Kim Hong-yul wins 2nd straight silver in breaking at Asian Games

South Korean B-boy Kim Hong-yul, also known as Hong 10, has won the silver medal in breaking at the 2025 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. According to The Korea Times, he lost to Japan's Shigeyuki Nakarai 3-0 in the final. This is Kim's second consecutive silver medal in the sport, as he also won silver at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games.

In other news, India's men's cricket team retained their Asian Games gold medal by beating Pakistan by 19 runs. The Indian team, led by an innings from Abhishek Sharma and Tilak Varma, posted 211/6. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, who scored 15 off nine balls, became the youngest Indian to win a gold medal at the Asian Games at 15 years, 6 months, and 6 days old.

India's men's hockey team also successfully defended their Asian Games title by thrashing Malaysia 5-1 in the final. The team, led by Harmanpreet Singh, secured their fifth hockey gold at the Asian Games and qualified for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The women's team had earlier won their first gold medal in 44 years by beating China.

Brief written by urgent.news from The Korea Times, Yahoo Sports, The Korea Times, Times of India, The Indian Express — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.