Indian boxer Shiva Thapa beat Olympic bronze-medallist and top seed Otgondalai Dorjnyambuu from Mongolia on Friday in Tashkent to enter the final of the Asian Boxing Championships in the men’s lightweight (60 kg) category.
Indian boxer @shivathapa defeats Olympic bronze-medallist Dorjnyambuu Otgondalai to enter #AsianChampionships final.
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) May 5, 2017
The 23-year-old boxer from Assam, the fourth seed in this competition, previously won gold at the Asian Boxing Championship in 2013 in the bantamweight (56 kg) category and bronze in the 2015 edition. Thapa is also a World Championship bronze medallist and has already qualified for the World Championships by progressing to the semi-finals by beating Chinese Taipei’s Chu-En Lai in the quarters
The other Indian boxers in the fray and Amit (46-49 kg flyweight), Vikas Krishnan (75 kg middleweight) and Sumit Sangwan (91 kg heavyweight)
