India’s pugilist Sanjeet Kumar on Monday gained a gold medal in the 91 kg weight category on the ASBC Asian Boxing Championships.
Sanjeet pulled off a large upset as he defeated five-time Asian Championships medallist and Rio Olympic silver medalist Vassiliy Levit of Kazakhstan in a 3-2 break up choice in the ultimate of Asian Championships in Dubai on Monday to clinch the gold medal.
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— Kiren Rijiju (@KirenRijiju) May 31, 2021
Earlier, defending champion Amit Panghal (52kg) and Shiva Thapa (64kg) misplaced gruelling and shut last bouts in the Asian Boxing Championships to fetch silver medals right here on Monday with the nation in search of a overview of the previous’s defeat.
Panghal misplaced 2-3 to identified nemesis Shakhobidin Zoirov of Uzbekistan in what was a repeat of the 2019 world championship last, which had additionally ended in Zoirov’s favour.
India sought a overview of the second spherical of the bout which Panghal gained on a break up depend however seemed to have dominated utterly. The results of the overview can be identified later.
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 alternate of punches from the very first spherical.
Zoirov claimed the opening spherical. But in the second spherical, Panghal raised his recreation by a notch, evading Zoirov’s vary together with his tempo and touchdown his left straights exactly. Zoirov, alternatively, 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 pictures 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 in opposition to Chinzorig, rallying brilliantly after dropping 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 shut 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.
