World Championship medalists Amit Panghal and Shiva Thapa have landed on the Indian boxing team for the upcoming Commonwealth Games after winning the trials. , held here on Thursday. While Panghal, the silver medalist of the 2019 world championships, secured his place in the 51kg weight class, Thapa took the 63.5kg place in the test held at the Institute of Sports National Netaji Subhas.
The other six boxers that made it to the Indian team include 2018 bronze medalist Mohammad Hussamuddin (57kg), Rohit Tokas (67kg), defending national champion Sumit (75kg), Ashish Kumar (80kg), Sanjeet (92kg) and Sagar (92kg) CWG will be held in Birmingham from 28 July to 8 August.
Panghal defeated Services’ other boxer Deepak 4-1 by split decision. He will aim to improve his performance from the final edition on the Gold Coast, where he won a silver medal.
2015 World Championship bronze medalist Thapa, who was elected a member of the IBA Athletes’ Committee last week, while 2018 CWG silver medalist Manish Kaushik defeated puncher 5-0 to earn his spot at the four-year event.
In the 57 kg category, Hussamuddin won the 2019 Asian Championships silver medal Kavinder Singh Bisht 4-1, while Railways’ Rohit took a close 3-2 victory over UP’s Aditya Pratap Yadav in the welterweight division.
Sumit, Ashish, Sanjeet and Sagar all dominated their matches as they won by an identical 5-0 scoreline.
India finished second in the 2018 Olympics, finishing first with a total of nine medals, including three golds and lots of silver and bronze.
The women’s trials for the Olympics will be held next week.
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Men’s team: Amit Panghal (51kg), Mohammad Hussamuddin (57kg), Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) Rohit Tokas (67kg), Sumit National Champion (75kg), Ashish Kumar (80kg), Sanjeet (92kg) and Sagar (92kg).
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