Women’s World Boxing: Nikhat, Manisha, Parveen cruise into semis, assure India medals

Istanbul (Turkey), May 16 : Indian boxers Nikhat Zareen, Manisha, and Parveen continued their brilliant run to confirm three medals for the country at the 12th IBA Womens World Boxing Championships by entering the semi-finals here on Monday.

Nikhat Zareen handed India the first medal by clinching a dominating 5-0 win against Englands Charley-Sian Taylor Davison while Manisha got the better of Mongolias Namuun Monkhor in the hard-fought 57kg quarter-final by a 4-1 margin.

The 25-year-old boxer from Telangana once again showed her technical supremacy to hand the country its first medal at this years tournament with an impressive victory in the 52kg quarter-final.Nikhats aggressive intent and the clean attack left no chance for Davison as the Indian looked in complete control throughout the bout.

Nikhat will now take on Caroline De Almeida of Brazil in the semi-finals.De Almeida thrashed the 2018 Commonwealth Games silver winner Irelands Carly McNaul by unanimous decision.

While Manisha will take on Italys Irma Testa, who defeated Uzekistans Sitora Turdibekova in another quarter-final.Later, Parveen also made her way into the 63kg semi-finals by thrashing Shoira Zulkaynarova of Tajikistan 5-0 and added a third meda to Indias tally.

Parveen will be up against Irelands Amy Broadhurst in the semi-final.However, it was heartbreak for the countrys four pugilists-Nitu (48kg), Pooja Rani (81kg), Anamika (50kg), and Jaismine (60kg), who suffered defeats in their respective last-eight bouts.

Two-time Asian champion Pooja suffered a close 2-3 defeat against Australias Jessica Bagley while Nitu and Anamika too fell short of securing medals on her debut appearance at the World Championships after enduring 2-3 and 0-5 losses respectively against the reigning Asian Champion Alua Balkibekova of Kazakhstan and Rio Olympic bronze medallist Ingrit Valencia 0f Colombia.Jaismine too went down fighting against the former World Championships bronze medallist Rashida Ellis of USA 1-4.Later on Monday night, another Indian boxer Nandini will look to secure a medal at the prestigious event, which has been witnessing exciting action in the presence of 310 boxers from 73 countries from across the world.Semi-final matches will take place on Wednesday while the finals will be played on Thursday and Friday.

In the last edition of the tournament, held in Russia in 2019, Indian boxers clinched one silver and three bronze medals.India have won 36 medals, including nine gold, eight silver and 19 bronze, in the 11 editions of the tournament so far-the third-highest after Russia (60) and China (50).

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