Astana: Girls boxers led India’s march to glory as three of them — Sakshi (54kg), Jaismine (57kg) and Nupur (80+kg) — registered contrasting victories to bag gold medals because the Indian contingent clinched its finest ever medal haul on the World Boxing Cup – Astana, Kazakhstan 2025 right here on Sunday.
Sakshi was at her attacking finest towards USA’s Yosline Perez to get a unanimous verdict from the judges within the ladies’s 54kg ultimate whereas Jaismine saved her cool below strain to get the higher of Jucielen Cequeira Romeu of Brazil 4:1 within the ladies’s 57kg weight class. Nupur then overcame the problem of Kazakhstan boxer Yeldana Talipova to earn a 5:0 verdict within the 80+kg ultimate.
The Indian contingent completed with 11 medals, together with three gold, 5 silver and three bronze medals. India had bagged six medals within the first leg in Brazil, together with a gold and a silver.
Within the first session of the ultimate day on Sunday, it was Sakshi who managed to face atop of the rostrum with a stellar show that mixed velocity and mixture punches and open India’s gold medal account.
Within the night session, Jaismine had to make use of her lengthy attain to maintain her Brazilian opponent at bay within the third and ultimate spherical after there was not a lot to separate the 2 after the primary two rounds. The tall 23-year-old stayed away from her opponent within the ultimate spherical and landed punches on the counter assault to get the judges’ nod.
Nupur additionally struggled in the beginning towards Talipova as the house boxer took the opening spherical. However the Indian boxer utterly dominated the subsequent two rounds, touchdown punches at will and out-thinking her opponent to have the final snort.
Earlier, Meenakshi pushed laborious for victory towards native favorite Nazym Kyzaibay within the 48kg ultimate however ended on the incorrect facet of a 3:2 verdict.
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Jugnoo (males’s 85kg), Pooja Rani (ladies’s 80kg), Hitesh Gulia (males’s 70kg) and Abhinash Jamwal (males’s 65kg) can even return residence with silver medals after dropping their respective finals.
Jugnoo misplaced 0:5 towards Bekzad Nurdauletov of Kazakhstan whereas Pooja went down by an equivalent rating line towards Australia’s Eseta Flint.
Within the night session, Hitesh misplaced 0:5 towards Brazil’s Kaian Oliveira whereas Jamwal went down 2:3 towards Yuri Falcao.
Sanju (ladies’s 60kg), Nikhil Dubey (males’s 75kg) and Narender (males’s 90+ kg) will return residence with a bronze medal every.