Rajesh day’s best as Services pugilists shine

BANGALORE, JANUARY 11: The process of separating the chaff from the wheat was not as arduous as expected on the opening day of the 32nd Ju...

BANGALORE, JANUARY 11: The process of separating the chaff from the wheat was not as arduous as expected on the opening day of the 32nd Junior National Boxing championships at the Sree Kanteerava Indoor Stadium on Tuesday.

TN’s P Rajesh outclassed Meghalaya’s Puran Thapa, forcing referee RP Singh to help the latter from the barrage when the fly-weight contest was 30 seconds old. Compatriot G Mohan matched Rajesh’s result late in the day in the welter weight leaving Karnataka’s Thilagar look like a novice.

The day’s closest bout, albeit in terms of points was won by Punjab’s Mandeep Singh against Manipuri Ledison Singh with the latter’s farther reach keeping him in good stead.

RESULTS :

Light fly: Pawan Sinha (Bih) bt Iyyappan (Pondy) RSC; Bryan Saunders (Mah) bt S Naobi Singh (Man); Randhir Pal (Kar) bt Rajkiran Gupta (Meg) RSC; Santosh Kumar (WB) bt Bhuwanesh Eswar (MP) RSC. Fly: Ashish Sharma (UP) bt Kamlesh Kumar (MP) 8-6; Mandeep Singh (Pun) bt Ledison Singh (Man) 6:5; P Rajesh (TN) bt Puran Thapa (Meg) RSC. Bantam: Wasif Ansari (Mah) bt K Sukhlal (Bih) 4:1; K Ravikumar (CISF) bt Dilip Behera (Ori) RSC; C Pramod (HP) bt K Pramod (Har) 7:6. Feather: Gurpreet (Pun) bt Umesh Bhardwaj (Raj) RSC; Kulwanth Singh (UP) bt JT Leo Toney (Kar) RSC; S Ranjit (Man) bt Madan Singh (MP) 4:2; Cheepurla Papa (AP) bt Manohar Lal (HP) 11:2; Man Bahadur (Ser) bt DL Yadav (Chan) 11:2; Swatu Aley (Asm) bt Amit Kumar (Bih) 16:11. Light: Sunil Kumar (Chan) bt Manoj Yadav 21-6; Harwinder Singh (Pun) bt Jagdish Prasad (MP) 9-3. Light welter: Praveen Sharma (Har) bt S Narayana (Ori) RSC; Amit Singh (Bih) bt Jaswinder Singh (Chan) RSC; Satnam Singh (Pun) bt Paramjeet Singh(Raj) RSC; Anirudh Keswani (UP) bt T Mahendran (Kar) RSC; Ziauddin Khatib (Mah) bt Dhrubhajij Borah (Asm) 12-6; Vijay Khan (HP) bt Atul Kumar (MP) RSC; Som Bahadur Pun (Ser) bt Padhanabh Rawal (Guj) RSC; E Ranjit (AP) bt T Dhanakumar (Man) RSC. Welter: G Mohan (TN) bt M Thilagar (Kar) RSC; Ajay Kashyap (Ser) bt Dinesh Bakshi (MP) RSC; Manjit Singh (Del) bt T Thaibangamba (Man) RSC; Sanjay Kumar (Har) bt Narayan Ghale (Bih) RSC. Light middle: Vinay Kumar Sharma (HP) bt Vijay Chaudhary (Del) RSC.

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