Nagoya, Sep 20 (PTI) India’s Suraj Singh Mayanglambam finished 11th in the men’s changquan wushu final while Aparna Dahiya and Vikrant Baliyan lost their round of 16 matches in their respective weight categories at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, here on Sunday.
Aparna lost 0-2 to Iran’s Sogand Sinkaeichetan in women’s 52kg Sanda while conceding five points each in the two rounds that they clashed in.
With the defeat, Aparna, who had claimed the gold medal in the women’s 52kg category at the Sanda World Cup in May this year, failed to make it to the quarterfinals.
In the men’s 75kg Sanda bout against Iran’s Soheil Mousavi, India’s Baliyan suffered a similar 0-2 defeat to crash out before the quarterfinals. While he conceded five points each in the two rounds, Baliyan did record one against his opponent on forcible count in the first round.
Sanda is the full-contact combat variation of wushu.
Meanwhile, competing against a 21-man field at the Aichi Prefectural Martial Arts Hall, Suraj scored a total of 9.683 points.
He earned a full 5.00 in Quality of Movement (A-Score) and 2.00 in Degree of Difficulty (C-Score) with zero deductions, but secured a 2.683 in Overall Performance (B-Score).
Macau’s Kuong Chi Hin (9.723) and Chi Kuan Song (9.720) took the top-two positions, something that highlighted the close competition at the top, with just 0.040 points separating Suraj from a podium finish.
There is no seeding or pre-ranking that dictates who goes first. A computer or manual draw assigns each of the 21 finalists a random start number from 1 to 21.
Each athlete has around 90 seconds to perform a high-speed sequence of traditional northern Chinese kung fu movements.
Changquan is known for being explosive and acrobatic, featuring lightning-fast punches, deep lunging stances, high kicks, and high-flying aerial jumps and spins. PTI TAP SSC SSC DDV ATK
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