ASBC Heroes – India’s Preeti Dahiya who is their female No.1 in the 2004 age group

India’s second gold medal at the Fujairah 2019 ASBC Asian Women’s Junior Boxing Championships was achieved by Preeti Dahiya after Kalpana’s success. She became the first female boxer among the winners in the event who was born in 2004 and joined to the junior level only in 2019. Preeti Dahiya is among the ASBC Heroes from 2019 who could be the country’s next woman star in the near future.

Preeti Dahiya was born in Fateh Nagar on June 16 in 2004 and started her boxing career at the age of 12. Her coach is Mahendra Singh Dhaka and the young talent trains 20 hours every week to accomplish her goals. Chircut, which is Preeti Dahiya’s nickname, arrived to the venue of the Fujairah 2019 ASBC Asian Women’s Junior Boxing Championships with 28 bouts and impressive records.

Dahiya was silver medallist at the 2018 Indian Women’s School National Games but she remained almost unbeaten next year when she joined to the junior boxers. The 15-year-old Indian won the Junior National Championships, the Black Forest Cup in Germany and the Junior Women’s Nations Cup in Serbia before the Fujairah event.

India’s Preeti Dahiya impressed in the preparation events of the ASBC Asian Junior Boxing Championships. She eliminated already her main rival in the semi-final of the lightweight (60kg), China’s Junior National Games winner, Chin Jengyang. The Indian had to face in the final with Uzbekistan’s Mokhira Akhmedova who made a big surprise in the semi-finals when she eliminated Kazakhstan’s Nazym Abdikhan.

The Indian was nervous in the first round of the final and the Uzbek looked more concentrated in the opening period of their final. Dahiya stepped into the gas in the second round still in time and turned back their final contest in Fujairah claiming India’s second female gold at the ASBC Asian Women’s Junior Boxing Championships.

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