 "Youth Olympic Games 2018: Jyoti Gulia, sole Indian boxer at event, loses quarter-final bout in 51kg category")
Buenos Aires: India’s boxing challenge at the ongoing Youth Olympics ended at the very first hurdle after former world champion Jyoti Gulia (51kg) lost her quarter-final bout to Italy’s Martina La Piana. [caption id=“attachment_5386571” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  File image of Jyoti Gulia. Twitter@BFI_official[/caption] Gulia was the lone Indian boxer to qualify for the Games owing to her world title and lost in a unanimous 0-5 verdict to the Italian on Monday night. The 17-year-old Indian from Haryana was expected to do well at the event given that she was coming off a gold medal-winning performance at the Silesian Open in Gliwice, Poland last month. India’s maiden and only set of medals in the Youth Olympics’ boxing competition came in the inaugural edition of 2010. Shiva Thapa and Vikas Krishan delivered a silver and a bronze medal respectively, which remain India’s best performance. While Shiva won his silver in the 54kg category, Vikas finished with a bronze in the 60kg division. In 2014, the best that India managed in boxing was Gaurav Solanki’s fourth-place finish. Solanki (52kg) won the gold medal in this year’s Commonwealth Games.
India’s boxing challenge in the Youth Olympic Games 2018 was brought to an abrupt end by the elimination of Jyoti Gulia, who was a favourite in her 5qkg category.
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