The junior review of the ASBC Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships – Mahi Raghav and Fazliddin Erkinboyev were named as best boxers
The fantastic junior finals of the ASBC Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships were held in the ninth competition day of the event. The competition was held during the next wave of the Covid-19 pandemic but many of the Asian future talents joined to the continental event and proved their bests in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The technical level and physical preparation of some of these 15 and 16-year-old boxers were on the elite level.
Out of the attending 15 nations, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Iraq, Iran and Mongolia had junior finalists in the younger age group of the championship. Besides to the three top Asian boxing nations as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and India, more countries could join to the finals in Dubai.
Boxers who were born in 2005 and in 2006, were eligible to attend in the ASBC Asian Junior Boxing Championships and some of them had already continental experiences as younger hopes from the Kuwait City 2019 ASBC Asian Schoolboys Boxing Championships.
Uzbekistan won nine gold medals including three among the girls in the junior part and topped the team standings in Dubai. Their new junior girls as Gulsevar Ganieva (46kg), Shakhina Nematova (50kg) and 15-year-old Oysha Toirova (70kg) also proved outstanding technical skills as all of their boys.
Kazakhstan and India both won eight titles among the juniors while Iran had one gold in the men’s part of the event. The first gold medal of the whole event was won by Kazakhstan’s Damir Baipakov at the pinweight (46kg), but Adaibek Niyazbay (54kg), Bakhtiyar Anarbayev (57kg), Viktoriya Baidukova (girls 54kg) and Ulzhan Sarsenbek (girls 57kg) are all amazed the experts in Dubai.
The number of the junior boxers was 152 in the event which was a good figure during this hard period. Altogether 13 junior girls and 13 junior boys celebrated their gold medals after the exciting finals in Dubai.
Fifteen Asian nations sent their boxers to the ASBC Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships to Dubai: Bahrain, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Mongolia, Nepal, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, host United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan. All of them competed in the junior part of this combined ASBC Asian Championships.
Among the ASBC Asian Schoolboys Champions from Kuwait City, one Indian and three Uzbeks such as Hojiakbar Mahmudov (50kg), Lazizbek Tulkinov (63kg) and Shavkatjon Boltayev (70kg) won their second Asian titles, this time in the junior age group. All of the three boxers proved impressive performance, Mahmudov was one of the most technician boxers of the event whole Boltayev amazed with his strength. India’s best male junior talent, Joon Bharat (+80kg) claimed his second Asian gold medal following his first success in Kuwait City.
The welterweight (66kg) is always one of the most traditional categories in Kazakhstan and the country was the titleholder also in junior age group from Fujairah where Sultan Babakhanov earned gold. Kazakhstan’s new talent Islam Sovetov was not able to repeat this performance in the final, he lost to Uzbekistan’s Fazliddin Erkinboyev who used impressive technic to control the title bout. Erkinboyev not only won the gold medal but he achieved also the Best Male Boxer Trophy.
India’s best junior girl, Mahi Raghav won already national events in 2019 and she had the experiences to control most of her final at the light welterweight (63kg) against Aigerim Kabdolda. She won the title of the competition and named as the Best Female Boxer of the ASBC Asian Junior Boxing Championships. Her teammate, 14-year-old Nikita Chand was the youngest winners in the junior age group in Dubai.
Uzbekistan’s ASBC Asian Schoolboys Champion Mizrob Nekboyev moved up to the middleweight (75kg) in the recent period and he has put on a lot of muscles to his body. The 16-year-old Uzbek met with Iran’s Hirbod Eslami in the final who eliminated a more experienced Tajik in the semi-finals. The Iranian exceeded all of the expectations and his pressurizing tactic delivered for him a gold medal in Dubai. Iraq had finalist in the event and Abbas Qasim claimed silver medal which was an amazing performance from the country.
List of the winners in the ASBC Asian Junior Boxing Championships
Boys 46kg: Damir Baipakov, Kazakhstan
Boys 48kg: Rohit Chamoli, India
Boys 50kg: Hojiakbar Mahmudov, Uzbekistan Boys 52kg: Torekhan Sabyrkhan, Kazakhstan Boys 54kg: Adaibek Niyazbay, Kazakhstan Boys 57kg: Bakhtiyar Anarbayev, Kazakhstan Boys 60kg: Javokhir Ummataliyev, Uzbekistan Boys 63kg: Lazizbek Tulkinov, Uzbekistan Boys 66kg: Fazliddin Erkinboyev, Uzbekistan Boys 70kg: Shavkatjon Boltayev, Uzbekistan
Boys 75kg: Hirbod Eslami, Iran Boys 80kg: Sardorbek Tursunov, Uzbekistan Boys +80kg: Joon Bharat, India Girls 46kg: Gulsevar Ganieva, Uzbekistan Girls 48kg: Vishu Rathee, India Girls 50kg: Shakhina Nematova, Uzbekistan Girls 52kg: Tanu, India Girls 54kg: Viktoriya Baidukova, Kazakhstan Girls 57kg: Ulzhan Sarsenbek, Kazakhstan Girls 60kg: Nikita Chand, India Girls 63kg: Mahi Raghav, India Girls 66kg: Aruzhan Zhanabayeva, Kazakhstan Girls 70kg: Oysha Toirova, Uzbekistan Girls 75kg: Pranjal Yadav, India Girls 80kg: Umit Abilkaiyr, Kazakhstan Girls +80kg: Kirti, India
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