Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 3: Two days Jammu District Boxing Championship was declared open by Manger of J&K Sports Council, Satish Gupta in presence of general secretary J&K Amateur Boxing Association, Rajan Sharma at Boxing Ring MA Stadium, here today.
The chief guest interacted with the young boxers and advised them to take part in the game by following the Government guidelines and other safety measures.
“This time, it was decided by the organising committee not to allow National level boxers in the District Championship with sole aim to encourage young talent. However, everyone will get a chance to compete in the upcoming J&K level Championship,” informed Rajan Sharma.
JKSC Boxing coach Anil Wadhera was the head of the technical panel, whereas Harinder Singh (JU), Pardeep Sharma (Army), Arif Mohd and Vinod Bhardwaj were among the technical panel.
In semi-finals matches of senior category (52-56 kg), Ajay Singh beat Akash Kumar and Gurjant trounced Satish Chouhan, whereas in 56-60 kg, Vikrant Manhas defeated Ankush Gangla and Mahesh Kumar got better of Aman Bhau and in 60-63 kg, Harish Gabgotra defeated Danish Kumar besides Nikhil Khajuria beat Ranyodh Charak and Shubham Mehra trounced Bishesh Sharma in 63-69 kg category.
In quarter-finals (63-69 kg), Ranyodh Charak got better of Abhay Deol, while Nikhil Khajuria trounced Ankush Thakur, whereas in 52-56 kg, Akash Kumar defeated Rohit Kumar and 56-60 kg, Vikrant Manhas beat Abhijeet Bamotra.
In semi-finals of youth category (56-60 kg), Satyam Khajuria got better of Arun Singh Katoch, whereas in 52-56 kg, Abhay Jatin beat Sunil and Mayank Chettri defeated Tarun besides in quarter-finals (52-56 kg), Jatin beat Abhay Kumar, whereas 46-49 kg, Maan Singh got walkover Arun Mehra and Piyush Dabgotra trounced Krishna.
Meanwhile, two-day District Poonch Boxing Championship today culminated with well attended prize distribution function at Boxing Ring Sports Stadium, Poonch.
District Development Commissioner Poonch, Rahul Yadav was chief guest, who presented certificates and medals to the winners.
About 52 boxers including six girls took part in this championship.
In boys sub-junior (28-30 kg), Waheed Malik and Mohd Hammad stood 1st and 2nd, whereas in 30-33 kg, first two places were clinched by Amir Farooq and Kamran Khan and in 33-35 kg, Umer Farooq and and Haseeb Khan remained 1st and 2nd besides in 35-37 kg, Ahsan ul-Haq, Mohd Owais and Mohd Tahir clinched 1st and 2nd and 3rd places respectively.
In 43-46 kg category, Mohd Faisal and Keshav Sharma bagged 1st and 2nd places while Mohd Sameer and Wajid Majid shared 3rd place, whereas in 49-52 kg, Vinayak Sharma, Ibrar Ahmed and Azhar Ali clinched top three places respectively besides in junior (46-48 kg), Shoaib and Mehrore remained 1st and 2nd while Firdose Ahmed and Mohd Umer shared 3rd position, while in 52-54 kg, Aqab and Shamas Din bagged first two positions and Toheed Mughal and Imtiaz Ahmed shared 3rd position.
In 57-60 kg, Mohd Imran and Zaheer stood 1st and 2nd while Umar Farooq and Mohd Zahid shared 3rd place, whereas in 63-66 kg, Nadeem Tabasum and Nadeem Farooq bagged top two positions while Ateek-uel-Rehman and Shabaz Qualander jointly clinched 3rd place and in 54-57 kg, Sohail and Zaheer Ahed bagged top two places respectively.
The bouts were officiated by the technical penal including Zakir Shah, Gaurav Sharma, Sahil Khan, Abhay Raina and Mohd Riaz, the championship was organised under the overall supervision of senior boxing coach of J&K Sports Council, Mushtaq Ahmed.
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