AIBA Girls’s Global Boxing Set To Be Postponed Due To COVID-19 Pandemic | Boxing Information

The ladies’s international boxing championship scheduled subsequent month in Turkey is all set to be postponed because of the top selection of COVID-19 circumstances being registered within the nation, a spokesperson of the World Boxing Affiliation (AIBA) advised PTI on Tuesday. The verdict to delay the championships may well be introduced anytime this week. The match used to be tentatively deliberate from December four to 18 in Istanbul. “It’s extremely most likely that the arena championship can be postponed as many nations have expressed reservations about travelling to Turkey as a result of the COVID circumstances there,” an AIBA spokesperson advised PTI in a telephonic dialog.

“You’ll be able to say, it is kind of made up our minds, the postponement. There has already been a round-table in this involving AIBA President Umar Kremlev all through which a number of international locations have expressed their apprehension. A choice in this will likely be introduced very quickly this week. We do not want a depleted box as a result of the pandemic,” the spokesperson added.

The development may well be held within the first part of subsequent 12 months. Kremlev has said that if postponed, the championship may well be held in March subsequent 12 months.

Turkey logged 27,824 COVID circumstances on Monday.

The surge in circumstances has been attributed to the delta variant of the virus. India used to be to be represented by way of the reigning nationwide champions in all weight classes with the exception of for 70kg department during which Olympic bronze-medallist Lovlina Borgohain has been given direct variety. Her direct variety has been antagonistic by way of nationwide gold-winner and international formative years champion Arundhati Choudhary, who has taken the subject to Delhi Top Court docket.

Alternatively, a postponement would, in all chance, power trial bouts throughout weight classes. For the primary time ever, the AIBA introduced a prize cash fund of USD 2.four million for medal winners throughout 12 weight classes. The prize for first position has been stored USD 100 000.

The silver-medallists would obtain USD 50,000 and each bronze winners in each and every weight class can be richer by way of USD 25,000. The arena frame had additionally introduced that AIBA Peculiar Congress can be held all through the championships, and primary reforms of the organisation will likely be introduced.

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In July, AIBA higher the ladies’s weight classes from 10 to 12. The brand new divisions are 48kg, 50kg, 52kg, 54kg, 57kg, 60kg, 63kg, 66kg, 70kg, 75kg, 81kg, and +81kg.

The arena frame not too long ago carried out the boys’s international championship in Belgrade or even welcomed fanatics into the world. The development handed off with none disruption and India ended with one bronze medal.