Tsutsumi and Pathan are the best boxers at the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships based on the fans decision

The Asian boxers claimed fourteen gold medals out of the possible twenty at the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships in Kielce, Poland. Following the votes of the stakeholders and fans, the best boxers of the championships are India’s Alfiya Tarannum Akram Khan Pathan among the women and Japan’s Reito Tsutsumi in the men’s part of the competition.

Altogether 414 boxers from 52 nations attended in the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships. Boxers who were born in 2002 and in 2003 were eligible to attend in the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships in Kielce which was the first ever global event in Poland and became Asia’s best ever competition in this age group.

India’s Alfiya Tarannum Akram Khan Pathan began boxing four years ago and she impressed first in the Fujairah 2019 ASBC Asian Junior Boxing Championships with her gold medal. The 17-year-old Indian continued her winning path in Kielce where she won all of her contests by large margin of differences. Pathan kept the focus from the first seconds against Moldova’s EUBC European Youth Champion Daria Kozorez and she was quicker than her opponent. Pathan worked well in the final and she celebrated her gold medal after the last gong which was India’s seventh title in the women’s competition.

Japan’s ASBC Asian Youth Champion and ASBC Asian Junior Champion Reito Tsutsumi arrived to Kielce as the top favourite of the lightweight (60kg). Reito, whose elder brother Hayato was AIBA Youth World Champion and two-time ASBC Asian Youth Champion, eliminated Bulgaria’s European Youth Champion Radoslav Rosenov in the semi-finals. Tsutsumi had a powerful and technically fantastic opponent, two-time Youth National Champion Yelnur Suyunbay of Kazakhstan in the final. The final verdict was split decision in the favour of the Japanese boxer who followed the family traditions with his gold medal.

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