Asian Boxing Championships: One step away from medal, four Indians in action on Day 2 | Boxing News

Simranjeet Kaur (TOI Picture)

DUBAI: The World Championships bronze medallist Simranjeet Kaur and three different Indian pugilists will look to substantiate medals for the nation as they are going to battle within the quarter-finals on the second day on the 2021 ASBC Asian Boxing Championships in Dubai on Tuesday.
Sakshi (54kg), Jasmine (57kg), and Sanjeet (91) are the opposite Indians who might be in motion within the last-8 stage of their respective classes on the prestigious occasion which is collectively hosted by the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) and UAE Boxing Federation.
The Olympic-bound boxer Simranjit will sq. up towards Uzbekistan’s Raykhona Kodirova within the ladies’s 60kg quarter-final bout. Two-time youth world champion Sakshi will tackle Ruhafzo Haqazarova of Tajikistan.
Within the ladies’s featherweight class Jasmine, who just lately had a wonderful maiden worldwide outing on the Boxam Event the place she clinched the silver medal, might be up towards Mongolian boxer Oyuntsetseg Yesugen.
Within the males’s part, second-seeded Sanjeet, who acquired a bye within the first spherical, will face a problem from Jasur Qurbonov of Tajikistan.
Mohammad Hussamuddin (56kg) and Shiva Thapa (64kg), who’re in motion later within the evening on Monday within the opening spherical bouts, will even compete of their respective last-8 spherical matches on Tuesday in the event that they progress.
The celebrated occasion has witnessed the presence of 150 pugilists from 17 counties together with robust boxing nations similar to India, Uzbekistan, the Philippines, and Kazakhstan.
India’s best-ever present on the Asian Championship got here within the final version in 2019 in Bangkok the place they secured an unprecedented 13 medals together with two gold.