Indian pugilists Lalitha Prasad Polipalli (48kg), Manish Kaushik (52kg) and Sandeep Kumar (57kg) continued their winning run, reaching the quarter-finals in the second AIBA Junior World Boxing Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Monday.

Prasad started the proceedings for India [ Images ], beating beat England's [ Images ] European Junior Championships silver medallist Luke McCormack 15-10 in the light-flyweight category.

He will now take on Erik Petrosyan of Armenia in Wednesday's quarter-finals.

In the light-bantamweight division, Manish pulverized Sultan Zhanyshev of Kyrgyzstan, winning 23-8 in a one-sided contest.

Kaushik, a bronze medallist in the President Heydar Aliyev Cup in Baku, Azebijan earlier this year, will lock horns with Sang-Myeong Ham of South Korea.

In the feather-weight category, Sandeep had to dig deep into his reserves to upstage local lad Yerbolat Yermekov.

A gold medallist at Kazakh Junior National Championships, Sandeep had to summon all his strength to get the better of the Kazakh after the scores were tied at 9-all after three rounds.

Ultimately it was the Indian who triumphed on an individual judge's score. He now takes on Dominican Republic's biggest hope for a medal at the championships, Huscar Ramirez, in the quarter-finals.