AIBA Men’s World Championships: Nishant Dev and Sanjeet cruise into quarter-finals

Belgrade: Indian boxers Nishant Dev (71kg) and Sanjeet (92kg) made the quarterfinals of the AIBA Males’s World Championships following spectacular victories of their last-16 stage bouts.

Becoming a member of Akash Kumar (54kg) and Narender (+92) within the last-8 stage, the present Asian champion Sanjeet and Nishant showcased splendid present of their matches performed late on Sunday night time to make sure all-win report for the nation on the seventh day of the celebrated match, the place 650 prime boxers have been collaborating from greater than 100 international locations from internationally.

Having misplaced the opening spherical, the boxer from Rohtak, Sanjeet recovered nicely in time in opposition to the Georgian opponent Giorgi Tchigladze not solely to win the subsequent spherical but additionally the 92kg Final-16 contest 4-1 comfortably ultimately.

Equally, alternatively, enjoying within the 71kg pre-quarterfinals bout, debutant Nishant struggled within the early a part of the sport. Nonetheless, the reigning nationwide champion from Karnataka, turned the tables fairly handsomely within the later stage of the match with some steady sharp and exact physique blows in opposition to the Mexican Alvarez Verde to tilt the results of the closely-fought match 3-2 in his favour.

Later tonight, Rohit Mor (57kg), Akash Sangwan (67kg), Sumit (75kg) and five-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) will look to safe quarterfinal berths. Rohit will face Kazakhstan’s Serik Temirzhanov, whereas Akash will struggle Cuba’s Kevin Brown. Sumit can even be up in opposition to a Cuban in Yoenlis Hernandez. Thapa might be combating France’s Lounes Hamraoui.

The gold winners on the showpiece will stroll away with a prize cash of $100,000.

The silver medallists are to be given $50,000, and each bronze-medallists might be awarded USD 25,000 every. The whole prize purse stands at a whopping USD 2.6 million.

India are being represented by its reigning nationwide champions throughout weight classes.

With inputs from PTI