SEVEN AFRICAN BOXERS TO TRADE LEATHER IN TODAY’S ROUND OF 16
With four boxers in the quarter-finals, morale is high among the African boxers taking part in the 14th edition of Women’s World Boxing Championships in Nis, Serbia.
More boxers from Africa are expected to sail through in today’s pre-quarters with seven pugilists in action.
So far, Africa’s female boxers have won a total of eight medals in the World Championships with North Africa winning six and Southern Africa two.
Mozambican boxing glamour girls, light-middleweight Alcinda Dos Santos won silver and bronze by middleweight Rady Gramane in the 2022 Worlds in Turkey to become the first boxers South of Sahara in Africa to win medals at the World Championships.
The face of Africa’s female boxing, charismatic Moroccan heavyweight Khadija Mardi made history in 2023 winning Africa’s first ever gold medal in the World Championships. She won bronze in 2019 in Russia, the first one for Africa in Women’s Worlds. Mardi pulled out of the Serbia event because she’s unwell.
Here’s today’s (March 12) schedule for African boxers:
Minimumweight: Rabab Cheddar (Morocco) vs Galicia Gomez (Mexico)
Featherweight: Pauline Chege (Kenya) vs Mijgona Samadova (Tajikistan)
Middleweight: Aminata Koroma (Sierra Leone) vs Nadezhda Ryabets (Kazakhstan)
Patricia Mbata (IBA- Nigeria) vs Vasiliki Stavridou (Greece)
Flyweight: Imane El Azami (Morocco) vs Meron Gutierrez (Spain)
Lencer Akinyi (Kenya) vs Dragana Jovanovic (Serbia)
Light-middleweight: Saida Lahmidi (Morocco) vs Oysha Toirova (Uzbekistan)
