World championship bronze medalist Nishant Dev superior to the spherical of 16 with a scientific win over Georgia’s Eskerkan Madiyev on the first World Boxing Qualification Tournament for the 2024 Paris Olympics in Busto Arsizio, Italy, on Friday. .
The Indian boxer, who competed within the males’s 71kg class, defeated Tokyo Olympian Madiyev 5-0 within the spherical of 32. In the spherical of 64, Dev defeated Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Lewis Richardson of Great Britain by one level. 3-1 break up resolution.
A complete of 9 Indian boxers participated within the Busto Arsizio event. Only Nishant Dev and World Championship and Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Mohammed Husamuddin stay within the event.
Hassamuddin obtained a bye within the first spherical of the boys’s 57kg weight class and can face present CWG champion Jude Gallagher (Ireland) within the spherical of 32.
More than 590 boxers will take part within the first World Olympic Boxing Qualification Tournament, with a complete of 49 boxers out there for the 2024 Paris Olympics, together with 28 males and 21 girls. There will likely be 4 weight lessons, apart from the ladies’s 57kg class (two spots) and the ladies’s 60kg class (three spots).
Female boxers Nikhat Zareen (50kg), Preity Pawar (54kg), Parveen Hooda (57kg) and Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) earned a spot in India’s squad eventually 12 months’s Asian Games. At the Paris Olympics, every nation can earn as much as one spot per weight class.