Indian boxers Jaismine Lamboria and Preeti Pawar won gold medals in their respective categories while Jadumani Singh settled for a silver at the Commonwealth Games here on Saturday.
GLASGOW — Indian boxers Jaismine Lamboria and Preeti Pawar won gold medals in their respective categories while Jadumani Singh settled for a silver at the Commonwealth Games here on Saturday.
Preeti claimed the gold with a dominant 5-0 victory over Canada's Scarlett Delgado in the women's 54kg before reigning world champion Jaismine clinched the yellow metal with the same scoreline against Northern Ireland's Michaela Walsh, who was the defending champion in the women's 57kg.
In the day's third bout featuring an Indian pugilist, Jadumani Singh lost a hard-fought contest 0-5 against Australia's Jye Dixon.
After a bit of struggle against his taller opponent from Down Under, Jadumani rallied to win the first round 3-2.
However, Dixon then showed his wares and fought back brilliantly to take the second round by an 5-0 unanimous verdict. The Aussie used the momentum to edge out his opponent and end India's golden run in the boxing ring.
Jadumani had stormed into the men's 55kg final after pulling off a 5-0 unanimous decision victory against Philip Haoseb of Namibia on Friday.
In the women's section, Jaismine took the first round by a split verdict after a close contest with both boxers challenging each other.
However, Jaismine won the second round by a unanimous verdict, having landed some hard blows on her opponents.
Earlier, Preeti made a commanding start to her gold-medal bout, winning the opening round unanimously with all five judges adjudicating 10-8 in the Indian's favour.
The World No. 3 in the bantamweight division started the second round on a positive note and continued in the same vein to emerge winner for India's first gold medal of the day.
The 22-year-old Preeti had secured a flawless 5-0 unanimous-decision victory against Zambia's Catherine Mwape in the semifinals.
