Two-time Asian champion Pooja Rani and World Boxing Cup Astana gold medallist Jaismine Lamboria assured India of two more medals at the World Boxing Championships 2025 in Liverpool with impressive quarterfinal victories.
Rani edged past Poland’s Emilia Koterska 3-2 in a tightly contested women’s 80kg bout, relying on her experience to overturn a slow start and secure her place in the semifinals. Meanwhile, Jaismine dominated Mamajonova Khumorabonu of Uzbekistan, the Under-22 Asian champion, with a commanding 5-0 win in the women’s 57kg category.
India, competing with a 20-member squad at the inaugural event organized by the newly formed World Boxing, now has three confirmed medals. Nupur, another Astana gold medallist, was the first Indian to secure a podium finish after reaching the women’s 80+kg semifinals on Wednesday.
Two more Indian boxers — Meenakshi (women’s 48kg) and Jadumani Singh Mandengbam (men’s 50kg) — will aim to join the medal tally when they contest their quarterfinal bouts on Friday.
It was, however, the end of the road for former world champion Nikhat Zareen and World Boxing Cup silver medallist Abhinash Jamwal. Zareen fell to Turkey’s two-time Olympic silver medallist Cakiroglu Buse Naz in the women’s 51kg quarterfinals, while Jamwal lost 1-4 to Paris Olympics bronze medallist Guruli Lasha of Georgia in the men’s 65kg division.
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