Belgrade: Debut Akash Kumar (54kg) secured India’s first medal at the Aiba World Male Boxing Championship on Tuesday after advancing to the semifinals with an extraordinary victory over the former race for the Olympics, Joel Finol from Venezuela.
Akash is 21 years old, who is a national champion that rules, which is valid 5-0 in extraordinary performance where punching and playing the show is just extraordinary.
The fearless young man scored a counter-attack with no guards and mocked his opponent, all this while exiting his reach with extraordinary pace and footwork.
Boxer service, which is a product of the Army Sports Institute in Pune, lost its parent on lung infection in September and competed in the national championship that was not aware of the tragedy.
His father died more than a decade back after starting him for his fist and his sister was in prison in connection with a murder case.
On Tuesday, Akash became only the seventh Indian male boxer to secure the world championship medal and also sure of a minimum prize of $ 25,000.
Rivas had initially won bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics but the medal was upgraded to silver after the original Second Place Finisher failed.
Akash will face a 19-year-old Makhmud Sabyrkhan from Kazakhstan, an Asian gold medalist three times at the young level.
Later tonight, five times the winner of Asian Medal Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) will directly fight the Turkish Oezmen Kerem in the quarter-finals along with three other Indians.
Thora will aim to become the first Indian men’s boxer to claim two medals at the world event, after taking bronze in the 2015 edition.
Narender Bermwal (+ 92kg) will fight Mahammad Abdullayev’s Azerbaijan, while the Nishant Dev (71kg) will take Vadim Musaev from Russia.
Respond to the Asian championship (92kg), which is the quarter finalist in the last edition of the event, will face Aziz Abbes Mouhiidine Italy.
Previous Indian Medal Winners at the World Championship are Vijender Singh (Bronze, 2009), Vikas Krishan (Bronze, 2011), Thapa (Bronze, 2015), Gaurav Bidhuri (Bronze, 2017), Amit Panghal (Perak, 2019) and Manish Kaushik ( Silver) and Manish (Bronze, 2019).
The golden winner at the exhibition will run away with a $ 100,000 prize.
The silver medalist must be given $ 50,000, and both medalists will be given $ 25,000.
The total gift wallet stands above $ 2.6 million.
India is represented by national champions who rule throughout heavy categories.
Boxing World: Akash in Semis; secure India’s first medal
