India’s Amit Panghal prepares hard and increased his physical skills to accomplish his goals in the Olympic Games

India’s Amit Panghal qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games through the Asian & Oceanian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event where he claimed bronze medal. He has been preparing hard to the Tokyo Olympics and after the qualification event the Indian flyweight (52kg) star has got nearly one and half year to prepare well to the Games.

Amit Panghal has got tough physical trainings which was led by one of the coaches of the Indian national team, former boxer Mr. Lalit Prasad. Amit Panghal claimed only bronze medal as Seed No.1 in the Asian & Oceanian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event which increased his motivation to do even better in the upcoming months.

Mr. Santiago Nieva joined as head coach to the Indian national team in the beginning of the Tokyo Olympic cycle and worked hard in the recent years to form a competitive world class team. The Swedish-Argentinean coach selected 2016 National Champion Amit Panghal to the national team in the beginning of 2017 and gave him chances at the very first time.

Amit Panghal attended at the Tashkent 2017 ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships which was his debut at the international top events following his bronze medal at the Strandja Memorial Tournament. Panghal defeated experienced rivals in the Uzbek capital and claimed bronze medal at the light flyweight (49kg) losing his semi-final only to the local star, Olympic Champion Hasanboy Dusmatov.

He was quarter-finalist at the Hamburg 2017 AIBA World Boxing Championships but achieved another medal, a silver at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia. He was defeated by England’s Rio 2016 Olympian Galal Yafai in the final of the light flyweight (49kg). Panghal won his next final which was an important one for his career at the Jakarta 2018 Asian Games where he was slightly better than Uzbekistan’s No.1 Hasanboy Dusmatov on their re-match.

Following his gold at the 2019 Strandja Memorial Tournament, he moved up to the flyweight (52kg) and represented India at the Bangkok ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships. He defeated four top quality rivals as Chinese Taipei’s Tu Po Wei, Uzbekistan’s Hasanboy Dusmatov, China’s Hu Jianguan and South Korea’s Kim In Kyu and became ASBC Asian Champion in Thailand’s capital.

Amit Panghal became the first Indian finalist in the history of the AIBA World Boxing Championships which he achieved in Yekaterinburg, Russia. He claimed silver medal in the event following his loss to Uzbekistan’s another Olympic Champion Shakhobiddin Zoirov. Panghal could attend in 2020 only at the Asian & Oceanian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event in Amman but he earned the ticket to Tokyo.

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