Liverpool [UK], September 10 (ANI): World Boxing Cup Astana gold medallist Nupur continued her high quality kind to substantiate India’s first medal on the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool on Wednesday with a 4:1 win over Uzbekistan’s Oltinoy Sotimboeva within the ladies’s 80+kg quarterfinals.
In a tactical bout that noticed each boxers obtain a degree penalty for extreme holding, Nupur began sturdy within the opening spherical however noticed her opponent, a former World Youth silver medallist and bronze medallist in Astana, shut the hole within the second.
However, the Indian stepped up her assault within the third and closing spherical and likewise saved her opponent at bay to succeed in the semifinals. Earlier on Tuesday night time, three Indian boxers booked their quarterfinal berths to get inside a win of assuring a medal, in line with a launch.
Meenakshi (ladies’s 48kg) hammered China’s Wang Qiuping 5:0, Jadumani Singh Mandengbam (males’s 50kg) defeated England’s Reece Readshaw 5:0, whereas Abhinash Jamwal (males’s 65kg) thrashed Dominican Republic’s Piter Ynoa Fernando de Jesus.
Jugnoo (males’s 85kg) was the one Indian boxer to undergo a loss on Tuesday night time as he went down 0:5 towards Scotland’s Robert William McNulty within the pre-quarterfinals.
India has fielded a 20-member contingent on the inaugural World Championships being held below the aegis of World Boxing, a not too long ago shaped worldwide governing physique, and is hoping for a great exhibiting in each males’s and girls’s occasions.
Four extra Indian boxers can have an opportunity to guarantee a medal later within the day, with two-time world champion Nikhat Zareen (ladies’s 51kg), Jaismine Lamboria (ladies’s 57kg), Pooja Rani (ladies’s 80kg), and Jamwal (males’s 65kg) set to take the ring of their respective quarter-finals.
Earlier, two-time world champion Nikhat confronted a spirited struggle from Japan’s Yuma Nishinaka within the opening spherical, however there was no stopping the Indian, who’s enjoying her first worldwide occasion this 12 months. In truth, the Japanese even obtained two penalty factors for extreme clinching as she tried to interrupt Nikhat’s rhythm. However, Nikhat stood triumphant with a 5:0 win. (ANI)