Amit Panghal top-seeded for Tokyo Olympics, Simranjit fourth

The seedings for Tokyo were unveiled by the International Olympic Committee's draws boxing task force, which is conducting the competition at the Games.

India's Amit Panghal is the reigning Asian Games champion and a World Boxing Championships silver-medallist (File Photo).

World number one and Indian boxing ace Amit Panghal has been given the top seeding in the 52kg category, while Simranjit Kaur (60kg) was the lone woman pugilist from the country to be seeded at fourth for the Olympic Games starting from July 23.

The seedings were unveiled by the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) draws boxing task force, which is conducting the competition at the games.

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The result of the draws will be unveiled on July 22. Panghal and Kaur are the only Indian boxers to get a seeding at the Games.

While Panghal is the reigning Asian Games champion and a world championships silver-medallist, Kaur is a bronze-winner from the world championships.

Both of them would be competing in their maiden Olympic Games. India would be represented by an unprecedented nine boxers -- five men and four women -- at the quadrennial spectacle in Tokyo.