World boxing championships | Bhoria, Hussamuddin, and Nishant walk away with bronze medals
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World boxing championships | Bhoria, Hussamuddin, and Nishant walk away with bronze medals
The Indian challenge at the World boxing championships came to an end with Deepak Bhoria (51kg), Mohammad Hussamuddin (57kg) and Nishant Dev (71kg) settling for bronze medals in Tashkent on Friday.
While Bhoria and Nishant went down fighting in the semifinals, Hussamuddin withdrew before his bout due to a knee injury. Nevertheless, they ensured India’s best-ever medal count in the men’s event.
Bhoria, a ninth-place finisher in the 2021 edition, lost 4-3 to fourth-seeded two-time Worlds bronze medallist and reigning European champion Billal Bennama in a neck-and-neck fight.
Bennama exhibited his swift left jabs from a long range, but Deepak closed the gap and landed solid combinations in the final minute of the first round but could stop the Frenchman from winning it 3-2.
Bhoria made a fine comeback in the second 3-2 by connecting some impressive blows.
Bennama relied on his left punches, while Bhoria delivered his sets of left-right blows on target to inflict a count on the Frenchman. Bennama was declared the winner following review of the bout.
Nishant was beaten 5-2 by fourth-seeded Asian champion Aslanbek Shymbergenov of Kazakhstan.
Asian Games champion Avinash Sable opened his season in the 3000m steeple chase with a silver in the Portland Track Festival, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze event, in Oregon on Saturday. He clocked 8:21.85s. Asian champion Parul Chaudhary took the bronze in the women’s 3000m steeple chase in a season-best 9:31.38s. Former Asian bronze medallist Sanjivani Jadhav struck gold in the women’s 10,000m in 32:22.77s, a time which was a second off her personal best, while Seema was sixth in 32:55.91s.