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Five Indian boxers in World Championships final
By Indo Asian News Service,
Nov 23, 2006 - 3:37:15 AM
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Led by M.C. Mary Kom, five Indian boxers have entered the final of the fourth Women's World Boxing Championship here Wednesday, even as three pugilists ended up with bronze medals.
Besides Mary Kom, who will be aiming for a hat trick of gold medals in the 46kg category, Sarita Devi (52kg), N. Usha (57kg), Jenny. R. Lalranliani (63kg) and Lekha K.C (75kg) have assured themselves of at least silver medals as they booked berths in the finals of the 32-nation competition.
Chotu Loura (50 kg) and Aruna Mishra (66 kg) and Renu (80kg), who all lost in the semi-finals Wednesday, will receive bronze as both semi-finals losers win medals.
In a repeat of the last year's final at Podolsk in Russia, Mary Kom, who had won the gold in the previous two championships, defeated Jong Ok of North Korea in the semi-final at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium Wednesday.
Mary Kom, 24, the lone Indian gold winner in Podolsk, will face Romanian Steluta Duta in the final, which is expected to be a stiff contest.
In other bouts, Sarita outclassed Samiha Ali Hasan of Egypt. The bout had to be stopped by the referee as it turned out to be one sided with the Indian dominating.
In the final, Sarita will face Rudenko of Ukraine whose semi-final contest was also stopped by the referee after she took a huge lead over Jagoda Karge of Poland.
N. Usha defeated defending champion Mihaela Cijevschi of Russia 15-10, and will now face Yum Kum Ju of North Korea in the title bout. Ju defeated Chinese Bin Wu 23-4 in a one sided contest.
Jenny had a tough fight against Katie Dun of Canada. The local girl came back strongly to pocket the bout 25-19. Jenny will face Klara Svensonn, who piped defending champion Nemetsova Yulia of Russia 28-13.
Lekha right from the start of the first round charged her Hungarian opponent Anita Ducza and won the bout 24-6. The Indian will face Olga Novikova of Ukraine in the finals, who edged past Jinzi Li of China 17-10.
Loura lost to Hasibe Erkoc of Turkey 8-17 and Aruna went down 8-13 to Frenchwoman Aya Cissoko. The Frenchwoman will face Ukrainian Kozlan in the final. Kozlan defeated defending champion Mary Spencer 9-6.
Referee stopped Steluta Duta's semi-final match against Boranbayeva Nazgul of Kazakhstan in the second round after the Romanian had taken a huge lead of 20-0.
Renu, too could not match up to her American opponent Chitiqua Hemmingway and went down pretty tamely. It turned out to be a low-scoring bout, with the final scores reading 10-7 in favour of the American.
In all, 181 boxers, including 13 from India, are taking part in the championships that is being held in 13 weight categories.
The winner in each category will receive $2,500, the runner-up $1,500 and the third will get $750.
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