The completed trio of Sanjeet (92kg), Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) and Mohammad Hussamuddin (57kg) stood only one win away from reserving a slot in India’s world championship squad after they entered the finals of the lads’s National Boxing Championships right here on Monday.
Reigning Asian gold-medallist Sanjeet, representing Services Sports Control Board (SSCB), proved too robust for Harsh Kaushik from Delhi as he registered a convincing 5-0 win.
Sanjeet will tackle Haryana’s Naveen Kumar within the last. Naveen blanked Punjab’s Raghav Chaudhary.
Another SSCB boxer Hussamuddin, nevertheless, confronted a troublesome problem from the in-form youth world champion Sachin of Haryana.
The defending champion Hussamuddin needed to work exhausting earlier than finishing a 4-1 win in an intense semifinal bout. He will struggle in opposition to Delhi’s Rohit Mor within the gold medal match.
Later, 2015 world championships bronze-medallist Thapa recorded a dominating victory over Uttar Pradesh’s Abhishek Yadav, profitable with a unanimous 5-0 verdict.
The five-time Asian medallist will sq. off in opposition to SSCB’s Dalveer Singh Tomar within the last on Tuesday.
Deepak (51kg), Akash (54kg), Etash Khan Muhammed (60kg), Akash (67kg), Sumit (75kg), Sachin Kumar (80kg), Lakshya (86kg) and Narender (+92kg) have been the opposite SSCB boxers to enter the finals.
Chandigarh’s Kuldeep Kumar (48kg) and Sagar (+92kg) additionally made their manner into the finals with equally dominant victories.
While Kuldeep Kumar outperformed Uttar Pradesh’s Ravi Kumar with a unanimous margin, Sagar too comfortably defeated Maharashtra’s Reynold Joseph, when the referee stopped the competition in his favour.
For Karnataka, Nishant Dev additionally booked a last berth within the 71kg class. Nishant bought the higher of Haryana’s Yashpal with a straightforward 5-0 win.
Gold medal winners from the championships will earn themselves an opportunity to characterize the nation on the world championships to be held in Serbia from October 24 to November 6.