Asian Game’s: Maipur’s Roshibina Devi win’s Silver medal-here is how she fell in love to wushu
Roshibina Devi Naorem claimed a silver medal at the Asian Games for India in wushu on Thursday, thereby improving on her bronze medal from the Jakarta Asian Games five years back.
The 22-year-old lost in the women’s 60kg final to home favourite Xiaowei Wu. Roshibina lost both the rounds by identical 5-0 margins on the judges’ cards.
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NewsSportsAsian GamesAsian Games: How Manipur’s silver-medallist Roshibina Devi Naorem fell in love with wushu
Asian Games: How Manipur’s silver-medallist Roshibina Devi Naorem fell in love with wushu
Roshibina Devi Naorem hails from a place called Bishnupur in Manipur. The daughter of a farmer, says she fell in love with the sport very early on.
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September 28, 2023 09:02 IST
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Roshibina Devi Naorem claimed a silver medal at the Asian Games for India in wushu on Thursday.Roshibina Devi Naorem claimed a silver medal at the Asian Games for India in wushu on Thursday. (PHOTO: SAI Media)
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Roshibina Devi Naorem claimed a silver medal at the Asian Games for India in wushu on Thursday, thereby improving on her bronze medal from the Jakarta Asian Games five years back.
The 22-year-old lost in the women’s 60kg final to home favourite Xiaowei Wu. Roshibina lost both the rounds by identical 5-0 margins on the judges’ cards.
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“Everybody makes mistakes. Winning and losing is a part of it. I gave my best but I couldn’t do it (winning the gold medal), but the next time I will improve on my mistakes and come back better the next time,” she said after the final.
It was India’s 23rd medal at the ongoing Hangzhou Asian Games and the first from the discipline of wushu.
Roshibina hails from a place called Bishnupur in Manipur. The daughter of a farmer, says she fell in love with the sport very early on.
Back in 2016 she won Bronze medal at the junior world’s
Two years later, she was representing India at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. That time too, she had lost to a Chinese opponent Cai Yingying.
“I was at the previous Asian Games (at Jakarta-Palembang 2018) where I won the bronze medal. But I was not able to travel to competitions after that due to the COVID-19 situation,” she added.