Silver medals for 3 Indian girls finalists at Boxam International Boxing

The Olympic-bound duo of Simranjit Kaur (60kg) and Pooja Rani (75kg) signed off with silver medals on the thirty fifth Boxam International Boxing Tournament in Castellon, Spain on Saturday.
While Simranjit couldn’t take the ring in opposition to Rashida Ellis of USA due to an harm, Pooja misplaced 5-0 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 laborious however didn’t join as a lot as she tried in opposition to the decidedly sooner Graham, who dominated along 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 have been simply an excessive amount of to deal with for the rookie Indian, whose marketing campaign total was fairly spectacular.
Later on Saturday evening, Mohammed Hussamuddin (57kg), Manish Kaushik (63kg), Vikas krishan (69kg), Ashish Kumar (75kg), Sumit Sangwan (81kg) and Satish Kumar (+91kg) will compete within the males’s finals.
Of these, Manish, Vikas, Ashish and Satish are sure for Tokyo Olympics.