Amit Panghal clinches gold in flyweight boxing, wins his second CWG medal
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India's Amit Panghal gained a gold medal on the penultimate day of the 2022 Commonwealth Video games on Sunday. Amit beat England's Kiaran MacDonald within the ultimate of the lads's flyweight class, thus profitable his first-ever gold medal on the Video games. That is Amit's second medal on the Video games total, having gained a silver within the earlier version in Gold Coast. That is Amit's seventh main medal (1 silver in World Boxing C'ships, 1 gold in Asian video games, 1 gold and 1 silver in CWG, and a gold, a silver, and a bronze every on the Asian Boxing C'ships).
The 26-year-old Indian boxer, who had confronted a shock opening spherical loss within the Olympics final yr, produced sturdy performances all through the 2022 CWG en path to the ultimate. He defeated Vanautu's Namri Berry 5-0 within the first spherical, and secured a victory with an identical margin in his quarter-final match towards Scotland's Lennon Mulligan.
Amit registered a victory in a closely-fought towards Zambia's Tokyo 2020 Olympian Patrick Chinyemba of Zambia, as he got here from behind to beat an aggressive boxer 5-0 unanimous resolution win. Trailing 2-3 initially, Amit, who seemed to place behind the ghost of the Tokyo Olympics the place he made a primary spherical exit, needed to dig deep in his reservoir of expertise. The Asian Video games champion upped the ante, touchdown hooks and jabs at will to take the spherical.
The ultimate three minutes had been keenly contested with each pugilists attempting to go away an impression however the judges ultimately dominated in favour of Amit.
This was India's second medal in boxing after Nitu Ghanghas gained a gold/silver medal earlier within the day. By the way, Nitu additionally defeated residence favorite Demie-Jade Resztan within the ultimate to clinch a high podium end. General, this was India's forty third medal on the Commonwealth Video games 2022, and fifteenth gold.
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