Vijender settles for bronze

Vijender Singh won one of Indias two silver medals at the two-day Champion of Champions invitational boxing tournament in Guangzhou,China on Tuesday. The 24-year-old Olympic and World Championship bronze medallist lost 6-0 to Chinas Zhang Jin Ting in the middleweight 75kg category final. The other silver medal for India came through Olympian Dinesh Kumar,who settled for silver in 81kg after losing 2-10 to Chinese Meng Fan Long. This was Vijenders second loss to Zhang. The last time they met,Vijender had to settle for the silver at the 2007 Asian Championships in Mongolia.

I am a bit disappointed that I lost to him again. The last time too I lost to him in China but it was a much closer affair and I lost by just a point at that time, said Vijender,who also got 1,000 as prize money. But it was good preparation for the Commonwealth Championship in March. It was fun to be back in the ring after a long gap, said the boxer,who had not competed since the World Championships in September last year.