{"id":506,"date":"2022-10-11T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecord.in\/?p=506"},"modified":"2023-01-09T18:33:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T13:03:36","slug":"indian-female-boxers-raining-medals-in-asian-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Indian Female Boxers Make History at Asian C&#8217;ships in Amman"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p>In the Asian Boxing Championship 2022 in Amman, Jordan, Indian female boxers are breaking records. The Indian women have been drenched with gold and silver at this illustrious competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/lovlina-borgohain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Lovlina Borgohain\">Lovlina Borgohain<\/a><\/strong> of Golaghat, Assam, won the gold medal in the 75-kg division, earning her first gold medal in an Asian championship. She had previously won bronze in 2017 and 2019. In the championship match, she defeated Ruzmetova Sokhiba of Uzbekistan by a score of 5-0. The boxers manoeuvred around the ring to avoid blows, but Lovlina connected with her forceful fist, and the referee had no choice but to give her the victory. Due to her prior weight category not being scheduled for the Paris Olympics, Lovlina moved up from the 69kg to the 75kg weight category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lovlina Borgohain wins \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3's 2nd \ud83e\udd47 in Asian Boxing Championship \ud83d\ude0d<br><br>Lovlina won the Women's 75kg Final vs \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddff's Ruzmetova Sokhiba by Unanimous Decision \ud83d\udd25<br><br>What a dominating performance by the Tokyo 2020 Medalist \ud83d\ude4c<br><br>Congratulations champion \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JRwFBeYe3X\">pic.twitter.com\/JRwFBeYe3X<\/a><\/p>\u2014 SAI Media (@Media_SAI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_SAI\/status\/1591058923511238656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Her previous medals include bronzes from the Asian, World, and Olympic competitions. This Assamese fighter has a confidence-boosting first gold in her trophy collection as she prepares for the Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 63 kg division, <strong>Parveen Hooda<\/strong> of Rurkee village in Haryana also won the gold medal. Japan\u2019s fourth-seeded Kito Mai was defeated by World Championship bronze winner Parveen by a score of 5-0 in a unanimous decision. Even though the Japanese fighter was unprepared for her lightning-fast blows, Hooda was able to dazzle the spectators with her uppercuts, particularly in the third round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alfiya Pathan<\/strong> of Nagpur overcame Islam Husaili of Jordan due to opponent disqualification to win gold in the 81+ kg division, while <strong>Saweety Boora<\/strong> of Haryana defeated Gulsaya Yerzhan of Kazakhstan 5:0 by yet another unanimous decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another boxer from India, <strong>Minakshi<\/strong>, finished the 52 kg flyweight division of the Asian Championships with a silver medal. By a 1-4 split decision, she was defeated by Japanese player Kinoshita Rinka, the second seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Asian Championships in 2017, only one Indian woman, Pinki Rani, took home the gold medal. After seven gold medals in 2005 and five in 2003, Indian women\u2019s performance in the current competition is third best overall.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Asian Boxing Championship 2022 in Amman, Jordan, Indian female boxers are breaking records. The Indian women have been drenched with gold and silver at this illustrious competition. Lovlina Borgohain of Golaghat, Assam, won the gold medal in the 75-kg division, earning her first gold medal in an Asian championship. She had previously won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[82,84,83,86,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-lovlina-borgohain","10":"tag-minakshi","11":"tag-parveen-hooda","12":"tag-pinki-rani","13":"tag-saweety-boora"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecord.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}