The bronze medalist for Asian games, Narender Berwal, will be at the head of an Indian male boxing team of 10 members at the first world boxing cup in Foz Do Iguacu, Brazil, starting on Monday. This tournament marks the first event organized by world boxing since it received provisional recognition from the Olympic International Committee in February and the inclusion of boxing at the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028. Competitions will take place for men and women, but India has only sent male boxers, such as the national female championships were only ended on Thursday.
It will be the first time that Indian boxers will have competed internationally in the new weight categories introduced by world boxing.
The boxers who finished first and second in each category of weight at the national championships in January went to Brazil for a one -week camp.
The riding national champions, unless Sumit (85 kg) which is unfit, will participate in the tournament.
The team does not include the tastes of Nishant Dev and Amit Panghal, who both became professionals, or veteran boxer Shiva Thapa and the bronze medalist in the 2023 World Championship Deepak Bhoria, who had participated in the Olympic qualifications in Paris.
This will be the first time that Indian Elite boxers will have participated on the international circuit since the Paris Olympic Games.
The six-day tournament will include more than 130 boxers, including Olympians, from 19 countries, including Australia, France, England, Germany, Kazakhstan, the United States and Uzbekistan.
Lakshya Chahar will be the only Indian in action on opening day. He will assume the average silver medalist in the 2023 Wanderley Pereira world championship, from Brazil, in the 80 kg of pre-arterfinal.
India team: Jadumani S Mandengbam (50 kg), Manish Rathore (55 kg), Sachin Siwach (60 kg), Abhinash Jamwal (65kg), Hitesh (70kg), Nikhil Dubey (75kg), Lakshya Chahar (80kg), Jugnoo (85kg), Vishal (90kg) Jugnoo (85kg), Vishal (90kg), Jugnoo (85kg), Vishal (90kg), Narses Berwal (90 kg).
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