Dingko impressive win in second round

AMBALA CANTONEMENT, Jan 21: Dingko Singh, the bubbly powerpack from the Services Sports Control Board who won the flyweight gold for the cou...

AMBALA CANTONEMENT, Jan 21: Dingko Singh, the bubbly powerpack from the Services Sports Control Board who won the flyweight gold for the country in the prestigious King8217;s Cup, has graduated into the higher bantam weight category only this year and is already looking invincible. After demolishing his first round opponent B Toshi of Nagaland with a first-round knockout on Monday, he again stamped his superiority with a unanimous 17-0 points decision over Sazid Qamar of Bengal in the second round on the third day of the 44th Senior National Boxing Championships at the Indoor Hall of the War Heroes Memorial Stadium here on Wednesday.

Sazid, realising that he was up against a formidable rival, refused to be intimidated merely by the reputation of the Services pugilist, who won the best boxer award in the last Nationals held at Calcutta.

Dingko immediately put his opponent on the defensive with a couple of good combinations to the head. So confident was he of his abilities that he put down his guard completely while dancing around the ring and teasing his opponent to have a go at him. Dingko threw punches almost at will as the Bengal boxer looked content to defend.

The occasional jab Sazid did throw either did not connect or did not carry enough power, as the champion boxer was very quick on his feet. Though Sazid was the loser by a gaping margin in the end it was creditable on his part to take the champion boxer the full distance.

In an absorbing fly-weight quarterfinal bout Birju Saha of Steel Plants Sports Board SPSB, the commonwealth and Hiroshima Asian Games bronze medallist, overcame a tough challenge from another international, Lakhvinder Singh of Railway Sports Control Board RSCB to win by a 4-1 decision.

RESULTS all pre-quarters

Fly: Mukesh Kalusia CISF bt Ajay Kumar Jamp;K RSC; Mahavir Singh Dli bt Anand B Gupta Guj RSC; Benjamin Siddi SSCB bt Sohan Lal Pun on pts; KM Pradhan AR bt Abdul Hafeez UP on pts; Birju Saha SPSB bt Lakhvinder Singh RSCB on pts; Rama Rao AP bt SI Jacob Mani on pts; Rajesh Basnet Ben bt Naveen Har on pts; K Jothilingam TN bt Krishna Das Mah on pts.

Bantam: Kamal Kumar SPSB bt Vikas Bhardwaj Chd RSC; Rana Ranvir Dli bt Vinod Kumar HP on pts; Keshav Mutgar Mah bt Sunil Jakhar Har on pts; Devendra Kumar UP bt Dhanna Ram AIEB RSC; Feroz Jaleel Khan AP bt Rakesh Kumar Pun RSC H; NG Dingko Singh SSCB bt Sazid Qamar Ben on pts; D Kiran Sagar RSCB bt Neeraj Biruly Bih on pts; Paramjit Singh MP got walkover from Ch. Manglem Singa Goa.

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Feather: Karan Sonkar MP got walkover from Rajeev Kumar Har; Manoj Panwar Dli bt Mushtaq Ahmed Jamp;K RSC; Satish Yadav SSCB bt Manoj Kumar Ker RSC; U Bhaskar RSCB bt D S Negi Chd RSC; Sukhvinder Singh AIEB bt Th. Romesh Singh Mani on pts; GS Sonkar SPSB bt Van Sangha Miz on pts; M Suranjit Singh AR bt Rajendra S Pundir UP on pts; Naresh Dalal Pun bt Md. Zahid Qanar Ben on pts.

Light: Vikram Singh CISF bt Chitaranjan Singh Mani RSC; J Vinod Kumar Kar bt Anil Kumar Dli on pts; V Shivraj AP bt Rajkaran Sonkar MP on pts; Lalmun Tlunga Miz bt SR Rai Ori retd; Bhushan Saini RSCB bt K Sanjit Singh AR on pts; Vijay Yadav Mah got walkover from Anil Kumar Bahuguna UP; Kamal Kumar Pun bt Md Sabir Ben disqualified; Narendra Rana SSCB bt bt Subodh Kumar Har RSC.

Welter: Tuk Bahadur Thapa SSCB bt K Lawrence SPSB on pts; Sandeep Singh Jamp;K bt Rajesh Kumar Ker on pts; Saad Farooq RSCB bt Ram Rattan Har on pts; Harjeet Singh Pun bt bt Jagjit Singh AIEB on pts; Virender Dangi Chd bt Md. Yunus AP on pts; Rajbir CISF bt Lram Mawia Sailo Miz on pts; Rajesh Kumar Dli bt Mukesh Kr. Yadav U.P. on pts; A Aruranachalam TN bt Munish Dwivesi HP disqualified.

Lt middle: Md. Siddique AP bt Anand Kumar Chd on pts; Durjai Shastri Har bt Ajit Kr. Singh SPSB on pts; Y S Tappa SSCB bt Haji A Lakadia Guj on pts; Harpreet Singh Pun bt Hardeep Singh MP on pts; Harish Kumar CISF got walkover from Neeraj Sharma Raj; Surinder Singh AIEB bt L Dhane Singh Mani disqualified; Lalit Prasad RSCB bt BP Suresh TN on pts; L Branjen Singh AR bt Rakesh Yadav Mah RSC.

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Middle: RB Gurung SSCB bt C B Nayak SPSB on pts; Ashish Kr. Mishra UP bt B Chenpaga Pandian Ker on pts; Deepak Yadav CISF bt D Nelson TN retd; Gurcharan Singh Bih bt Bikramjit Singh AIEB on pts; Jatinder Kumar RSCB bt A Tamarai Kannan Pon RSC; Zoravar Singh Pun bt Harvinder Singh Chd RSC; Raj Kapoor Singh Ben bt Dalbir Singh Har RSC; MB Singh AR bt Shafiq Khan Mah on pts.

Lt heavy: Vinod Kumar Har bt Sunil Kumar Chd RSC; DP Mishra AR bt Dhirendra Kumar UP RSC; Shiv Pratap Chopra Pun bt Suresh Kumar CISF RSC; Amit Kumar Arora Jamp;K given walkover by Dilip K Parmar Guj; Gurcharan Singh SSCB bt Ramesh Choudhary Raj RSC; M Anwar Ahmed TN bt D Deva AP on pts.