While the Assam boxer Borgohain beat Arundhati Choudhary of the Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) quite comfortably by a 5-0 margin in the 75kg final, Zareen faced a stiff challenge from RSPB's Anamika in the 50kg gold medal match before the 26-year-old Telangana pugilist tilted the match
Defending Champions Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) dominated the proceedings as eight of their boxers, led by 2019 World Championships silver medallist Manju Rani (48kg) and 2017 World Youth Champion Jyoti Gulia (52kg) stormed into the finals of 6th Elite Women's National Boxing Champ
Nikhat Zareen representing Telangana, thrashed Meghalaya's Eva Waynie Marbaniang in the 50kg pre-quarterfinals bout, whereas Railways Sports Promotion Board's (RSPB) Manju Rani also produced an equally dominating performance to defeat Uttarakhand's Kavita comprehensively in the 48kg Last-16
While Suvidha thrashed Jharkhand's Chandu 5-0 in the 48kg contest, local boxer Patidar also looked dominant during her comfortable victory by an identical margin against Himachal Pradesh's Ritu in the 52kg bout, as per a press release from Boxing Federation of India (BFI).
Telangana's Nikhat was up against LK Abinaya of Tamil Nadu in the round-of-32 bout and she did not break a sweat at all. She started fiercely and landed a lot of punches and as a result, the referee stopped the contest (RSC) in the first round
Hockey player Manpreet Singh and badminton star PV Sindhu were the flag bearers of the Indian contingent at the Commonwealth Games 2022 opening ceremony.
"1000 Khelo India centres will be opened by 15th August 2023 across the country. Out of the 1,000 centres, 733 centres have been already sanctioned," said Thakur in Lok Sabha.
As per a press release from the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, the National Sports Awards 2022 were announced. The awardees will receive their awards from the President of India at a specially organized function at Rashtrapati Bhavan on November 30, 2022 (Wednesday) at 1600 hrs
The announcement was made on Wednesday at a press conference in New Delhi where the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the International Boxing Association (IBA) and the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) in the presence of IBA President Umar Kremlev and BFI President Ajay Si