Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain and rising prospect Sakshi Chaudhary secured their locations on the Indian boxing group for the Asian Video games and Commonwealth Video games after victories on the nationwide trials held in Patiala on Might 16.
Borgohain defeated Sanamacha Chanu 5-0 within the ladies’s 75kg remaining on the trials. She had missed an earlier likelihood to qualify after failing to achieve the ultimate on the Asian Boxing Championships 2026 in Ulaanbaatar final month. Based on Olympics.com, the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) choice coverage grants direct qualification to boxers who attain the finals of the Asian Boxing Championships of their weight classes for each upcoming multi-sport occasions.
Within the ladies’s 51kg class, Sakshi Chaudhary continued her robust kind by defeating reigning 48kg world champion Minakshi Hooda 5-0 within the remaining. Chaudhary had beforehand upset two-time world champion Nikhat Zareen 4-1 within the semi-finals. Minakshi Hooda, who had received gold within the 48kg class on the Asian Boxing Championships, moved as much as 51kg because the 48kg division isn’t included within the Asian Video games or Commonwealth Video games programmes, the place she was defeated by Chaudhary.
Boxers who had already earned qualification by way of the Asian Boxing Championships embody males’s 60kg Sachin Siwach, and girls’s 54kg Preeti Pawar and 60kg Priya Ghanghas, 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) certified for the Commonwealth Video games solely, as their classes are absent from the Asian Video games programme.
World championship bronze medallist Parveen Hooda (ladies’s 65kg) and Narender Berwal (+90kg), the only real Indian male boxer to medal on the 2023 Asian Video games, received their trials to substantiate their participation within the Asian Video games.
The Commonwealth Video games 2026 shall be held in Glasgow from July 23 to August 2 and can function 14 boxing occasions. The Asian Video games 2026 are scheduled in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, from September 19 to October 4, encompassing 11 weight classes.
Indian boxing group for Asian Video games 2026:
Ladies: Sakshi Chaudhary (51kg), Preeti Pawar (54kg), Priya Ghanghas (60kg), Parveen Hooda (65kg), Lovlina Borgohain (75kg)
Males: Jadumani Singh (55kg), Sachin Siwach (60kg), Sumit Kundu (70kg), Ankush (80kg), Kapil Pokhariya (90kg), Narender Berwal (+90kg)
Indian boxing group 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)