Womens Boxing

Women's World Boxing Championships 2019: Jamuna Boro, Lovlina Borgohain storm into quarter-finals with comprehensive victories

Last edition's bronze-winner Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) and debutant Jamuna Boro (54kg) on Wednesday marched into the quarter-finals of the World Women's Boxing Championships.

Women's World Boxing Championships 2019: All you need to know about the mega event that begins in Russia on 3 October

The 11th edition of Women's World Boxing Championships will serve as a qualification tournament for next year's Asia/Oceania Olympic Qualifiers to be held in Wuhan, China from 3-14 February, 2020. Here's all you need to know about the event.

Women's World Boxing Championships: Saweety Boora's journey from training in ploughed fields to boxing for India

Saweety Boora talks to Firstpost about her journey from having to train in ploughed fields in Haryana to representing India at the Women's Boxing World Championships

Women's World Boxing Championships to start in New Delhi on 15 November

The marquee boxing tournament was last held in India in 2006 and remains the best for the country in terms of performance. India had topped the medal tally with four gold, three silver and one bronze medal.

Ace boxer MC Mary Kom says she's training 'smartly' while setting sights on sixth World Championship gold

Indian boxer MC Mary Kom says she has her sights set on a historic sixth World Championship crown and is training "smartly" to achieve it.

Commonwealth Games 2018: Star boxer MC Mary Kom wallops Kristina O'Hara, claims gold on CWG debut

The legend of MC Mary Kom (48kg) grew larger as she added the Commonwealth Games (CWG) gold to her packed medal cabinet, thrashing Northern Ireland's Kristina O'Hara in the final in Gold Coast on Saturday.

National Women's Boxing Championship: Sarita Devi, Sonia Lather punch their way into quarters

Former world champion Sarita Devi (AIP) and Asian boxing championship silver medallist Sonia Lather stormed into the quarter-finals of the the National Women's Boxing Championship in Rohtak.

AIBA Women's Youth Championships: Ankushita Boro, Shashi Chopra star as 5 Indian boxers reach quarters

Indian boxers packed quite a punch as five of them advanced to the quarterfinals with comfortable victories in the AIBA Women's Youth World Championships on Tuesday

Asian Women's Boxing Championships: MC Mary Kom, Sonia Lather enter final; L Sarita Devi claims bronze

MC Mary Kom (48kg) remained on course for a fifth Asian Championships gold after making the finals along with Sonia Lather (57kg), while five others settled for bronze medals at the continental showpiece in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday.

Asian Women's Boxing Championships: Mary Kom closes in on gold after beating Japan's Tsubasa Komura

She defeated Japan's Tsubasa Komura in a unanimous 5-0 verdict to make the summit clash for the fifth time in her six appearances at the event.