Lucknow, May 24 (HS). Tej Pratap Singh, Daksh Gopal, Anuj Gautam and Jitendra Pratap Singh won the best boxer trophy in Lucknow District Boxing Tournament with their brilliant performance in the ring. On the other hand, in the women's category, Sanaya Pal, Kajal Pandey, Vaishnavi Pal, Ayushi Dwivedi and Anjali Yadav of KD Singh Babu Stadium won gold medals and Surabhi Kashyap, Saloni Gupta, Sujita Kumari and Shreya Singh won silver medals.
In the competition organized in the newly built boxing hall of KD Singh Babu Stadium in coordination with Boxing Association Lucknow and Regional Sports Office Lucknow, the boxers of KD Singh Babu Stadium won a total of 16 gold and 11 silver medals. The best boxers were Tej Pratap Singh of KD Singh in the mini boys category, Daksh Gopal of CBA in the sub-junior category, Anuj Gautam of Josh Boxing Academy in the junior category and Jitendra Pratap Singh of KD Singh in the senior category.
In the closing ceremony, chief guest Bhagwati Singh (Joint Education Director, Camp Office, Secondary Education, Uttar Pradesh) and special guests Dr. Anandeshwar Pandey, General Secretary of Uttar Pradesh Olympic Association and Pramod Kumar, Secretary of Uttar Pradesh Amateur Boxing Association distributed prizes to the winners. The closing ceremony was presided over by Atul Agnihotri, President of Boxing Association Lucknow, while Secretary Sahdev Singh expressed his gratitude.
On this occasion, Regional Sports Officer of Lucknow Division Ajay Kumar Sethi, Boxing Association Lucknow Chairman Deepak Sharma, Organizing President RC Verma (social worker), Organizing Secretary Pranav Shrivastava, Vice President Manoj Patel and Boxing Coach of KD Singh Babu Stadium Kripashankar and others were present.
The results of the final matches played on the last day are as follows
Senior Women's Category
In 45-48 kg, Kanti of Josh Boxing Academy (JBA) defeated Saloni Gupta of KD Singh Babu Stadium, in 48-50 kg, Preeti of JBA defeated Pratibha of JBA, in 52-54 kg, Sanaya Pal of KD Singh Babu Stadium defeated Sujita Kumari of KD Singh.
In 54-57 kg, Kajal Pandey of KD Singh Babu Stadium defeated Agamya of Kids Fits Sports Zone (KFSZ), in 57-60 kg, Vaishnavi Pal of KD Singh Babu Stadium defeated Shivani Gautam of Sarojininagar Boxing Academy (SNBA), in 63-66 kg, Aayushi Dwivedi of KD Singh Babu Stadium defeated Shreya Singh of Babu Stadium and in 75-81 kg, Anjali Yadav of KD Singh Babu Stadium defeated Vaishnavi Khanna of STMS.
Senior Men's Category
In the 46-48 kg weight category, Suraj Kumar Tiwari of KD Singh Babu Stadium defeated Mrityunjay Singh of Modern Academy (MA), while in 48-51, Mohit Kumar of KFSZ defeated Saransh Verma of KD Singh.
In 51-54 kg, Piyush Patel of KD Singh defeated Naman Bharti of KD Singh, in 54-57 kg, Sudhanshu Pal of Champions Boxing Academy (CBA) defeated Atharv Singh Yadav of KD Singh, in 57-60 kg, Sahil Kumar of KD Singh defeated Piyush Sharma of KFSZ. In 71-75 kg, Anurag Mishra of KD Singh defeated Ishaan Singh of MA and in 80-86 kg, Mohit Sengar of SNBA defeated Wali Abbas of CBA. In 63.5-67 kg, Jitendra Pratap Singh of KD Singh and in 67-71 kg, Nikhil Tiwari of KFSZ won gold medals.
Junior Boys Category
Shivansh Chaudhary of KD Singh in 44-46 kg, Anuj Gautam of Josh Academy in 46-48 kg, Pradyuman Singh of KD Singh in 48-50 kg, Swayam Pratap of KD Singh Babu Stadium in 52-54 kg, Rudra Mishra of CBA in 54-57 kg, Saksham Tiwari of CBA in 57-60 kg, Shaurya Shukla of KD Singh in 60-63 kg, Devendra Singh Yadav of CBA in 66-70 kg, Shoaib of St. Mary in 70-75 kg and Deven Sharma of LPS Vrindavan Yojana in 75-80 kg won the gold medals.
Sub Junior Boys Category
Ayan Khan, Krishna Rawat, Yashdeep Singh, Swarit Mishra, Daksh Gopal, Ishan Singh, Aryan Verma, Abhinav Yadav and Karan Patel won gold medals.
Mini Boys Class
Aviral Gupta, Vashishth Singh, Aditya Aleria, Nitish Joshi and Tej Pratap Singh won gold.