Twitterati goes gaga over Nikhat Zareen as youngster secures gold in Women's World Boxing C'ships

The 25-year-old Nikhat Zareen continues to make giant strides in boxing. On Thursday (May 19), shecreated history by bagginga historic gold medal after beating Thailand's Jutamas Jitpong 5-0 in the 52kg final of the Women`s World Boxing Championships in Istanbul.

By virtue of this feat, Nikhat now joins six-time champion M.C Mary Kom, Sarita Devi, Jenny R.L and Lekha C. to become the fifth Indian woman boxer to win the world title. A lot of hope was riding on the youngster after her semi-final win over Brazil'sCaroline De Almeida, which also came by the same margin, and Nikhat didn't succumb to pressure in the summit clash to end with an elusive gold.

Hence, Twitterati has gone bonkers seeing the success of Nikhat, who is rising up the ladder in no time in the Indian sporting fraternity. Here are some of the reactions on the social media platform following Nikhat's latest triumph:

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Talking about the finale, it saw the best from Zareen as she was in top form and she used her technical acumen and covered the courtto emerge the winner againsther nimble-footed opponent. Nikhat managed to impress all the judges in the opening round by convincingly landingmore punches than the Thai boxer. The second round was much more intense as Jitpong bounced back and clinchedit 3-2. Needing to get just one judge on her side in the final round, the Indian boxerwent all-out to eventually register a 5-0 unanimous decision in her favour and make heads turn in the country.