Deepika stuns world champion Alfiya at 4th Youth National Boxing Championships

Haryana boxer Deepika defeated the reigning Youth World Champion Alfiya Pathan to trigger a serious upset on the 4th Youth Males’s and Girls’s Nationwide Championships at Delhi Public Faculty (DPS) in Sonipat.

Enjoying within the heavyweight +81kg ladies’s quarter-finals, Deepika produced a splendid present in opposition to the robust medal contender Maharashtra’s Alfiya to safe a 4-1 victory in an intense battle, which noticed each the boxers giving exhausting time to one another, performed late on Monday. The 2019 Junior Nationals bronze medallist Deepika will now tackle Chandigarh’s Mehak Mor within the semi-finals. Mehak outpunched Rajasthan’s Rishika 5-0 within the quarter-finals match.

However, 2021 Youth World Championships gold medallist Gitika and bronze medallist Bishwamitra Chongtham continued their successful run within the event and progressed into the last-8 stage on Tuesday. Haryana’s Gitika registered a convincing 5-0 victory in opposition to Rajasthan’s Yamini Kanwar in ladies’s 48 kg pre-quarterfinals bout, whereas within the males’s 51kg, Companies Sports activities Management Board’s Bishwamitra notched up a commanding victory in opposition to Madhya Pradesh’s Shubham Sahu with Referee Stopping Contest (RSC) within the second spherical of the match.

With the presence of 479 boxers from throughout the nation, the fourth version of the Youth Males’s and Girls’s Nationwide championships is the primary home boxing occasion going down in India after greater than a 12 months break attributable to Covid-19 pandemic. The on-going Youth occasion will probably be adopted by the third version of Junior Boys Nationwide Championships and the fourth version of Junior Women Nationwide Championships that are scheduled from July 26 to 31.

The Youth and Junior Nationwide Championships present a superb alternative for boxers to showcase their abilities as the highest performers will probably be chosen for the 2021 ASBC Youth & Junior Boxing Championships which is slated to happen in Dubai from August 17-31.