Pooja Rani (right). (BFI Photo)
DUBAI: Defending champion Pooja Rani (75kg) was the lone Indian woman boxer to strike gold at the Asian Championships while three others, including six-time world champion MC Mary Kom (51kg), signed off with silver medals on Sunday.
The Olympic-bound Pooja (75 kg), who was competing in her first bout of the tournament after getting a bye and a walkover earlier, dismantled Mavluda Movlonova of Uzbekistan with a clinical performance.
She also earned $10,000 for her marvellous one-bout show in which Movlonova was simply out of sorts, unable to keep pace with the Indian s intensity.
However, six-time world champion Mary Kom (51kg), and tournament debutants Lalbuatsaihi (64kg) and Anupama (81+kg) ended with second place finishes.
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Mary Kom (Photo: Twitter)
New Delhi– Six-time world champion MC Marykom will lead the Indian challenge at next month’s Asian Boxing Championships to be held here at the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex, said an official of the Boxing Federation of India (BFI).
The BFI had conducted national selection trials in non-Olympic weight categories last weekend in New Delhi, but four women boxers including Marykom (51kg) who have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics were exempted from it.
Simranjit Kaur (60kg), Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) and Pooja Rani (75kg) were the other three boxers who didn’t participate in the selection trials for the Asian meet.
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