2024 World Olympic Boxing Qualification Tournament: Indian Boxers Draw

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indian shiva tapa Facing a tough opening match at first world boxing qualifying tournament for 2024 Paris Olympics, starts with Busto ArsizioItaly on Sunday.

veteran indian boxerRuslan Abdullaev, who will compete in the men’s 63.5kg weight class, will face the current world champion in the same division, Ruslan Abdullaev of Uzbekistan, in the first match of the tournament.

Thapa, a six-time Asian Championship medalist, lost to Abdullaev in the final of the 2022 Asian Boxing Championship in Amman.

Like Thapa, most of the nine Indian boxers competing in the 2024 World Olympic Boxing Qualification Tournament will have to overcome tough early hurdles to advance in the competition.

In the men’s 92kg category, Sanjeet Kumar will face Kazakhstan’s Aybek Oralbay, the 2022 Asian champion and 2018 Youth Olympic gold medalist, in his first match. Nishant Dev will take on British Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Lewis Richardson in the 71kg category.

Asian Games bronze medalist Narender Belwal will clash with Germany’s Nervi Tiafak, the 2022 European champion in the super heavyweight division. Raksha Chahal’s first match in the 80kg category will be against former Asian Championship silver medalist Meisam Geshraghi of Iran.

Competing in the men’s 51kg category, Deepak Boria will have to fight the promising Azerbaijani boxer Nijat Huseynov, who is a two-time European U-22 champion.

indian Mohamed Husamuddin, the bronze medalist at the World Championships and Commonwealth Games was given a first-round bye. However, in the second round of the men’s 57kg category, he could face current CWG champion Jude Gallagher of Northern Ireland.

India has already secured four spots for the 2024 Paris Olympics in boxing, including female martial artists Nikhat Zareen (50kg), Preity Pawar (54kg), Parveen Hooda (57kg), Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) won these at last year’s Asian Games.

Although spots in nine weight classes are still being contested: women’s 60kg and 66kg, men’s 51kg, 57kg, 63.5kg, 71kg, 80kg, 92kg, and over 92kg, India will be competing for the first World Olympics. They only field boxers in their respective weight classes in boxing qualifying tournaments. .

A total of 49 Olympic spots are being contested at the Busto Arsizio competition, 28 in the men’s category and 21 in the women’s category.

With the exception of the women’s 57kg and 60kg classes, where the top two and three places will earn spots, semi-finalists in all remaining weight classes will secure spots for their countries. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, each country can earn a maximum of one spot per weight class.

The 2nd World Qualifying Tournament will be held in Bangkok from May 23rd to June 3rd.