Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain and rising star Sakshi Chaudhary secured their locations within the Indian boxing staff for the upcoming Asian Video games and the Commonwealth Video games with wins on the nationwide trials in Patiala on Friday.
Borgohain delivered a commanding efficiency to defeat Sanamacha Chanu 5-0 within the ladies’s 75kg ultimate on the nationwide boxing trials in Patiala.
Borgohain had missed an earlier alternative to safe her berth after failing to achieve the ultimate on the Asian Boxing Championships 2026 in Ulaanbaatar final month, as per Olympics.com. Below the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) choice coverage, boxers who superior to the finals of the Asian Boxing Championships secured direct qualification of their respective weight classes for each upcoming multi-sport occasions.
Within the ladies’s 51kg class, Sakshi Chaudhary continued her spectacular run by defeating reigning 48kg world champion Minakshi Hooda 5-0 within the ultimate, after earlier pulling off a surprising 4-1 upset over two-time world champion Nikhat Zareen within the semi-finals.
Minakshi had defeated former world champion and Commonwealth Video games 2022 gold medallist Nitu Ghanghas within the semi-finals.
Though Hooda clinched gold within the 48kg class on the Asian Boxing Championships, the burden class doesn’t function within the programmes for both the Asian Video games or the Commonwealth Video games.
Because of this, Minakshi moved as much as the 51kg division, the place her marketing campaign ended with a defeat to Sakshi Chaudhary. Amongst those that had already secured qualification by means of the Asian Boxing Championships had been Sachin Siwach (males’s 60kg), Preeti Pawar (ladies’s 54kg) and Priya Ghanghas (ladies’s 60kg), all of whom reached the finals in Ulaanbaatar.
Jaismine Lamboria (ladies’s 57kg), Arundhati Choudhary (ladies’s 70kg) and Aditya Pratap Singh (males’s 65kg) secured qualification for the Commonwealth Video games solely, as their respective classes usually are not included within the Asian Video games programme.
World championship bronze medallist Parveen Hooda (ladies’s 65kg) and Narender Berwal (+90kg), the one Indian male boxer to win a medal on the 2023 Asian Video games, additionally emerged victorious of their trials to seal their spots for the Video games.
The Commonwealth Video games 2026, to be held from July 23 to August 2 in Glasgow, will function 14 boxing occasions. The Asian Video games 2026, scheduled from September 19 to October 4 in Japan’s Aichi-Nagoya, might be contested throughout 11 weight classes.
Indian boxing staff for Asian Video games 2026
Ladies: Sakshi Chaudhary (51kg), Preeti Pawar (54kg), Priya Ghanghas (60kg), Parveen Hooda (65kg), Lovlina Borgohain (75kg)
Males: Jadumani Singh (55 kg), Sachin Siwach (60 kg), Sumit Kundu (70 kg), Ankush (80 kg), Kapil Pokhariya (90 kg), Narender Berwal (+90 kg)
Indian boxing staff for Commonwealth Video games 2026
Ladies: Sakshi Chaudhary (51kg), Preeti Pawar (54kg), Jaismine Lamboria (57kg), Priya Ghanghas (60kg), Parveen Hooda (65kg), Arundhati Choudhary (70kg), Lovlina Borgohain (75kg)
Males: Jadumani Singh (55kg), Sachin Siwach (60kg), Aditya Pratap Singh (65kg), Sumit Kundu (70kg), Ankush (80kg), Kapil Pokhariya (90kg), Narender Berwal (+90kg).