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26th March

Women’s 50kg final - Nikhat Zareen beat Nguyen Thi Tam to win gold

Women’s 75kg final - Lovlina Borgohain defeats Caitlin Parker to win gold

That’s it for our coverage from the IBA Women’s Boxing World Championships.

This has been a fruitful World Championship for India with four gold medals as they top the medal tally ahead of China, who won three gold medals!

Their best-ever showing after the 2006 edition, also hosted in New Delhi, which saw India win four gold medals, one silver and three bronze medals.

Going into the Paris Olympics next year, this should give a huge boost to the boxing contingent.

Lovlina Borgohain vs Caitlin Parker: Lovlina Borgohain is a World Champion! That was a close one but like Saweety last night, Lovlina clinches gold by the skin of her teeth! Four out of four gold medals for India!

Lovlina Borgohain vs Caitlin Parker, round 3: Lovlina knows she needs to up her game in the final round and she gives a good go at it. Will it be enough? The bout is under review.

Lovlina Borgohain vs Caitlin Parker, round 2: A very close second round that. Lovlina started it on a promising note by connecting with Parker’s mid-riff but the Australian fought back well. Four judges give the round to Parker with only one giving it to Lovlina.

Lovlina Borgohain vs Caitlin Parker, round 1: Parker giving Lovlina a tough time but the Indian makes contact a fair few times. Lovlina, the aggressor. Parker, happy to play the waiting game. The Indian wins the round on three cards.

Lovlina Borgohain vs Caitlin Parker: Lovlina strides out to loud cheers. Will she add a World Championship gold to her Tokyo Olympics bronze?

Samreen Razaaqui from New Delhi: Nikhat Zareen, World Champion again! As she wins, it’s the same enthralling celebrations like last time. After embracing her opponent, greeting the coaches, she bows down and prostates and then continues on her celebrating spree again. Superstar.

Nikhat Zareen vs Nguyen Thi Tam: Nikhat Zareen is a two-time World Champion! Superb turnaround from Nikhat in the third round to secure victory via unanimous verdict.

Samreen Razzaqui from New Delhi: Nikhat is pumped as she returns to the corner. She’s got it, she thinks. The crowd thinks so too.

Nikhat Zareen vs Nguyen Thi Tam, round 3: Nikhat firing off the block! Nguyen gets a countdown and Nikhat fist pumps. But wait! The Indian is shown the countdown herself seconds later. Oh boy this will be a close call. The bell rings and both boxers smile confident they have won it.

Samreen Razzaqui from New Delhi: A much closer contest but Nikhat has this. She looks assured as she returns to the corner.

Nikhat Zareen vs Nguyen Thi Tam, round 2: ‘Lamba khel’, says Nikhat’s coach from the sideline. And the Telangana boxer does just that waiting for her opponent to attack and countering brilliantly. Some big punches from Nikhat! It’s Nikhat all the way. Oh hang on, Nguyen leads on three cards after round two I think.

Samreen Razzaqui in New Delhi: There was a flurry of punches from Nikhat in the middle that had the entire stadium go “Oooooh”. Clean, powerful and accurate. No surprise there, 5-0 to Nikhat.

Nikhat Zareen vs Nguyen Thi Tam, round 1: Nikhat starts well landing a few good punches before grappling with Nguyen. The Vietnamese is shown the yellow card. ‘Aaram se, aaram se’ yells Nikhat’s coach on the sideline. ‘Keep some distance’ he adds. Good opening round for the Indian.

Nikhat Zareen vs Nguyen Thi Tam: History beckons for both these boxers. Nikhat can become only the 12th woman to win multiple world gold medals. Thi Tam will become the first boxer from Vietnam to become World Champion. And off we go!

Samreen Razzaqui in New Delhi: If yesterday was loud, today is deafening. The crowd has turned up and how. The stadium is packed. The cheers before reigning champion Nikhat go up and the arena is hyped.

Nikhat Zareen vs Nguyen Thi Tam: The 50kg final will be the first title clash of the day with Nikhat taking on Nguyen Thi Tam. Should she win today, Nikhat will be the second Indian to win multiple world championship gold medals after the legendary MC Mary Kom.

Hello and welcome to Scroll’s live coverage of the IBA Women’s Boxing World Championships. Our correspondent Samreen Razzaqui is at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall in New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium to provide updates too.

It’s the final day of the 2023 IBA women’s Boxing World Championships with two of India’s top boxers in Nikhat Zareen and Lovlina Borgohain gunning to end the tournament on a high for their nation. It was already a fine Saturday as both Nitu Ghanghas and Saweety Boora won their finals.

A year after being crowned World Champion in the 52kg category, Nikhat Zareen is in the final again, this time in the 50kg category. Despite switching categories, Nikhat has been in imperious form at the tournament. In the final, she will be up against two-time Asian champion Nguyen Thi Tam.

Lovlina Borgohain comes into her 75kg final (a new category for her too) hoping to finally finish on top of the podium after twice winning bronze in 2018 and 2019. She can take inspiration (if she needs any) from her compatriot Saweety Boora, who also won her first gold medal yesterday after missing out in 2014.

Stay tuned for updates.

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