Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nReigning Asian Championships gold medallist Pooja Rani\nsuffered a narrow 3-2 defeat against home favourite Anna Anfinogenova in the\nmiddleweight (75kg) semi-finals and had to be content with a bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Govind Sahani (49Kg) and Jony (60Kg) also grabbed bronze\nmedals after their semi-final losses. While Govind lost to Russia’s Kurban\nBayranbekov 1-4, Jony went down to Russia’s Natalya Shadrina by a similar\nscoreline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having had to taste a bitter 2-3 defeat at the hands of\nAssunta Canfora at the India Open final, World Championships bronze medallist,\nLovlina (69kg) was better prepared this time to tackle the wily Italian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tall Assamese boxer was on guard throughout the bout and\nnever shied away from raining down Canfora’s flurry of punches to grab a narrow\n3-2 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After capturing the India Open silver and a bronze from the\nStrandja Cup, Lovlina’s efforts and dedication have been rewarded with her\nfirst international gold medal of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India Open gold-medallist champion Neeraj (57kg), who had\ncaused a big upset in the semi-finals by stunning former world champion Alessia\nMesiano 3-2, continued her impeccable form in the summit clash against Russia’s\nMalika Shakhidova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With two of the judges’ points being drawn at 28-28, the\nStrandja Cup bronze medallist Neeraj went on to register a commanding 3-0 victory\nover the Russian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Lovlina Borgohain and Neeraj dazzled in their respective finals, India failed to register a flawless day as Gaurav Solanki succumbed to a 0-5 defeat to Uzbekistan’s Abdulkhay Sharakhmatov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Commonwealth Games gold medallist was unable to judge\nhis opponent’s pace and power and could never recover from the early blows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lovlina Borgohain Won Gold In Umakhanov Memorial International Boxing Tournament in Kaspiysk, Russia. The Indian boxers fetched six medals at the tournament, including two golds, one silver and three bronze. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Reigning Asian Championships gold medallist Pooja Rani suffered a narrow 3-2 defeat against home favourite Anna Anfinogenova in the middleweight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2996,59],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-assam-current-affairs-2","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4433,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions\/4433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}