Amman [Jordan]: After suffering defeats in their semi-final rounds, the 2022 Thailand Open Champ duo of Sumit and Govind Kumar Sahani both secured bronze at the 2022 ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan on Thursday.
Govind (48kg) was up against Sanzhar Tashkenbay of Kazakhstan and also started his spell attempting to block his opponent’s punches as well as assault with counterpunches however he can not sustain that method for long. His Kazakh challenger, the 2021 Young people World Champion gold medalist, controlled the following two rounds as well as brought upon a 0:4 defeat on the boxer from Gorakhpur, as per a Boxing Federation of India (BFI) press release. Sumit (75kg) was involved in a hard competition against the ruling Eastern Champ Jafarov Saidjamshid of Uzbekistan as well as even with his best efforts, failed to take control of the round and endured a 0:5 loss by consentaneous choice.
Later tonight, six-time Oriental medalists Shiva Thapa (63.5 kg), Mohammad Hussamuddin (57kg), as well as Narender (92+ kg) will certainly all require to the ring to safeguard their berth in the last.
5 Indian women pugilists consisting of 2020 Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) as well as 2022 Globe Championships bronze medalist Parveen (63kg) will certainly be fighting for gold in the final of the tournament on Friday.
The other women boxers competing in the last will certainly be Alfiya Pathan (81+ kg), Saweety (81kg), as well as Minakshi (52kg).
Saweety who punched her way right into the final after defeating the indigenous Lina Jaber by RSC in the 2nd round late on Wednesday evening will certainly face Gulsaya Yerzhan of Kazakhstan in the last.
After the final thought of the females’s finals tomorrow, the finals for the men’s category will be performed on Saturday.
The competitors observed the involvement of around 267 boxers from 27 top boxing countries.
