Nepal’s Tej Bahadur Deuba and Deepak Shrestha won their finals by KO in the Indramaya Maharjan Memorial Invitational Championships

The first edition of the Indramaya Maharjan Memorial Invitational Boxing Championships was held in the city of Chandragiri, Nepal where four women and seven men winners have been crowned. Nepal’s best boxers such as Lalita Maharjan, Sangita Sunar, Tej Bahadur Deuba and Deepak Shrestha won their weight classes in the historical event.
Nepal will be hosting the next edition of the South Asian Games and the country is even more active in the international boxing stage and launched a new event. The Indramaya Maharjan Memorial Invitational Boxing Championships was one of the first international events in 2019. For the Asian boxers there will be long road in the international competitions in the busy year of 2019 before their main targets.
The organizer of the Indramaya Maharjan Memorial Invitational Boxing Championships was the Boshigaun Sports Club. Nepal’s last Asian Games medallist in boxing Mr. Deepak Maharjan is the President of the Boshigaun Sports Club who worked hard to realize this international boxing event.
Host Nepal, Bhutan and India attended in the historical first edition of the Indramaya Maharjan Memorial Invitational Boxing Championships. Nepal represented the event with two teams, India sent their top boxers from the Haryana region while Bhutan’s best athletes also attended in the event.
Four women’s weight classes were held in the Indramaya Maharjan Memorial Invitational Boxing Championships: light flyweight (48kg), flyweight (51kg), bantamweight (54kg) and lightweight (60kg). The men boxers were able to attend in seven weight categories from the light flyweight (49kg) up to the middleweight (75kg).
Each weight category had four athletes at the Indramaya Maharjan Memorial Invitational Boxing Championships in Chandragiri. The top three boxers in all women and men weight categories won money prizes of Rs. 15,000, Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 5,000 following the finals besides to their medals.
Nepal’s first gold medal in the Indramaya Maharjan Memorial Invitational Boxing Championships was achieved by Lalita Maharjan who defeated Bhutan’s No.1 Tandin Lhamo as well during her road to the title of the light flyweight (48kg). Bimala Shrestha also had international experiences and she was able to beat her teammate Mala Rai by split decision in the final of the women’s flyweight (51kg).
Minu Gurung was slightly better than the favourite of the women’s bantamweight (54kg) Nisha Tamang and won the category which was a small surprise in the Indramaya Maharjan Memorial Invitational Boxing Championships. The fourth woman’s gold medal was taken by Asian Games participant Sangita Sunar who defeated ASBC Asian Confederation Women’s Boxing Championships competitor Punam Rawal in the final of the lightweight (60kg).
Tej Bahadur Deuba is Nepal’s best male boxer who knocked out his teammate Pradip Maharjan in the final of the light flyweight (49kg). Asian Games competitor Prem Chaudhary also proved his top skills in the final of the flyweight (52kg) where he stopped India’s Sachin winning the title by RSC.
Following experienced Puran Rai’s gold medal at the bantamweight (56kg), Bhutan’s lone title was achieved by ASBC Asian Confederation Boxing Championships quarter-finalist Nima Dorji who defeated Nepal’s Ek Bahadur Ghale in the final. The following three male titles were taken by Bhupendra Thapa Magar (64kg), Bikash Lama (69kg) and experienced Deepak Shrestha who knocked out Rabi Sunar in the final of the middleweight (75kg).

List of the winners in the Indramaya Maharjan Memorial Championships
Women’s 48kg: Lalita Maharjan, Nepal
Women’s 51kg: Bimala Shrestha, Nepal
Women’s 54kg: Minu Gurung, Nepal
Women’s 60kg: Sangita Sunar, Nepal
Men’s 49kg: Tej Bahadur Deuba, Nepal
Men’s 52kg: Prem Chaudhary, Nepal
Men’s 56kg: Puran Rai, Nepal
Men’s 60kg: Nima Dorji, Bhutan
Men’s 64kg: Bhupendra Thapa Magar, Nepal
Men’s 69kg: Bikash Lama, Nepal
Men’s 75kg: Deepak Shrestha, Nepal

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