Sri Lankan boxer Lahiru Chandrabandara secured a 4–1 victory over Yemen’s Saeed Mustafa in the men’s 70kg preliminary bout at the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026.
Chandrabandara earned the judges’ decision to book his place in the Round of 16.
He will next face Ikhtiyar Nishonov of Kyrgyzstan in the Round of 16.
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