Boxers Aditya Maan (66 kg) and Ashish (63 kg) powered through to the quarter-finals of the Junior World Championships here and are just a step away from securing a medal.
Maan, also a bronze medal winner at the Junior Continental Championships earlier this year, was up against American Javier Estrada in the Round of 16.
He next faces Brazilian Cassio Olivera Santos. In the light welterweight division, 15-year-old Chandigarh boy Ashish got past Latvia’s Jegors Artjomovs. In the quarters, he will take on Shabbos Negmatulloev of Tajikistan.
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