Nikhat and Lovlina will show their mettle within the newer weight classes on the Worlds.
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Star boxers Lovlina Borgohain, a two-time Worlds bronze medallist and the Tokyo Olympics bronze winner in 69kg, and Nikhat Zareen, the 52kg reigning World champion, have been named in newer weight classes for the World women’s boxing championships to be held on the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex in Delhi from March 15 to 26.
Lovlina bagged the National Games title, the Asian championships crown and the Naytional championship after leaping to 75kg and can keep it up within the heavier weight as much as subsequent 12 months’s Paris Olympics.
Nikhat, who secured her maiden Commonwealth Games gold in 50kg, will proceed within the decrease weight within the World championships in addition to the Olympics.
Ghanghas is again
Another Commonwealth Games gold medal winner, Nitu Ghanghas (48kg) returned to the Indian facet following an extended layoff as a consequence of harm points and a surgical procedure.
Manisha Moun (57kg), a 2022 Worlds bronze medallist, Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Jaismine Lamboria (60kg), promising pugilists Asian bronze medallist Preeti Dahiya (54kg) and 2021 World youth champion Sanamacha Chanu (70kg) will present solidity.
Reigning Asian champion Saweety Boora (81kg), World youth champions Sakshi Chaudhary (52kg) and Shashi Chopra (63kg) and 2019 South Asian Games gold medallist Manju Bamboria (66kg) will likely be desirous to show their mettle.
National champion Nupur Sheoran (+81kg) will get an enormous break after competing properly on the home degree for a number of years.
As per the brand new choice coverage, the coaches and excessive efficiency director Bernard Dunne checked out a number of standards, together with health, evolution in sparring, regularity in attending coaching periods, to choose the boxers. Nine National champions out of 12 weight classes made it to the Indian facet.
The squad: Nitu Ghanghas (48kg), Nikhat Zareen (50kg), Sakshi Chaudhary (52kg), Preeti Dahiya (54kg), Manisha Moun (57kg), Jaismine Lamboria (60kg), Shashi Chopra (63kg), Manju Bamboria (66kg), Sanamacha Chanu (70kg), Lovlina Borgohain (75kg), Saweety Boora (81kg) and Nupur Sheoran (81+kg).
