Star boxers Deepak Bhoria (51kg), Mohammad Hussamudin (57kg), and Nishant Dev (71kg) clinched bronze medals on the World Championships at Tashkent on Friday. India’s journey on the match got here to an finish however this was their best-ever present on the marquee occasion.
While Hussamudin who was competing in his debut World Championships, was pressured to withdraw round an hour earlier than his semifinal. The different two boxers confronted defeat within the last-four bouts.
Earlier, the 29-year-old Hussamudin sustained a knee damage in his quarterfinal sport towards J Diaz Ibanez of Bulgaria and determined and needed to give a walkover to Cuba’s Saidel Horta within the last-four conflict.Â
“Hussamuddin provides a walkover because of damage and settles for bronze.
He had a knee damage within the final bout after which he had ache and swelling,” the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) mentioned in an announcement.
“After careful and detailed assessment by the medical team, Team Management has decided that he won’t take part in the semi-final bout which is to take place today as he doesn’t want the injury to aggravate but rather recover for future competitions.”
On the opposite hand, Deepak suffered a loss to two-time World Championships bronze medallist France’s Bilal Bennama 3-4 in a detailed contest that went into bout evaluation.
Nishant’s semifinal additionally went to the bout evaluation with the judges ruling in favour of the 2022 Asian champion and 2018 Asian Games silver medallist Aslanbek Shymbergenov of Kazakhstan.
It has been a stupendous efficiency from the boxers of India below Bernard Dunne, who joined the Indian boxing workforce solely seven months in the past because the High-Performance Director. In the quarterfinal bouts, Deepak Bhoria registered a convincing victory by defeating the boxer from Kyrgyzstan 5-0. On the opposite hand, Hussamuddin defeated Diaz Ibanez of Bulgaria 4-3. And, Nishant Dev had assured the third medal for the nation by defeating Cuba’s Jorge 5-0
