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 King’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.

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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 (J&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 (J&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 (J&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 (J&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.