Nitu Ghanghas secured an unanimous choice win towards Mongolia’s Lutsaikhan Altantsetseg to clinch a gold within the 45-48 kg class finals on the Girls’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi on Saturday. The 2-time World Youth champion carried on her wealthy vein of kind to get the higher of the Mongolian, who can also be a two-time Asian Championships bronze medalist.
Nitu began the opening spherical on an attacking observe and saved the higher hand all through the three minutes. Such was her command that each one the 5 judges declared the spherical in her favour.
There was sturdy retaliation by the Mongolian within the second spherical as Nitu misplaced stability on a few event. Nonetheless, Nitu maintained her composure and responded with some highly effective jabs to win the spherical 3:2.
The intent from Nitu remained the identical within the last spherical. Regardless of receiving a yellow card straightaway, Nitu continued her aggressive strategy. Her opponent too obtained the identical card moments later as she tried to battle her means into the competition.
Regardless of her sturdy cost, the officers declared the Indian the winner, which additionally marks India’s first gold medal on the event.
Nitu, who can also be a Commonwealth Video games gold medalist, was having fun with a supreme run within the event and had secured three Referee Stops Contest (RSC) wins. She confronted a troublesome competitors within the semifinals towards familar nemesis Kazakhstan’s Alua Balkibekova, whom she defeated 5-2 after a cut up choice verdict. Balkibekova had eradicated Nitu within the quarterfinals of the World Championship final 12 months.
With this victory, Nitu, a 2022 Strandja Memorial gold medallist, turned the sixth Indian boxer to be topped world champion. Six-time champion Mary Kom (2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2018), Sarita Devi (2006), Jenny RL (2006), Lekha KC (2006) and Nikhat Zareen (2022) are the opposite pugilists who’ve gained the world title.