Debutant Nikhat Zareen (52kg) was once the lone Indian to go into the overall, whilst two others signed off with bronze medals within the Girls’s International Boxing Championships in Istanbul on Wednesday.
Nikhat made brief paintings of Brazil’s Caroline De Almeida to notch up a dominant 5-0 win.
Then again, Manisha Moun (57kg) and debutant Parveen Hooda (63kg) settled for bronze medals.
Whilst Manisha misplaced to Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Irma Testa of Italy via 0-5 unanimous determination, Parveen went down via a 1-4 cut up verdict to Eu championship bronze medallist Amy Broadhurst.
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Zareen, who’s a former junior global champion, stayed calm and entirely ruled her rival for a 5-0 win via unanimous determination within the last-four bout of the 52kg pageant.
The 2019 Asian Championships bronze medallist Manisha, competing in her 2d global championship, attempted laborious to outdo her technically awesome opponent together with her energy punches however Testa defended fantastically.
Six-time champion MC Mary Kom, Sarita Devi, Jenny RL and Lekha C are the one Indian ladies boxers who’ve received the sector identify and now Hyderabad-based Zareen has the chance to sign up for the elite record.
India’s very best efficiency within the match got here in 2006 when the rustic snared 8 medals, together with 4 gold, one silver and 3 bronze.
Within the final version, 4 Indian boxers returned house with medals — Manju Rani clinched the silver, whilst Mary Kom bagged an unprecedented 8th global medal within the type of a bronze