Gaurav Bidhuri enters semi-finals of World Boxing Championships

30 August, Hamburg

Wild card entrant Gaurav Bidhuri became only the fourth Indian boxer ever to secure himself a medal as he entered the semi finals of the World Championships after defeating Tunisia’s Bilel Mhamdi in Hamburg, Germany.

Gaurav will now clash with Duke Ragan of USA in the semifinal bout tomorrow at 9:30 pm Indian Time.

In his quarterfinal clash yesterday, Gaurav prevailed in a split decision in the bantamweight in 56kg category quarterfinal contest to make the last-four stage, becoming only the second from the country to do so in his debut world championship.

The only other Indian to have achieved the feat was Vikas Krishan, in the 2011 edition.

Besides Vikas, Vijender Singh in 2009 and Shiva Thapa in 2015 have been the country’s other medalists at the marquee event of the sport. But they have all settled for bronze
medals and it remains to be seen if Gaurav can better them on that.