{"id":22537,"date":"2025-07-25T07:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22537\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:31:15","slug":"world-boxing-championships-2025-lovlina-borgohain-nikhat-zareen-to-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22537\/","title":{"rendered":"World Boxing Championships 2025: Lovlina Borgohain, Nikhat Zareen to compete"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain<\/a> and ace Indian pugilist Nikhat Zareen<\/a> have been named in India\u2019s 20-member squad for the World Boxing Championships 2025, scheduled in Liverpool, England, from September 4 to 14.<\/p>\n

The squad was finalised following a week-long selection assessment at the National Institute of Sports (NIS) in Patiala.<\/p>\n

This will be the inaugural World Boxing Championships held by World Boxing – the newly-formed international governing body for the sport – and will see boxers from all over the globe compete for medals in 20 divisions – 10 weight classes for men and as many for women.<\/p>\n

The bouts will be held in Olympic-style format. Borgohain will compete in the women\u2019s 75kg category while Nikhat will be seen in the 51kg. Olympian Pooja Rani also grabbed the women\u2019s 80kg spot.<\/p>\n

Commonwealth Games champion Nitu Ghanghas<\/a>, however, missed the cut in the women\u2019s 48kg with the spot going to Meenakshi Hooda.<\/p>\n

Both Borgohain and Zareen have won gold medals at World Championships before but these were under the previous governing body.<\/p>\n

The meet in Liverpool will also mark the two Indian boxers<\/a>\u2019 return to the Indian national setup for the first time since the Paris 2024 Olympics<\/a> and their first World Boxing event.<\/p>\n

Neither competed at the second World Boxing Cup in Astana earlier this month while India didn\u2019t field any female boxers for the first World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n

Both boxers also missed out on the nationals this year but impressed at the Elite Women\u2019s Boxing Tournament held in Hyderabad earlier this month, which earned them spots in the national camp.<\/p>\n

Asian Games<\/a> bronze medallist Narender Berwal (90+kg), World Boxing Cup gold medallists Hitesh Gulia (70kg) and Abhinash Jamwal (65kg) are also in the 20-member shortlist.<\/p>\n

Indian squad for World Boxing Championships 2025<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s 48kg \u2013 Meenakshi Hooda
\nWomen\u2019s 51kg \u2013 Nikhat Zareen
\nWomen\u2019s 54kg \u2013 Sakshi
\nWomen\u2019s 57kg \u2013 Jaismine Lamboria
\nWomen\u2019s 60kg \u2013 Sanju Khatri
\nWomen\u2019s 60kg \u2013 Neeraj Phogat
\nWomen\u2019s 70kg \u2013 Sanamacha Chanu
\nWomen\u2019s 75kg \u2013 Lovlina Borgohain
\nWomen\u2019s 80kg \u2013 Pooja Rani
\nWomen\u2019s 80+kg \u2013 Nupur Sheoran
\nMen\u2019s 50kg \u2013 Jadumani Singh Mandengbam
\nMen\u2019s 55kg \u2013 Pawan Bartwal
\nMen\u2019s 60kg \u2013 Sachin Siwach Jr
\nMen\u2019s 65kg \u2013 Abhinash Jamwal
\nMen\u2019s 70kg \u2013 Hitesh Gulia
\nMen\u2019s 75kg \u2013 Sumit Kundu
\nMen\u2019s 80kg \u2013 Lakshya Chahar
\nMen\u2019s 85kg \u2013 Jugnoo Ahlawat
\nMen\u2019s 90kg \u2013 Harsh Chaudhary
\nMen\u2019s 90+kg \u2013 Narender Berwal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain and ace Indian pugilist Nikhat Zareen have been named in India\u2019s 20-member squad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-22537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}