{"id":229600,"date":"2023-11-30T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=229600"},"modified":"2023-11-30T00:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:31:50","slug":"thapa-panghal-storm-into-quarters-at-mens-national-boxing-cships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/11\/30\/thapa-panghal-storm-into-quarters-at-mens-national-boxing-cships\/","title":{"rendered":"Thapa, Panghal storm into quarters at men&#8217;s National Boxing C&#8217;ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shillong, 29 Nov: Six-time Asian Championships medallist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) and World Cham-pionships runner-up Amit Panghal (51kg) maintained their impressive form to advance into the quarter-finals of the Men\u2019s National Boxing Championships here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thapa, who won a gold medal in the last edition, demonstrated his prowess with a commanding 5-0 victory over Santhosh HK from Karnataka. The Assam pugilist will now face Shashank Pradhan of Delhi in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Representing SSCB, Panghal warded off a challenge Punjab&#8217;s Jayshandeep Singh 4-1 to set up quarterfinal bout against Mohammad Aarif of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, 2021 Asian champion Sanjeet knocked out Sawan Gill of Chandigarh 5-0 in the 92kg weight category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sanjeet, representing SSCB, will face Naman Tanwar of RSPB in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ashish Kumar from Himachal Pradesh demonstrated his swift and aggressive boxing, secured a first-round knockout victory against Nitish Kumar from Chandigarh in the 80kg category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Tokyo Olympian will face Lakshya of SSCB in the last-eight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of over 350 boxers across 13 weight categories are partici-pating in the champion-ships. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shillong, 29 Nov: Six-time Asian Championships medallist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) and World Cham-pionships runner-up Amit Panghal (51kg) maintained their impressive form to advance into the quarter-finals of the Men\u2019s National Boxing Championships here on Wednesday. Thapa, who won a gold medal in the last edition, demonstrated his prowess with a commanding 5-0 victory over Santhosh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}