New Delhi, 2 Nov: Young Indian boxer Krisha Verma won the gold in the women’s 75kg category while five other signed off with silver medals at the inaugural U-19 World Championships organised by World Boxing in Colorado, USA.
\nWhile Krisha notched up a unanimous 5-0 decision over Germany’s Simon Lerika in the 75kg summit clash.
\nChanchal Chaudhary (women’s 48kg), Anjali Kumari Singh (women’s 57kg), Vini (women’s 60kg), Akanksha Phalaswal (women’s 70kg) and Rahul Kundu (men’s 75kg) lost their respective finals.
\nChanchal had to settle for a second place finish after she was disqualified while Anjali went down 0-5 to Mia-Tiah Ayton of England.
\nAkansha and Rahul lost be an identical 1-4 margin to Lilly Deacon of England and USA’s Awinongya Joseph respectively.
\nMeanwhile, Vini lost via 2-3 split verdict to England’s Ella Lonsdale.
\nFive female boxers and a male boxer will fight for gold in the final on Saturday.
\nThe tournament is World Boxing’s first global event.
\nWorld Boxing is a breakaway organisation that was launched to ensure boxing’s place in the Olympic movement. It aims to replace the International Boxing Association (IBA) as the world governing body for boxing. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi, 2 Nov: Young Indian boxer Krisha Verma won the gold in the women’s 75kg category while five other signed off with silver medals at the inaugural U-19 World Championships organised by World Boxing in Colorado, USA. While Krisha notched up a unanimous 5-0 decision over Germany’s Simon Lerika in the 75kg summit clash. […]<\/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-251687","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\/251687","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=251687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}