India boxer Pooja Rani efficiently defended her title after outpunching in-form Mavluda Movlonova to clinch her second successive gold on the ASBC Asian Boxing Championships as Indian ladies ended its marketing campaign with one gold, three silver and six bronze medals in Dubai on Sunday.
Seasoned campaigner Mary Kom (51kg), Lalbuatsaihi (64kg) and Anupama (+81kg) claimed silver medals after struggling slender defeats of their respective finals. While Simranjit Kaur (60kg), Lovlina Borgohain (69kg), Jaismine (57kg), Sakshi Chaudhary (54kg), Monika (48kg) and Saweety (81kg) are among the many Indian ladies pugilists who secured bronze with semi-final end.
The Olympics-bound pugilist Pooja Rani (75kg) was up towards a robust Uzbekistan boxer, who got here into the match beating London Olympics medallist Marina Volnova within the last-4 stage. Pooja confirmed nice sharpness and tactical brilliance and put strain on the opponent with well timed punches. She continued her relentless assault and left no likelihood for Uzbek boxer to struggle again earlier than finishing a complete 5-0 victory and successful her second successive gold medal on the Asian Championships. It can be Pooja’s fourth medal on the championships after gold in 2019, silver in 2012 and a bronze in 2015.
Earlier Mary Kom, Lalbuatsaihi completed their campaigns with silver medals after taking place combating of their respective semi-finals. While Mary Kom misplaced to the two-time world champion Nazym Kyzaibay by break up 2-3, Lalbuatsaihi (64kg) additionally gave her all in one other close-fought gold medal however couldn’t handle to get previous Milana Safronova of Kazakhstan and suffered a 2-3 defeat to win silver medal in her maiden outing on the Championships.
While within the 51kg high-octane summit conflict, Mary Kom went all the way down to her Kazakh opponent in a 3-2 break up resolution, Lalbuatsaihi misplaced 2-3 as properly however after giving her Kazakh rival Milana Safronova a struggle to recollect.
Lalbuatsaihi got here into the Indian staff as a late alternative for the seasoned Pwilao Basumatary, whose passport had expired. The Mizo boxer exhausted her rival together with her counter-attacks however misplaced momentum within the remaining spherical to finish second finest.
Anupama was the final to take the ring towards former world champion Lazzat Kungeibayeva of Kazakhstan. She managed to carry her personal in a bout marred by extreme holding and clinching, however it was Kungeibayeva, who linked higher for a 3-2 win.
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 file 15 medals whereas surpassing their earlier highest of 13 medals (2 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze) from the 2019 version in Bangkok.
(With PTI Inputs)
Read all of the Latest News, Breaking News and Coronavirus News right here
