Indian boxers continued to dominate the proceedings on the Asian under-22 and youth boxing championships right here with 4 extra advancing to the u-22 finals on Saturday.
While National champion Akash Gorkha gained 5-0 over Ilyasov Sayat of Uzbekistan within the 60kg semifinals, reigning youth world champion Vishvanath (48kg) gained 5-2 towards Baricuatro Bryan of Philippines after the bout was reviewed.
Nikhil (57kg) and Preet (67kg) additionally gained with an identical 5-2 scoreline after evaluations towards Mongolia’s Dorjnyambuu Ganbold and Almaz Orozbekov of Kyrgyzstan respectively. However, six others — Jadumani Singh (51kg), Ajay Kumar (63.5kg), Ankush (71kg), Dhruv Singh (80kg), Jugnoo (86kg) and Yuvraj (92kg) – completed with bronze after shedding their respective semifinal bouts.
In the ladies’s Youth class, reigning junior world champion Nisha (52kg) and Asian youth champion Nikita Chand (60kg) reached the finals together with 5 different Indians. Indians have secured 43 medals within the event to this point, 21 of them within the u-22 class.
