New Delhi: The Indian men’s boxing workforce’s final marketing campaign on the thirty fifth Boxam International Tournament in Castellon, Spain was derailed by a optimistic Covid-19 case in the facet, ensuing in three withdrawals from the summit clashes.
Olympic-bound Ashish Kumar (75kg) examined optimistic for the virus and because of being his roommates, Mohammed Hussamuddin (57kg) and Sumit Sangwan (81kg) have been compelled to withdraw from the finals on Sunday night time. All three of them ended with silver medals which might have been gold however for the unexpected circumstances.
“What started as a great competition has ended in an anti-climax,” Indian boxing’s High Performance Director Santiago Nieva advised PTI from Castellon.
Ashish is “asymptomatic and is doing fine”. He will serve his quarantine in Castellon for 2 weeks earlier than heading again to India. Hussamuddin and Sumit have examined damaging and are travelling again with the workforce which is able to land in Mumbai on Monday. Also unable to compete in the final was veteran Satish Kumar (+91kg) resulting from “sickness”.
Manish Kaushik (63kg) ended up being the only gold medal winner for the facet, beating Denmark’s Nikolai Terteryan in the summit conflict to finish a superb comeback from a knee harm which saved him out of motion for a 12 months.
Among the ladies, Simranjit Kaur (60kg), who can be certain for the Olympics, was compelled out of her final after her semifinal opponent — Kiria Tapia of Puerto Rico — examined optimistic for the virus. The Indian, nonetheless, has returned a damaging check.
“Because of local government regulations, she could not compete,” Indian girls’s boxing’s excessive efficiency director Rafaelle Bergamasco mentioned.
Vikas Krishan (69kg) was the one different male boxer to compete on Sunday, dropping a gruelling contest to Spain’s Youba Sissokho. The Indian was left with a lower above his proper eye in the ferocious contest.
In the ladies’s draw, Pooja Rani (75kg) and Jasmine (57kg) additionally signed off with silver medals after being overwhelmed by superior opponents in American Melissa Graham and Italian Irma Testa respectively.
India’s marketing campaign thus ended with one gold, eight silver and one bronze medal that was claimed by six-time world champion M C Mary Kom.
