India has never hosted a men’s world championship, but this will be the third time the country’s elite women’s competition will be held in New Delhi in 2006 and 2018.
Boxing Federation of India (BFI) general secretary Hemant Kalita told PTI, “We have got the rights to host the Women’s World Championship and we want to host the event in the end of March and the first week of April.”
International Boxing Association (IBA) President Omar Kremlev is on his first visit to the country and the dates for the marquee event will be finalized during the visit.
“The dates of the event have not been finalized yet. We will sit with the IBA president and reach an agreement during his visit,” Kalita said.
The tournament is likely to be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
The hosting rights for the event for India comes as a significant development as the BFI lost the hosting rights for the 2021 event to Serbia after it failed to pay the host fee, leading to the International Boxing Association, then (AIBA). known as, was driven to end. compromise.
In the previous edition of the women’s event in Turkey, India came back with three medals, including Nikhat Zareen’s gold in the flyweight category.
The Kremlev recently announced that the prize money at the men’s world championships to be held in Tashkent in May next year will double from the previous edition.
It remains to be seen whether the world body makes the same announcement for the women’s event.
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