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  Gold for Mary Kom  Manisha gets


      silver in Polish boxing tourney

Five-time World Cham-            Games in Indonesia  pre-        through the bout 
      pion M C Mary Kom          vailed 5-0 against Kaza-           The Manipuri  a 2014  
       48kg  collected her       khstan s Aigerim Kassanaye-     Asian Games gold-medallist  
third gold medal of the year     va to pick up India s lonetsen- took full advantage of her 
with a display of tactical bril- ior category gold at the event  rival s hesitation and went 
liance at the 13th Silesian      Saturday                        full throttle in the final three 
Open Boxing Tournament for          The former Olympic           minutes to strike some good 
women in Gliwice  Poland         bronze-medallist displayed a    body blows 
  Mary Kom  who made a           brilliant counter-attacking        Meanwhile  Manisha had 
comeback to the ring after re-   strategy against a taller oppo- to settle for a silver in the 
covering from some niggles       nent  She showed sharp re-      54kg category  Manisha was • 
that kept her out of the re-     flexes and did not allow a      next to take the ring against 
cently concluded Asian           clear shot to  Kassanayeva      Ukraine s Ivanna Krupenia
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