NEW DELHI: Reigning world champions Nikhat Zareen and Lovlina Borgohain are set to guide Indian problem because the Boxing Federation of India named 19-member squad for the seventy fifth Strandja Memorial Match to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria from February 3 to February 11.

The Strandja Memorial Match is one in all Europe’s oldest worldwide sports activities competitions. With the extraordinary competitors in presence of round 300 boxers from 30 nations, the match might be an ideal preparation for the Paris Olympics.

In addition to Nikhat (50kg) and Lovlina (75kg), Asian Video games bronze medallist Preeti (54kg), World Championships bronze medallist Manisha (60kg), Asian Championships bronze medallist Sakshi (57kg) and nationwide champion Arundhati Choudhary (66kg) are additionally included within the squad to compete within the girls’s part of the distinguished match.

The lads’s squad, alternatively, consists of the 2022 Commonwealth Video games gold medallist Amit Panghal (51kg) together with the opposite nationwide champions together with Barun Singh Shagolshem (48kg), Lalit (54kg), Sachin (57kg), Akash Gorkha (60kg), Rajat (67kg), Akash (71kg), Deepak (75kg), Jugnoo (86kg).

Vanshaj (63.5kg), Abhimanyu Loura (80kg), Naveen Kumar (92kg) and Sagar (92+kg) are the opposite 4 Indian male boxers who’re additionally a part of the squad.

The Indian pugilists completed with eight medals, together with three silver and 5 bronze, within the final version of the match held in 2023.