Indian boxers Nitu Ghanghas and Amit Panghal clinched gold medals for India at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham on Sunday.
Nitu won the first medal in boxing in this year’s multi-nation event by thrashing the 2019 world championships bronze medallist Demie-Jade Resztan of England by a 5-0 unanimous verdict in the women’s 48kg category.
The 21-year-old Nitu is a two-time world youth champion in the light flyweight. She won gold medals in the years 2017 and 2018.
The 26-year-old Panghal had won a silver medal in the 2018 Gold Coast edition of CWG.