Delhi to host IBA Women’s World Championships from March 15

The 2023 ladies’s World Boxing Championships will happen from March 15 to 31 right here, as India gears as much as host the biennial occasion for the third time within the event’s historical past.

Since the inception of the event in 2001, the celebrated occasion has taken place twice in India beforehand in 2006 and 2018, each occasions within the capital.

Besides this, India has additionally hosted the Women’s Youth World Championships in 2017 in Guwahati.
However, India has by no means performed the boys’s world championship.

That Delhi will host the occasion for the third time was introduced final month.

The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) had signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Boxing Association (IBA) final month in Delhi when the world physique’s president Umar Kremlev visited the nation.

“The countdown to one of many world’s largest boxing occasions of 2023 begins now. The World Championships are a testomony to Indian boxing’s unparalleled credentials and we, on the Boxing Federation of India, are geared as much as ship a spectacular expertise.

“With the partnership of the IBA team, we are confident that the World Championships will help boost boxing globally,” mentioned Ajay Singh, President of Boxing Federation of India (BFI).

The competitors will happen in 12 weight classes — 48 kg, 50 kg, 52 kg, 54 kg, 57 kg, 60 kg, 63 kg, 66 kg, 70 kg, 75 kg, 81 kg and +81 kg — and the registration will open quickly.

BFI and IBA will even be working to introduce a historic bout overview system on the Championships.
Boxing in India has grown by leaps and bounds lately. India has been persistently ending amongst the highest 5 nations within the current world and multi-event competitions just like the World Championships, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games.

Indian ladies have clinched 39 medals, together with 10 golds, within the 12 editions of the championship thus far.