India’s Shiva Thapa misplaced to Mongolia’s Baatarsukh Chinzorig in a 2-3 cut up choice in the 64kg closing and settle for silver on the Asian Boxing Championship. Earlier, Amit Panghal misplaced to reigning World and Olympic champion Zoirov Shakhobidin of Uzbekistan in a 2-3 cut up choice in the ultimate of the 52 kg occasion to settle for silver. This is the third loss for Panghal by the hands of Zoirov forward of the Tokyo Olympics.
Sanjeet will tackle Kazakistan’s Vassiliy Levit in the 91 kg closing later in the night time.
Zoirov Shakhobidin is the defending world and Olympic champion and had a 2-0 win-loss file towards Amit Panghal. The Indian had misplaced in the 2019 world championships and extra lately on the Governor’s Cup in Russia.
As for Thapa, the primary Indian male boxer in the event historical past to safe 5 medals and the world primary, will sq. off towards reigning Olympic and world champion Shakhobidin Zoirov of Uzbekistan in the ultimate.
It was the repeat of the 2019 world championship closing in which the Indian had misplaced and needed to settle for silver. The 27-year-old Thapa’s first medal on the occasion was a gold in 2013, adopted by a bronze in 2015, a silver in 2017 and one other bronze in 2019. Thapa will likely be up towards Mongolia’s Baatarsukh Chinzorig in the summit conflict. Chinzorig is the Asian Games silver-medallist.
Vikas Krishan (69kg) and Varinder Singh (60kg) have already secured bronze medals in the boys’s part with their semi-final end.
On Sunday, the Indian girls’s boxing crew completed with one gold, three silver and 6 bronze medals in Dubai. Pooja Rani received gold as Mary Kom, Lalbuatsaihi and Anupama claimed silver medals, whereas Simranjit Kaur, Lovlina Borgohain, Jaismine, Sakshi Chaudhary, Monika and Saweety obtained bronze.
In reality, general, that is India’s best-ever exhibiting on the Asian Boxing Championships, with India’s earlier finest haul being 13 medals (2 gold, 4 silver and seven bronze) in the 2019 version.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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