Indian women bag four golds at world youth boxing
It was a gold rush for India at the AIBA World Women’s Youth Championships with the country’s pugilists grabbing four top positions after the first set of finals, in Guwahati on Sunday.
By : migrator
Update: 2017-11-26 20:27 GMT
Guwahati
Nitu (48kg), Jyoti Gulia (51kg), Sakshi Choudhury (54kg) and Shashi Chopra (57kg) won gold medals in the first set of finals, which were halted for 45 minutes by a minor fire mishap in the spectator stands.
Adding to the tally were two bronze medals secured by Neha Yadav (+81kg) and Anupama (81kg), making it India’s best ever performance at the marquee age group event.
The country had won just one bronze medal at the previous edition of the event and had not won a gold since 2011 when Sarjubala Devi secured the yellow metal.
Up against Kazakhstan’s Zhazira Urakbayeva, Nitu was the first to walk into the ring for India and she had it rather easy against the Kazakh, whose footwork was all over the place.
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