The Indian contingent, which will participate within the Olympic qualifying occasion in Busto Arsizio, Italy.
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Nine Indian boxers will try to earn as many quota locations as doable within the first World Olympic boxing qualification event, beginning on the E-work Arena in Busto Arsizio, Italy, on Sunday.
The Indians skilled in a multi-nation camp, together with boxers from Ukraine, Tajikistan, Japan, Greece and Hungary, for 10 days in Montenegro earlier than shifting to Busto Arsizio.
World championships bronze medallists Deepak Bhoria (51kg), Mohammad Hussamuddin (57kg) and Nishant Dev (71kg) and former Worlds and a number of Asian medallist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) will be among the many main names who’re able to securing slots within the Paris Olympics.
While Bhoria and Nishant will try to overcome their disappointing performances within the Asian Games and underline their potential, Hussamuddin, who’s coming again after his knee surgical procedure, will be eager to show himself. Thapa will be hungry to make it to his third Olympics.
National champions Lakshya Chahar (80kg) and Sanjeet (92kg) and Asian Games bronze medallist Narender Berwal (+92kg) also can fancy their probabilities.
Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Jaismine Lamboria (60kg) and former World youth champion Ankushita Boro (66kg) will try to win quota locations and full a full girls’s squad to Paris.
Four Indian girls – Nikaht Zareen (50kg), Preeti Pawar (54kg), Parveen Hooda (57kg) and Lovelina Borgohain (75kg) – have already bagged the Paris Olympics quota locations by means of the Hangzhou Asian Games final 12 months.
Altogether 633 boxers, together with 400 males and 233 girls, from 115 groups – comprising 113 nations, a boxing refugee workforce and an outfit of particular person impartial athletes (primarily fashioned to accommodate Russian and Belarusian athletes, however solely two Belarusians have utilized) – will be seen in motion within the nine-day occasion.
All the burden classes, barring two, will have 4 locations up for grabs. Women’s 57kg will provide two quota locations, whereas girls’s 60kg has three.
The Indian squad: Men: Deepak Bhoria (51kg), Mohammad Hussamuddin (57kg), Shiva Thapa (63.5kg), Nishant Dev (71kg), Lakshya Chahar (80kg), Sanjeet (92kg), Narender Berwal (+92kg); Women: Jaismine Lamboria (60kg), Ankushita Boro (66kg).
