AMBALA CANTONMENT, January 23: Holders Services placed their boxers into seven finals of the 12 weight categories, reiterating their predominance in the 44th Senior National Boxing championships at the War Heroes Memorial Stadium.However, they lost two of them in the semifinals today. Tuk Bahadur Thapa, champion in the welter weight division, was thoroughly outclassed by the Bangalore National Game's winner Saed Farooz of Railways in a 11-1 decision.
Y S Thapa was disqualified for holding in his bout against Durjai Shastri of Haryana.
The top Services boxer, Dingko Singh, an employee with the Indian Navy, and M Suranjit Singh of Assam Rifles, were at their aggressive best demolishing their opponents, D Kiran Singh (RSCB) and G S Shankar (SPSB) respectively, with RSC (referee stopped contests) decisions in the third round.
Results (all semis): Lt Fly: G Durga Prasad (SSCB) bt Sriram (SPSB) - RSC (2nd round); H Srinivas (RSCB) bt Robbert Zohming Thanga (Miz) - on pts. Fly Wt: Benjamin
Siddi (SSCB) bt Mahavir Singh (Del) - on pts, SPSB bt Rajesh Basnet (Ben) - on pts. Bantam wt: Kamal Kumar (SPSB) bt Devender Kumar (UP) - RSC (H); N S Dingko Singh (SSCB) bt D Kiran Sagar (RSCB) - RSC (H) (3rd round). Feather wt: M Suranjit Singh (AR) bt G S Sowkak (SPSB) - RSC (H) (3rd round); U Bhaskar (RSCB) bt Manoj Panwar (Del) - on pts. Light WT: Lalmun Tluanga (Miz) bt J Kumar (Kar) - RSC (I) (5th round); Narendra Rana (SSCB) bt Bhushan Saini (RSCR) - on pts. Lt welter wt: Pawan Kumar (Pun) bt Kulveer Singh (AIBB) - retd (2nd round); Z V Jollyson (SPSB) bt Devender Gill Har) - on pts. Welter wt: Rajesh Kumar (Del) bt Rajbir (CISF) - on pts; Farooz (RSCB) bt Tuk Bahadur Thapa (SSCB) - on pts. Lt middle: Lalit Prasad (RSCB) bt Surinder Singh (AIEB) - walkover; Durjai Shastri (Har) bt Y S Thapa (SSCB) - disqualified. Middle wt: R B Gurung (SSCB) bt Gurucharan Singh (Bi9h) - on pts; Jatinder Kumar (RSCB) bt Singh (Ar) - RSC (H) (3rd round). Lt heavy:Gurucharan Singh (SSCB) bt Ajay (RSCB) - retd (3rd round); Shiv Pratap Chopra (Pun) bt Vinod Kumar (Har) - on pts. Heavy: A C Vijayan (SSCB) bt Vinod Kumar (Pun) - RSC (Or) (2nd round); Sanjay Kumar (SPSB) bt Shivram Chaudhary (HP) - on pts. Super Heavy: Parmender (Har) bt Ajit Gopinath (Ker) - RSC (OC) (Ist round); Harpal Singh (Pun) bt B V Venugopal (AP) - RSC (Oc) (Ist round).
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