Boxer Akhil loses in quarters, out of Olympics

HOPES CRASH: The 27-year-old Indian boxer (in blue) lost to Moldova's Veaceslav Gojan (in red) 10-3.

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Beijing: Pugilist Akhil Kumar failed to penetrate the solid defences of his Moldovan opponent Veaceslav Gojan and crashed out in the quarter-final of 54kg category in Beijing Olympics on Monday, dashing India's medal hopes.

Akhil, who was one win away from ensuring India's first Olympic medal in boxing, went into all out offensive unleashing a flurry of punches right from the word go but ran into the nearly impeccable defence and lost the bout 3-10 against the unheralded Moldovan.

The bantamweight Moldovan boxer never lowered his guard and earned all his points through stray counterattacks, coming out of his defensive shell.

After the first two rounds saw the two boxers tied at 2-2, Veaceslav surged into a decisive lead of 6-2 by landing all his punches bang on target.

On the other hand, Akhil could only manage to reduce the margin of loss by scoring just one more point in the fourth and final round but it was too little and too late for the Indian.

Having beaten world champion Sergey Vodopyanov of Russia to reach the quarter-finals, Akhil surprisingly just did not have any answer to the Moldovan's strategy of all-out defence punctuated by counter-aggression.

With Akhil out of the competition, India's medal hopes rest on flyweight boxer Jitender Kumar and Vijender in featherweight when they walk in the ring on Wednesday to appear in their quarter-final bouts.