Gaurav Solanki, Pinki Jangra enter quarters of Russian boxing tourney

NEW DELHI: Commonwealth Games medal winners Gaurav Solanki (56kg) and

Pinki Jangra

(51kg) claimed comfortable victories to enter the quarterfinals of the Magomed Salam Umakhanov Memorial International

Boxing

Tournament in

Kaspiysk

,

Russia

.


Also making the last-eight stage was Neeraj (57kg) in the women's draw of the event which is into its 21st edition this year .

Solanki, who won a gold at the Gold Coast CWG last year, defeated Russia's Murad Rabadanov 5-0, while 2014 CWG bronze-winner Jangra got the better of Belarus' Burim Yana by a similar margin.

Neeraj, a gold-medallist from this year's India Open, defeated Gerelcimeg Nyamsuren of Mongolia in a unanimous verdict.

The tournament features close to 250 boxers from 20, including Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Israel, Italy, Mongolia, Sweden, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.