The 17-year-old Prasad, a 2012 Tammer International Tournament winner, lost 8-13 on points to Bin. ...
07:30 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Qinhuangdao: Asian Championship 2012 gold medallist Sarita Devi advanced to the next round in the 60 kg weight category by defeating Ayzanat Hajiyeva of Azerbaijan on points 27:11 at the seventh AIBA World Women Boxing Championships here. Compatriot Pooja Rani (75 kgs) bowed out with a 11:27 loss to Claressa Maria Shields of the US. It was not all plain sailing for Sarita as she was made to work hard...
05:34 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: The big shots of Indian boxing may not have clicked at the World Championships, but national coach Gurbax Singh Sandhu said the likes of Vijender Singh and Suranjoy Singh made up for the debacle by inspiring and quite often training those who qualified for the London Olympics from the event in Azerbaijan. Faced with tough opponents in the initial rounds itself, Asian Games gold-medallist Vijender (75kg) lost in...
12:08 AM, Oct 12, 2011
Vikas Krishan, who won a bronze, spoke of his joy after a successful World Championships where four Indian boxers qualified for the 2012 Olympics. ...
11:15 PM, Oct 11, 2011
New Delhi: The youngest World Championships medallist in Indian boxing, teen sensation Vikas Krishan says the bronze he notched up in the recently-concluded mega-event in Azerbaijan was a bonus after he achieved his main target of qualifying for next year's London Olympics. Four Indian boxers - Vikas (69kg), Manoj Kumar (64kg), L Devendro Singh (49kg) and Jai Bhagwan (60kg) - qualified for the Olympics in London by reaching the quarter-finals...
09:59 PM, Oct 11, 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: 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: 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
Top Indian boxer MC Mary Kom won her fifth successive world title in Bridgetown last week. ...
01:04 PM, Sep 21, 2010
Bridgetown, Barbados: M C Mary Kom continued her chase for a historic fifth successive World Championship gold by becoming the only Indian boxer to enter the finals of the event with a thumping win in the last-four stage here. Mary Kom (48kg) defeated Alice Kate Aparri of Philippines 8-1 in the semifinals to assure herself of at least a silver in the sixth edition of the event. The former Khel...
02:54 PM, Sep 18, 2010
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