{"id":118559,"date":"2025-09-04T15:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118559\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:44:16","slug":"know-indian-boxers-draws-in-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118559\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Indian boxers\u2019 draws in first round"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indian contingent for the World Boxing Championships 2025 in Liverpool has been handed a favourable draw with the likes of Lovlina Borgohain<\/a> and Nikhat Zareen<\/a> avoiding tricky opponents early in the competition.<\/p>\n

Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina, along with Hitesh Gulia and Abhinash Jamwal, have a bye in the opening round while Nikhat Zareen will take on Jennifer Lozano of the USA in her first bout.<\/p>\n

Olympian Pooja Rani also has a bye in her opening round.<\/p>\n

A 20-Indian contingent is eyeing a strong performance at the inaugural World Championships being held under the aegis of World Boxing, the new international governing body for the sport.<\/p>\n

Both Nikhat and Lovlina come into the tournament with some impressive performances in the domestic circuit under their belts. However, neither have competed in an international event since the Paris 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n

Indian boxers<\/a> have impressed in the two World Boxing Cup competitions in Brazil and Kazakhstan, winning a total of 17 medals, including four gold.<\/p>\n

The World Boxing Championships will be the first time that both men\u2019s and women\u2019s competitions will be held together and over 544 boxers from 68 national federations will be competing in the 20 weight categories.<\/p>\n

Sakshi will open her campaign against Viktoriia Shkeul of Ukraine while Jaismine Lamboria has been drawn against another Ukrainian, Daria-Olha Hutarina, in the opening round.<\/p>\n

Hitesh and Abhinash have been placed in different halves of the draw from their closest challengers Kainan Oliveira and Yuri Falcao (both from Brazil), respectively.<\/p>\n

Four Indian boxers are in action on the opening day of competition. Pawan Bartwal opened India’s campaign with a hard-fought split-decision (3-2) victory over Brazil’s Michael Douglas da Silva Trindade in the men’s 55kg division.<\/p>\n

Sakshi (women\u2019s 54kg), the experienced Sanamacha Chanu (women\u2019s 70kg) and Harsh Choudhary (men\u2019s 90kg) will take the ring in the evening session.<\/p>\n

World Boxing Championships 2025: Indian boxers draw
\nWomen<\/p>\n

48kg \u2013 Meenakshi Hooda (bye)
\n51kg \u2013 Nikhat Zareen vs Jennifer Lozano (USA)
\n54kg \u2013 Sakshi vs Viktoriia Shkeul (UKR)
\n57kg \u2013 Jaismine Lamboria vs Daria-Olha Hutarina (UKR)
\n60kg \u2013 Sanju Khatri vs Aneta Rygielska (POL)
\n65kg \u2013 Neeraj Phogat vs Krista Kovalainen (FIN)
\n70kg \u2013 Sanamacha Chanu vs Ditte Frostholm (DEN)
\n75kg \u2013 Lovlina Borgohain (bye)
\n80kg \u2013 Pooja Rani (bye)
\n80+kg \u2013 Nupur Sheoran (bye)<\/p>\n

Men<\/p>\n

50kg \u2013 Jadumani Singh Mandengbam (bye)
\n55kg \u2013 Pawan Bartwal bt Michael Douglas Da Silva Trindade
\n60kg \u2013 Sachin Siwach Jr (bye)
\n65kg \u2013 Abhinash Jamwal (bye)
\n70kg \u2013 Hitesh Gulia (bye)
\n75kg \u2013 Sumit Kundu vs Mohammad Alhussien (JOR)
\n80kg \u2013 Lakshya Chahar (bye)
\n85kg \u2013 Jugnoo Ahlawat (bye)
\n90kg \u2013 Harsh Chaudhary vs Adam Tutak (POL)
\n90+kg \u2013 Narender Berwal vs Martin McDonagh (IRL)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indian contingent for the World Boxing Championships 2025 in Liverpool has been handed a favourable draw with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-118559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}