Glasgow [Scotland], July 23 (ANI): Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain is assured of a medal on the Commonwealth Games 2026 after receiving a bye into the ladies’s 75kg quarter-finals, that means she doesn’t have to win a bout to safe a podium end.
Boxing on the Commonwealth Games awards two bronze medals in every weight class, with each dropping semi-finalists receiving a bronze. As a outcome, reaching the final 4 ensures a medal, in accordance with Olympics.com.
Lovlina’s direct entry into the semi-finals got here because of the small dimension of the ladies’s 75kg draw, which options solely 5 boxers. The class has only one quarter-final bout scheduled for July 28, between England’s Mary Kate Smith and Nigeria’s Patricia Mbata.
Apart from them, Lovlina, Australia’s Emma-Sue Greentree and Tuvalu’s Tarona Taafaki have superior on to the semi-finals.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medallist and former world champion will face Taafaki within the semi-finals on July 31, with a spot within the last at stake.
The 28-year-old’s medal shall be her first on the Commonwealth Games, no matter its color. Lovlina had exited the quarter-finals at Gold Coast 2018 after dropping to eventual champion Sandy Ryan, whereas she suffered an opening-round defeat at Birmingham 2022. She competed within the 69kg class at each editions.
The medal can even full Lovlina’s medal tally in any respect main multi-sport occasions she is eligible for, having already gained medals on the Olympics and Asian Games, in accordance with Olympics.com.
Among different Indian boxers in motion, Kapil Pokhariya (males’s 90kg), Narender Berwal (males’s +90kg), Jaismine Lamboria (girls’s 57kg), Priya Ghanghas (girls’s 60kg), Parveen Hooda (girls’s 65kg) and Arundhati Choudhary (girls’s 70kg) will start their campaigns within the quarter-finals. A victory would assure every of them a medal.
Boxing occasions at Glasgow 2026 shall be held from July 24 to August 1 on the Scottish Event Campus, with the bouts happening in Hall 5. The preliminary rounds are scheduled from July 24 to 29, whereas the medal bouts shall be held on July 31 and August 1. (ANI)