John chan

Asian Surfing Championships: Kishore Kumar advanced to the final eight stage in the U-18 category at the Asian Surfing Championships while Harish Muthu was left disappointed by his third-place finish in the men's open category quarterfinals.

The competition which is a qualifier for the Asian Games 2026 is being held at Thulusdhoo in Maldives had eight Indians in the fray across four categories.

Indian child prodigy, Kishore booked his quarterfinal spot in the U-18 category by achieving a score of 14.33, the highest by any surfer in Round 3. He scored a two waves score of 6.83 and 7.5 to finish on top of Heat 2 of Round 3, which is also the highest score of all the Indian surfers in the championship so far. Kishore will be up against Chinese Taipie’s John Chan and Sayyid Salahudheen of Maldives in Heat 3 of the quarterfinals which is scheduled on Friday.