{"id":8913,"date":"2012-08-01T08:32:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T08:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=8913"},"modified":"2012-08-01T08:32:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T08:32:58","slug":"london-olympics-devendro-singh-in-pre-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=8913","title":{"rendered":"London Olympics: Devendro Singh in pre-quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/boxing\/devendro-singh-olympics.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"London Olympics: Devendro Singh in pre-quarterfinals\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>London: <\/strong>Laishram Devendro Singh (49kg) made an aggressive start  to his Olympic campaign at the Excel arena in London as he registered a  thumping victory in the round of 32 of the light fly weight division.  The Indian boxer displayed great skill and agility and needed less than  three minutes to get past his Honduras opponent Bayron Molina Figueroa.<\/p>\n<p>The  20-year-old making his Olympic debut in his fiery red attire and eye  catching yellow shoes was oozing with confidence and almost could not  wait to get his first taste of the Olympic canvas. After just 10 seconds  of sizing up his opponent, the diminutive dynamo from Manipur launched  into an offensive onslaught to which the 19 year old Bayron had no  reply. <\/p>\n<p>It was a  brilliant performance by the Devendro, who now becomes the fourth Indian  boxer, after Vijender Singh (75kg), Jai Bhawan (60kg) and Vikas Krishan  (69kg), to have advanced to the pre-quarter final stage of the  tournament. He now has a tough task ahead of him as he takes on fourth  seed and Beijing Olympics silver medallist and 2011 World Championship  bronze medallist Serdamba Purevdorj of Mongolia in the round of 16.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Devendro  Singh, who qualified for the Olympic Games at the 2011 Worlds \u2013 his  very first international tournament \u2013 will square off against the 27  year old Mongolian, who is also a former world champion (2009 Milan), on  Saturday (4 Aug 2012).<\/p>\n<p>Commonwealth Games gold medallist Manoj  Kumar (64kg) will lock horns with Serdar Hudayberdiyev of Turkmenistan  in the evening session of play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/boxing\/devendro-singh-olympics.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"London Olympics: Devendro Singh in pre-quarterfinals\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>London: <\/strong>Laishram Devendro Singh (49kg) made an aggressive start  to his Olympic campaign at the Excel arena in London as he registered a  thumping victory in the round of 32 of the light fly weight division.  The Indian boxer displayed great skill and agility and needed less than  three minutes to get past his Honduras opponent Bayron Molina Figueroa.<\/p>\n<p>The  20-year-old making his Olympic debut in his fiery red attire and eye  catching yellow shoes was oozing with confidence and almost could not  wait to get his first taste of the Olympic canvas. After just 10 seconds  of sizing up his opponent, the diminutive dynamo from Manipur launched  into an offensive onslaught to which the 19 year old Bayron had no  reply. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-olympics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>London Olympics: Devendro Singh in pre-quarterfinals - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; 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=8913\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"London Olympics: Devendro Singh in pre-quarterfinals - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"London: Laishram Devendro Singh (49kg) made an aggressive start to his Olympic campaign at the Excel arena in London as he registered a thumping victory in the round of 32 of the light fly weight division. 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