Gandhinagar , Oct 12 ( Agencies): Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain and former youth Asian champion Ankushita Boro lifted Assam’s campaign with two gold medals as the boxing competitions at the 36th National Games here on Wednesday.
Services continued to lead the charge in the Games medal tally after five of their six boxers in action clinched gold medals on a concluding day.
Two-time World Championship bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain got her jabs and combination punches to perfection against Haryana’s Saweety Boora to cap off a memorable debut at the National Games with a gold medal.
Co-incidentally, this is the lanky Assamese pugilist first medal after switching to the women’s 75kg middleweight division post the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Lovlina had earlier won the Tokyo bronze in the welterweight category.
“I wanted to test myself after switching over to the new weight category, it isn’t easy to come back after an injury but I pushed myself to keep myself match ready ahead of the Asian Championships,” an elated Lovlina told media persons after her bout.
But it was former youth Asian champion Ankushita Boro, who got Assam’s campaign to a flying start by clinching the gold medal in a one-sided women’s 66kg welterweight final against fellow Northeast boxer Alena Thounaojam of Manipur.
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Ankushita was a class apart from her unheralded Manipuri opponent Alena Thounaojam, who looked clueless across the two rounds that she managed to survive against the Assamese pugilist’s fury in the women’s 66kg welterweight category final.
