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Shiv Thapa wins silver medal at Asian Championships due to injury

India’s Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) had a disappointing end to his campaign at the ongoing Asian Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan, on Saturday with an injury that forced him to pull out of the final half of the bout. Thapa thus had to be content with a silver medal, her sixth overall at the Asian Championships. The 28-year-old Thapa, the most successful male player in the history of the tournament, was injured in the second round of the light welterweight gold medal match against Uzbekistan’s Abdullav Ruslan and the referee stopped the match and declared his opponent the winner.

Third seed Thapa was trailing 0-5 after having lost the first round when he was injured. At the start of the first round, both the boxers tried to dominate but in the end the Uzbekistan boxer dominated. In the second round, Thapa tried to make a comeback but he soon fell down. The referee started counting down but Thapa got up. However, he was in a lot of pain for which he also took medical treatment. The match was eventually stopped and he was barely able to stand when the referee announced the winner.

Thapa had done well in this tournament except for a disappointing end to the final. He has so far won one gold (2013), three silver (2017, 2021 and 2022) and two bronze medals (2015 and 2019) in the Asian Championships. Thapa, however, overtook Kazakhstan’s legendary boxer Vasily Levit to win the silver medal. He is the only other male boxer to have won five medals at the Asian Championships.

MC Mary Kom (seven) and L Sarita Devi (eight) have won more medals than Thapa in the Asian Championships. Indian boxers won a total of 12 medals in this competition which included four gold, two silver and six bronze medals. Of these 12 medals, women won seven medals, leading India to top the women’s category.

In the women’s category, Olympic bronze medalists Lovlina Borgohain (75kg), Alfia Pathan (+81kg), Sweety Boora (81kg) and Parveen Hooda (63kg) won gold medals. Meenakshi (52kg) took silver while Ankushita Boro (66kg) and Preeti Dahiya (57kg) took bronze. In men’s section Narender (above 92kg), Sumit (75kg), Mohammad Husamuddin (57kg) and Govind Kumar Sahni (48kg) won bronze medals.

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