Boxing, World Olympic Qualifier: Nishant Dev clinches Paris 2024 quota in men’s 71kg event
Dev is the first Indian male boxer to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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Nishant Dev became the fourth Indian and first male boxer to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics after he convincingly got the better of Moldova’s Vasile Cebotari 5:0 to reach the semi-finals of the 71kg category while two other boxers are a win away from an Olympic quota at the Boxing World Qualifiers at Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday.
Sachin Siwach defeated France's Samuel Kistohurry 4-1 in the 57kg quarter-finals while 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Amit Panghal packed off Inkyu Kim of South Korea 5:0 to reach the quarter-finals in the 51kg weight category and kept their qualifying hopes alive.
India had already secured three quotas for the Paris Games with Nikhat Zareen (women’s 50kg), Preeti (54kg) and Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) confirming their berths by winning medals at the 2022 Asian Games and had sent 10 boxers to Thailand to add to the list.
Nishant, who had missed out on the Paris Olympic berth in the first qualifier in Italy after going down to 2021 world championships silver medallist Omari Jones of USA at the same stage, was the first man to achieve that goal.
The 23-year-old boxer was determined not to lose out this time around as he took control of Round 1...
