Paris Olympics 2024: Lovlina Borgohain One Win Shy Of Winning Boxing Medal, Beats Sunniva Hofstad

Paris: Lovlina Borgohain is in simple terms one win faraway from bagging her 2nd Olympic medal after the Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist out-punched Norway’s Sunniva Hofstad in her opening bout at the Paris Olympics 2024 correct by the ladies’s 75kg style on Wednesday. Borgohain prevailed 5-zero correct by the contest to proceed to be heading in the best direction for feat which is unprecedented in Indian boxing. She is now simply one win faraway from adding to her Tokyo bronze, which used to be bought correct by the 69kg style.

But her path will never be from now on a handy one as she will have the resolution to take on pinnacle-seeded Chinese Li Qian correct by the closing-eight stage on August four. A win on this bout will be particular as a minimum a bronze medal for her. Her efficiency on the day used to be an assured one. When as her rival viewed eager to appeal to her right into a slugfest, Borgohain kept her composure and distance to land soft blows on counter-attack.

The Indian additionally had to take care of masses of clinching with the support of Hofstad, who came correct by busier of both boxers, full with a perilously low protect. Even so the Assam-boxer didn’t fall into the entice and attacked the Norwegian with precision with the support of drawing her in.

Borgohain has been surpassed a hard draw but the wiry pugilist has shown the potential to upward thrust above it in her previous performances, most significantly in Tokyo the place she defeated world champion Chen Nien-Chin correct by the quarterfinals to solid herself a bronze. Her opponent on August four, Qian, is a silver-medallist from the Tokyo Video games correct by the center-weight (75kg) division.

She had additionally bought a bronze correct by the 2016 Rio Video games and claimed a gold medal correct by the 2022 Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China.