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Global Championships silver medallist Amit Panghal certified for the Paris Olympic as he defeated China’s Chuang Liu within the 51kg quarterfinals of the second Global Qualification Event right here on Sunday.

File Photo of Amit Phangal.
Document Picture of Amit Phangal.

Panghal, India’s lone male international championship silver medallist, notched a hard-fought 5-0 win over his Liu for a price tag to his 2nd Olympic Video games.

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He thus joins the quartet of Nishant Dev (71kg), Nikhat Zareen (50kg), Preeti Pawar (54kg) and Lovlina Borgohain (75kg). They all have booked Olympic berths.

Panghal had just one shot at making the Paris Olympics after he misplaced out to international championship bronze medallist Deepak Bhoria within the variety evaluate for the sooner two qualifying occasions, and the 2018 Asian Video games champion made essentially the most of his alternative.

Later within the day, Jaismine Lamboria (57kg) and Sachin Siwach (57kg) may also glance to safe Olympic quotas.