India’s Nikhat Zareen won the gold medal within the 52kg class on the Ladies’s World Boxing Championship with a exhaust over Thailand’s Jitpong Jutamas within the soar-weight final in Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday. Nikhat thus becomes easiest the fifth Indian girls folk’s boxer after Mary Kom, Sarita Devi, Jenny RL and Lekha KC to exhaust a gold on the World Championships. The 25-365 days-weak Zareen is a dilapidated junior childhood world champion. In opposition to her Thai opponent within the closing, Nikhat fought with brilliance and brought dwelling the gold medal. The judges scored the bout 30-27, 29-28, 29-28, 30-27, 29-28 within the Indian’s favour.
Zareen become once in top kind as she dilapidated her technical acumen and lined to court properly to outwit her nimble-footed opponent. Nikhat managed to provoke the total judges within the first round as she landed some distance more punches than the Thai boxer. The 2d round become once tighter and Jitpong clinched it 3-2. Wanting to earn real one exhaust on her facet within the closing round, Nikhat went all in and slammed the door on her opponent to at final portray a 5-0 unanimous resolution in her favour.
The Nizamabad (Telangana)-born boxer was the supreme fifth Indian girl to stable gold medal on the World Boxing Championships after portray six-time champion Mary Kom (2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2018), Sarita Devi (2006), Jenny RL (2006) and Lekha KC (2006).
It become once additionally India’s first gold medal since boxing immense Mary Kom won it in 2018.
Nikhat got off to a provocative beginning and hit some sharp punches to fleet carry the upper hand within the outlet three minutes in opposition to assured Jutamas, who came into the match defeating the three-time World Championships medallist Kazakhstan’s Zhaina Shekerbekova.
The 25-365 days-weak Indian took full profit of her lengthy reach and maintained her dominance in opposition to the Thai boxer, whom she had beaten within the 2019 Thailand Delivery semi-final—the supreme meeting between the 2, enroute her silver medal kind.
Then again, Jutamas tried to battle attend within the 2d round with a counter-attacking observe but no longer incessantly managed to motive any nervousness for the swift-racy Nikhat, who regarded in full motivate an eye on.
Hitting straight and clear punches, energy proved to be a key element as Nikhat threw caution to the wind within the closing round and saved attacking relentlessly earlier than securing the gold moderately very with out misfortune.
“Winning a medal on the world’s is continually a dream and Nikhat might well kind it so early is extraordinarily commendable. We, at BFI, are proud that our boxers receive no longer easiest made all of us proud but every of their boxing journeys is racy for the upcoming generations,” BFI President Ajay Singh said.
“On behalf of the Boxing Federation of India, I congratulate Nikhat and bronze medal winners Parveen and Manisha as properly as the coaches and toughen workers for this success. Our eight boxers certified for the quarter-finals which become once joint most and reveals the energy of Indian boxing,” he added.
With Manisha (57kg) and Parveen (63kg) signing off with bronze medals after their semi-finals kind, Indian contingent concluded its advertising campaign with three medals on the world’s biggest boxing event, which witnessed thrilling competitors in presence of portray 310 boxers from 73 countries and additionally marked the 20th anniversary of the Ladies’s World Championships.
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Out of 12 participating Indian boxers, eight made it to the quarter-finals on this 365 days’s match—the joint absolute best alongside Turkey.
With the addition of three medals in Istanbul, India’s overall medal tally has gone up to 39, alongside with 10 gold, eight silver and 21 bronze, within the 12 editions of the noteworthy event—third absolute best after Russia (60) and China (50).
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