Amit Phangal today scripted history by winning only the second ever gold medal for India in men’s boxing at the Asian games. To everyone’s surprise he defeated reigning Olympic champion Hasanboy Dusmatov of Uzbekistan to make it a grand occasion for the countrymen. Bout reports: Amit Phangal wins gold medal by defeating Olympic champion Hasanboy Dusmatov
Twitter reactions
Fantastic tactical win #AmitPanghal over reigning Olympic champion for #AsianGames2018 boxing gold. With this, Haryana-Kerala domination of the medals tally is complete pic.twitter.com/N44pPp0f8o
— Shekhar Gupta (@ShekharGupta) September 1, 2018
GOLD ! Congratulations #AmitPanghal , beating the Olympic champion Hasanboy Dusmatov in Men’s 49 kg Boxing final. Tremendous achievement.
#AsianGames2018 pic.twitter.com/7phhT4XRa6— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) September 1, 2018
What a win! Congratulations on the Gold Medal ? #AmitPanghal #AsianGames2018 @asiangames2018 #IndiaAtAsianGames pic.twitter.com/ykd5Zp9pQF
— Anil Kapoor (@AnilKapoor) September 1, 2018
Hearty congratulations to #AmitPanghal on winning the #AsianGames Gold ??? What a great bout! Sweet victory made even more so by the fact that he took down the current Olympic champion! Wish you many more such victories in the future! Jai Hind ??
— Vinesh Phogat (@Phogat_Vinesh) September 1, 2018
Heartiest congratulations #TOPSAthlete Amit Panghal to secure a
GOLD MEDAL ?FOR INDIA ?? in Men’s 49 kg Boxing by defeating 2016 Olympic Gold medalist!
Proud Moment for India.#KheloIndia #IndiaAtAsianGames #AsianGames2018 #AmitPanghal pic.twitter.com/5YliLjoSZE— Sudhanshu Mittal (@SudhanshuBJP) September 1, 2018
Another?for India. Congratulations to Amit Panghal on defeating the reigning Olympic champion Hasanboy Dusmatov from Uzbekistan, in the men’s 49 kg category.#AsianGames2018 #AsianGames #EnergyofAsia @BFI_official
— Muhammed Anas Yahiya (@muhammedanasyah) September 1, 2018
Really awesome fight by #AmitPhangal. Congrats young man. U just beat the reigning Olympic Champion. Such a deserved Gold. #Mens49Kgs. @asiangames2018 Congrats @BFI_official @Media_SAI & can’t forget Indian Army. Proud to support u Amit @OGQ_India pic.twitter.com/9OUV63Oc6Z
— Viren Rasquinha (@virenrasquinha) September 1, 2018
GOLD NUMBER 14!
BRILLIANT boxing by #TOPSAthlete Amit Panghal to secure a GOLD in Men’s 49 kg Boxing by defeating 2016 Olympic Gold medalist!
What a proud, proud moment this is for us! #KheloIndia #IndiaAtAsianGames #AsianGames2018 pic.twitter.com/PcWKWFVkH0
— Rajyavardhan Rathore (@Ra_THORe) September 1, 2018
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All good things come in small packages..Amit Panghal’s Gold against the World No.1 is just a testimony to that! @BFI_official #PunchMeinHaiDum
— Tridib Baparnash (@TridibIANS) September 1, 2018
??जब देशी मुक्के चाले धरती दग दग हाले ?congratulations bhai Amit https://t.co/k1HTz1hHdu
— Neeraj Chopra (@Neeraj_chopra1) September 1, 2018