Parveen Hooda beats Chen Nien-chin 3-2 to win women's 65kg gold at Asian Games 2026

Parveen Hooda defeated Chinese Taipei’s Chen Nien-chin 3-2 by split decision to claim the women’s 65kg boxing gold at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on Friday, October 2. The 26-year-old from Rohtak, Haryana secured the title in the final of the continental tournament.

Parveen’s victory made her only the second Indian female boxer to win gold at the Aichi-Nagoya Games, following Lovlina Borgohain’s triumph in the women’s 75kg division. Lovlina beat China’s Ziyi Bao in the 75kg final, and her unanimous-decision win ended a 12-year wait for an Indian woman to claim Asiad boxing gold; the only Indian woman to have won an Asiad boxing title previously was MC Mary Kom at the 2014 Incheon Games. Parveen’s success came in the new 65kg weight class added to the Asian Games.

The gold-medal bout between Parveen and Chen, a Paris 2024 Olympics bronze medallist, was closely contested round by round. Parveen took the first round 5-0, Chen responded with a 5-0 second round, and the deciding third round was scored 3-2 in Parveen’s favour, producing the split decision.

Parveen’s return to the continental event followed a suspension that led to the stripping of a Hangzhou 2022 bronze; she served a 22-month ban for three whereabouts failures and missed the Paris Olympics as a result. With the Aichi-Nagoya gold, Parveen claimed what the report describes as her maiden Asiad medal.

Her international résumé before this title includes gold medals at the 2025 World Boxing Cup, the 2022 Asian Boxing Championships, and the 2019 South Asian Games, all listed in the report as part of her career achievements. The article notes Parveen’s Aichi-Nagoya win alongside Lovlina’s as India’s women’s boxing golds at these Games.

India has won a total of six medals at the 2026 Asian Games so far, comprising three gold and three bronze, according to the report.