Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Boxing News

At 2020 Asia and Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament, Amman, Jordan

Women Lightweight (60 kg) (4 quota places)
[F] Simranjit Kaur (IND) l Oh Yeon-ji (KOR) 0-5

Men Lightweight (63 kg) (6 quota places)
[Olympic box-off match] Manish Kaushik (IND) bt Harrison Garside (AUS) 4-1

Men Welterweight (69 kg) (5 quota places)
[F] Vikas Krishan Yadav (IND) l (4) Zeyad Ishaish (JOR) WO

Men Light heavyweight (81 kg) (5 quota places)
[Olympic box-off match] Sachin Kumar (IND) l Shabbos Negmatulloev (TJK) 0-5

Manish Kaushik becomes the 9th boxer to capture Olympic quota from the men Lightweight category ... He defeated a seeded Australian boxer, Harrison Garside, in the Olympic box-off match.

Vikas Krishan gave a walkover to a local boxer, Zeyad Ishaish, in the men Welterweight final.
In the women's Lightweight category final, Simranjit Kaur lost easily against a Korean Oh Yeon-ji.

A surprising one-sided loss of Sachin Kumar against Shabbos Negmatulloev in the Olympic box-off match.

India ended with healthy haul of the 2 silver medals and the 6 bronze medals with 9 Olympic quota places.

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