FOUR AFRICAN BOXERS IN QUARTERS AS TOTAL NUMBER OF LOSERS SWELLS TO 13
Three Moroccan boxers Widad Bertal, Mounia Toutire, Hasnae Larti and Sierra Leone’s Josefien Betist punched their way to the quarter-finals in Day 3 of Women’s World Boxing Championships in Nis, Serbia on Tuesday, March 11.
Bertal, the two-time Africa bantamweight champion and African Games gold medallist outpointed North Korea’s Park Jin Hyang, welterweight Toutire beat Mexico’s Maria Rodriguez 5-0, Africa light-heavyweight champion Larti stopped Serbia’s Elma Hajrovic in two minutes 57 seconds of the third round while Betist won against Latvia’s Anna Sorokina 5-0.
Six more African boxers, four Kenyans, one Moroccan and a Cape Verdean were eliminated from the tournament as some officials raised concern on what they felt was questionable officiating.
The four Kenyans out ar_Take it easy Cape Verdean Ivanusa Moreira. You win some lose some_e lightweight Emily Juma beaten 5-0 by Slovakia’s Miroslava Jedinakova, light-welterweight Cynthia Mwai was stopped in 22 seconds of the second round by Mexico’s Gonzalez Hernandez, welterweight Friza Anyango lost 5-0 to Slovakia’s Tamara Kubalova and bantamweight Amina Martha went down on points to Russia’s Karina Tazabekova.
Morocco’s bronze medal winner in the 2023 World Championships and Africa light-flyweight champion Yasmine Mouttaki was beaten 5-0 by Kazakhstan’s bronze medallist in the 2023 India Worlds Alua Balkibekova while Cape Verde’s Africa champion in Yaounde 2023 Moreira lost 5-0 to Kazakhstan’s Zhasmin Kizatova.
With six boxers out in Day 3 of Serbia Worlds, a total of 13 African boxers have now been eliminated from the 14th edition of the ongoing World Championships.
