India puts up their best ever show at the YWC; assured of 11 medals New Delhi: Indian pugilists posted a historic performance at the AI...
India puts up their best ever show at the YWC; assured of 11 medals
New Delhi: Indian pugilists posted a historic performance at the AIBA
Youth Men’s and Women’s World Boxing Championships as 8 boxers, including seven
women and 1 male boxer sailed into the final on the eighth day in Kielce,
Poland.
All the 7 Indian women boxers had put up a
flawless performance as the pugilists had won their bouts as they progressed
into the finals and will be aiming to add the yellow metal to their name.
In the first bout of the day, Gitika (48kg) set the tone for the Indian contingent with a resounding 5-0 win over Italy’s Erika Prisciandaro. She will take on Poland’s Natalia Dominika in the final. In another bout, with a fine display of speed and skill, 2019 Asian Youth Champion Babyrojisana Chanu (51 kg) made light work of Italy’s Elen Ayari and won the match comfortably. The Manipuri Boxer attacked throughout the bout with a lot of intensity and earned a unanimous 5-0 verdict in her favour. She will square off against Russia’s Valeria Linkova in the finals on Thursday.
Poonam (57kg) continued her unbeaten
International record as she blanked Uzbekistan’s Sitora Turdibekova 5-0 in a
power-packed performance to set up the summit clash with France’s Sthelyne
Grosy.
Vinka (60kg) put up an equally impressive show
to secure a 4-1 win over Veronika Gajdova of The Czech Republic. She will
be up against Kazakhstan’s Zhuldyz Shayakhmetova in the gold medal bout.
Rajasthan’s Arundhati Choudhary (69kg) too outpunched her opponent from
Uzbekistan, Khadichabonu Abdullaeva to register an easy 5-0 victory in the
semis. She will take on Poland’s Barbara Marcinkowska in the final clash.
In the 75 kg middleweight semi-final clash,
Sanamcha Chanu endured some early resistance from local girl Daria Parada of
Poland but after gauging her opponent’s strategy, Chanu came back strongly in
the last two rounds to win the bout with a split verdict (4-1). She will take
on Kazakhstan’s Dana Diya in the gold medal match.
Another star boxer, Alfiya Pathan (81kg) faced
tough competition from Poland’s Oliwia Toborek as couldn’t find her rhythm in
the initial round. In the second round, she went all-out attack and continued
her onslaught in the next round as well and in the process, landed more punches
than her opponent to prevail in a 3-2 split verdict in a busy and intense bout.
Alfiya will be up against Moldova’s Daria
Kozorev in the final.
Among the men, Sachin (56kg) was the only
Indian Boxer to progress into the finals as he comfortably defeated 2018
European Junior Champion Michele Baldassi of Italy 5-0 to set up the summit
clash with Kazakhstan’s Yerbolat Sabyr.
Three other men inaction- Bishwamitra
Chongthom (49kg), Ankit Narwal (64kg) and Vishal Gupta (91kg) couldn’t progress
further as they lost their semi-final bouts and signed off with bronze medals.
In total, Indian Youth Boxing Team have
created history by securing an unprecedented 11 medals. The previous best was
10 medals that the Indian contingent won at the World Youth Championships in
2018 in Hungary.
All the women Boxers will play their final
bouts on Thursday whereas Sachin will play the final on Friday.
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