Indian boxers go down in quarters of Asian Boxing Championships

TASHKENT: Previous edition’s bronze-medallist Satish Kumar (+91kg) lost in the quarterfinals to bow out of medal contention at the Asian Boxing Championships here. Also going down in the last-eight stage was Manish Panwar (81kg).

Satish lost to Kazakhstan’s Kamshybek Kunkabayev in a unanimous verdict. Manish, on the other hand, went down Turkmanistan’s Nuryagdy Nuryadyyev, also a unanimous decision in the evening session last night.

However, both the boxers are still in fray for a berth in the August-September World Championships in Germany.

Both of them will fight it out in box-offs to be held on Saturday.

Bowing out in the quarterfinals on Wednesday along with Satish were Manoj Kumar (69kg), and Kavinder Singh Bisht (49kg) -- all of whom lost in the evening session. In the morning session, Gaurav Bidhuri (56kg) had lost his quarterfinal bout.

BOXERS FOR ARJUNA

NEW DELHI: The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) has recommended the trio of Saweety Boora (81kg), Sonia Lather (57kg), and Sarjubala Devi (51kg) for the prestigious Arjuna award.

While Boora and Devi won the silver medal in the 2014 edition of the World Championship, Sonia was India’s lone athlete to clinch silver at the 2016 edition.

Lather and Boora have also clinched silver at the Asian Championships in 2012 and 2015 respectively.