2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships

2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships
Venue	K. D. Jadhav Indoor Hall
Location	New Delhi, India
Dates	15–26 March
Competitors	324 from 65 nations
Total prize money	$2.4 million

The 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships were the 13th edition of the championships, held in New Delhi, India from 15 to 26 March 2023.^[1][2] India topped the medal tally for the first time after 2006.

Medal winners were awarded prize money; gold medallists earn $100,000, silver medallists $50,000, and bronze medallists $25,000. The overall prize fund was $2.4 million.

This event was boycotted by multiple nations due to participation of athletes from Russia and Belarus in light of Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Qualification System for Paris 2024

In June 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) barred the International Boxing Association's (IBA) rights to run and organize the tournament due to "continuing irregularity issues in the areas of finance, governance, ethics, refereeing, and judging".^[3] Hence, the IOC executive board established and ratified a new qualification system for Paris 2024 that would witness the boxers obtain the quota spots through the continental multisport events, reducing the complexity of the process. The qualification period commences at five regional multisport events in the middle of the 2023 season (2023 African Games in Accra, Ghana; 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China; 2023 European Games in Poland; 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara, Solomon Islands; and the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile), set to be served as continental qualifying meets, where a total of 139 spots will be assigned to a specific number of highest-ranked boxers in each weight category. For these reasons, this tournament does not give a quota for the Olympic Games.^[4][5]

Schedule

All times are local (UTC+5:30).^[6][7]

Date	Time	Phase
16–21 March	14:00	Preliminaries
	18:00
22 March	14:00	Quarterfinals
	18:00
23 March	18:00	Semifinals
25–26 March	18:00	Finals

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (India)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India*	4	0	0	4
2	China	3	1	3	7
3	Russia	1	1	1	3
4	Italy	1	1	0	2
5	Brazil	1	0	1	2
	Morocco	1	0	1	2
7	Chinese Taipei	1	0	0	1
8	Kazakhstan	0	2	4	6
9	Colombia	0	2	2	4
10	Australia	0	2	1	3
11	Mongolia	0	1	1	2
	Thailand	0	1	1	2
13	Vietnam	0	1	0	1
14	France	0	0	3	3
15	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Belarus	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Japan	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		12	12	24	48

Medal events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Minimumweight details	Nitu Ghanghas  India	Lutsaikhany Altantsetseg  Mongolia	Alua Balkibekova  Kazakhstan
			Yasmine Moutaqui  Morocco
Light flyweight details	Nikhat Zareen  India	Nguyễn Thị Tâm  Vietnam	Ingrit Valencia  Colombia
			Wassila Lkhadiri  France
Flyweight details	Wu Yu  China	Sirine Charaabi  Italy	Yuliya Apanasovich  Belarus
			Rinka Kinoshita [ja]  Japan
Bantamweight details	Huang Hsiao-wen  Chinese Taipei	Yeni Arias  Colombia	Jutamas Jitpong  Thailand
			Möngöntsetsegiin Enkhjargal  Mongolia
Featherweight details	Irma Testa  Italy	Karina Ibragimova  Kazakhstan	Amina Zidani  France
			Svetlana Staneva[a]  Bulgaria
Lightweight details	Beatriz Ferreira  Brazil	Angie Valdés  Colombia	Oh Yeon-ji  South Korea
			Yang Wenlu  China
Light welterweight details	Yang Chengyu  China	Nataliya Sychugova  Russia	Camila Camilo  Colombia
			Fatia Benmessahel  France
Welterweight details	Yang Liu  China	Janjaem Suwannapheng[b]  Thailand	Navbakhor Khamidova[b]  Uzbekistan
			Nadezhda Ryabets  Kazakhstan
Light middleweight details	Anastasiia Demurchian  Russia	Kaye Scott  Australia	Zhou Pan  China
			Bárbara Santos  Brazil
Middleweight details	Lovlina Borgohain  India	Caitlin Parker  Australia	Li Qian  China
			Valentina Khalzova  Kazakhstan
Light heavyweight details	Saweety Boora  India	Wang Lina  China	Emma-Sue Greentree  Australia
			Fariza Sholtay  Kazakhstan
Heavyweight details	Khadija El-Mardi  Morocco	Lazzat Kungeibayeva  Kazakhstan	Diana Pyatak  Russia
			Aynur Rzayeva  Azerbaijan

Participating nations

The following nations participate with total participation entries of 324:^[10]

•  Afghanistan (2)
•  Algeria (6)
•  Armenia (6)
•  Australia (9)
•  Azerbaijan (6)
•  Belarus (6)
•  Botswana (3)
•  Brazil (7)^[11][12]
•  Bulgaria (6)
•  Cameroon (1)
•  Cape Verde (1)
•  China (12)
•  Chinese Taipei (9)
•  Colombia (9)
•  Croatia (1)
•  Dominican Republic (3)
•  Eswatini (1)
•  Federated States of Micronesia (1)
•  France (9)
•  French Polynesia (1)
•  Greece (2)
•  Guatemala (3)
•  Guyana (2)
•  Haiti (1)
•  Hungary (8)
•  India (12)^[13] Host
•  Italy (8)
•  Japan (8)
•  Jordan (1)
•  Kazakhstan (12)^[14]
•  Kenya (11)
•  Kuwait (1)
•  Mali (1)
•  Mexico (8)
•  Moldova (2)
•  Mongolia (8)
•  Morocco (4)
•  Mozambique (4)
•  Nepal (7)
• Netherlands (1)^[c]
•  New Zealand (6)
•  Panama (1)
•  Philippines (3)
•  Puerto Rico (4)
•  Romania (4)
•  Russia (12)
•  Saint Lucia (1)
•  Serbia (7)
•  Sierra Leone (1)
•  Singapore (5)
•  Slovakia (3)
•  South Africa (3)
•  South Korea (8)
•  Spain (5)
•  Sri Lanka (2)
•  Tajikistan (4)
•  Tanzania (2)
•  Thailand (9)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (3)
•  Tunisia (3)
•  Turkey (12)
•  Turkmenistan (1)
•  Uzbekistan (10)
•  Venezuela (4)
•  Vietnam (9)

Controversies

Boycott due to participation of athletes from Russia and Belarus

Ignoring Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and subsequent recommendations of the International Olympic Committee to bar Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing under their national flags and for the anthems to be played,^[15] the International Boxing Association under the leadership of Russian Umar Kremlev allowed them to compete with no restrictions. In the aftermath, 17 countries (19 national federations) decided to boycott the championship over IBA's decision.^{[16][17][18][19]}

The nations that boycotted the tournament were:

•  Argentina
•  Canada
•  Czech Republic
•  Denmark
•  Finland
•  Great Britain
  •  England
  •  Scotland
  •  Wales
•  Iceland
•  Ireland
•  Latvia
•  Lithuania
•  Netherlands^[c]
•  Norway
•  Poland
•  Sweden
•  Switzerland
•  Ukraine
•  United States

Alleged discrimination of Kosovo boxer

Kosovo withdrew its competitors from the championship as a result of alleged discrimination by the Indian authorities. Despite the Kosovo Boxing Federation being a full member of the IBA,^[21] local organisers decided to ban the use of the flag and national anthem of Kosovo at the championship, including in medal ceremonies and on team uniforms for political reasons.^[22] Kosovo's sole entrant, 2022 bronze medalist Donjeta Sadiku, also encountered problems in obtaining a visa to enter India for the competition. Sadiku was previously denied entry to India in 2017 for the Youth Women's World Championships and 2018 for the Women's World Championships.^[23] Kosovo's president Vjosa Osmani described the treatment of athletes from her country as a "blatant violation of int'l sporting standards" and urged the organisers to reconsider their decision.^[24] The IBA's media communications team termed the incident as "unfortunate and the Indian government was also very cooperative, and the team was granted visas for the competitions. It was unfortunate to learn that the athletes of Kosovo declined the opportunity to come to New Delhi."^[25]

Nepali Boxer Anjani Teli

A question has been raised about Indian-born Nepali Boxer Anjani Teli. IBA had an investigation into allegations made against her. However, she was given a clean chit as she had never acquired an Indian passport. She was born in Delhi to migrated Nepali parents. And she received a Nepali passport at the age of 8 years as her parents were from Nepal.^[26][27][28] IBA has allowed her to continue participating in the tournament.

See also

• IBA World Boxing Championships
• International Boxing Association

Notes

1. The original bronze medalist, Lin Yu-ting from Chinese Taipei, has been disqualified from the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships after failing to meet gender eligibility rules.^[8]
2. The original finalist, Algeria's Imane Khelif, has been disqualified from the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships after failing to meet gender eligibility rules (exceeding the designated level of testosterone allowed in the system).^[9]
3. Megan de Cler was the lone boxer from the Netherlands at the WWCH 2023 competing under IBA flag. While interacting with media on March 17 after her bout, she told ,"I am not playing for the Netherlands, I am here on my own. I don't do politics, I do boxing that's why I'm here".^[20]

References

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22. "Edhe Pse Lejohet Marrja e Vizave Politika Përsëri Penges e Sportit".
23. "Kosovo refuse to compete at IBA Women's Boxing World Championships over "discriminatory" conditions". Inside the Games. 14 March 2023. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
24. Osmani, Vjosa [@VjosaOsmaniPRKS] (15 March 2023). "The decision to prevent Donjeta Sadiku from taking part in the World Boxing Championship is a blatant violation of int'l sporting standards. As an @IBA_Boxing member, Kosovo is entitled to participate under its flag & anthem. We urge India to reconsider their decision. https://t.co/F5zIufm9sV" (Tweet). Retrieved 25 March 2023 – via Twitter.
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27. Sportstar, Team (19 March 2023). "IBA clean chit to Delhi-based Nepali boxer Anjani Teli". sportstar.thehindu.com. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
28. "anjani teli boxer - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 20 March 2023.

External links

• IBA website
• Results book