New Delhi: Two-time World Championship medallist Nikhat Zareen is all set to overlook the upcoming Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow and the Asian Video games to be held in Japan later this 12 months after failing to clinch her berth to the mega occasions through the qualifying trials in Patiala.
Nikhat, who gained the World Championships twice and gold within the Commonwealth Video games and bronze within the Asian Video games, went right down to Sakshi Chaudhary within the girls’s 51 kg semifinals in the course of the nationwide trials on the Nationwide Institute of Sports activities (NIS).
Nikhit Zareen went down 1-4 to Sakshi in her semifinal bout, which successfully sealed her destiny as she had failed to realize a direct berth to the Asian Video games.
The outcome is a large setback for the 29-year-old Nikhat, who has been going by poor kind and was not a part of the Indian squad in current months. The defeat implies that the boxer from Telangana won’t be a part of the Indian squads for the upcoming worldwide occasions.
The 51kg class can have a brand new consultant from the nation after one other high star, Nitu Ghanghas, too crashed out, shocked by teen Meenakshi on Thursday.
Nikhat was in high kind a few years again when she gained her second World Championship gold medal within the 2023 occasion held in New Delhi, defeating Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Tam by 5-0 unanimous choice within the 48-50 kg class.
Nikhat was compelled to participate within the trials after she didn’t safe a direct entry throughout final month’s Asian Championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. She had reached the semifinals within the Continental meet however went down tamely 0-5 to China’s Wu Yu, the reigning Olympic gold medallist. Solely those that reached the finals in Mongolia had been granted computerized qualification for the Asian Video games.
Sachin Siwach (males’s 60kg), Preeti Pawar (girls’s 54kg), and Priya Ghanghas (girls’s 60kg) had confirmed their locations through the Asian Championships.
(IANS)