Amman [Jordan]: India’s ace boxer Alfiya Khan bagged a gold in the 81 plus weight category to continue the dominant display of the Indian women boxers at the Asian Boxing Championship in Amman, Jordan.
The courts invalidated her last competitor, Jordan’s Islam Husaili, in the opening round finishing India’s females’s boxing campaign with an overall of 7 medals. Lovlina Borgohain, that won the bronze medal at Tokyo 2020, beat Ruzmetova Sokhiba of Uzbekistan 5-0 in the ladies’s 75 kg last to win her initial Eastern Championship gold medal.
Lovlina Borgohain had actually won bronze at the Oriental Boxing Championships in 2017 as well as 2021. For Uzbek professional athlete Ruzmetova Sokhiba, it was her second consecutive silver medal.
Silver champion Saweety Boora from the globe champions, and bronze champion Parveen from the 2022 Olympics, took home gold, while Minakshi had to opt for silver.
In the women’s 81kg, Saweety Boora, that took home silver in 2015 and also bronze in 2016, beat Gulsaya Yerzhan of Kazakhstan 5-0. In ladies’s 63 kg, Parveen, 22, beat Kito Mai of Japan 5-0 to win her initial Oriental medal.
In the women’s 52kg division, Minakshi do with a silver medal after falling to Japanese bronze medalist Kinoshita Rinka, that was contending in the event, 4-1.
In the men’s last on Saturday, Shiva Thapa, a London 2012 Olympian, will certainly compete against promising prodigy Ruslan Abdullaev of Uzbekistan.
The 2013 Eastern champion, Thapa, additionally won bronze in 2015 and also 2019 as well as silver in 2017 and 2021. On Saturday, he’ll become the initial boxer to ever win 6 medals at the Asian Champions.
Regardless of Shiva Thapa’s end result, India has actually currently ensured themselves of at the very least the third-best performance at the continental fulfill after seven gold medals in 2005 as well as 5 in 2003 with 4 gold medals.
