ASBC Heroes – India’s youngest prospect Yashwardhan Singh

India’s Yashwardhan Singh won the title of the 58kg weight class at the Kuwait City 2019 ASBC Asian Schoolboys Boxing Championships and also received the Best Boxer Trophy. Singh was one of the youngest ASBC Heroes in 2019 who is still among the schoolboys level this year.

Yashwardhan Singh was born in Gurgaon, India on July 3 in 2006 and began his boxing career at the age of 9. He claimed an amazing silver medal in the Indian U17 National Boxing Championships on April 2019 where he lost to only a more experienced rival, Yaiphaba Meitei in the final.

The new edition of the Indian Schoolboys National Boxing Championships was held in the city of Rohtak on July 2019 one month before the Kuwait City 2019 ASBC Asian Schoolboys Boxing Championships. India’s top region, Haryana’s next sensation in the schoolboy national event was Yashwardhan Singh who controlled all of the three rounds against Manipur’s Chinglema Moirangthem in the final of the 58kg.

India’s Yashwardhan Singh had to meet first in Kuwait City with Turkmenistan’s Magomed Kseyhanov who has got strong family connections to boxing. The 13-year-old Indian had to do his very best to eliminate his rival from Turkmenistan in the ASBC Asian Schoolboys Boxing Championships. Singh advanced to the quarter-finals in Kuwait City where he had another technician opponent, Thailand’s Thananchai Phoemsap. The Indian talent attacked from the first moments and he was able to win his most difficult fight in the event.

He dominated all of the three rounds against Palestine’s new sensation Zaid Mohammad Atef Shkokani in the semi-final of the weight class. Singh started his final against Uzbekistan’s Abdulaziz Abdurakhmonov strongly and demonstrated his fighting spirit. The Indian boxer did not deliver his peak performance in the final but his Uzbek rival also looked tired in the last day of the ASBC Asian Schoolboys Boxing Championships. Singh had strong stamina in their contest and he was able to break Uzbekistan’s impressive dominancy getting a gold medal in Kuwait City and the best boxer trophy.  

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