India will host the ladies’s world boxing championships in 2023 in New Delhi, two years after the nation was stripped of the internet hosting rights of the boys’s occasion for not paying the requisite payment to the worldwide governing physique.

India has by no means carried out the boys’s world championship however it is going to be the third time that the elite ladies’s competitors shall be held within the nation having carried out the championships in 2006 and 2018 in New Delhi.

India additionally hosted the ladies’s youth world championships in 2017.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the International Boxing Association (IBA) and the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) within the presence of IBA President Umar Kremlev and BFI President Ajay Singh right here on Wednesday.

”The ladies’s world championship shall be held in Delhi in March 2023,” Singh informed reporters.

”Women’s boxing has proven huge enchancment, we’re among the many high nations on this planet. Last version we had been quantity 3 and we goal to enhance that.

”We predict participation from about 75-100 nations, about 1,500 boxers and coaches.” The championship will even see the introduction of a historic bout evaluate system. ”The world championship in India would be the first occasion during which the evaluate system primarily based on expertise shall be used. That is any dispute might be reviewed throughout the bout itself,” Singh stated.

The occasion will even improve in prize cash with a complete prize pool of roughly Rs 19.50 crore (USD 2.4 million). The gold medallists shall be awarded with roughly Rs 81 lakh (USD 100,000).

The internet hosting rights of the occasion to India comes as a major growth as BFI had misplaced the internet hosting rights of the 2021 occasion to Serbia after failing to pay the host payment, prompting the International Boxing Association, then often known as (AIBA), to terminate its settlement.

At the final version of the ladies’s occasion in Turkey, India had returned with a haul of three medals, together with Nikhat Zareen’s gold within the flyweight class.

New AI-based evaluate system to be launched ============================= The IBA has developed a brand new evaluate system primarily based on synthetic intelligence which shall be used for the primary time throughout the ladies’s world championship subsequent yr.

”It shall be primarily based on synthetic intelligence, we could have 4 cameras, doing evaluation from each nook of the punches. It shall be monitored by an evaluator and if one thing is unclear they’ll come whereas the bout goes,” IBA Secretary General George A. Yerolimpos informed PTI.

”We could have a whole lot of officers monitoring it, so nobody can bypass the system,” he added.

The IBA Secretary General stated one of many causes India was picked because the host was as a result of it’s a digital nation.

”India was chosen not solely as a result of it’s a very massive nation but additionally as a result of it a digital nation. We (IBA) are totally digitalised now and that is giving us quick outcomes.” Boxing will characteristic within the LA Olympics ========================= In a serious blow, boxing has been unnoticed of the preliminary checklist of sports activities for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles however IBA President Kremlev is assured that the game shall be included within the roaster later.

”Don’t’ fear. It shall be included in this system. Let the Paris Olympic go then we’ll work on that,” Kermlev stated.

”The IBA has achieved 100 per cent of the suggestions proposed by the International Olympic Committee and the brand new management is open to implementing reforms and IBA is 100 per cent clear,” he added.

”There is not any query of boxing being unnoticed. The world desires boxing to be a part of the Olympic motion and it is without doubt one of the massive attracts of the Olympics.” Mercedes for Nikhat if she defend World Championship title ===================================== In a light-weight second, Nikhat Zareen stated if she defends her world championship title subsequent yr she’s going to purchase a Mercedes with the prize cash and invite and IBA President Kremlev to her house metropolis of Hyderabad.

”With the money prize I wished to purchase a brand new home in Hyderabad and hopefully I’ll win subsequent yr after which with that cash I’ll purchase a mercedes and can invite IBA President to Hyderabad and we’ll go for a journey,” Nikhat stated.

The Russian sports activities functionary was fast to answer: ”If Nikhat wins the world championship I’ll reward Nikhat a mercedes,” Kremlev stated.

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