Asian Boxing Championships 2022: India’s Shiva Thapa ensured of historical 6th medal – Olympics

World champions bronze medallist Shiva Thapa protected a minimum of a bronze medal at the Asian Boxing Championships 2022 with a 4-1 triumph over South Korea’s Minsu Choi in the guys’s 63.5 kg quarter-finals in Amman, Jordan on Sunday. A semi-final look by Shiva Thapa, the London 2012 Olympian and 2013 Asian champ, will bring him his 6th medal at the Asian Championships, making him the very first male fighter in the history of the continental fulfill to attain this task. Thapa, who had actually won silver in 2017 and 2021 apart from winning bronze in 2015 and 2019, will be up versus 2019 gold medallist Bakhodur Usmonov of Tajikistan in the semi-final on Friday. Two-time Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Mohammed Hussamuddin and Govind Kumar Sahani likewise made it to the semi-finals after winning their particular quarter-finals. Hussamuddin, contending in the males’s 57 kg, blanked South Korea’s Haengseok Lee 5-0 while Govind Kumar Sahani overcame Mansour Khalifa of Kuwait with a comparable margin in the guys’s 48 kg. Hussamuddin will deal with the 2021 world champions silver medallist Serik Temirzha of Kazakhstan while Govind will handle Sanzhar Tashkenbay, likewise from Kazakhstan, in the semi-finals. Previously, Minakshi (ladies’s 52 kg), Preeti (females’s 57 kg), Parveen (ladies’s 63 kg), Ankushita Boro (ladies’s 66 kg) and Lovlina Borgohain (females’s 75 kg) advanced to the semi-finals and ensured themselves of medals on Saturday. Saweety Boora (ladies’s 81 kg) and Alfiya Pathan (ladies’s +81 kg) will start their project from semi-finals and are currently ensured of a bronze medal a minimum of. Ananta Chopade (males’s 54 kg) bailed out of the competitors after suffering a 4-0 defeat versus Seidekmatov Sanzhai of Kyrgyzstan. Amit Kumar (guys’s 67 kg) lost to Uzbekistan’s Muydinkhujaev Asadkhuja in comparable style. 5 Indian males fighters – Narender (males’s +92 kg), Naveen Kumar (guys’s 92 kg), Lakshya Chahar (males’s 80 kg), Sumit (guys’s 75 kg) and Sachin (males’s 71 kg) will complete in the quarter-finals phase on Monday.
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