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Tashkent: The Indian boxers were in for a disappointment at the Asian Boxing Championships with Shiva Thapa (60kg) and Sumit Sangwan (91kg) going down in the finals of their respective weight categories here on Saturday.<\/p>\nTashkent: The Indian boxers were in for a disappointment at the Asian Boxing Championships with Shiva Thapa (60kg) and Sumit Sangwan (91kg) going down in the finals of their respective weight categories here on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The fourth seeded Thapa had to be content with a silver medal after suffering a 4-1 defeat to second seed Elnur Abduramov of Uzbekistan in the final of the Lightweight (60kg) event.<\/p>\n
Thapa thus became the first Indian to claim three back-to-back medals at the Asian Championships. He had taken gold and bronze in the 2013 and 2015 editions respectively.<\/p>\n
Sumit on the other hand, lost to Levit Vassiliy of Kazakhstan in the final of the Heavyweight (91kg) division.<\/p>\n
Levit, who took silver at the Rio Olympics last year, dominated the bout from the start to finish, carving out a comfortable 5-0 win.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Gaurav Bidhuri (56kg) and Manish Panwar (81kg) lost in the box-off bouts for World Championship berths in the respective weight divisions.<\/p>\n
While Gaurav lost to Japan’s Ryomei Tanaka, Manish went down to Pakistan’s Awais Ali Khan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tashkent: The Indian boxers were in for a disappointment at the Asian Boxing Championships with Shiva Thapa (60kg) and Sumit Sangwan (91kg) going down in the finals of their respective weight categories here on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The fourth seeded Thapa had to be content with a silver medal after suffering a 4-1 defeat to second seed Elnur Abduramov of Uzbekistan in the final of the Lightweight (60kg) event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[22096,466,2694,3479],"class_list":["post-34616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing-boxing","tag-asian-boxing-championships","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-shiva-thapa","tag-sumit-sangwan"],"yoast_head":"\n