Jakarta, Sept 1: Amit Panghal (49kg) on Saturday turned out to be just the eighth Indian boxer ever to guarantee a gold award at the Asian Games with a staggering strategic prevail upon reigning Olympic and Asian victor Hasanboy Dusmatov in the summit conflict here.
The 22-year-old Armyman, the main Indian to make the finals, won 3-2 against the more liked Dusmatov, who had beaten him in a split decision in a year ago's big showdowns.
Amit, making his introduction at the Games, indicated gigantic strategic brightness, particularly in guard to outmaneuver the Uzbek, who has a notorious status in global boxing. Dusmatov won a silver in the big showdown a year ago.
In any case, on Saturday, the Haryana boxer separated sweet vengeance for the restricted misfortune in Hamburg, keeping his range and striking some perfect right snares and pokes to his shorter and marginally tense adversary.
The Uzbek southpaw, known for his splendid counter-assaults, appeared to be careful about the continually moving Indian, who declined to fall into the trap of making a plunge.
The outcome was a disappointed Dusmatov being compelled to thrust forward which worked superbly well for the Indian in his counter-assaulting amusement.
The win denotes the most elevated purpose of Amit's transient ascent to the best, beginning with an Asian Championships bronze a year ago. A world quarter-finalist, Amit guaranteed a silver in the Commonwealth Games.
Not long ago, he likewise won gold awards at the debut India Open and the lofty Strandja commemoration in Bulgaria.
Vijender Singh and Vikas Krishan were the last arrangement of male gold-medallists for India at the Asian Games. They had won their yellow metal at the 2010 Guangzhou version. Vikas (75kg) agreed to a bronze this time.
In the 2014 Games, MC Mary Kom was the solitary gold-medallist for India.
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