Hangzhou [China], September 30 (ANI): Indian boxer Nishant Dev suffered a 5:0 on-point defeat in opposition to Japan’s Sewonrets Quincy Mensah Okazawa within the males’s 71kg quarterfinal on the ongoing nineteenth Asian Games on Saturday.
The judges dominated in favour of the Japanese boxer within the first two rounds.
The reigning world championship bronze medallist, Nishant fought again valiantly within the closing spherical. However, the general scores remained in favour of the previous world champion Okazawa.
India’s boxing contingent had combined leads to their respective occasions as many pugilists reached the semifinals and guaranteed medals for the nation whereas others did not progress.
Narender stormed into the semifinals of the 92 kg males’s class whereas Olympic medalist boxer Lovlina Borgohain has superior to the semifinals of the ladies’s 75 kg boxing, assuring India of its third boxing medal.
Preeti Pawar confirmed her entry to the semifinals of the 54 kg ladies’s boxing occasion. Reigning World Champion Nikhat on Friday assured India a medal within the 50kg weight class.
Meanwhile, Arundhati Chaudhary (ladies’s 66kg), Deepak Bhoria (males’s 51kg), Shiva Thapa (males’s 63.5kg) and Sanjeet (males’s 92kg) additionally suffered a spherical of 16 exit. (ANI)