{"id":346,"date":"2022-11-10T07:25:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T07:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecord.in\/?p=346"},"modified":"2024-05-15T15:26:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T09:56:59","slug":"indian-boxer-shiva-thapa-secures-at-least-a-bronze-medal-at-the-asian-boxing-championship-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Shiva Thapa Confirms 6th Medal to his Asian C&#8217;ship Tally!"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p>Indian boxing champion and a sportsperson from Guwahati, Assam, <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/shiva-thapa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Shiva Thapa\">Shiva Thapa<\/a>, secured at least a bronze medal at the Asian Boxing Championship 2022 with a 4-1 victory over South Korean boxer Minsu Choi in the 63.5-kilogram category quarter-finals in Amman, Jordan, on Sunday, November 6, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NetSnippet?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NetSnippet<\/a> | Shiva Thapa on Sunday became the first-ever male boxer in the history of Asian Championships to win six medals after he out-punched Minsu Choi of South Korea to the progress to the semifinals in Amman, Jordan.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/boxer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#boxer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShivaThapa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ShivaThapa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AsianChampionships?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AsianChampionships<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Medal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Medal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Assam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Assam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HCEOsrNzQI\">pic.twitter.com\/HCEOsrNzQI<\/a><\/p>\u2014 NORTHEAST TODAY (@NortheastToday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NortheastToday\/status\/1589521309977153536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Olympian of London 2012 and an Asian Champion of 2013, Shiva Thapa has a chance to fetch himself a sixth medal at the Asian Championships with this upcoming semi-final making him the first male boxer in the history of the continental meet to achieve this feat. With this, he has successfully surpassed Kazakhstan\u2019s Vassiliy Levit, an Olympic silver medal winner, two-time world bronze medalist, and the only male boxer with five Asian Championship medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indian female boxers MC Mary Kom (7) and L Sarita Devi (8) have more Asian medals than Thapa, with the latter having won six consecutive titles, five of which were gold, at the pinnacle of her career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shiva Thapa was born on December 8, 1993, to Padam Thapa, an Indian Gorkha, in Guwahati, Assam. Shiva\u2019s elder brother, Gobind Thapa, was also a state-level medal-winning boxer, who inspired Shiva to join boxing. He began his professional boxing career in 2008 at the Children\u2019s Asia International Sports Games held in Yakutsk, Russia, where he won a bronze in his category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 28, 2016, he was awarded the Arjuna Award by then-President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shiva Thapa, who won silver medals in 2017 and 2021 and bronze in 2015 and 2019, will be facing 2019 gold medalist Bakhodur Usmonov of Tajikistan in the semi-final on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian boxing champion and a sportsperson from Guwahati, Assam, Shiva Thapa, secured at least a bronze medal at the Asian Boxing Championship 2022 with a 4-1 victory over South Korean boxer Minsu Choi in the 63.5-kilogram category quarter-finals in Amman, Jordan, on Sunday, November 6, 2022. The Olympian of London 2012 and an Asian Champion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[66,65,63,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-asian-boxing-championship","10":"tag-boxer-shiva-thapa","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-shiva-thapa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3168,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/3168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}