Six-time world champion MC Mary Kom (51 kg) will win her sixth gold medal towards Nazim Kizabe of Kazakhstan within the ladies’s 51 kg remaining of the Asian Boxing Championships right here on Sunday.
The 38-year-old Olympic-bound Mary Kom had a 4–1 win over Lutsaikhan Altantsetseg of Mongolia within the semi-finals on Thursday. He will face a troublesome problem from two-time world champion Kyzabe within the summit conflict.
Another Olympic-bound boxer Pooja Rani, who obtained a walk-over within the semi-finals, will tackle Uzbekistan’s in-form Mavluda Movalonova, who ended the problem of London Olympic medalist Marina Volnova within the final-4 stage.
Anupama (+81 kg) and Lalbutsahi (64 kg) will even must face robust Kazakh boxers of their respective finals.
On Monday, defending champions Amit Panghal (52 kg), Shiva Thapa (64 kg) and Sanjeet (91 kg) can be seen in motion within the males’s gold medal matches on Monday.
Panghal will face 2016 Rio Olympics and world champion Zoirov Shakhobidin of Uzbekistan whereas Thapa will face Asian Games silver medalist Baatarsukh Chinzorig of Mongolia.
Second seed Sanjeet will battle towards 2016 Rio Olympics silver medalist Vasily Levitt, who’s chasing his fourth gold medal of the Asian Championship.
Indian boxers ensured their finest efficiency by bagging an unprecedented 15 medals, enhancing their earlier excessive of 13 (2 gold, 4 silver and seven bronze) achieved throughout the 2019 version.
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has allotted US $ 4,00,000 prize cash for this championship. Gold medalists within the males’s and girls’s classes will every obtain USD 10,000, whereas silver and bronze winners will obtain USD 5,000 and USD 2,500 respectively.
Eight Indian boxers – Simranjit Kaur (60 kg), Lavlina Borgohain (69 kg), Jasmine (57 kg), Sakshi Chaudhary (64 kg), Monika (48 kg), Sweety (81 kg) ladies and Vikas Krishna (69 kg) And Varinder Singh (60 kg) amongst males – have received a bronze medal of their semi-finals.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
