Boxer Shiva Thapa Secures Document Sixth Asian Championships Medal

India’s Shiva Thapa on Sunday turned the first-ever male boxer within the historical past of Asian Championships to win six medals after he out-punched Minsu Choi of South Korea to the progress to the semifinals in Amman, Jordan. The seasoned Thapa prevailed 4-1 over Choi within the mild welterweight quarterfinal to safe his sixth consecutive medal. The 28-year-old dominated from the begin to the tip, utilizing his jabs to nice impact.

With the win, Thapa is assured of at the least a bronze medal within the ongoing version, bettering his personal place as probably the most profitable Indian boxer within the event.

His haul features a gold (2013), two silvers (2017 and 2021) and as many bronze medals (2015 and 2019).

He overtook Kazakh legend Vassiliy Levit, an Olympic silver medallist and two-time world bronze medal winner, who was the one different male pugilist with 5 Asian championship medals.

Ladies’s boxing legends M.C. Mary Kom (7) and L Sarita Devi (8) have extra Asian medals than Thapa, with the latter having the excellence of claiming six successive, 5 of them gold, on the peak of her prowess.

Two-time Commonwealth Video games bronze medallist Mohammad Hussamuddin (57kg) and Govind Kumar Sahani (48kg) additionally progressed to the semifinals as India’s medal depend continued to swell.

Up towards South Korea’s Haengseok Lee within the quarterfinal bout, Hussamuddin (57kg) fell behind early together with his rival touchdown clear punches within the opening spherical.

With the prospects of an upset looming, Commonwealth bronze medallist Hussamuddin utilised his expertise to make a comeback. He went all out within the subsequent two rounds to dominate his method to a 5-0 win and assure yet one more medal for India.

Hussamuddin will face the 2021 World Championships silver medallist Serik Temirzha in his semifinals bout on November 10.

Within the different quarterfinal, Thailand Open gold medallist Ananta Chopade (54kg) bowed out of the competitors after struggling a 0-4 loss to Seidekmatov Sanzhai of Kyrgyzstan.

On Saturday evening, Anikushita Boro (56kg) and Lovlina Borgohain (75 kg) prevailed over Tsubata Arsia of Japan and Valentina Khalzova of Kazakhstan, respectively, to progress to the semifinals.

Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina, who was contesting within the 75kg weight class for the primary time at a world event, needed to work onerous to earn a 3-2 cut up resolution victory towards the 2016 world champion Khalzova.

The Assam boxer, who received the bronze medal in 69kg on the Tokyo Olympics, has moved as much as 75kg division as her former weight class does not function within the Paris Olympics.

Nonetheless, it was the tip of the highway for Pooja (70kg), who suffered a 0-5 defeat by the hands of Kazakhstan’s Dariga Shakimova in her final eight bout.

Earlier on Saturday, debutants Minakshi (52kg) and Preeti (57kg) and world championships bronze medallist Parveen had sealed semifinal berths.

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5 Indian male pugilists — Narender ( 92kg), Naveen Kumar (92kg), Lakshya Chahar (80kg), Sumit (75kg) and Sachin (71kg) — will take to the ring on Monday to compete within the quarterfinals stage.

The competitors is witnessing participation of 267 boxers from 27 prime boxing nations.