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\"GauravHamburg: Wildcard entrant Gaurav Bidhuri defeated Tunisia’s Bilel Mhamdi to enter the semifinals of World Boxing Championships in the bantamweight (56kg) category, here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In the process, he also became only the fourth Indian boxer — Vijender Singh (2009), Vikas Krishan (2011) and Shiva Thapa (2015) — ever to secure himself a medal in the World Boxing Championships.  Gaurav prevailed in a split decision to make the last-four stage.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Amit Phangal (49kg), another impressive debutant in the event, bowed out in the quarterfinal stage. The Asian Championships bronze-medallist went down to Olympic champion and second seed Hasanboy Dusmatov of Uzbekistan in a unanimous verdict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"GauravHamburg: Wildcard entrant Gaurav Bidhuri defeated Tunisia’s Bilel Mhamdi to enter the semifinals of World Boxing Championships in the bantamweight (56kg) category, here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In the process, he also became only the fourth Indian boxer — Vijender Singh (2009), Vikas Krishan (2011) and Shiva Thapa (2015) — ever to secure himself a medal in the World Boxing Championships.  Gaurav prevailed in a split decision to make the last-four stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[22626,323,6480,466,822,284],"class_list":["post-35425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing-boxing","tag-bilel-mhamdi","tag-gaurav-bidhuri","tag-indian-sports","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-vijender-singh","tag-world-boxing-championships"],"yoast_head":"\nWorld Boxing Championships: Gaurav Bidhuri beats Mhamdi to reach semis, assures India of a medal - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News & Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis & Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=35425\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Boxing Championships: Gaurav Bidhuri beats Mhamdi to reach semis, assures India of a medal - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News & Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis & Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hamburg: Wildcard entrant Gaurav Bidhuri defeated Tunisia's Bilel Mhamdi to enter the semifinals of World Boxing Championships in the bantamweight (56kg) category, here on Tuesday. 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