Tashkent [Uzbekistan], May 4 (ANI): Putting on a commanding show, Narender Berwal registered a stellar victory and superior to the quarter-finals of the IBA Men’s World Boxing Championships 2023 whereas Govind Sahani and Deepak Kumar entered the pre-quarters to make sure India dominated proceedings in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Thursday.
Thapa is to play his event opener in a while Thursday; Hussamuddin, Ashish, and Naveen might be in motion on Friday.
With a quarter-final end on the earlier World Championships underneath his belt, Narender (92kg) started his quest for a medal on the ongoing version by defeating Muhammad Abroridinov of Tajikistan in a intently contested encounter by 4-1. Both pugilists who gained bronze on the 2022 Asian Championships went all out within the neck-and-neck bout from the phrase go.
Narender landed highly effective punches and dodged his opponent’s assaults from shut vary to have the higher hand within the first spherical. In spite of a stern combat put up by Abroridinov, the Hisar-born pugilist continued to assault on the entrance foot within the subsequent two rounds and prevailed within the bout. He will face the 2021 World Youth Championships bronze medallist Fernando Arzola of Cuba within the quarter-finals.
Earlier within the day, the 2022 Thailand Open champion Govind (48kg) and 2019 Asian silver medallist Deepak (51kg) kicked off their respective campaigns with equivalent victories.
Govind, who has had an excellent 12 months to date with a gold on the Nationals Championships and a silver on the 74th Strandja Memorial, continued his wealthy vein of kind as he made lightwork of Mehron Shafiev of Tajikistan to safe a 5-0 win.
Deepak, then again, was additionally at his attacking greatest as he ousted Luis Delgado of Ecuador along with his supreme technical capacity to seal an emphatic victory by unanimous choice.
Following their emphatic victories, Govind will face the top-seeded Sakhil Alakhverdovi of Georgia who gained bronze on the final World Championships whereas Deepak will tackle the Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist and reigning World Champion Saken Bibossinov of Kazakhstan.
Later tonight, the file six-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) will take to the ring for his event opener in opposition to Dos Reis Yuri of Brazil.
On Friday, two-time Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Mohammad Hussamuddin, Tokyo Olympian Ashish Chaudhary, and Naveen Kumar will all be in pre-quarters motion.
Hussamuddin (57kg) will go face to face in opposition to Lyu Ping of China whereas Ashish (80kg) will face a troublesome problem in opposition to the two-time Olympic gold medallist Arlen Lopez of Cuba. Naveen (92kg) will tackle Jeong Jae-min of South Korea.
The ongoing event is witnessing the participation of 538 boxers, together with a number of Olympic medallists, from 107 nations. (ANI)