India assured of 4 medals in wushu

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India were on Tuesday assured of at least four medals in wushu competition of the Asian Games with all but one of them reaching the semi-finals here.

Five Indians took the field in different categories of sanda competition and four won their respective events to be assured of at least a medal each.

The losing semifinalists will be awarded a Bronze each. All the semi-finals will be held on Wednesday.

Naorem Roshibini Devi was the first on the day to book a semi-final berth after beating Mubashra of Pakistan 2-0 in the women's sanda 60kg quarter-finals. She will face Cai Yingying of China in the semi-finals.

Santosh Kumar then beat Phithak Paokrathok 2-1 of Thailand in a tight quarter-final fight of the men's sanda 56kg category to book a last-four berth and be assured of a medal. He will meet Truong Giang Bui of Vietnam in the semi-finals.

Surya Bhanu Partap Singh was the third Indian to be assured of a medal after he beat Jean Claude Saclag of Philippines 2-0 in the quarter-finals of the men's sanda 60kg. He will take on Erfan Ahangarian of Iran in the next stage.

The fourth Indian to be assured of a medal was Narender Grewal who beat Akmal Rakhimov of Uzbekistan 2-0 in men's sanda 65kg quarter-final match. He will play against Sem Foroud Zafari of Iran in the semi-finals.

The only Indian to lose in the quarter-finals was Pardeep Kumar who went down 1-2 to Puja Riyaya of Indonesia in men's sanda 70kg.

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