hussainm@newsofbahrain.com<\/a><\/p>\nBahrain\u2019s Jayden Price secured his second Asian U17 Boxing Championships gold medal yesterday, edging Uzbekistan\u2019s Oybek Alimdjonov in the light bantamweight (52kg) final in Tashkent via a 3:2 split decision.<\/p>\n
The bout was evenly matched throughout, with both boxers trading clean, well-timed shots across all three rounds. Midway through the contest, Price was placed under pressure after being caught on the ropes and receiving a referee count, though he later suggested he had been pushed in the exchange. He recovered quickly and began to edge the scoring with sustained, accurate punching in the middle stages.<\/p>\n
As the fight progressed, Price appeared to gain momentum, forcing two standing eight counts against Alimdjonov to swing the bout in his favour on the judges\u2019 scorecards. He managed the closing round with composure under pressure to secure victory on away soil.<\/p>\n
The win capped an impressive tournament for the teenager, who finished as the Kingdom\u2019s sole medallist at the competition. He received a first-round bye before defeating Mongolia\u2019s Agarzadan Batkhuyag via unanimous decision. He then recorded successive split decision victories over Tajikistan\u2019s Nazarov Damir in the quarter-finals and Kazakhstan\u2019s Bekhan Urazbay in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Competing for Bahrain after previously representing England at youth level, Price continues to build a strong junior r\u00e9sum\u00e9, including gold at the 2025 Asian U17 Championships in Jordan, as well as wins at the USA Boxing National Open in Tulsa and the Braga Open in Portugal.<\/p>\n
Speaking after the final, Price said: \u201cGood to get the win. I boxed well and gave him two standing counts, but I felt the referee was against me at times. Still, I got the win, that\u2019s the main thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bahraini boxing officials, including HH Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa and Bahrain Boxing Federation president Rashid Feleyfel, have supported his development within the national programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TDT | Manama Email : hussainm@newsofbahrain.com Bahrain\u2019s Jayden Price secured his second Asian U17 Boxing Championships gold medal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,325284,802,85],"class_list":["post-674474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bahrains-price-dominates-youth-boxing-scene","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674474","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=674474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}