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08 May 2021, 03:56 GMT+10
New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): Six-times AIBA Women s World Champion and five-times ASBC Asian Women s Champion Mary Kom will compete in the flyweight (51kg) in Dubai in the upcoming Asian women s Boxing Championships.
The upcoming ASBC Asian men s and women s Boxing Championships, which scheduled to be held in New Delhi have been relocated to Dubai, United Arab Emirates due to the current COVID-19 situation.
Boxers born between 1980 and 2002 are eligible to participate in the ASBC Asian men s and women s Elite Boxing Championships in 10 weight categories both for men and women.
Here for the long haul: Boxer Deepak Kumar not resting on his laurels after beating Olympic champion
The 23-year-old won silver medal in the recently-concluded Strandja Memorial tournament. Deepak Kumar | Boxing Federation of India
“Padhai likhai kar lo, boxing se kya milega (What will you gain from boxing)?” Deepak Kumar distinctly remembers this question that his parents and grandmother had posed when he decided that he belonged in the ring back in 2008.
Ten years down the line, he was ready with his answers – a national champion in 2018, a silver medallist in his first Asian Championship appearance in 2019 and last week, he stunned the reigning Olympic and world champion at one of the oldest and most prestigious events in Europe – the Strandja Memorial in Bulgaria – before securing a closely-fought silver.
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