Defending champion Amit Panghal (52kg) and Shiva Thapa (64kg) misplaced gruelling and close ultimate bouts in the Asian Boxing Championships to fetch silver medals right here on Monday with the nation searching for a evaluation of the previous’s defeat.
Panghal misplaced 2-3 to recognized nemesis Shakhobidin Zoirov of Uzbekistan in what was a repeat of the 2019 world championship ultimate, which had additionally ended in Zoirov’s favour.
India sought a evaluation of the second spherical of the bout which Panghal received on a break up rely however appeared to have dominated utterly. The results of the evaluation will likely be recognized later.
“The Boxing Federation of India tweeted that it is contesting the second round being awarded India has contested the R2 decision of the spilt verdict 2-3 and surprise loss of @Boxerpanghal in the finals of ASBC #AsianEliteBoxingChampionships in Dubai against reigning World & @Olympics champion S Zoirov,” the BFI tweeted.
India has lodged PROTEST
India has contested the R2 resolution of the spilt verdict 2-3 and shock lack of @Boxerpanghal in the finals of ASBC #AsianEliteBoxingChampionships in Dubai towards reigning World & @Olympics champion S Zoirov of #PunchMeinHaiDum#boxing pic.twitter.com/Xt09rwbxVP
— Boxing Federation (@BFI_official) May 31, 2021
‘I dedicate this silver medal to my coach Anil Dhanker. I want he was right here with in Dubai,’ Panghal tweeted referring to his private coach.
y silvr mddl,mr dsh ok yvaao ,mr koc Anil Dhankhar ok naam,kaash is vkt vo yhaa dbii m sizzling,@KirenRijiju sr bs yhii icchaa h kii ttokyo mddl ok vkt v mr saath khdd ho / @Media_SAI @BFI_official @AjaySingh_SG @ipspankajnain @DGSAI @debojo_m @aapkadharam @AapkaPanghal pic.twitter.com/SL8ujv7d13
— Amit Panghal (@Boxerpanghal) May 31, 2021
Thapa (64kg) additionally misplaced by the identical margin to Mongolia’s Baatarsukh Chinzorig, the reigning Asian Games silver-medallist. This was Thapa’s fifth successive podium end on the showpiece and second silver.
Both the contests had the Indian boxers doing most issues proper however not getting the judges’ nod.
The Panghal-Zoirov conflict lived as much as the hype with each the Olympic-bound boxers engaged in a quick trade of punches from the very first spherical.
Zoirov claimed the opening spherical. But in the second spherical, Panghal raised his sport by a notch, evading Zoirov’s vary together with his tempo and touchdown his left straights exactly. Zoirov, however, struggled to attach.
The two went all out in the third spherical but it surely was Panghal who was extra spectacular together with his physique photographs regardless of an injured eye.
He even had the judges’ verdict in his favour for the spherical but it surely was not sufficient to change the ultimate score-line.
Thapa was equally spectacular towards Chinzorig, rallying brilliantly after shedding the opening spherical.
With 15 medals int this version, India surpassed its earlier best-ever present at this Championship, achieved in 2019, when the nation secured 13 medals in all, together with two gold.
On Monday, Pooja Rani (75kg) was the lone girl boxer to strike gold, whereas six-time world champion M C Mary Kom (51kg), and match debutants Lalbuatsaihi (64kg) and Anupama (81+kg) ended with silver medals after close losses in the ladies’s finals.
Eight different Indians — Simranjit Kaur (60kg), Vikas Krishan (69kg), and Lovlina Borgohain (69kg), and Jaismine (57kg), Sakshi Chaudhary (64kg), Monika (48kg), Saweety (81kg) and Varinder Singh (60kg) — secured bronze medals after semifinal losses.
