Six-time world champion Mary Kom alongside Pooja Rani (75kg), Anupama (+81kg) and Lalbuatsahi (64kg) can be in motion on Sunday as they play their respective remaining bouts.
Aiming for the sixth gold medal in simply seven appearances, the veteran Mary Kom will face a stiff problem from the two-time world champion Kazakh boxer Nazym Kyzaibay within the 51kg remaining. Another Olympic-bound Pooja Rani, who obtained a walk-over within the semi-finals, will struggle towards an in-form Mavluda Movlonova of Uzbekistan, who ended the problem of London Olympics medallist Marina Volnova within the last-4 stage. On the opposite hand, Lalbuatsaihi and Anupama may also face sturdy Kazakh boxers of their respective finals.
So far, the India ladies’s workforce has already gained six bronze medals by Monika (48 kg), Sakshi Chaudhary (54 kg), Jasmine (57 kg), Simranjit Kaur (60 kg), Lovlina Borgohain (69 kg), and Saweety (81 kg).
The Indian contingent have already ensured their best-ever present by securing unprecedented 15 medals and bettered earlier highest of 13 medals (2 gold, 4 silver and seven bronze) achieved throughout the 2019 version.
In the boys’s part, Panghal will look to defend his title when he can be up towards the Rio Olympics and world champion Uzbek pugilist Zoirov Shakhobidin of Uzbekistan within the gold medal match on Monday. Assam boxer Thapa, who has been spectacular and the joint most profitable male boxer within the Championships with 5 consecutive medals, can be challenged by the Asian Games silver medallist Mongolia’s Baatarsukh Chinzorig. Second seeded Sanjeet will struggle towards the Rio Olympics silver medallist Vassiliy Levit, who’s chasing his fourth gold medal of the Asian Championships.
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has allotted USD 4,00,000 prize cash for this Championships. The gold medallists of males’s and ladies’s classes can be awarded with USD 10,000 whereas each the silver and bronze medal winners will take dwelling USD 5,000 and a pair of,500 respectively.
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