Paris Olympics: Nikhat Zareen, Lovlina Borgohain face powerful ladies’s boxing draw | Paris Olympics 2024 Information – Instances of India

Reigning world champion Nikhat Zareen and Lovlina Borgohain, two of India’s high hopes in ladies’s boxing on the Paris Olympics, face difficult opponents of their respective weight classes in accordance with the attracts which were introduced.
Within the ladies’s 50 kg boxing opening spherical, Nikhat will face Germany’s Carina Kloetzer. Her potential second-round opponent is China’s Wu Yu, the defending Asian Video games champion and high seed within the division.Wu Yu additionally holds the world championship title within the 52 kg class.Ought to Nikhat overcome the Chinese language challenger, she might encounter Thailand’s Chuthamat Raksat or Uzbekistan’s Sabina Bobokulova within the quarterfinals. Nikhat beforehand misplaced to the Uzbek boxer within the Strandja Memorial ultimate in February, the place Sabina had additionally defeated Wu Yu within the semifinal. Moreover, Chuthamat had bested Nikhat within the semifinals en path to her silver medal on the Asian Video games in Hangzhou final yr.
Lovlina, the Tokyo 2020 bronze medalist, will start her marketing campaign within the ladies’s 75 kg class towards Norway’s Sunniva Hofstad. Within the quarterfinals, she might doubtlessly face China’s Li Qian, who defeated her within the Asian Video games ladies’s 75 kg ultimate final yr. Qian can be a two-time Olympic medalist.

Jaismine Lamboria is about to face off towards Nesthy Petecio, the Tokyo 2020 silver medalist from the Philippines, in her first match within the ladies’s 57 kg class.
Ought to Jaismine advance to the subsequent spherical, she might be pitted towards Amina Zidani from France, the present European champion on this weight class and the third seed within the match.
Within the spherical of 32, Preeti Pawar, a bronze medalist from the Asian Video games, will sq. off towards Vo Thi Kim Anh of Vietnam.

Within the males’s boxing competitors, Amit Panghal and Nishant Dev will start their journeys within the spherical of 16 of the 51 kg and 71 kg classes, respectively, after receiving byes within the opening spherical.
Amit’s first opponent might be Patrick Chinyemba from Zambia, who secured a bronze medal on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games. In the meantime, Nishant is slated to tackle Jose Rodriguez Tenorio of Ecuador.
The boxing occasions on the Paris 2024 Olympics are scheduled to start with preliminary rounds on July 27 on the Enviornment Paris Nord.