The Myanmar Divisions and States Boxing Championships starts today
The Myanmar Boxing Federation’s next competition is their Divisions and States National Boxing Championships which will be held until October 11. The total number of elite boxers is 150 in the national competition and 18 boxers will take their gold medals in the finals.
The women boxers are able to compete at the pinweight (46kg), minimumweight (48kg), light flyweight (50kg), flyweight (52kg), bantamweight (54kg), featherweight (57kg), lightweight (60kg) and light welterweight (63kg). The number of the women boxers is 47 in the national event and eight champions will be crowned.
The male boxers will be meeting at the minimumweight (48kg), flyweight (51kg), bantamweight (54kg), featherweight (57kg), lightweight (60kg), light welterweight (63.5kg), welterweight (67kg), light middleweight (71kg), middleweight (75kg) and light heavyweight (80kg) in the upcoming day. Altogether 103 men boxers are on the board in the Divisions and States Boxing Championships to fight for the ten gold medals.
Their President Mr. Kyaw Kyaw Soe and their Vice-President Mr. Aung Naing led their SEA Games delegation in Cambodia’s capital and the officials will be following the Divisions and States Boxing Championships in the next days.
Myanmar claimed one silver and two bronze medals in the 2022 edition of the Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam and their nine-strong team earned six bronze medals in the 2023 SEA Games in Phnom Penh this year. Five women and ten men boxers celebrated their gold medals at the 2022 Myanmar National Boxing Championships last September. This was the big comeback in the country’s boxing life following their management was unable to host any national events during the Covid-19 period.
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