Image Source : TWITTER/KIREN RIJIJU Deepak Kumar
Indian boxer Deepak Kumar’s stupendous run on the 72nd Strandja Memorial match ended with a silver medal in Sofia, Bulgaria after he misplaced a fiercely-contested flyweight (52kg) remaining on Saturday.
Deepak, an Asian silver-winner, was up towards Bulgaria’s Daniel Asenov, a two-time European championships gold-medallist. The bout resulted in a cut up verdict in favour of the native favorite.
The Indian had created fairly a flutter within the match when he shocked reigning Olympic and world champion — Uzbekistan’s Shakhobidin Zoirov — in his semifinal showdown.
On Saturday, the Bulgarian appeared the busier of the 2 boxers within the opening spherical and was sharper in his counter-attacking sport.
Asenov’s constantly excessive guard additionally denied Deepak a transparent shot for many half. Deepak’s second spherical was higher and he additionally put up a stronger defensive efficiency however the judges dominated in favour of Asenov.
In the ultimate three minutes, nonetheless, it was Deepak who referred to as the pictures for many half, effortlessly dodging his rival’s relentless assaults and likewise launching some robust ones of his personal.
But Asenov, regardless of being visibly jaded, had performed sufficient to seal the problem by that time. A Naib Subedar within the Indian Army, Deepak can be a former India Open gold-medallist.
Earlier, Naveen Boora (69kg) settled for a bronze medal after happening to Asian Games gold medallist Bobo-Usmon Baturov of Uzbekistan in his semifinal bout.
With this, India signed off with two medals on the occasion this yr, one lower than what the nation managed within the earlier version. None of the Indian girls boxers might make the medal rounds and have been eradicated by the quarterfinal stage
