In the bronze-medal bout at Toyohashi Gymnasium in Toyohashi city, Japan's Aichi prefecture, Nhi delivered a confident performance to beat Singapore’s Leong Wai Yee Shannon 4–1.

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Vietnamese karate athlete Bui Ngoc Nhi (second, right) celebrates her bronze medal in the women’s individual Kata event at ASIAD 2026. (Photo: tdtt.gov.vn)

The result earned Viet Nam its second bronze of the Games and the first medal for the country’s karate team at ASIAD 2026.

Nhi’s path to the podium was challenging. She opened her campaign with a 0–5 loss to Japan’s Ono Maho before entering the repechage bracket. She then defeated opponents from the Republic of Korea and Singapore to reach the bronze-medal bout.

Earlier in the day, Viet Nam had secured its first medal of ASIAD 2026 in the mixed doubles teqball event. Nguyen Hoang Minh Tan and Trinh Gia Nghi defeated India’s pair 2–0, winning the two sets 12–9 and 12–6.

The bronze was a historic achievement for Vietnamese teqball, which is making its debut as an official medal sport at ASIAD.

A blend of football and table tennis played on a distinctive curved table, teqball requires players to control the ball with different parts of the body while combining technique, reflexes and ball control in a confined space.

Source: VNA