Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Boxing News

At 2017 AIBA World Boxing Championships, Hamburg, Germany

Light flyweight - 49kg
[R32] Amit Phangal (IND) bt Federico Serra (ITA) 4-1
[R16] Amit Phangal (IND) bt Carlos Quipo (ECU) 5-0

[QF] Amit Phangal (IND) l Hasanboy Dusmatov (UZB) 0-5

Flyweight - 52kg
[R32] Kavinder Bisht (IND) bt Ryusei Baba (JPN) 3-2
[R16] Kavinder Bisht (IND) bt Mohamed Flissi (ALG) 3-2

[QF] Kavinder Bisht (IND) l Kim In-kyu (KOR) 0-4


Bantamweight - 56kg
[R32] Gaurav Bidhuri (IND) bt Sam Goodman (AUS) 5-0
[R16] Gaurav Bidhuri (IND) bt Mykola Butsenko (UKR) 4-1

[QF] Gaurav Bidhuri (IND) bt Bilel Mhamdi (TUN) 3-0

[SF] Gaurav Bidhuri (IND) vs Duke Ragan (USA)

Wildcard entrant Gaurav Bidhuri on Tuesday became only the fourth Indian boxer ever to secure himself a medal in the World Championships after he defeated Tunisia's Bilel Mhamdi to enter the semifinals of the World Championship ... Vijender Singh (2009), Vikas Krishan (2011) and Shiva Thapa (2015) have been the country's only other medallists at the World Championship.

Kavinder Bisht fine run ended in the quarters against Korean boxer ... But there was a slight disappointment as well for the contingent when another impressive debutant Amit Phangal bowed out in the quarterfinal stage ... Amit went down to Olympic champion and 2nd seed Hasanboy Dusmatov of Uzbekistan in a unanimous verdict.

Before that, Kavinder notched up a remarkable 3-2 victory over Algeria's two-time world medallist Mohamed Flissi to make the last eight stage.

This is an impressive performance from youngsters after experienced boxers lost their bouts ... Shiva Thapa in the lightweight 60kg category, bowed out without exchanging a single blow, forced to give a walkover after being laid low by food poisoning and high fever ... Vikas Krishan (75kg) was ousted after a second-round loss ... Manoj Kumar (69kg) went down in a split verdict to 4th seed Venezuelan Gabriel Maestre Perez.

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