Paris 2024 Olympian Jaismine Lamboria stormed into the quarter-finals of the World Boxing Championships 2025 with a 5-0 win over Pan American Games champion Jucielen Cerqueira Romeu of Brazil in Liverpool on Monday.
Competing in the women’s 57kg division, Jaismine once again dominated the Brazilian, whom she had also beaten for gold at the World Boxing Cup in Astana earlier this year.
World Boxing Cup silver medallist Abhinash Jamwal also impressed, outclassing Mexico’s Hugo Barron 5-0 in his men’s 65kg second-round bout to keep India’s campaign rolling.
However, there were setbacks for the Indian camp. Sakshi bowed out in the women’s 54kg after a 5-0 defeat to Turkiye’s Hatice Akba, while Sanamacha Chanu lost by the same margin to Kazakhstan’s Natalya Bogdanova.
Later on Monday, four Indian boxers will fight for quarter-final berths.
Sachin (men’s 60kg) against Kazakhstan’s Biibars Zhexen, Sumit (men’s 75kg) versus Bulgaria’s Rami Kiwan, Narender (men’s 90+ kg) against Italy’s Diego Lenzi, and Neeraj Phogat (women’s 65kg) against England’s Sacha Hickey.
India have sent a 20-member squad to the inaugural World Boxing Championships, which features over 550 boxers from more than 65 nations, including 17 Paris 2024 medallists.
Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain endured a disappointing return to the international ring with a second-round exit in the women’s 75kg on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Nikhat Zareen made a confident comeback on Saturday, outclassing the USA’s Pan American Games silver medallist Jennifer Lozano 5-0 in the first round of the women’s 51kg category.