Asian Games: Roshibina Devi bags silver medal in final of Women’s 60 Kg Wushu
Roshibina Devi Naorem clinched India's first silver medal in Women's 60kg Wushu on Day 5 of the ongoing Asian Games 2023
Hangzhou: Indian athelete Roshibina Devi Naorem clinched India’s first silver medal in Women’s 60kg Wushu on Day 5 of the ongoing Asian Games 2023, in Hangzhou.
On Thursday, Roshibina crashed to a defeat in the women’s 60kg wushu gold medal bout, losing to China’s Wu Xiaowei.
Yesterday, rifle shooter Sift Kaur Samra in the Women’s 50m Rifle 3-positions, who set a world record in the Individual event, Indian shooters banged in seven medals as India took its medal tally to 22 medals including five gold medals on a Wonderful Wednesday at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.
India won eight medals in all on Wednesday, seven in shooting and one in sailing — a bronze by Vishnu Sarvananan in the Men’s Dinghy – ILCA7 at the sailing venue in Far away Ningbo.
At the end of the day, India is in seventh position in the medals tally with 5 gold, eight silver and 10 bronze medals. China was marching ahead towards the 100 gold mark as they have already amassed 76 gold, 43 silver and 21 bronze for a total of 140 medals. The Republic of Korea is second with exactly half of that count — 70 medals including 19 gold, 18 silver and 33 bronze medals.
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