Patna: Bihar’s Abhishek Singh and Ronit Ranjan moved into the semi-finals of the 4th Junior National Boys Boxing Championship in their respective weight categories at Patliputra Sports Complex here on Tuesday. With this, Bihar have been assured of two medals.
Abhishek Singh of Bihar, playing in blue jersey in the 57 to 60 kg weight category beat Morangthem Poonashiba Singh of Manipur by 3 -2.
In the 52 to 54 kg weight category, Ronit Ranjan of Bihar, who was playing in blue jersey, was given a walkover by Kishan Dadoria of Madhya Pradesh. Thus Ronit Ranjan entered the semi-finals.
Boxing Association of Bihar secretary Rajeev Kumar Singh said that semi-final matches will be played on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Bihar Handball Association President Pankaj Kumar, Bihar State Kabaddi Association Secretary Kumar Vijay and many dignitaries encouraged the players.
Results of the quarterfinals:
44 to 46 kg: Sunil Kumar of Rajasthan defeated Mohd Mujahid of Manipur, Rishi Singh of UP defeated Mikki NT Baipatla of Mizoram, Brijesh Tamta of Uttarakhand defeated Vasudev P Pothina of Andhra Pradesh, Rishu of Haryana defeated Naseem of Nagaland.
44 to 48 kg: Atharv Vidakar of Maharashtra defeated Raj of UP, Alok of Haryana defeated Yeshu Kumar Das of Jharkhand, Krish Pal of Chandigarh beat H Rishi Manggang of Manipur, Iranjyoti Gagogai of Assam defeated Aniket Mallah of Gujarat.
48 to 50 kg weight category: Jharkhand’s Ronit Raj Gupta defeated Mizoram’s Mose Larutfela, Punjab’s Nishant Dalmotra defeated Gujarat’s Ranjit Sahni, SSCB’s Aryan defeated Uttarakhand’s Dheeraj Singh Rawal, Madhya Pradesh’s Dilwash Katare defeated Assam’s Ohidur Rahman.
50 to 52 kg weight category: Rachit Singh Rawat of Uttarakhand defeated Tanish Bundela of Maharashtra, Harsh of SSCB defeated Sarathi Saini of Delhi, Jitendra Jatav of Madhya Pradesh defeated Naveen Pramod of Kerala, Abdul Qadir of Haryana defeated Mo Miraj of Manipur.
52 to 54 kg weight category: Nikhil of Haryana defeated Aryan Malik of Delhi, Jayant Dagar of Sikkim defeated Karan Kumar of Uttarakhand, Ronit Ranj of Bihar defeated Kishan Dadoria of Madhya Pradesh, Snedeep Singh of Punjab defeated Sundaram Yadav.
54 to 57 kg weight category
Maharashtra’s Rehan Sah defeated Chandigarh’s Armaan, Punjab’s Hanni defeated Madhya Pradesh’s Suraj Saini, Haryana’s Vaibhav Dahiya defeated Uttarakhand’s Sawan Singh Basera, SSCB’s Jatin defeated Himachal’s Chetan Kumar.
57 to 60 kg weight category: Abhishek Singh of Bihar defeated Moirangthem Poonsihba Singh of Manipur, Rupesh of Haryana defeated Sumit Rathore of UP, Deepak Dhami of Uttarakhand defeated Sumit Attari of Chandigarh, Rohit Tewatia of Madhya Pradesh defeated Ayush of SSCB.
60 to 63 kg weight category: Krish Kamboj of SSSB, Ume Garia of Uttarakhand, Yashvardhan Singh of Haryana, Ayush Shriwas of Madhya Pradesh, Ankit Kumar of Himachal Pradesh, Rohit Kumar Yadav of Jharkhand, Harish Saini of Rajswan, Lemapokpam, Binod Kumar S of Manipur , Surya Dev defeated Mohammad Hasan.
63 to 66 kg weight category: Karan Bisht of SSCB defeated Shubhdeep of Punjab, Lalnupui of Mizoram defeated Tangu Nomale of Arunachal Pradesh, Sumit of Daman and Islands defeated Sinam Allar Singh of Manipur.
66 to 70 kg weight category: Prince of SSCB defeated Sachin Flago of Arunachal, Chirag Sharma of Haryana defeated Kishore Kumar of Tamil Nadu, Paramjeet Singh of Chandigarh defeated Sameer Verma of Maharashtra, Vansh Sharma of Punjab defeated Mandeep Singh.
70 to 75 kg weight category: Haryana’s Prince defeated Punjab’s Gurpreet Singh, Uttarakhand’s Divyanshu Singh Bisht defeated Himachal’s Aryan Kumar, UP’s Nikhil Jaiswal defeated Manipur’s KP, SSCB’s Sahil Delhi’s Gaurav.
75 to 80 kg weight category: Shri Charan Pasupuleti of Telangana defeated Samuel Gurung of Sikkim, Aryan of SSCB defeated Lakhwinder of Haryana, Rishabh Sikarwar of Madhya Pradesh defeated M Vishal of Tamil Nadu, Dev Pratap Singh Kushwaha of UP defeated Himachal Pradesh’s Pushkar Mastana.
+80 kg: Haryana’s Lakshya Rathi beat SSCB’s Golu,
Maharashtra’s Gaurav Mahaske defeated Madhya Pradesh’s Yash Yadav, UP’s Harsh Rathi defeated Manipur’s Leo Lokram, Punjab’s Gurpreet defeated Rajasthan’s Vishal.
