Source: Hueiyen News Service
New Delhi, May 18 2010:
Olympic and World Championship bronze medal winning boxer Vijender Singh (75kg) continued his reign at the top, while Asian silver medallist Thokchom Nanao Singh (48kg) rose a couple of rungs to fourth in the latest AIBA rankings.
Vijender (75kg), who became a Commonwealth champion in March, has 2137.5 points in the list updated after the 3 Star China Cup, which was a ranking points event.
Olympic silver medallist Emilio Bayeux Correa of Cuba is a distant second in the list with 1875 points.
Nanao (48kg), currently nursing a hand injury, has risen despite being out of action since January.
The Manipuri, who is a former youth world champion, has 1400 points in the latest rankings.
Asian and Commonwealth champion Suranjoy Singh (51kg) gained three places, rising to 13th with 800 points.
The President's Cup gold medallist was part of a 13-member Indian team that recently went to Cuba for a training-cum-competition trip and he fetched a silver there.
Olympian Jitender Kumar dropped three rungs to 21st in the bantam weight (54kg) list which has another Indian in the 17-year-old Shiva Thapa, who clinched a silver at the Youth World Championships earlier this month.
The Assamese has entered the rankings at the 22nd spot with 600 points.
In the soon-to-be-abolished feather weight (57kg) division, Commonwealth Games gold medallist Akhil Kumar rose one spot to ninth with 850 points.