Nishant Dev Vows To Change Colour Of Indian Boxing Medal At Paris Olympics 2024
Nishant Dev is a strong medal contender for India at the Paris Olympics. He booked his place in Paris with a dominant show at the final qualifying event in Bangkok in May.
New Delhi: A assured Nishant Dev has set his sights on bettering the shade of India’s boxing medals from bronze to gold at this month’s Paris Olympics. Three Indian boxers — Vijender Singh (2008), MC Mary Kom (2012) and Lovlina Borgohain (2021) — have stood on the rostrum on the Olympics, all successful bronze medals.
But Dev is assured he has the skillset to no longer simplest reach the the handy midsection-weight (71kg) final then as soon as extra win the elusive gold medal. “My objective is to change the shade of the medal in boxing. Our united states’s boxers have received bronze medals then as soon as extra no longer gold or silver till now,” Dev observed at some level of a media interaction.
“I should seriously change that bronze to no longer silver then as soon as extra gold. I have the boldness that I'm powerfuble to purchase this. I have skilled glorious. But on the finish of the day, it's miles up to God,” Dev extra. The 23-year-historic burst onto the scene in 2021 when he reached the quarterfinal in his maiden world championship seem to be.
Two years later, he fetched a bronze medal on the enviornment championships on the lower to come again of some stellar important performance, inclusive of the unanimous-decision win in opposition to Jorge Cuellar of Cuba inside of the final-eight stage. “That was once my first international medal. So which may glorious be a predominant success for me.”
Dev credit that quarterfinal victory for reinforcing his confidence by technique of eradicating the predicament of dealing with boxers from smartly-conventional heavyweight countries like Cuba, USA, Russia and Kazakhstan. “After I beat the Cuban fullyyt simply inside of the quarterfinal, that removed the predicament from my thoughts. I felt that if you happen to perhaps giving 100 per cent then you definately can take on and beat any boxer.
“So, the predicament that I used to have when combating in opposition to a potent united states’s boxer, it fullyyt is long gone now. There may glorious be no power now, I just suppose that ‘No, he is barely a opponent’,” he extra. The Haryana boxer, who's a potent medal contender on the Olympics, had booked his location inside of the Paris Video games with a dominant show on the final qualifying match in Bangkok in May.
He had narrowly ignored out on the earlier qualifiers after a heartbreaking loss to Omari Jones of USA. After going toe-to-toe inside of the outlet two rounds, the southpaw had lost to Jones inside of the closing seconds of the bout, anything the Indian identified as his weakness.
“I used to get tired by technique of the 0.33 round then as soon as extra I have labored on my stamina, modified the technique and even modified my body style.” he extra.
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