Boxing World Championships: Shiva Thapa enters quarterfinals- Five-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) stood just one win away from becoming the first Indian male boxer to claim two world championship medals after he advanced to the quarterfinals of the ongoing edition here.
The 27-year-old from Assam defeated France’s Lounes Hamraoui 4-1 in a late night pre-quarterfinal bout on Monday to move ahead. Thapa had claimed a bronze medal in the 2015 edition of the tournament in Doha.
He was the only Indian boxer to register a win on Monday after four others, including Asian silver-medallist Deepak Bohria (51kg), bowed out of the competition.
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Thapa will square off against Turkey’s Kerem Oezmen in the quarterfinals on Tuesday night.
Boxing World Championships: Monday night’s victory was also revenge for Thapa, who had lost to Hamraoui at the Alexis Vastine Memorial Tournament in Nantes, France last year.
SHIVA SAILS THROUGH 🥊🥳@shivathapa (63.5 kg) puts up yet another impressive performance & walks into the quarter finals of #MensWorldChampionships in style as he defeats 🇫🇷’s Lounes Hamraoui 4️⃣:1️⃣ in the last-16 👊🏻#PunchMeinHaiDum#boxing#aibawchs2021 pic.twitter.com/AjGghWs96J
— Boxing Federation (@BFI_official) November 1, 2021
Apart from Thapa, four others Indian will also be fighting their quarterfinal bouts on Tuesday evening.
Boxing World Championships: Akash Kumar (54kg) will face Venezuela’s Yoel Finol. Narender Berwal (+92kg) will go up against Azerbaijan’s Mahammad Abdullayev, while Nishant Dev (71kg) will take on Russia’s Vadim Musaev.
Reigning Asian champion Sanjeet (92kg), who was a quarterfinalist in the event’s last edition, will face Italian Aziz Abbes Mouhiidine.
The gold winners at the showpiece will walk away with a prize money of USD 100,000.
Boxing World Championships: Shiva Thapa enters quarterfinals, a step away from creating history- check out
The silver medallists are to be given USD 50,000, and both bronze-medallists will be awarded USD 25,000 each. The total prize purse stands at a whopping USD 2.6 million.
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