World champion Gitika makes winning start at youth national boxing championships

Reigning world champion Gitika dished out a stable efficiency to defeat Payal Zala within the opening spherical of girls’s 48kg occasions on the youth nationwide boxing championship right here on Sunday.

The event, being held at Delhi Public School, marked a return of home boxing motion within the nation after a spot of greater than a 12 months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Haryana’s Gitika dominated Zala from Gujarat with some heavy blows proper from the beginning and the referee declared the previous because the winner with the RSC (referee stopped contest) verdict within the first spherical.

Gitika was among the many seven Indian ladies boxers who clinched gold medals and scripted historical past on the youth world championships in Poland earlier this 12 months.

The continuing championship is being performed with AIBA’s newly-introduced weight divisions — 13 classes in males’s occasion whereas 12 within the ladies’s part.

The opening day witnessed 32 bouts within the ladies’s classes.

Maharashtra’s Mrunal Jadhav blanked Rajasthan’s Anju 5-0 within the ladies’s 57kg to make her approach into the final eight stage, whereas Manipur’s Tingmila, who had made the headlines after successful gold in Silesion Boxing Championship in Poland in 2018, additionally progressed to the ladies’s 48kg second spherical with a 3-2 victory in opposition to Karnataka’s Lachenbee Thongram.

Within the males’s part, 60 bouts had been performed on the opening day of the occasion the place boxers from states and union territories like Haryana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Ladakh took half. The fourth version of youth women and men nationwide championship will go on until July 23 whereas the third version of junior boys nationwide championship and the fourth version of junior women nationwide championship are scheduled from July 26 to 31.

The occasions will act as the choice tournaments for the 2021 ASBC youth and junior boxing championships, which is slated to happen in Dubai from August 17 to 31.

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