India came into the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games with nine boxing golds from 16 editions going back to 1958. On Friday it added three in roughly six hours, winning every final it contested and turning in its best boxing showing at the Games.
Lovlina Borgohain, the Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist and a former world champion, beat China's Bao Ziyi 5-0 in her final. She became only the second Indian woman to win Asian Games boxing gold after MC Mary Kom, ending a 12-year wait. Her route went through reigning world champion Natalya Bogdanova on a split decision in the semi-finals, and she has said she considered retiring after the Paris Olympics.
Parveen Hooda followed with a 3-2 split decision over Chinese Taipei's Chen Nien-chin, a former world champion and Paris bronze medallist, in one of the tightest finals of the tournament. It completes a comeback for Hooda, who lost her Hangzhou 2022 bronze to a 22-month suspension for whereabouts failures and came home without a medal from this year's Commonwealth Games.
Commonwealth champion Ankush Panghal then took the men's 80kg title, beating world champion Fazliddin Erkinboev of Uzbekistan 4-1 in the semi-final and South Korea's Kim Min-seong 4-0 in the final. He is the first Indian man to win Asian Games boxing gold since Amit Panghal in 2018.
"I don't know how to celebrate my gold. It has just ended." — Lovlina Borgohain
The results stand out because Indian boxers have usually done well at the Commonwealth Games and then struggled at the Asian Games, where the Uzbek and Kazakh fighters make the draws much harder. India won one silver and three bronze in Hangzhou.
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Original summary by Proventier.