Asian Boxing Championships: Defending Champion Amit Panghal, Shiva Thapa, Sanjeet Reach Final

Defending champion Amit Panghal (52kg), Shiva Thapa (64kg) and Sanjeet (91kg) entered the final of Asian Boxing Championships on Friday.

Defending champion Amit Panghal (52kg) and Shiva Thapa (64kg), along with one another Indian, reached the Asian Boxing Championship finals after clinching resounding victories even as an injured Vikas Krishan (69kg) signed off with a bronze medal here on Friday. Olympic-bound Panghal out-punched familiar foe Saken Bibossinov of Kazakhstan 5-0. Thapa, the first Indian male boxer in the tournament history to secure five medals, dominated top-seeded defending champion Bakhodur Usmonov of Tajikistan to make the finals with a 4-0 verdict.  Joining them in the finals was Sanjeet (91kg), who got the better of previous edition's silver-medallist Sanjar Tursunov of Uzbekistan. Sanjeet won the bout 5-0 to enter the finals.