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Tokyo Olympics: Valorous Satish Kumar offers his all nonetheless bows out after losing in quarter-last


Satish Kumar lost to high-seed Uzbekistan’s Bakhodir Jalolov within the quarter-finals of the males’s fats heavyweight class in boxing.

Satish Kumar bowed out of Tokyo Olympics after losing to high-seed Bakhodir Jalolov in quarter-last | Insist: Tokyo 2020

Up to this point: Aug 1, 2021, 10: 21 AM IST

India boxer Satish Kumar bowed out of the Tokyo Olympics after losing in opposition to Uzbekistan’s Bakhodir Jalolov within the quarter-finals of the males’s fats heavyweight (+91kg) class. Top seed Bakhodir Jalolov dominated the bout in all three rounds as he won by an anonymous 5-0 resolution on Saturday on the Kokugikan enviornment.

Jalolov along with his snappily feet and jab kept tagging Satish from the gap within the first round whereas the Indian boxer tried to win on a imaginable entrance foot nonetheless failed. The reigning World and Asian champion all yet again confirmed his class within the 2d round and kept Satish at bay.

The southpaw boxer from Uzbekistan without problems took the third round too and marched into semis of the showpiece. However paunchy marks to Satish for putting on a mettlesome show veil no topic his wound reopening and blood oozing out. He refused to quit and battled it out in what used to be a show veil of grit and selection.

Jalolov will now face either Immense Britain’s Frazer Clarke or France’s Mourad Fraaliev within the final four.

Satish is the first Indian fats heavyweight (+91kg) boxer to compete on the Olympics.

Earlier on Thursday, Satish progressed into the quarter-finals after defeating Ricardo Brown of Jamaica within the Round of 16 by a ruin up resolution of 4-1. In various areas on Saturday, Pooja Rani (75kg) received thrashed by China’s Li Qian in a 5-0 defeat. The Chinese language boxer superior to the semi-last of the showpiece tournament after defeating Pooja.

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