With this India is assured of 10 medals (six men and four women).

The Commonwealth Games champion Vikas, who has already secured a berth for his third Olympics in Tokyo, accounted for Italian Mangiacapre in a 3-2 split decision.

Apart from Vikas, five more Indian men boxers registered victories in their respective quarter-final bouts to assure India six medals in men's category at the 35th edition of the tournament.

The 2018 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Mohammed Husamuddin notched up a 5-0 win against Italy's Simone Spada in the 57kg .

World Championships bronze medallist Manish Kaushik,recorded a 4-1 win against Safiullin Zakir of Kazakhstan.

2019 Asian Championship silver medallist Ashish Kumar (75kg) and Sumit Sangwan (81kg) also made their way into the semi-finals with 4-1 wins in their respective matches.

Ashish beat Italy's Remo Salvatti and Sumit won against Belgium’s Ziad El Mohor.

Satish Kumar, the first Indian boxer to qualify in +91kg at Olympics, outclassed Denmark’s Morten Givskov Nielson 5-0.

Meanwhile, World Championship silver medallist Amit Panghal (52kg) and Sanjeet (91kg) suffered defeats in their respective last-8 bout.

Panghal lost to local favourite and European Games champion Gabriel Escobar 2-3. Sanjeet went down to Italy’s Matteo Girolamo 2-3.

In the women's category, Olympic bronze medallist Mary Kom (51kg), Jasmine (57kg), Simranjit (60kg) and Pooja Rani (75kg) are in Semis.