UT level Boxing C’ship
Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 27: The 2nd day of J&K UT Boxing Championship, organised by J&K Amateur Boxing Association witnessed close contests in the semi-finals at Boxing Ring MA Stadium, here today.
A couple of women’s bouts between boxers from Srinagar and Poonch got huge applause from the spectators and the officials of the Association.
In men semi-finals elite (49-52 kg), Akash Sharma (Jammu) trounced Akash Kumar (Jammu); Yuvraj Singh (Kathua) stood 2nd, whereas in 52-57 kg, Naveen Sharma (Jammu) beat Gurjant and Ankush Gangla defeated Satish Chauhan and in 57-60 kg, Anil Kumar (Jammu) got better of Aman Bhau (JU) and Rahul Kumar (Abhijeet Bamotra) besides in 60-63 kg, Sandeep Singh (JKP) beat Rahul Manhas while Nitish Sharma defeat Sankalp Prajapati, whereas in 63-69 kg, Vinod Bhardwaj (Jammu) trounced Bishesh Sharma (JU) and Shubam Mehra (Jammu) and in 69-75 kg and Chanderdev Singh (Jammu) beat Yash Anthal and Harshdev Singh (Jammu) trounced Asif Naway.
In 75-81 kg, Sanjay Sharma got better of Avinash Kumar and Munider Singh beat Rahul Kumar, whereas in 81-91 kg, Mohd Sultan (JKP) beat Huzaif M Arif besides in Plus 91 kg, Shivam Bawa (Jammu) got walkover Ibrahim Mushtaq (JU) while Sarfaraz Choudhary (JKP) beat Nikhil Kumar (Jammu).
In junior (44-46 kg), Ranjeet Singh beat Shoaib Ahmed (Poonch) while in 48-50 kg, Mehrose Ahmed (Poonch) trounced Akshay Sharma and in 57-60 kg, Razwan Sajad (Kathua) beat Mohd Zahid (Poonch) while Mohd Zahir (Poonch) defeated Deepak Katoch.
In sub-junior (35-37 kg), Ahsan-ul-Haq (Poonch) beat Veervaz Ali (Udhampur), whereas in 40-43 kg, Sourav Badyal (Ramban) trounced Mohd Tahir (Poonch) and in 43-46 kg, Kaiser Ramzan Lone got better of Shubam Thakur (Jammu) besides in 52-55 kg, Rashid Rather (Poonch) beat Kanav Sharma (Jammu) while Vinayak Sharma (Poonch) got walkover Mir Mudassir (Srinagar).
In youth men (46-49 kg), Shubham Sharma (Jammu) beat Rakesh Kumar (Ramban), and Maan Singh (Jammu) trounced Piyush Dabgotra (Jammu), whereas in 49-52 kg, Tarun Singh (Jammu) got better of Gagandeep Singh (Udhampur) while Mayank Chetri (Jammu) beat Toheed Mughal (Poonch) besides in 52-56 kg, Nakul Manhas (Udhampur) beat Arsh Singh (Jammu), while Prajwal Jamwal (Jammu) trounced Zaheer Banday (Poonch), whereas in 56-60 kg, Sahil Lalotra (Kathua) beat Karan Kumar (Jammu) and Mohd Imran (Poonch) defeated Dalbir Singh (Jammu) besides in 60-64 kg, Satyam Khajuria (Jammu) beat Sachin Choudhary (Jammu) and Nadeem Farooq (Poonch) trounced Nikhil Singh (Jammu), whereas in 64-69 kg, Sahil Ali (Kathua) defeated Govind Sharma (Jammu) besides in 69-75 kg, Abhinday Sharma trounced Ankit Sharma (Jammu) and Nadeem Tabassum (Poonch) defeated Deepak Kumar.
In women seniors (54-57 kg), Avantilqa Bali (Poonch) beat Reebu Jan (Srinagar); whereas Balla Devi (Jammu) trounced Nirmala Devi and in 60-64 kg, Ananya Choudhary (JU) beat Parul Sharma (Jammu).
Anil Wadhera, Khalida Bano, Sajjad Pathan, Aman Sangral, Vishwajeet Singh, Gautam Sharma, Rajneesh, Naresh Kumar, Farooq Ahmed and Harinder Pal were among technical panel.
In this competition, around 150 boxers from different districts including Jammu, Srinagar, Budgam, Pulwama, Baramulla, J&K Police, Kathua, Poonch, Udhampur, Ramban and Samba are taking part.