The J&K UT Boxing Championship, organized by the

J&K Amateur Boxing Association, attracted a healthy participation from the districts at Boxing arena, MA Stadium, here today.

The event is being organizedunder the aegis of Boxing Federation of India and J&K Olympic Associationand sponsored by the J&K Sports Council.

“In total, 150 boxers, including 55 women have registered themselves for the event. The participating districts are Jammu, Srinagar, Kupwara, Baramulla, Poonch, Shopian, Ganderbal, Budgam, Kathua, Samba, Ramban, Udhampur, Reasi and Rajouri,” said general secretary of the Association, Rajan Sharma.

Earlier, the event wasformally declared open by veteran sports administrator and former president J&K Olympic Association, Dr Ashutosh Sharma.

The technical penal comprised Sandeep Singh Chib, Sajad Pathan, Akash Baigra, Rajneesh Kumar, Avinash Kumar, Hardesh Kumar, Gautam Sharma, Rahul Kumar, Anshuman Khajuria,Aman Sangral, Naresh Kumar and Himanshu Shekhar.

The Results:

Quarterfinals: Youth Men: 50–55 kg: Peer Zada (Baramulla) bt Adarsh Kumar (Reasi); Sahil Sharma (Udhampur) bt Rayaan (Srinagar); Kishuk Dubey (Jammu) bt Nitin (Ramban).55–60 kg: Gibbs Gill (Doda) bt Shourya Pandey (Samba), Harsh Kumar (Udhampur) bt Kafeel Wani (Srinagar), Aditya Sharma (Jammu) bt Vishal Singh (Ramban). 47–50kg: Basit Dev (Samba) bt Sourab Badyal (Ramban), Lalit Khajuria (Kathua) bt Shahid(Udhampur). 60–65 kg: Daksh Sharma (Udhampur) bt Haris Elahi (Srinagar), Ranjeet(Ramban) bt Mohammad Sayer (Doda).

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