Boxer Saweety clinches gold as India bag seven medals

IANS  |  Kaspiysk (Russia) 

Indias Saweety Bora (75 kg) emerged as the sole gold medal winner from while in the mens department Yadav (81kg) and Virender Kumar (91kg) suffered heartbreaks in their respective finals at the Umakhanov here.

Saweety started off well but her opponent, from Russia, fought tooth and nail to keep the bout evenly contested.

But the Indian retained the upper hand to emerge victorious with a split decision and win the gold medal.

However, in the men's division, couldn't cope against his Russian opponent Rabadanov's quickness and settled for silver. towered over the Indian with his punches and beat him 5-0.

Virender also suffered the same fate as his compatriot and settled for silver after being defeated by A. Bwambale of by a similar margin.

Earlier, three Indian women -- Pinki Rani (51kg), (57kg) and Pavitra (60kg) -- and had reached the last four-stage but lost their respective bouts to settle for a bronze medal.

The Indian contingent amassed a total of seven medals which included four bronze, two silver and a lone gold by Saweety.

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First Published: Tue, June 12 2018. 19:52 IST