India's Shiva Thapa has won the gold medal at the Asian Olympics Qualifying Event in Kazakhstan in the final of the 56kg category. Thapa won the bout by defeating Syrian Wessam Safamana 18-11. Thapa had qualified for the London Olympics when he had beaten Japan's Satoshi Shimizu to enter the final of the event on Wednesday. The 18-year-old Thapa became the youngest Indian boxer to make the cut for the Olympics. Earlier, Vijender Singh and five other male boxers had booked their London berth at the same event. Sumit Sangwan became the seventh Indian boxer to qualify when he beat the 2009 Asian Championship bronze medallist Ihab Almatdault from Jordan 24-12 in the last-four stage.

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