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The reigning IBA ladies's world boxing champion will win a gold medal on the Paris Olympics.
Two-time world boxing champion Nikhat Zareen is about to step out of the shadow of fellow Indian MC Mary Kom with a medal on the Paris Olympics, coach Blas Iglesias Fernandez has stated.
Six-time world champion MC Mary Kom has been the face of girls's boxing in India and her illustrious profession impressed a Bollywood biopic in 2014.
He received flyweight bronze on the 2012 London Olympics to cement his legacy and introduced his retirement earlier this yr.
Zareen will make her Olympic debut within the 50kg occasion in Paris and Fernandez is hopeful the 27-year-old will return with a medal round her neck.
“It’s time for Nikhat to show herself,” the Cuban participant stated in a Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) media launch on Tuesday.
“It’s true that she lived below the tutelage of Mary Kom however now that is her probability to show herself and make India proud.”
Since 1990, Fernandez has labored with India's high boxers, together with Mary Kom, and is the one foreigner to win India's highest award as a coach.
The 68-year-old, presently India's high-performance coach, was significantly happy with Zareen's ring consciousness.
“I like Nikhat's boxing (fashion). She could be very clever. He has good ring technique,” he stated.
If Lovlina Borgohain, who received welterweight bronze on the Tokyo Olympics, can discover her “killer intuition”, India can hope for a second boxing medal within the ladies's occasion, Fernandes stated.
“Lovlina should present extra killer intuition,” he stated of the boxer, who needed to transfer from 69kg to 75kg after the Olympic classes had been amended.
“I’ve seen a few of her fights and I feel she misplaced them as a result of Lovlina was not aggressive and lively sufficient.
“If she will be able to field to her potential, she may very well be among the many medalists in Paris.”
India has secured 4 ladies's quota locations for Paris.
Fernandes was hopeful that the lads's boxers will carry out properly on the World Qualifiers in Bangkok, the place India can doubtlessly seize 9 Paris berths.
“I feel Nishant Dev and Amit Panghal can obtain the Paris quota. They each have the flexibility to try this,” he stated.
“Males's boxing could be very powerful and shouldn’t be in comparison with ladies's the place the competitors is comparatively simpler.”