World championships medalists Deepak Bhoria (51kg) and Nishant Dev (71kg), former Asian champion Sanjeet (92kg), Worlds medallist Parveen Hooda (57kg) and World youth champion Arundhati Choudhary (66kg) came up with impressive performances to make it to the Indian boxing team for the upcoming Hangzhou Asian Games.
Following assessment and evaluation conducted by high performance director Bernard Dunne, foreign coach Dmitry Dmitruk and men’s head coach C.A. Kuttappa, a 13-member team, including World champions Nikhat Zareen and Lovlina Borgohain (who got direct entries), was finalised.
Bhoria staved off a strong challenge from World silver medallist Amit Panghal.