The commonwealth video games gold medallist Amit Panghal, Nationwide champion Akash and males’s Nationwide bronze medalist Abhimanyu put up a stellar present to maneuver into the quarter-final of the seventy fifth Strandja Memorial Event in Sofia, Bulgaria on Wednesday.
Amit (51kg) had Rudyk Maksym’s problem to deal with as he eyed his place within the quarters. The skilled campaigner rapidly bought into his groove and his capacity to effectively get into the attacking place was on show all through the bout.
The primary two rounds have been all about taking up the opponent, whereas within the third spherical, Amit employed his defensive techniques to frustrate his Ukrainian opponent and capitalize on his errors, advancing to the quarter-finals with a dominant 5-0 unanimous choice win. Amit will face Aldarkhishig Battulga of Mongolia on Friday.
Akash (71kg) was up towards Traore Makan of France. Akash began sluggish however quickly picked up the tempo as he displayed swift motion and landed a flurry of punches, shocking his opponents and gaining a big lead. The efficiency continued within the second spherical as Akash continued to be a dominant pressure within the bout.
Traore did make a comeback within the third spherical however Akash’s exploits within the first two rounds have been sufficient to make sure him a 3-1 win as he entered the quarter-final. Akash will now tackle Mckeever Eugene of Eire on Friday.
Abhimany Loura (80kg) confirmed an analogous show of dominance towards Monny Raphael of France. The boxer from Haryana made full use of his lengthy attain as he delivered deadly punches for which the opponent had no reply for.
Abhimanyu grabbed the win with a 5-0 verdict and can face the Asian Video games gold medallist China’s Tuohetaerbieke Tanglatihan within the quarter-final on Friday.
Later tonight, Naveen Kumar (92kg) and Deepak (75kg) will likely be in motion towards Voisnarovic Darius of Lithuania and Asankul Uulu Sultan of Kyrgyzstan of their spherical of 16 conflict.
The quarter-final motion will begin on Thursday as Nikhat Zareen (50kg) will likely be up towards Lkhadiri Wassila of France, Sakshi (57kg) will face Mamajonova Khumorabonu of Uzbekistan and Arundhati Choudhary (66kg) will sq. off towards Matovic Milena of Serbia.
Jugnoo (86kg) and Sagar (+92kg) will tackle Uzbekistan’s Djalolov Samandar and Zokirov Jakhongir respectively. Naveen (92kg) may also have his quarter-finals bout tomorrow relying on his spherical of 16 match consequence tonight.
The Strandja Memorial Event is one in every of Europe’s oldest worldwide sports activities competitions and is witnessing the participation of over 300 pugilists from 30 international locations.