Vijender pulls Silver at Asian Games
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Asian Games silver medallist Vijender went down to Uzbekistan’s Rasulov Elshod in the final bout and had to settle for second place at the 24th Asian Boxing Championship at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Vijender, the lone Indian to make it to the finals, lost 3-14 to Elshod in the 75kg category.
India, which sent an 11-member team to compete in the tournament, finished with one silver and six bronze medals.
The event, which saw participation from 140 pugilists from 20 countries, ended on sunday.
Overall, it was a decent show by the Indians as seven of them managed to reach the semifinals. Four of them — Diwakar Prasad (57kg), T T Singh (60kg), Dinesh (81kg) and Manpreet Singh (91kg) were ousted at the quarter-final stage.
The bronze medallists included 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games gold medallist Akhil Kumar, who lost to local favourite Badar-Uugan Enkhbat on points in the 54kg category semis.
Amandeep Singh suffered a narrow defeat in the 48kg category to settle for the bronze medal.
Jitender Kumar and Manoj Kumar also managed to grab third place after making it to the 51kg and 64kg semifinals. Dilbag Singh (69kg) and Ajay Kumar (+91kg) were the other bronze medallists after being ousted at the last-four stage.
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