Indian boxers fetch 4 medals from Asian Youth C'ship

Indian boxers made quite an impact at the 7th Asian Youth Championships by finishing third in the overall standings with three silver and a bronze medal in the tournament held in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.
National champion Ankush Dahiya (60kg), Ashish Kulhirya (64kg) and Reyal Puri (81kg) fetched silver medals for the contingent, while Manjeet Singh (+91kg) contributed the solitary bronze to the tally.
The performance helped India finish behind Kazakhstan (6 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze) and Uzbekistan (3 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze).
All the Indians, who made the medal rounds, lost either to a Kazakh or an Uzbek boxer.

While Dahiya went down 0-3 to Uzbekistan's Bilolbek Mirzarakhimov, Kulhirya, who was adjudged the best boxer of the National Youth Championships, lost by a similar margin to Kazakhstan's Ayatulla Takizhanov.
Puri was beaten 0-3 by Uzbekistan's Sanjar Tursunov. Earlier, Manjeet lost 0-3 in the semifinals to another local favourite Nurdaulet Ulanuly.

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In other bouts of the evening, Manish (60kg) of SSCB set up a second-round clash with World Championships bronze-medallist Shiva Thapa after winning his opening bout against Telangana's Lalit Kishore.
The referee had to stop the contest in the third round due to Manish's dominance in the bout.

Shiva, representing Assam, had booked his place in the second round after winning his opening bout yesterday. The 23-year-old had jumped a division to lightweight for the National Championships.
Asian quarterfinalist at the youth level, Ashish made an impressive debut on the senior stage by outclassing his rival in the first round itself to advance to the light welterweight second round.
Ashish is the cousin of former Commonwealth Games bronze-medallist Jai Bhagwan.