{"id":618647,"date":"2026-04-20T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618647\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:46:08","slug":"assam-boxer-nikshita-konwar-wins-gold-at-national-youth-boxing-championship-in-sonapur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618647\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam Boxer Nikshita Konwar Wins Gold at National Youth Boxing Championship in Sonapur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Sports Reporter<\/p>\n<p>GUWAHATI: Assam\u2019s Nikshita Konwar clinched gold at the 8th Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s National Youth Boxing Championship held at Sonapur on Sunday. Competing in the Under-19 category at the Don Bosco University hall, Nikshita edged past Haryana\u2019s Vanshika 3-2 in the girls\u2019 65kg final.<\/p>\n<p>The gold marked a significant milestone as <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/local-sports\/assam-secures-two-medals-as-basumatary-konwar-enter-semifinals-at-national-youth-boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nikshita<\/a> secured her first national junior title. She had reached the final after a 4-1 win over an Andhra Pradesh boxer in the semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>Host Assam finished with two medals. Sandeep Basumatary claimed bronze after losing in the boys\u2019 80kg semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>Both Nikshita and Sandeep have been selected for the national high-performance camp.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:   <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/local-sports\/assam-secures-two-medals-as-basumatary-konwar-enter-semifinals-at-national-youth-boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Assam Secures Two Medals as Basumatary, Konwar Enter Semifinals at National Youth Boxing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our Sports Reporter GUWAHATI: Assam\u2019s Nikshita Konwar clinched gold at the 8th Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s National Youth Boxing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,11329,300030,300029,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-618647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-gold-medal","12":"tag-mens-and-womens-national-youth-boxing-championship","13":"tag-nikshita-konwar","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}