ASIAN GAMES/Lin Yu-ting wins second straight Asian Games boxing gold

Taipei, Oct. 2 (CNA) Olympic champion Lin Yu-ting (林郁婷) of Taiwan won her second consecutive Asian Games boxing gold medal on Friday, defeating her Chinese opponent in the women's 60-kilogram final.

Lin beat Yang Chengyu (楊成宇) by a unanimous 5-0 decision at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, adding the 60 kg title to her 57 kg gold from Hangzhou in 2023.

The victory gave Taiwan its fourth gold of this year's Asian Games and marked Lin's first international title since moving up to the 60 kg weight class following her gold-medal triumph at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Lin had taken bronze at April's Asian Boxing Elite Boxing Championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, before winning silver at June's World Boxing Cup stop in Guiyang, China.

In the event in Guiyang, Lin defeated former world champion Yang by a 4-1 split decision in the semifinals to reach her first World Boxing Cup final in the heavier division.

In the final, Lin was edged by Viktoriya Grafeyeva of Kazakhstan 3-2, but she avenged that defeat in the first round of the Asian Games competition with a similar 3-2 victory over the Kazakh boxer.