Shiva Thapa sails into last-16, Gaurav Bidhuri bows out of National Championships
Other Sports | September 17, 2021 20:14 ISTRepresenting Assam, Thapa knocked out Shubham Mamta of Steel Plant Sports Board (SPSB) in the opening round of his bout.
Representing Assam, Thapa knocked out Shubham Mamta of Steel Plant Sports Board (SPSB) in the opening round of his bout.
No show at Boxing nationals will also rule them out of contention for next month's world championships in Serbia as well.
Bidhuri had been out of action ever since his bronze medal at the Hamburg World Championship in September last year owing to a nagging back injury.
Boxing Federation of India had selected the CWG boxing contingent on the basis of a points system put in place before the national championships last year and Bidhuri was excluded from the team as he did not have the required points.
From an unheralded Gaurav Bidhuri and the legendary MC Mary Kom to the well-established Shiva Thapa, and a bunch of teenaged women boxers - all of them scripted their little piece of history in a fairly successful 2017 for Indian boxing.
Despite the loss, the 24-year-old from Delhi joined a rare club of world championship medallists from India, the past winners being Vijender, Vikas and Shiva.
Amit has a tough contest coming up as he would be taking on second-seeded Uzbek Hasanboy Dusmatov, while Gaurav will face Tunisia's Bilel Mhamdi in his next contest.
Asian bronze-medallist Amit was the first to take the ring and shrugged off a slow start to edge past Italian Federico Serra in a split verdict.
New Delhi: Indian boxer Gaurav Bidhuri (52kg) has created quite a splash at the International Boxing Association's semi-professional World Series of Boxing, churning out three consecutive wins for his franchise Italia Thunder in the ongoing
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