On Monday, star boxers Vikas Krishnan (69 kg), Gaurav Solanki (57 kg) and Naman Tanwar (91 kg) also won their respective final trials to qualify for the Indian team for next year's Olympic qualifiers. With this, an eight-member boxing team has been set for the Asia Oceania regional qualifiers to be held from February 3 to 14 in Wuhan, China.
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The women's team has already been selected. Vikas, a former World Championship and Asian Games medalist, continued to play in the 75kg for a long time but after recovering from a back injury, he returned to the 69kg. Earlier, the 26-year-old Vikas, who had participated in the Olympics twice, defeated Duryodhan Singh Negi in a unanimous decision in the final.
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Commonwealth Games medalist Solanki defeated Mohammad Hasmuddin and Tanwar defeated Naveen Kumar. Amit Panghal and Manish Kaushik won medals at the World Championships in September, while Ashish, Satish and Sachin won the trials on Sunday and made it to the team.
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