Six-time world champion M C Mary Kom will not compete in the upcoming National Women바카라s Boxing Championships in Hisar. (Other Sports News)
Mary Kom, who is a six-time world champion, is training for the women's World Championships to be held in December in Istanbul.
Six-time world champion M C Mary Kom will not compete in the upcoming National Women바카라s Boxing Championships in Hisar. (Other Sports News)
The 38-year-old, who reached the pre-quarters of Tokyo Olympics before bowing out with a hard-fought loss, is, however, training for the World Championships in December.
Even though the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) has announced that only gold medal winners from the Nationals will make the squad, it is reliably learnt that trials could be held in a couple of weight categories, including the 48kg division, which Mary Kom would prefer to compete in.
The national championships will be held in Hisar from October 21. Olympic bronze-medallist Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) has been given direct selection for the world event based on her Tokyo performance. She will also be skipping the domestic showpiece.
Mary Kom, a multiple-time Asian gold-medallist, has not competed since the Tokyo Games and a federation source said, she would have given the Nationals a shot if the announcement on world championship selection had come sooner.
The BFI바카라s decision of picking only national gold-winners for the world championships was announced on October 5. 바카라She would have competed had she known about this earlier. She would have prepared accordingly,바카라 the federation said.
The other two Tokyo Olympians, Simranjeet Kaur (60kg) and Pooja Rani (75kg), will be competing at the nationals. The women바카라s boxing World Championships will be held in Istanbul in early December and will offer a total prize money of USD 2.6 million, same amount as marked for the men바카라s event, due to start on October 24 in Belgrade, Serbia.