India’s Nikhat Zareen received the gold medal in the 52kg classification at the Women’s World Boxing Championship with a gain in excess of Thailand’s Jitpong Jutamas in the fly-body weight final in Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday. Nikhat as a result will become only the fifth Indian women’s boxer following Mary Kom, Sarita Devi, Jenny RL and Lekha KC to acquire a gold at the Planet Championships. The 25-yr-aged Zareen is a former junior youth earth champion. Towards her Thai opponent in the ultimate, Nikhat fought with brilliance and brought household the gold medal. The judges scored the bout 30-27, 29-28, 29-28, 30-27, 29-28 in the Indian’s favour.
Zareen was in top kind as she made use of her technical acumen and covered to court docket well to outwit her nimble-footed opponent. Nikhat managed to impress all the judges in the to start with spherical as she landed far much more punches than the Thai boxer. The next spherical was tighter and Jitpong clinched it 3-2. Needing to get just a person decide on her side in the last spherical, Nikhat went all in and slammed the door on her opponent to eventually record a 5- unanimous final decision in her favour.
The Nizamabad (Telangana)-born boxer turned the only fifth Indian lady to safe gold medal at the Environment Boxing Championships just after document 6-time winner Mary Kom (2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2018), Sarita Devi (2006), Jenny RL (2006) and Lekha KC (2006).
It was also India’s very first gold medal since boxing great Mary Kom gained it in 2018.
Nikhat obtained off to a energetic start off and strike some sharp punches to immediately just take the upper hand in the opening a few minutes towards self-confident Jutamas, who came into the match defeating the three-time Planet Championships medallist Kazakhstan’s Zhaina Shekerbekova.
The 25-12 months-old Indian took entire edge of her lengthy get to and managed her dominance from the Thai boxer, whom she had overwhelmed in the 2019 Thailand Open semi-final—the only conference among the two, enroute her silver medal complete.
However, Jutamas tried out to fight back in the second spherical with a counter-attacking display but hardly managed to lead to any difficulties for the swift-transferring Nikhat, who appeared in finish control.
Hitting straight and clear punches, energy proved to be a important component as Nikhat threw warning to the wind in the final spherical and held attacking relentlessly just before securing the gold rather comfortably.
“Profitable a medal at the world’s is generally a dream and Nikhat could attain it so early is extremely commendable. We, at BFI, are proud that our boxers have not only made all of us very pleased but just about every of their boxing journeys is inspiring for the future generations,” BFI President Ajay Singh reported.
“On behalf of the Boxing Federation of India, I congratulate Nikhat and bronze medal winners Parveen and Manisha as very well as the coaches and help team for this achievement. Our eight boxers competent for the quarter-finals which was joint most and exhibits the strength of Indian boxing,” he extra.
With Manisha (57kg) and Parveen (63kg) signing off with bronze medals following their semi-finals end, Indian contingent concluded its campaign with a few medals at the world’s greatest boxing celebration, which witnessed thrilling levels of competition in existence of history 310 boxers from 73 nations around the world and also marked the 20th anniversary of the Women’s Earth Championships.
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Out of 12 collaborating Indian boxers, 8 built it to the quarter-finals in this year’s tournament—the joint highest along with Turkey.
With the addition of a few medals in Istanbul, India’s in general medal tally has absent up to 39, including 10 gold, 8 silver and 21 bronze, in the 12 editions of the prestigious event—third highest immediately after Russia (60) and China (50).
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