By Our Special Correspondent
The Indian boxing contingent, including Olympics bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain, for the women’s World Championships next month is set to leave for Istanbul in the early hours tomorrow for a 15-day camp ahead of the event to be held in the Turkish city.
The event, which was postponed from December last year in view of the Covid pandemic, is scheduled to take place between May 6 and 21 as per the revised International Boxing Association (IBA) schedule. “We had requested SAI to sanction a 15-day camp ahead of the World Championships so that boxers could acclimatise before the event,” women’s coach Bhaskar Bhatt said.
The world championship will be Indian women boxers’ first major assignment in a busy year that includes big ticket events such as the Birmingham Commonwealth and the Hangzhou Asain Games in September.
It will be Borgohain’s first competitive outing after her podium finish in the 69kg category in Tokyo, which no longer exists in either the IBA events or the Olympics.
Saweety Boora (75kg), Nikhat Zareen (52kg) Pooja Rani (81kg) is India’s other medal hopes.
Six time world champion MC Marry Kom will be missing in action as the veteran boxer has withdrawn from the world championship as well as the Asian games to focus on the Birmingham Commonwealth Games Indian (PTI).
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