Narender Berwal superior to the pre-quarterfinals after profitable a closely-contested bout whereas Govind Sahani and Deepak Kumar too entered the pre-quarters on the IBA Men’s World Boxing Championships right here on Thursday. With a quarter-final end on the earlier World Championships underneath his belt, Narender (+92kg) started his quest for a medal by defeating Muhammad Abroridinov of Tajikistan 4-1.
Both pugilists, who received bronze on the 2022 Asian Championships, went all out from the start within the neck-and-neck bout. Narender landed highly effective punches and dodged his opponent’s assaults from shut vary to have the higher hand within the first spherical.
The Hisar-born pugilist continued to assault on the entrance foot within the subsequent two rounds and received the bout. He will face the 2021 World Youth Championships bronze medallist Fernando Arzola of Cuba within the quarter-finals. Earlier within the day, 2022 Thailand Open champion Govind (48kg) and 2019 Asian silver medallist Deepak (51kg) kicked off their respective campaigns with an identical victories.
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Govind, who has had an excellent yr to this point with a gold on the National Championships and a silver on the 74th Strandja Memorial, continued his wealthy vein of kind as he made mild work of Mehron Shafiev of Tajikistan to safe a 5-0 win.
Deepak, alternatively, was additionally at his attacking greatest as he ousted Luis Delgado of Ecuador along with his supreme technical skill to seal an emphatic victory by unanimous choice. Govind will subsequent face the top-seeded Sakhil Alakhverdovi of Georgia who received bronze on the final World Championships whereas Deepak will tackle the Tokyo Olympics bronze winner and reigning world champion Saken Bibossinov of Kazakhstan.
Record six-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) will take the ring for his match opener towards Dos Reis Yuri of Brazil later within the day. On Friday, two-time Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Mohammad Hussamuddin, Tokyo Olympian Ashish Chaudhary and Naveen Kumar will all be in pre-quarterfinals motion.
Hussamuddin (57kg) will go face to face towards Lyu Ping of China whereas Ashish (80kg) will face a tricky problem towards two-time Olympic gold medallist Arlen Lopez of Cuba. Naveen (92kg) will tackle Jeong Jae-min of South Korea. The ongoing match is being participated by 538 boxers, together with a number of Olympic medallists, from 107 nations.
