze medal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian boxer Narender Berwal won the men\u2019s +90kg bronze medal at the Asian Games 2026<\/a> after losing 5-0 to reigning world champion Aibek Oralbay of Kazakhstan in the semi-finals at the Nishio Gymnasium<\/a> in Aichi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It was Narender Berwal\u2019s second successive Asian Games<\/a> bronze medal. He had also finished third in the men\u2019s +92kg category at Hangzhou 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oralbay controlled much of Tuesday\u2019s contest, while Narender looked to close the distance and find openings. The Indian received a standing count in the final round before the Kazakh completed a unanimous victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gave my 100 per cent in the match,” Narender said. \u201cHowever, I wasn\u2019t able to fully execute the plan my coaches set out to fight at a distance.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy opponent was more powerful and faster than me. Because he was the world No. 1, he had that edge, which made it a tough fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Narender started his campaign against Adthapong Saengtep of Thailand in the quarter-finals, where the referee stopped the contest before losing to Oralbay. The Indian received a bye in the round of 16.<\/p>\n

While Narender settled for bronze, Parveen Hooda and Ankush Panghal progressed to their respective gold-medal bouts earlier on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Ankush Panghal stuns world champion<\/p>\n

Ankush pulled off a major upset in the men\u2019s 80kg semi-finals, defeating Uzbekistan\u2019s reigning 75kg world champion Fazliddin Erkinboev 4-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The victory made Ankush the first Indian male boxer in eight years to reach an Asian Games final.<\/p>\n

Parveen, meanwhile, beat People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s Li Shu 5-0 in the women\u2019s 65kg semi-finals and will face Chinese Taipei\u2019s Chen Nien-chin for gold.<\/p>\n

Narender, Parveen and Ankush were three of the six Indian boxers<\/a> who had already assured themselves of medals by reaching the semi-finals at Aichi-Nagoya 2026.<\/p>\n

Under the Boxing Federation of India\u2019s selection criteria, Asian Games medallists will be selected as the main entries in their respective weight categories for the World Boxing Championships 2027.<\/p>\n

The World Championships in Kazakhstan will be the first qualifying event in boxing<\/a> for the LA 2028 Olympics.<\/p>\n

Three more Indian boxers will compete in the semi-finals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain will take on reigning 70kg world champion Natalya Bogdanova of Kazakhstan in the women\u2019s 75kg semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Priya Ghanghas will face China\u2019s Yang Chengyu in the women\u2019s 60kg last four, while Kapil Pokhariya takes on Uzbekistan\u2019s Turabek Khabibullaev in the men\u2019s 90kg semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian boxer Narender Berwal won the men\u2019s +90kg bronze medal at the Asian Games 2026 after losing 5-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-914182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}