Liverpool [UK], September 9 (ANI): India pugilist Nikhat Zareen continued her march within the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool on Tuesday with a 5:0 win over Japan’s Yuma Nishinaka within the ladies’s 51kg pre-quarter-finals.
The 29-year-old confronted a spirited combat from the Japanese within the opening spherical, however there was no stopping the Indian, who’s taking part in her first worldwide occasion this yr. In truth, the Japanese even obtained two penalty factors for extreme clinching as she tried to interrupt Nikhat’s rhythm.
Before coming into the pre-quarter-finals, Nikhat, who was topped world champion twice earlier than, had not competed in any worldwide occasion this yr, however didn’t present any indicators of rustiness as she dominated the USA’s Jennifer Lozano from the primary minute to get a 5-0 verdict.
India has fielded a 20-member contingent on the inaugural World Championships being held below the aegis of the World Boxing, a just lately fashioned worldwide governing physique for boxing, and is hoping for a superb exhibiting in each males’s and girls’s occasions.
Three extra ladies boxers are additionally only a win away from the rostrum, and 5 extra are set to take the rink of their respective pre-quarterfinal bout later within the day.
However, it was the tip of the highway for Sachin (males’s 60kg), Sumit (Men’s 75kg) and Narender (males’s 90+kg) as they misplaced their respective bout late on Monday night time.
Sachin went down 1:4 to Biibars Zhexen of Kazakhstan, Sumit misplaced to Rami Kiwan of Bulgaria 0:5, whereas Narender’s ended on the fallacious facet of a 1:4 verdict in opposition to Diego Lenzi of Italy. In the ladies’s 65kg pre-quarterfinals, Neeraj Phogat’s spirited combat in opposition to England’s Sacha Hickey was not sufficient as she misplaced 2:3.
Earlier, World Boxing Cup Astana gold medallist Jaismine Lamboria booked her quarterfinal spot within the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool with a dominant win over two-time Olympian Brazil’s Jucielen Cerqueira Romeu within the ladies’s 57kg class. (ANI)