Dev, who had beforehand missed out on an Olympic berth, defeated Moldova’s Vasile Cebotari in a 5-Zero determination within the 71kg quarterfinal, which was a battle between two southpaws.
India have now secured 4 quota locations, with girls boxers Nikhat Zareen (50kg), Preet Pawar (54kg), and Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) already having booked their tickets to Paris. The 71kg weight class had a complete of 5 quotas obtainable.
Dev began the bout strongly, touchdown exact and sharp punches. He maintained his composure and used his punches successfully all through the battle.
Regardless of Cebotari touchdown just a few blows within the second spherical and each boxers showing drained within the ultimate three minutes, Dev continued to land punches constantly. Cebotari was penalized with some extent deduction for hitting Dev whereas he was down on the canvas.
In one other bout, India’s hopes of securing a quota within the girls’s 60kg class have been dashed when Ankushita Boro misplaced 2-Three to Sweden’s Agnes Alexiusson within the quarterfinals. Boro, a former youth world champion, fought valiantly however was in the end defeated by her extra skilled opponent, who’s a former European Video games bronze medallist.
Boro began slowly however tailored in the direction of the tip of the primary spherical, utilizing straight jabs successfully. Regardless of being down 1-4, she got here out robust within the second spherical, using a mixture of left jabs and proper crosses.
The 2 entered the ultimate spherical on equal phrases, with Boro making early features, however Alexiusson completed the bout stronger to safe the break up determination victory.
Arundhati Choudhary (66kg) and Amit Panghal (51kg) are set to compete later within the day.
(With PTI inputs)
