Asian Games Boxing latest; Indian boxers had a mixed day in China
Vikas Krishan and Dinesh Kumar successfully advanced into the finals with comfortable victories in the opening session of the Boxing event at the Asian Games on Wednesday. Two other boxers from India, Suranjoy Singh and Paramjeet
Samota however had to settle for bronze medal in China.
The eighteen year old Krishan thrashed out Hurshid Tojibaev of Uzbekistan 7-0 to make his way into the title battle in the sixteenth edition of the Asian Games. The Indian will take on Qing Hu of China in the finals.
Second up was Kumar who also had no serious problems in outwitting his opponent from Nepal, Deepak Maharjan 7-1. Kumar, by virtue of this victory has set up a final clash with Elshod Rasulov of Uzbekistan.
The 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallists Suranjoy and Samota, on the other hand, had to settle with bronze after falling down in the final four encounter in contrasting manner.
Suranjoy was beaten in an exciting contest by his Chinese opponent Chang Yong 5-6 whereas Samota was all at sea versus Zhilei Zhang before the referee stopped the match halfway through the round three and given the bout to the
local favourite.
Suranjoy was the first player to enter the ring for India in the men’s event and was 0-3 down versus Yong in the first round. However, the 24-year-old
Manipuri, who has captured a total of seven international gold medals since April last year, bounced back with his trademark left hooks to level it at 5-5 in the next round.
In the final round, the tiny Manipuri, who is also known as 'Chhota Tyson', was unfortunate not to get points for some blows even as Yong did well to land the all-important scoring punch to just about edge past his opponent
in the end.
Next came Paramjeet Samota who was simply no match for the stronger and more determined Zhang, who never actually allowed his Indian opponent to attack.
Paramjeet kept a shell-guard to counter that however Zhilei managed to penetrate his defence with great measure of ease before the referee called it off in favour of the local side boxer.
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