Roshibina Devi Naorem has won her second straight Asian Games medal, finishing with a silver in the women's 60kg wushu event at the Xiaoshan Guali Sports Centre in Hangzhou.
Roshibina, a bronze medallist from the 2018 Asian Games, had become only the second Indian to qualify for a gold medal match in wushu at the Asian Games on Wednesday but China's Wu Xiaowei proved a tough opponent as she closed the final with a 2-0 scoreline.
Before Roshibina, Wangkhem Sandhyarani Devi had been the only Indian wushu player to reach the gold medal match at the Asian Games, in the 2010 edition in Guangzhou.
Coming into the final, Roshibina had defeated Kazakhstan's Aiman Karshyga convincingly through points difference. She was the gold medallist in the same category at the 2019 South Asian Games.
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