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    Girls pack 5 golden punches: India’s women win 5 golds at CWG 2026

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    Indian women boxers secured five gold medals at the Commonwealth Games boxing competition. Arundhati Choudhary won the fifth gold medal in the women's 70kg final. Lovlina Borgohain earned a silver medal in the women's 75kg final bout. Jaismine Lamboria and Preeti Pawar also claimed gold medals in their categories. Sakshi Chaudhary and Priya Ghanghas added two more gold medals for India.

    India's Arundhati Choudhary celebrates (Left), Lovlina Borgohain during Medal felicitation. (Right)<br>PTI
    India's Arundhati Choudhary celebrates (Left), Lovlina Borgohain during Medal felicitation. (Right)
    Indian women’s contingent signed off with five gold medals in the Commonwealth Games boxing competition with Arundhati Choudhary beating Chantelle Reid of England in the women’s 70kg final on Saturday on Saturday to take the fifth.

    Arundhati won in a unanimous 5-0 verdict in the final.

    Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain though settled for a silver as she lost to Emma-Sue Greentree of Australia in the women’s 75kg final in a split 1-4 verdict.


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    Earlier, Jaismine Lamboria, Preeti Pawar, Sakshi Chaudhary and Priya Ghanghas won gold medals in their respective categories, while Jadumani Singh settled for a silver.

    Preeti claimed the gold with a dominant 5-0 victory over Canada’s Scarlett Delgado in the women’s 54kg before reigning world champion Jaismine clinched the yellow metal with the same scoreline against Northern Ireland’s Michaela Walsh, who was the defending champion in the women’s 57kg.

    Sakshi then beat Ruby White of England in women’s 51kg final 5-0 to win India’s third boxing gold of the day.

    It was a harder final bout for Priya who beat Marie-Bathoul Al-Ahmadieh of Canada 4-1 in a split verdict in the women’s 60kg.

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    Earlier, Jadumani Singh lost a hard-fought contest 0-5 against Australia’s Jye Dixon.

    After a bit of struggle against his taller opponent from Down Under, Jadumani rallied to win the first round 3-2. However, Dixon then showed his wares and fought back brilliantly to take the second round by an 5-0 unanimous verdict. The Aussie then used the momentum to edge out his opponent.

    Jaismine took the first round by a split verdict after a close contest with both boxers challenging each other. However, Jaismine won the second round by a unanimous verdict, having landed some hard blows on her opponents.

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