Manish Kaushik strikes gold at Boxam International

Olympic-bound Indian boxer Manish Kaushik (63kg) struck gold in his first aggressive outing in a 12 months at the same time as 5 others signed off with silver medals within the thirty fifth Boxam International Tournament in Castellon, Spain.
Manish defeated Denmark’s Nikolai Terteryan in a break up determination
However, Mohammed Hussamuddin (57kg) and Vikas Krishan (69kg) ended with silver medals amongst males.
Hussamuddin gave a walkover to Jean Paul Rivera of Puerto Rico, which was struck by a optimistic COVID-19 case. The causes for the Indian’s pullout weren’t instantly not recognized.
Vikas Krishan (69kg), nevertheless, misplaced a gruelling ultimate to Spain’s Youba Sissokho, a bout by which the Indian was left with a minimize above his proper eye.
Among girls, Simranjit Kaur (60kg), Pooja Rani (75kg) and Jasmine (57kg) ended with silver medals amongst girls.
World bronze-medallist Simranjit couldn’t take the ring in opposition to Rashida Ellis of USA after her semifinal opponent — Kiria Tapia of Puerto Rico — optimistic COVID-19 report pressured the organisers to cease her from competing regardless of the Indian returning a adverse take a look at.
“Because of local government regulations, she could not compete,” Indian girls’s boxing’s excessive efficiency director Rafaelle Bergamasco instructed PTI from Castellon after preliminary info of an damage trickled in.
Pooja, alternatively, misplaced 0-5 to a different American Melissa Graham.

The Indian girls boxers thus ended their marketing campaign with three silver and one bronze medal. Six-time world champion M C Mary Kom (51kg) had ended with a bronze after a semifinal loss.
Debutant Jasmine (57kg) additionally ended with a silver after happening to European champion Irma Testa of Italy.
Asian champion Pooja fought arduous however didn’t join as a lot as she tried in opposition to the decidedly sooner Graham, who dominated together with her spectacular counter-attacks.
The spirited Jasmine additionally gave it her all however Testa’s tactical superiority shone via.
The nimble-footed Italian’s eye-catching mixture punches and sheer energy had been simply an excessive amount of to deal with for the rookie Indian, whose marketing campaign total was fairly spectacular.
Later on Saturday night time, Ashish Kumar (75kg), Sumit Sangwan (81kg) and Satish Kumar (+91kg) will compete within the males’s finals.
Of these, Ashish and Satish are certain for Tokyo Olympics