Men's boxing Shin Jae-yong and Kim Ki-chae advance to the quarterfinals... Oh Yeon-ji was eliminated in the round of 16.

Men's boxing Shin Jae-yong and Kim Ki-chae advance to the quarterfinals... Oh Yeon-ji was eliminated in the round of 16.

(Nagoya = Yonhap News) Reporter Dae-ho Lee = Lin Yu-ting (Taiwan), who was at the center of the so-called 'gender controversy' at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but won the gold medal with overwhelming skills, won the first match of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.

Lin Yuting won a 3-2 decision over Kazakhstan's Viktoria Grafeeva in the women's 60kg boxing round of 16 at the competition held at the Nishio City Gymnasium in Aichi Prefecture, Japan on the 26th.

Of the five assistant referees, three declared Lin Yuting to have the upper hand, while two ruled in favor of Grafeeva.

Lin Yuting received a deduction of 1 point in the second round, but was slightly ahead in effective hits throughout the game and qualified for the quarterfinals.

Lin Yu-ting, who emerged as a Taiwanese boxing hero by winning the gold medal in the 57kg class at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games and then reaching the top of the featherweight class at the Paris Olympics, is challenging for his second consecutive Asian Games title by moving up to a weight class in this competition.

Kim Ki-chae (Suwon City Hall), who competed in the men's 90kg weight class round of 16, won a second-round KO against Irfan Khan (Pakistan) and advanced to the quarterfinals.

Shin Jae-yong (Korean Army Athletic Corps) in the men's 55kg class advanced to the quarterfinals with a bye as Abbas Qasim Hamdan Al Sarawi (Iraq) withdrew in the round of 16.

Oh Yeon-ji (Ulsan Metropolitan City Sports Council) in the women's 60kg class lost to Priya (India) 0-5 by unanimous decision and was eliminated in the round of 16.