China, Chinese Taipei, India, Japan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan shared the first six gold medals at the Asian Games
China, Chinese Taipei, India, Japan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan shared the first six gold medals in the boxing event of the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
Altogether 34 nations have entered to the boxing event of the Asian Games and eleven champions will be crowned in Japan. The number of the female boxers is 76 in five divisions, while 119 male athletes will fight in six categories.
The women boxers are able to compete at the 51kg, 54kg, 60kg, 65kg and 75kg weight categories, while the men’s divisions are the 55kg, 60kg, 70kg, 80kg, 90kg and +90kg.
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, DPR Korea, Indonesia, India, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macau, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Chinese Taipei, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Yemen are the participating nations in the Asian Games.
China’s Olympic Games winner Wu Yu did not lose any contests since February 2024 when she lost to Uzbekistan’s Sabina Bobokulova at the Strandja Trophy. The Chinese athlete had a flow experience in the entire Asian Games and she used the perfect tactics in the second and third rounds to beat another veteran opponent, Vietnam’s returning Asian Champion Nguyen Thi Tam at the 51kg final.
Another Olympic Champion, Lin Yu Ting moved up to the women’s 60kg weight class this year and she used her counter-attacking style of boxing perfectly against China’s Yang Chengyu to take her next big title in Aichi-Nagoya.
The women’s 75kg weight class was another tough category in the Asian Games with several World Champions, Youth World Champions and Asian Champions on the board. India’s Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain used up all of her experiences to beat China’s 10-years-younger Bao Ziyi in an exciting final bout.
Philippines’ Carlo Paalam and Japan’s Rui Yamaguchi both had to beat stars on their roads to the final of the men’s 55kg weight class. The Olympics silver medallist Filipino made impressive efforts in the third round but Yamaguchi had the advantage to keep the victory and made a surprise success in this final.
Makhmud’s younger brother, Kazakhstan’s Torekhan Sabyrkhan is only 20-year-old but he is the reigning World Champion at the men’s 70kg weight class. The Kazakh prodigy felt the distance against Jordan’s Zeyad Eshaish from the first seconds and he dominated the final and the whole Asian Games with perfect performance.
The World Champions as Uzbekistan’s Turabek Khabibullayev and Kazakhstan’s Nurbek Oralbay had to meet each other already in the quarter-finals of the men’s 90kg in the Games. The 22-year-old Uzbek won that tight contest and after that he had an easy job to take the gold medal against China’s Han Xuezhen.
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