Women’s World Boxing Championships: India’s pugilist Lovlina Borgohain grew to become the world champion on Sunday as she defeated Australia’s Caitlin Parker in the ultimate bout. The star Indian ended the jinx of bronze medals as she gained her maiden gold in the Worlds event in the 75 kg class.
Borgohain broke the jinx of successful bronze medals. She had earlier gained three bronze, together with two on the Worlds and one at Tokyo Olympics. She gained the ultimate of the Boxing Championships 2023 by a margin of 5-2.
“I am happy to win the gold and make India proud,” a relieved Lovlina mentioned after her remaining bout. “I had two bronze in Worlds and one in the Olympics.
Worked actually onerous to alter the color. I’m ecstatic to have modified the color,” she mentioned. “Ups and downs are part of life, but I took these as opportunities and worked hard and I have gold today,” she added.
Notably, that is India’s joint-best end on the Worlds event in phrases of Gold medals. India gained 4 Gold medals in this event. Earlier, Nikhat Zareen gained her second Gold medal. Zareen dominated the competition proper from the primary spherical as she gained it by 5-0. The second spherical of the competition was a carefully fought one however Zareen turned the sport extra in her favour in the ultimate spherical of the match and gained the title conflict with a 5-0 rating. Nikhat Zareen has joined an elite record that includes legendary pugilist Mary Kom. Zareen is barely the second Indian after Kom to win World Championships two instances in her profession.
“I am very happy that I have become a world champion for the second time, especially in an Olympic category,” Nikhat, who gained the 52kg title final yr, mentioned after her bout. She mentioned that this was one of many hardest bouts she confronted and it was a roller-coaster bout. “Today’s bout was the hardest for me, she is an Asian champion and my subsequent goal is Asian Games I would meet her, so I’ll work onerous.
