Six-time world champion M C Mary Kom completed her marketing campaign with a silver medal on the 2021 ASBC Asian Boxing Championships after taking place preventing towards the two-time world champion Nazym Kyzaibay in a high-octane 51kg remaining in Dubai on Sunday.
Mary Kom misplaced in a break up 2-3 verdict. It was her seventh medal within the match, the primary being a gold that got here means again within the 2003 version.
Both the boxers began the summit conflict with aggressive mindset and shortly exchanged highly effective blows making an attempt to unsettle one another. The five-time Asian Championships gold medallist Mary Kom used all her expertise towards the Kazakh boxer and made her work onerous but it surely wasn’t sufficient because the later tilted the hard-fought sport efficiently in her favour and emerged champion with a slim 29-28, 28-29, 30-27, 29-28, 28-29 scoreline.
It is the second silver for Mary Kom on the Asian Championships who has beforehand received titles on 5 event—2003, 2005, 2010, 2012 and 2017 moreover silver in 2008.
Later three extra Indian boxers—Pooja Rani (75kg), Lalbuatsaihi (64kg) and Anupama (+81)—can be seen in motion within the girls finals on Sunday on the on-going prestigious Championships, which is collectively hosted by the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) and UAE Boxing Federation, the 19-member Indian contingent claimed their best-ever present by securing report 15 medals whereas surpassing their earlier highest of 13 medals (2 gold, 4 silver and seven bronze) from the 2019 version in Bangkok.
The defending champion Amit Panghal (52kg) and two different pugilists Shiva Thapa (64kg) and Sanjeet (91kg) can be seen in motion on Monday within the males’s finals. 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 house USD 5,000 and a couple of,500 respectively.
Panghal can be up towards the Rio Olympics and world champion Uzbek pugilist Zoirov Shakhobidin of Uzbekistan. While Assam boxer Thapa can be challenged by the Asian Games silver medallist Mongolia’s Baatarsukh Chinzorig. Second seeded Sanjeet may even have a powerful problem of the Rio Olympics silver medallist Vassiliy Levit, who’s chasing his fourth gold medal of the Asian Championships.
Eight Indian pugilists Simranjit Kaur (60kg), Vikas Krishan (69kg), Lovlina Borgohain (69kg), Jaismine (57kg), Sakshi Chaudhary (64kg), Monika (48kg), Saweety (81kg) and Varinder Singh (60kg) secured bronze medals with their semi-final end on the occasion which witnessed the presence of 150 boxers from 17 international locations together with sturdy boxing nations similar to India, Uzbekistan, Philippines and Kazakhstan.
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