Haryana's Yashwardhan Singh and Delhi's Karan Vats continue their fine run and enter semi-finals
Source: IT News
Rohtak, July 07 2019:
Yashwardhan Singh of Haryana and Karan Vats of Delhi continue being the standout performers as they entered the semi-finals and confirmed medals at the first ever Sub Junior Boys' Boxing Nationals held at the National Boxing Academy (NBA) in Rohtak on Saturday.
Singh, a trainee at the NBA in Rohtak under the Khelo India scheme, demolished Karan Bisht of Services 5-0 to keep his fine run going.
Vats, who was the silver medallist at the School Nationals last year, was equally impressive in his 40kg quarter-final bout with Bengal's Anshu Routh whom he beat 5-0 .
The highly-skilled Vats was not the only one to win from Delhi on Day 5 of this prestigious national tournament.
In 35kg, Rudra outpunched Goa's Laxman Toralkar 5-0 to enter the semis.
Deepanshu in 43kg was another winner for Delhi after beating Daman & Diu's Priyanshu Kumar 4-1 .
Punjab's Nikhil dominated Daman & Diu's Sumit 5-0 to keep hopes alive for the state.
Chandigarh also registered a win through Aryan in 37kg who knocked out Sunil Kumar 5-0 .
Maharashtra had double delight through Vedantbengle in 40kg and Gopal Katta in 37kg .
While the former showed his resilience in his narrow 3-2 victory over Haryana's Divansh Shukla, the latter dominated Uttarakhand's Aditya Tamta 5-0 .
Suraj Saini also assured a medal for Madhya Pradesh in 55kg after getting the better of Punjab's Manmeet Singh 5-0 .
In 43kg, Goanese Rupesh Bind shone with a RSC in Round II victory over Madhya Pradesh's Kishan Dadoriya.
The North-East, a long-established powerhouse of Indian boxing, too entered the medal bracket thanks to the efforts of Mizoram's LH Peihneisa in 37kg and Arunachal's Tadar Tadang in 46kg.The Mizo pugilist hardly broke a sweat in his 5-0 victory over Himachal's Jagjeet.
In sharp contrast, Tadang was made to work very hard by Thokchon Robert of the Services before he could grab a 3-2 victory.
33 teams and 326 boxers have participated in this seven-day tournament which will conclude with a grand finale on July 8 .