Global Champion Nikhat Zareen gained the gold medal within the ladies’s 50kg flyweight on the Commonwealth Video games 2022 in Birmingham, UK. Zareen outpunched Northern Eire’s Carly McNaul by means of unanimous choice within the ultimate to win her first CWG gold.
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Reigning Global Champion @nikhat_zareen dominates a difficult opponent Carly MC Naul (NIR) by means of UNANIMOUS DECISION and wins the coveted GOLD MEDAL within the Girls’s 50kg match at #CWG2022
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Nikhat Zareen finished a hat-trick of gold medals because the younger boxer gained her 3rd primary gold medal of the season after having gained her second Strandja Memorial Boxing match and the Global Championships gold medal.
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Nikhat had stormed into the general of the ladies’s 50kg class after outclassing England’s Stubley Alfia Savannah 5-0. It was once additionally India’s 6th boxing medal at CWG 2022 and the 3rd gold medal, with two-time formative years international champion Nitu Ghangas and Amit Panghal additionally successful their respective ultimate fits.
RISE FROM TOKYO SETBACK
Nikhat Zareen has come a ways from the time she confronted the warmth for dropping much-publicised trails to the Tokyo Olympics. Nikhat had struggled to emerge out of the shadows of the mythical Mary Kom. In spite of successful the Standja Memorial Gold and a silver medal on the Asian Championships closing 12 months, Nikhat overlooked the bus to the Video games.
“Who’s Nikhat Zareen?” Mary had famously requested this query when the younger Telengana boxer demanded a tribulation for the Tokyo Olympics. Mary were given an automated price tag to the sector championships in 2019 and when she was once given a identical path to the Tokyo Olympics, Nikhat, who competes in the similar weight magnificence, contested it and fought for a tribulation.
Nikhat didn’t do the pains and there have been some unsightly scenes involving her and Mary after the bout.
Then again, because the younger boxer has accomplished all over her lifestyles, Nikhat outpunched her hurdles and turned into simplest the primary Indian boxer to win 2 Gold medals on the Strandja Memorial match. She gained the Global Championships Gold in Would possibly to claim her standing as the brand new famous person of Indian boxing.
Nikhat had develop into fifth lady boxer from India to win a gold medal on the Global Championships. Extra importantly, she is simplest the second Indian lady boxer after Mary Kom to win an international meet gold medal outdoor India. Nikhat was once at her dominant easiest within the ultimate towards Thailand’s Jutamas Jitpong 5-0. Actually, Nikhat gained every of her 4 bouts by means of unanimous selections, announcing her dominance within the weight magnificence in Istanbul.
AMIT, NITU PUNCH GOLD
Panghal avenged his closing Commonwealth Video games ultimate loss by means of clinching the boys’s flyweight (51kg) gold whilst Nitu Ghanghas (48kg) reigned excellent on her debut look on Sunday.
Having misplaced to a Briton 4 years in the past on the identical degree at the Gold Coast, the 26-year-old Panghal was once at his competitive easiest towards house favourite Kiaran MacDonald as he clinched the yellow steel with a 5-0 verdict.
Nitu, alternatively, upstaged 2019 international championships bronze medallist Demie-Jade Resztan of England by means of a 5-0 unanimous verdict. The primary Indian boxer to take the hoop, Nitu, competing in her first CWG, appeared utterly in keep an eye on all over the 9 mins, giving the house boxer no probability.
Sagar Ahlawat can be in motion later within the day.
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