The 22-year-old Indian boxer Nishant Dev who clinched bronze medal in IBA Men's World Boxing Championships 2023 in Tashkent, expressed his desire to achieve more success in the upcoming tournament.
Deepak displayed unwavering grit against the two-time Worlds bronze medallist Billal Bennama of France and went down 3-4 in the semifinals after the bout was reviewed at the championship held in Tashkent last month
Manini shot 415.6 in the final, which was won by Briton Seonaid McIntosh who finished with 467.0. China's double Olympic medallist Li Yuehong won the other final of the concluding day, the men's 25m rapid-fire pistol (RFP), helping his country top the medal tally with four gold, one silver a
With three bronze, India ranked joint fourth in the medals tally at the prestigious tournament with hosts Uzbekistan (9), Cuba and Russia (6 each) and Kazakhstan (5) taking up the top three spots.
All these girls were participants in the Khelo India Women's Leagues held in India across a year. The girls bagged 10 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals in the junior girls, sub-junior girls and senior girls categories across Sanda (Fight) and Taolu in Moscow.
Chanu has only one medal at the Asian Championships which came at the 2020 edition held in Tashkent. She claimed a bronze medal for a total lift of 205kg, including the world record clean and jerk of 119kg.
Asian and Commonwealth Games bronze medallists Mohammad Hussamuddin (57kg) and Naveen Kumar (92kg) progressed to the pre-quarterfinals of the IBA Men's World Boxing Championships 2023 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Friday.
The Indian Men's Team won the Asian Champions Trophy Title in the inaugural edition held in 2011 and beat Pakistan in the Final to win the Title in 2016. In the following edition in 2018, India were joint winners with Pakistan after rain affected the proceedings of the Final held in Muscat.
Experienced campaigner and 2022 Asian Championships bronze medallist Hussamuddin will fight against Alen Rustemovski of Macedonia on Monday in the first round, while Varinder Singh will go up against Mujibillo Tursunov of Uzbekistan, as per a press release from the Boxing Federation of India
Amid the fresh stir against BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Olympic bronze medallist Bajrang Punia and other protesting grapplers on Tuesday on Tuesday met their advocate and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal at the latter's house.