NEW DELHI: India’s nine Olympic-bound fighters will traveling abroad to get a high-value training stint following a couple of days’ break after a record-shattering trophy haul from the nation’s pugilists in the just-concluded Asian Seminar in Dubai.
Talking to PTI, Indian men’s boxing High Performance Director Santiago Nieva reported that the fighters will hit Tokyo for its Games, five to seven times until the beginning of the incident from July 23.
“We can go overseas for training.
The talks are around and the location is going to be finalised within the upcoming few days.
It’ll be a three-week camp.
We’ll return to India to fine tune a few points, then visit Tokyo five-seven days prior to the Games,” Nieva stated putting down the program for the forthcoming days.
The complete methods of this planned excursion is going to be shown after the place is finalised.
The Indian boxing group has moved a bit in the last couple of weeks for training and tournaments, such as a lengthy visit to Europe.
The practice in the home was sporadic due to the hazard presented by COVID-19.
In actuality, in April, federal trainer C A Kuttappa had tested positive for COVID-19 pushing him to quarantine for 10 days.
Indian fighters brought their greatest ever medal haul of 15 in the case in Dubai, two over their previous best performance.
The awards clinched this time contained two gold, five silver and eight bronze medals.
The sole gold-winner one of the Olympic-bound has been Pooja Rani (75kg), whereas MC Mary Kom (51kg) along with Amit Panghal (52kg) fetched silver awards.
The only male fighter to bring a golden has been Sanjeet (91kg), who isn’t part of their Olympic group.
Vikas Krishan (69kg), Simranjit Kaur (60kg) and also Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) were one of the Olympic-bound bronze-medallists.
The other people to have made the cut to Tokyo are Manish Kaushik (63kg), Ashish Chaudhary (75kg) and Satish Kumar (+91kg).
Of them, Ashish dropped in the quarterfinals at Dubai and also Manish and Satish couldn’t travel because of illness.
“Overall I’m happy with the operation and I mention this not only considering medal haul.
Amit was in fantastic shape, Vikas was merely unfortunate to get hurt at the semifinals and Ashish gave a great performance although he did not win a trophy,” Nieva stated.
“Obviously there are little issues to be addressed, even more special to people and we’ll do this at the few weeks remaining before the Games.
I am able to say we’re 80 percent prepared, we’ll type the remaining 20 percent,” he further added.
The little problems that Nieva called included near range body and boxing punches.
“There’s vast improvement and it’ll last before we’re completely prepared for the Games,” he explained.
On to different performances and Nieva believed Panghal was amazingly good during despite passing up a second consecutive gold.
The diminutive Haryana-boxer dropped an edge-of-the-seat closing to older foe Shakhobidin Zoirov of Uzbekistan in that which had been a replica of this 2019 world tournament final, that had ended in Zoirov’s favour.
The Indian won both of those 3 rounds however Zoirov had only the perfect mix of scores from judges to scratch through 3-2.
“I feel this really is at par with all his finest performances.
He had been unstoppable and seemed really great.
All of us believed he won that last final,” Nieva stated.
And afterward there was Sanjeet (91kg), that upstaged Olympic silver-medallist and championship legend Vassiliy Levit from the finals.
Kazakhstan’s Levit was looking great for his fourth gold medal in the event but had been halted by the tournament-debutant Indian.
“Sanjeet has enormous energy.
He’s worked tirelessly to get where he is and his own advances are extremely obvious.
There were definite flaws in his sport, particularly at close variety but he’s improved quite a lot,” Nieva stated.
India discovered its tournament legend at Shiva Thapa (64kg), that clinched fifth consecutive trophy by finishing with silver.
Nieva was praise for its Assam boxer, who’s also an international championship bronze-medallist.