India’s star professional boxer Mandeep Jangra is gearing up for the NBA lightweight world title. He is the first Indian boxer to be in the ring for the world title, and is just one win away from giving India its first world title belt.
In her assessment of the Olympic bout against China’s Li Qian, Borgohain acknowledged that the first two rounds were closely contested, but she struggled in the third round due to Qian’s holding tactics.
The eighth-seed Lovlina lost the bout by a 4:1 split decision to Li Qian, the reigning Asian Games champion.
Pangal, the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games champion, lost 1-4 to his African rival in the 51 kg class round of 16 bout and made his exit.
Amits chance finally arrived once Irish High Performance director Bernard Dunne resigned after none of the male boxers (selected on the basis of the evaluation method that he devised) failed to qualify for the Games with less than two months to go for the Olympics.’
Ever since the 28-year-old secured the Olympic quota at the Hangzhou Asian Games in October last year, she has had her eye set on the biggest prize in her sport.
The journey, however, hasn’t been a cakewalk for the 22-year-old pugilist, a regular in the 60kg weight division as she had to overcome an extra hurdle to book herself a ticket to the upcoming Paris Olympics.
Siwach started the proceedings for India with a clinical 5-0 win over Olympian Batuhan Ciftci of Turkey in the pre-quarterfinal round and Sanjeet then saw off the challenge from Luis Sanchez of Venezuela with an identical margin in the Round of 32.
World youth champion Ankushita Boro prevailed over Namuun Monkhor of Mongolia while Abhimanyu Loura lost to Ireland’s Kelyn Cassidy at the World Olympic Boxing Qualification Tournament in Bangkok, Thailand.
Parveen, who had secured a Paris 2024 Olympics boxing quota after winning the bronze medal in 57kg weight class in Hangzhou, was handed a 22-month suspension by the International Testing Agency (ITA) for a whereabouts failure.
