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World champion Minakshi Hooda (48kg) asserted her class, portion Paris Olympian Preeti Pawar (54kg) made a good comeback to participate the semifinals and guarantee medals for India connected the opening time of the World Boxing Cup Finals astatine the Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Indoor Stadium present connected Sunday.
The promising Ankush Panghal (80kg), a last-minute replacement for the injured Lakshya Chahar, and Asian Games bronze medallist Narender Berwal (90+kg) besides precocious to the last-four successful the men’s conception to guarantee 2 much medals.
Using her agelong reach, Minakshi recorded a convincing 5-0 triumph implicit Kazakhstan’s Bolat Akbota. Minakshi’s ringing trade and close punching gave her power and a wide vantage passim the contest.
Preeti overcame erstwhile World younker champion Nigina Uktamova 5-0. Learning from her 2021 nonaccomplishment to the Uzbek boxer astatine the Asian younker championships, southpaw Preeti employed her jabs and backhand punches to bully effect to people against the attacking Nigina. Her improved defence besides helped the Indian.
Another southpaw, Ankush gave a bully relationship of himself connected his planetary debut arsenic helium defeated Wakaya Go 5-0. Landing a stinging jab, Ankush inflicted a lasting number connected the Japanese successful the archetypal circular and mixed his jabs and hooks good to marque an impression. His evasive skills kept him safe.
Narender managed a hard-fought 4-1 triumph implicit Ukraine’s hard-hitting Andrii Khaletskyi. The well-built Indian, who received immoderate almighty punches and suffered a chopped connected his left-eyebrow successful the last period, connected his counters to consistently person 4 judges successful each round.
Important results: Quarterfinals: Men: 65kg: Mukhiddinov Adkhamjon (Uzb) bt Jang Donghwan (Kor) 5-0; 80kg: Begaliyev Sanzhar-Ali (Kaz) bt Kim Minseong (Kor) 5-0; Ankush Panghal bt Wakaya Go (Jpn) 5-0 90+kg: Mamasoliev Khalimjon (Uzb) bt Hagag Ahmed (Aut) 5-0; Narender Berwal bt Andrii Khaletskyi (ukr) 4-1.
Women: 48kg: Minakshi Hooda bt Bolat Akbota (Kaz) 5-0. 54kg: Preeti Pawar bt Nigina Uktamova (Uzb) 5-0; 70kg: Aziza Zokirova (Uzb) bt Patricia Mbata (Ngr) 5-0.
