Women clinch 5 gold, 2 silver for men at Asian Youth Boxing

Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), November 17

It rained gold for India at the Asian Youth Boxing Championship as all five of the country’s women finalists emerged victorious while two men signed off with silver medals. 

Naorem Chanu (51kg), Vinka (64kg) Sanamacha Chanu (75kg), Poonam (54kg) and Sushma (81kg) fetched the yellow metal. Among the men, Selay Soy (49kg) and Ankit Narwal (60kg) settled for the second place after going down in their respective summit clashes. India signed off with 12 medals in the event with bronze coming from Arundhati Choudhury (69kg), Komalpreet Kaur (+81kg), Jaismine (57kg), Satender Singh (91kg) and Aman (+91kg). Soy began the proceedings for India, going down to Kazakhstan’s Bazarbay Ullu Mukhamedsayfi. Narwal was then defeated by Japan’s Reito Tsutsume. But Poonam defeated China’s Weiqi Cai to win the first gold, to which Sushma added one by going past Kazakhstan’s Bakytzhankyzy. Naorem Chanu got the better of another Kazakh, Anel Barkyah. Vinka outpunched China’s Haini Nulataiali, while Sanamacha Chanu edged past Uzbekistan’s Navbakhor Khamidova. — PTI