Defending champion Bakhodur Usmonov is member of Team Tajikistan at the ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships
Tajikistan will be sending eleven boxers including four girls to the upcoming ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships. Their defending ASBC Asian Champion Bakhodur Usmonov was selected to attend in the Dubai event while their second Tokyo Olympian Shabbos Negmatulloev is also member of the travelling team.
The ASBC Asian Elite Men’s and Women’s Boxing Championships will be starting from the 21st of May and it is extended until the 1st of June in the new venue in Dubai. Tajikistan achieved two quotas for the Tokyo Olympic Games at the Asian & Oceanian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event in Amman on March 2020.
Tajikistan earned one impressive gold medal in the Bangkok 2019 ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships where Bakhodur Usmonov won the light welterweight (64kg). Mr. Parviz Akhmedov, Mr. Mirzo Shamsiyev, Mr. Bakhrom Usmonov and former national team member Mr. Khurshed Djurayev will be the four coaches of the Tajik delegation in Dubai.
Sumaiya Kosimova was quarter-finalists at the Asian & Oceanian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event in Amman and the 21-year-old boxer is now a medal hope at the flyweight (51kg). She defeated Rukhafzo Khaknazarova in the Tajikistan National Championships therefore the 22-year-old boxer moved up to the bantamweight (54kg).
Mizhgona Samadova competed at the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships, ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships in 2019 following she switched from other martial arts. The fourth female team member is Shoira Zulkaynarova their two-time ASBC Asian Women’s Boxing Championships bronze medallist.
Bakhtovar Sagizov progressed well in the recent two years therefore he could be a medal contender at the bantamweight (56kg) in Dubai. Abdurakhmon Yokubov will be turning only 21 later this year but he is the country’s Elite National Champion from 2020 and could be a secret weapon at the lightweight (60kg).
Virtuoso Bakhodur Usmonov is the titleholder of the light welterweight (64kg) from Bangkok and he is a Tokyo Olympian boxer. The 23-year-old prodigy is a fantastic boxer who has the potential to beat all of his opponents in Dubai once again. Abdumalik Boltayev won several youth international tournaments and at the very first time the 20-year-old talent can show his skills in the elite competitions.
FISU University World Champion Shabbos Negmatulloev is Tajikistan’s second Tokyo Olympian who has got all of the skills to achieve something great at the light heavyweight (81kg). Jasurbek Kurbonov claimed silver medal at the 2007 Asian Junior Boxing Championships and after a long break he returns at the heavyweight (91kg). Tajikistan’s super heavyweight (+91kg) boxer will be Siyovush Zukhurov as in the previous years.
List of the Tajik boxers at the ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships
Women’s 51kg: Sumaiya Kosimova Women’s 54kg: Rukhafzo Khaknazarova Women’s 57kg: Mizhgona Samadova Women’s 60kg: Shoira Zulkaynarova Men’s 56kg: Bakhtovar Sagizov Men’s 60kg: Abdurakhmon Yokubov Men’s 64kg: Bakhodur Usmonov Men’s 75kg: Abdumalik Boltayev Men’s 81kg: Shabbos Negmatulloev Men’s 91kg: Jasurbek Kurbonov Men’s +91kg: Siyovush Zukhurov
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