New Delhi: He might have had to settle for a bronze medal after losing in the semifinals but teen Indian boxer Vikas Krishan on Friday said he is satisfied with how he performed against older and experienced rivals in his debut World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. The 19-year-old Vikas lost to Ukraine's European Championship bronze-medallist Taras Shelestyuk 12-15, settling for a bronze, which was India's lone medal at the event...
08:51 AM, Oct 08, 2011
New Delhi: Teen Indian boxing sensation Vikas Krishan's dream run at the World Championships came to an end as he settled for a bronze medal after losing his welterweight (69kg) semi-final bout in Baku, Azerbaijan on Friday. Up against Ukraine's European Championship bronze-medallist Taras Shelestyuk, the 19-year-old Vikas went down 12-15. The Asian Games gold medallist thereby repeated the bronze-medal winning feat of Olympian Vijender Singh at the mega-event, but...
10:07 PM, Oct 07, 2011
Brigadier PK Raja, the secretary general of the federation, said a few more boxers can make the cut for the mega event in London. ...
12:23 PM, Oct 05, 2011
New Delhi: Indian boxers packed a powerful punch as Commonwealth Games medallists Manoj Kumar (64kg) and Jai Bhagwan (60kg), along with rookie teen sensation L Devendro Singh, qualified for the London Olympics by advancing to the World Championships' quarter-finals with contrasting wins in Baku, Azerbaijan on Tuesday. While Manoj rallied to defeat China's Qing Hu 17-15, 19-year-old Devendro continued his giant-killing spree by beating seventh seed Carlos Quipo of Ecuador...
10:57 PM, Oct 04, 2011
New Delhi: Commonwealth Games bronze medal winner Jai Bhagwan (60kg) and rookie teen L Devendro Singh (49kg) inched closer to Olympic qualification by advancing to the pre-quarter-finals with thumping wins in their respective second-round bouts of the World Boxing Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan on Monday. The 19-year-old Devendro pummelled Joselito Velazquez of Mexico 40-19 in what was biggest points win of the ongoing event till now. Jai, on the other...
10:42 PM, Oct 03, 2011
New Delhi: Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Manoj Kumar's sensational upset win over a European champion left him just one step away from Olympic qualification, but it was curtains for Suranjoy Singh as he was ousted following a second-round loss in the World Boxing Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sunday. Manoj advanced to the pre-quarter-finals of the light welterweight division (64kg) with a thumping 19-7 win over European champion and fourth seed...
06:01 PM, Oct 02, 2011
New Delhi: Olympic hero Vijender Singh was on Saturday ousted in the very first round, upstaged by his Cuban nemesis Emilio Correa Bayeux, but Jai Bhagwan entered the second round on a mixed day for Indian boxers at the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. Vijender, a bronze-medallist at the previous World Championships in Milan and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, lost 9-16 to Bayeux in the opening bout of the 75kg...
06:07 PM, Oct 01, 2011
New Delhi: Manoj Kumar eased past Bahamas' Valentino Knowles 17-11 to enter the light welterweight (64kg) second round and continue the Indian boxers' fine show at the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan on Friday. Manoj, the lone Indian in action on the day, now has a tough bout at hand as he will be up against reigning European champion and fourth seed Raymond Moylette of Ireland. Moylette rallied to beat...
06:29 PM, Sep 30, 2011
New Delhi: Asian Games gold-medallist Vikas Krishan (69kg) notched up a comfortable win but the Indian boxing team also had its first moment of disappointment at the World Championships as Paramjeet Samota (+91kg) crashed out with an opening-round loss in Baku, Azerbaijan on Thursday. Vikas, the lightweight (60kg) gold-medallist at the Asian Games last year, made his welterweight debut in style, beating Kyrgyzstan's Asadullo Boimurodov 16-8. But Samota, an Asian...
09:41 PM, Sep 29, 2011
New Delhi: Indian boxers' unbeaten run in the World Championships continued with Asian Games silver-medallist Dinesh Kumar advancing to the second round of the light heavyweight (81kg) category with a thumping win in his opening bout in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday. Dinesh, the lone Indian boxer in action on the day, defeated Nepal's Deepak Maharjn 20-8 to enter the second round where he will face Bosko Draskovic of Macedonia. Draskovic...
07:07 PM, Sep 28, 2011
New Delhi: Suranjoy Singh and Akhil Kumar notched up comprehensive victories to enter the second round of their respective weight categories as Indian boxers completed a second successive all-win day in the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan on Tuesday. Commonwealth Games gold medallist Suranjoy (52kg) pummelled Hungary's Dobradi Zsolt 24-8, while Akhil (56kg), also a former CWG gold-medallist, defeated Slovakia's Filip Barak 16-8 in his opening bout of the first...
09:38 PM, Sep 27, 2011
New Delhi: Visa problems have forced the cancellation of Indian women boxers' participation in two events and could also jeopardise the male pugilists' preparatory trip to France ahead of the World Championships later this month. The women boxers have been forced out of both the Nikolaev International Boxing Tournament in Nikolaev, Ukraine (from September 5-11) and the second International Boxing Women's Tournament at Astana, Kazakhstan (from September 13-17) after being...
02:52 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Incheon: India's hopes of bagging a gold at the Asian Boxing Championships were dashed as Amandeep Singh lost to local pugilist Shin Jong Hun in the 49kg summit clash here on Friday. Amandeep, the Commonwealth Games bronze-medallist, lost 11:18 to the South Korean to settle for a silver. The 25-year-old Punjab boxer was the lone Indian to have made it to the finals of the Championship. Shin, a bronze medallist...
06:55 PM, Aug 12, 2011
New Delhi: India's Amandeep Singh (49kg) entered the finals of the 2011 ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships at Incheon, South Korea, while Paramjeet Samota (91kg) and Balwinder Beniwal (64kg) had to be content with a bronze medal finish. Amandeep, a 2010 Commonwealth Games bronze-medallist and bronze medallist in 2007 Asian championship, defeated Jinyong Jiang of China for a place in the semi-final of the light flyweight division. In the penultimate...
07:55 PM, Aug 11, 2011
New Delhi: Commonwealth champion Paramjeet Samota (91kg) and CWG bronze medallist Amandeep Singh (49kg) advanced to the semifinals of the 2011 ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships in Incheon, South Korea, on Monday. But there was disappointment for the Indian camp as three other boxers lost in the quarterfinals of the tournament. Asian Games silver medallist Dinesh Kumar (81kg), Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Jai Bhagwan (60kg) and national champion Kuldeep Singh...
08:33 AM, Aug 09, 2011
Bhiwani: Beijing Olympics bronze medallist Vijender Singh tied the knot on May 17 with Delhi girl Archana Singh, who he says supported him even when he wasn't the star that he is now. Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi attended the wedding. Vijender also made the announcement while talking to reporters in New Delhi on Sunday morning. "There is an engagement ceremony on May 16 at our village Kulawas and the...
12:38 PM, May 17, 2011
Mumbai: Indian boxer Vijender Singh earned bronze medals at the World and Asian championships in 2009 but he has a fight on his hands getting money from his state government. The boxer, who also won bronze at the Beijing Olympics and gold at last year's Asian Games, has been unable to get his hands on prize money promised to him by the Haryana state government. The state's sports department has...
12:02 AM, Feb 12, 2011
Mumbai: The Indian national team were to play an international friendly against Syria on the Boxing Day and according to the latest information, the match will no longer see the light of the day. The West Asian nation are also to participate in the biggest football extravaganza of the continent come January and are placed alongside Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Japan. The last friendly played by the Men in Blues...
11:16 AM, Dec 23, 2010
Guangzhou: Bitter after his narrow loss to Vikas Krishan in the Asian Games final, Chinese boxer Qing Hu called him "a good actor" but the Indian teen hit back saying the home favourite repeatedly threw under-the-belt punches in their bout. Defending champion Hu slammed the referee and Vikas saying he had not been defeated by the Indian but by the two-point penalty that he was handed in the second round...
10:42 AM, Nov 26, 2010
Guangzhou: Indian boxer Suranjoy Singh had to be content with a bronze in the men's 52 kg after going down fighting 5-6 to China's Yong Chang at the Asian Games here on Wednesday. The Indian trailed 0-3 in the first round, fought back in the second to trail 1-4 and rallied with an attacking game to level 5-5. The Chinese pulled one off in the third and final round while...
01:54 PM, Nov 24, 2010
