The Indian youth men’s boxing squad will return home on 17th Mar 2013 after putting up a decent show at the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championship in Subic Bay, Philippines. The four pugilists that made it to the penultimate round of the, had to settle with bronze medal performance. 2012 Youth World Championships silver medal medallist Narender Berwal (+91kg) and bronze medal winner Lalitha Prasad (49kg) along with 2012 Aglorav Cup bronze medal winner Abhishek Beniwal (81kg) and heavy weight boxer Amritpreet Singh (91kg) had to be content with a semi-final finish after losing out to their respective opponents in the round of four.
Two time Youth National Champion, Narender Berwal (+91), playing his second international tournament – first being the Youth Worlds, where he bagged the silver medal – did well to finish on the podium at the Asian championships. He was outpointed by Ulugbek Mubinov in the semi-finals. Abhishek Beniwal (81kg) and Amritpreet Singh (91kg) too displayed great skills but in the end had to make do with bronze medals. Beniwal lost to Adiet Orynbassarov from Kazakhstan while Singh also lost to another Kazak boxer Aibek Ermetov. Lalitha Prasad (49kg) went down against Kosei Tanaka of Japan.
The arrival details of the Indian team are as follows:
Date: 17th Mar’2013
Flight No. : AI 315 (Connecting flight from Hong Kong)
Arrival Time: 2135 Hrs.
Arrival at terminal 3 of IGI Airport
The Complete squad is as follows:
Indian Boxing team for the ASBC Youth Asian Championship |
S.No |
Wt Cat |
Name |
Unit |
1 |
Light Fly Weight (49Kg) |
Lalitha P Prasad |
SSCB |
2 |
Fly Weight (52Kg) |
Kavinder Bisht |
UTK |
3 |
Bantan Weight (56Kg) |
Aman Indora |
HAR |
4 |
Light Weight (60Kg) |
Nagesh Kharare |
MAH |
5 |
Light Welter Weight (64Kg) |
Dinesh |
DEL |
6 |
Welter Weight (69Kg) |
Manjeet Singh Panghal |
HAR |
7 |
Middle Weight (75kg) |
Sandeep |
HAR |
8 |
Light Heavy Weight (81kg) |
Abhishek Beniwal |
SSCB |
9 |
Heavy Weight (91kg) |
Amrit Preet Singh |
PUN |
10 |
Super Heavy Weight (+91kg) |
Narender Berwal |
HAR |
Support Staff |
1 |
G Manoharan |
Head Coach |
2 |
Lalit Prasad |
Coach |
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