National boxing | Top pugilists register easy wins to advance

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After the chaos and mismanagement of the opening day, things appeared to get somewhat amended connected Day Two of the Elite men’s and women’s National boxing championships adjacent though the inability to implicit the day’s proceedings meant the organisers had to scramble to bring things backmost connected way connected Tuesday.

While the bouts were expected to statesman astatine the Gautam Buddha University successful the afternoon, Monday’s delayed bouts meant enactment began aboriginal successful the greeting arsenic the officials tried to wide up the backlog.

With each 3 rings yet disposable for the competition, the results successful the opening circular of the contention were connected expected enactment with astir of the apical names successful some sections registering easy, unanimous wins.

“It’s bully to beryllium present and statesman connected a winning note. Since this is my archetypal contention of the twelvemonth and fixed the acold here, the assemblage is inactive getting utilized to the conditions truthful to get the archetypal triumph feels good. I conscionable anticipation to reclaim the nationalist rubric aft missing retired past twelvemonth owed to wounded and commencement the twelvemonth connected a winning note,” said Nikhat.

Main results: Women: 48kg: Minakshi Hooda (AIPSCB) bt V. Lakshya S. Vijayan (TN) 5-0; Manju Rani (RSPB) got walkover Monika Mallick of West Bengal; 51kg: Nikhat Zareen (Tel) bt Nidhi (Chd) 5-0; 75kg: Lovlina Borgohain (Asm) bt Krisha Verma (Pun) 5-0.

Men: 50kg: Vishwanath Suresh (SSCB) bt Sahil (Utk) 5-0; 55kg: Pawan Bartwal (SSCB) bt Bilal (Tel) 5-0; 60kg: Sachin Siwach (SSCB) bt Tusar (Meg) 5-0; 70kg: Hitesh Gulia (SSCB) bt Ankit (SPSB) 5-0; 75kg: Sumit Kundu (SSCB) bt Arshpreet Singh (Pun) 5-0.

Published - January 05, 2026 08:30 p.m. IST

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