Athletes to watch at the 2026 Asian Boxing Elite Boxing Championships

When it comes to Olympic pedigree, look no further than People’s Republic of China’s Wu Yu, who won gold in the women’s 50kg category at Paris 2024. 

Wu danced across the ring upon defeating Türkiye’s Buse Naz Cakiroglu in the gold-medal bout. Will she be dancing again by the end of these championships? 

Just three years earlier, India’s Lovlina Borgohain celebrated her nation’s third-ever Olympic boxing medal with bronze at Tokyo 2020, before making the quarter-finals in Paris in the 75kg category. She will be joined by several other Indian Olympians, including Nikhat Zareen and Preeti Pawar, as the nation looks to build upon the seven gold medals their women’s team won at last year’s world championships in Liverpool.

Twin brothers Nurbek Oralbay and Aibek Oralbay will both represent Kazakhstan in Ulaanbaatar, with the former coming off a silver medal-winning performance at the last Olympic Games in the men’s 80kg category. Much is also expected of Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games champion Aibek following his super heavyweight victory at the 2025 Worlds,

Other Olympic medallists scheduled to fight in Mongolia include Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yu-ting, who won women’s 57kg gold at the last edition of the Games, and Japan’s Tokyo 2020 women’s flyweight bronze-winner, Namiki Tsukimi.