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Narender landed highly effective punches and dodged his opponent’s assaults from shut vary as he received the higher of Muhammad Abroridinov of Tajikistan 4-1
Narender Berwal superior to the quarter-finals after successful a closely-contested bout whereas Govind Sahani and Deepak Kumar entered the pre-quarterfinals on the IBA Men’s World Boxing Championships on Thursday.
With a quarter-final end on the earlier World Championships below his belt, Narender (+92kg) started his quest for a medal by defeating Muhammad Abroridinov of Tajikistan 4-1.
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Both pugilists, who gained bronze on the 2022 Asian Championships, went all out from the start within the neck-and-neck bout.
Narender landed highly effective punches and dodged his opponent’s assaults from shut vary to have the higher hand within the first spherical.
The Hisar-born pugilist continued to assault on the entrance foot within the subsequent two rounds and gained the bout. He will face the 2021 World Youth Championships bronze medallist Fernando Arzola of Cuba within the quarter-finals.
Earlier within the day, 2022 Thailand Open champion Govind (48kg) and 2019 Asian silver medallist Deepak (51kg) kicked off their respective campaigns with similar victories.
Govind, who has had an impressive yr to this point with a gold on the National Championships and a silver on the 74th Strandja Memorial, continued his wealthy vein of type as he made mild work of Mehron Shafiev of Tajikistan to safe a 5-0 win.
Deepak, then again, was additionally at his attacking finest as he ousted Luis Delgado of Ecuador together with his supreme technical potential to seal an emphatic victory by unanimous choice.
Govind will subsequent face the top-seeded Sakhil Alakhverdovi of Georgia who gained bronze on the final World Championships whereas Deepak will tackle the Tokyo Olympics bronze winner and reigning world champion Saken Bibossinov of Kazakhstan.
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Record six-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) will take the ring for his match opener towards Dos Reis Yuri of Brazil later within the day.
On Friday, two-time Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Mohammad Hussamuddin, Tokyo Olympian Ashish Chaudhary and Naveen Kumar will all be in pre-quarterfinals motion.
Hussamuddin (57kg) will go head to head towards Lyu Ping of China whereas Ashish (80kg) will face a troublesome problem towards two-time Olympic gold medallist Arlen Lopez of Cuba. Naveen (92kg) will tackle Jeong Jae-min of South Korea.
The ongoing match is being participated by 538 boxers, together with a number of Olympic medallists, from 107 nations.
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