Punjab, Sept. 24 -- Naorem Roshibina Devi lost the women's 60kg sanda final 0-2 to China's Zhang Xiaoyu and took silver. It is her third consecutive Asian Games medal - the first time an Indian woman has managed that in wushu.
The final
She lost both rounds 0-5. Zhang sealed it 2-0.
A 0-5, 0-5 defeat is not a close final that went the other way. Chinese sanda at this weight is the deepest field in the sport, and Zhang was the better fighter on the day by a clear margin.
What the third medal means
Bronze at Jakarta. Silver at Hangzhou. Silver here.
Three Asian Games in a row on the podium, from Manipur, in a sport with almost no funding infrastructure and very little national visibility. No Indian woman had done it in wushu before.
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