5 youth boxers clinch gold at Asian Youth & Junior Championships

Previous edition’s medal winners Tamanna (50kg) and Nivedita Karki (48kg) were among five Indian women boxers who grabbed gold medals in the youth competition of the Asian Youth and Junior Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan on Monday.

Shaheen (60kg), Ravina (63kg) and Muskan (75kg) were the other three boxers who also registered victories in the finals and bagged gold medals. Nivedita provided India an ideal start for the day when she clinched a sensational 3-2 win over Uzbekistan’s Saidakhon Rakhmonova.

Tamanna then handed the country a second gold with a win over another Uzbek boxer Robiyankhon Bakhtiyorova by a similar margin. Both Nivedita and Tamanna won silver medals in the last edition.