Gaurav Bidhuri

Gaurav Bidhuri medal table
Boxing
India
World championships
bronze	2017	Bantamweight

Gaurav Bidhuri (* 16th May 1993 in Delhi ) is an Indian boxer in the bantamweight .

Career

Gaurav Bidhuri is 1.68 m tall and left-handed . He became Indian Junior Champion in 2009 and participated in the 2009 Junior World Championships in Armenia , where he finished 6th. In 2011 he became Indian youth champion and won a bronze medal at the international President's Cup in Indonesia .

At the Asian Games in South Korea in 2014 , he was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Shahobiddin Zoirov in sixth place. In 2016 he tried to qualify for the Olympic Games in Rio , but failed early in the elimination tournaments in China , Azerbaijan and Venezuela .

In 2017 he started at the Asian Championships in Uzbekistan , where he was knocked out 2: 3 against Zhang Jiawei in the quarterfinals . To qualify for the 2017 World Championships in Hamburg , he had to go into the box-offs, where he lost 3-2 to the Japanese Ryomei Tanaka. However, since the Indonesian Simon Makarawe qualified in the box-offs did not take part in the world championships, Bidhuri was nominated again. In Hamburg he reached the World Cup semi-finals against Sam Goodman (5: 0), Mykola Butsenko (4: 1) and Bilel M'hamdi (3: 0), lost to Duke Ragan (0: 5) and therefore lost with one Bronze medal.

Web links

• Presentation of the 2017 World Cup participants, AIBA