Olympic medalist Lovlina Borgohain was also to participate in this tournament.
Next month’s Women’s World Boxing Championship in Istanbul was postponed until March 2022 by the sport’s governing body AIBA on Wednesday. AIBA said that at present the situation of COVID-19 (COVID-19) is serious and in such a situation it cannot afford to organize the competition. There were already reports that the decision to postpone the championship has been taken during the Men’s World Championships in Belgrade. In view of the situation of COVID-19, many countries were not ready to travel to Turkey.
An AIBA spokesperson told PTI over telephone, ‘There is every possibility that the World Championships will be postponed as many countries have expressed apprehension about traveling to Turkey in view of the COVID cases there.’ “A meeting has already been held on this issue in the presence of AIBA President Omar Kremlev in which many countries have expressed apprehensions,” he said. The decision in this regard can be announced this week. We do not want to organize the tournament in the absence of big players due to the pandemic.
Decision taken due to Corona
AIBA President Omar Kremlev said in a letter sent to the national federations, “Thus the AIBA Board of Directors, with the consent of the Turkish National Federation, decided to postpone the Women’s World Championship to March 2022.” The tournament was planned to be held from December 4 to 18, but the cases of COVID are increasing continuously in Turkey. On Monday, 27,824 new cases of corona virus were reported in Turkey. On Monday, 187 people died due to this deadly infection that has been causing havoc for the last two years. It is believed that the reason for the increase in cases is the delta form of the virus. India had given direct entry to Olympic bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain in the 70kg category while the defending national champions were to represent the country in all other categories.
India got medal in men’s world championship
Akash Kumar of India won the bronze medal in the Men’s World Championship held in Belgrade this month. Five Indian boxers had made it to the quarter-finals but four could not progress beyond that. India’s past medalists at World Championships are Vijender Singh (Bronze, 2009), Vikas Krishan (Bronze, 2011), Thapa (Bronze, 2015), Gaurav Bidhuri (Bronze, 2017), Amit Panghal (Silver, 2019) and Manish Kaushik (Bronze, 2015). Bronze, 2019) were
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