Uzbekistan selected 10 top girls to the 13th Nations Women’s Cup
The former two-time Asian Games winner and three-time Olympian Mr. Elshod Rasulov, the head coach of the Uzbek women’s elite national team, selected ten girls for the upcoming 13th edition of the Nations Women’s Cup which will be held in Sombor, Serbia on January 14-22, 2024.
The upcoming edition of the Nations Women’s Cup will be held in all of the four female age groups: elite, youth, junior and schoolgirls. The first competition day is January 16 in Sombor while the finals will be taking place at the Mostonga Sports Hall on January 21.
The 13th Nations Women’s Cup will be live streamed in the website of the Serbian Boxing Federation as all of the previous editions. The Tournament Director Mr. Jovan Panic welcomes National Federations from each Confederation in the city of Sombor. The first edition of the Nations Women’s Cup took place in Sombor eleven years ago in 2012 and the local organizers were able to host it during the most difficult Covid-19 period as well.
Uzbekistan’s top female boxers who secured their national spots for the upcoming 1st World Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event during the recent National Championships, such as Feruza Kazakova (50kg), Sitora Turdibekova (57kg), Raykhona Kodirova (60kg), Navbakhor Khamidova (66kg) and Aziza Zokirova (75kg), all registered to the Nations Women’s Cup.
Kazakova, the ASBC Asian U22 Champion, has excellent technical skills and the 20-year-old boxer has all the potential to win gold medal at the Nations Women’s Cup. The Olympic Games quarter-finalist Kodirova returned to the national team in time to give herself a chance to qualify for Paris 2024. Khamidova is the reigning ASBC Asian Champion at the women’s welterweight (66kg) and she could be one of the stars in Sombor as well.
Nigina Uktamova has already qualified for the Olympic Games through the Asian Games at the bantamweight (54kg) and her replacement in the Nations Women’s Cup will be the 19-year-old Mukhlisa Khushvaktova. Saidakhon Rakhmonova (48kg), the Women’s World bronze medallist Aziza Yokubova (52kg), Mokhinabonu Abdullayeva (63kg), Khadijabonu Abdullayeva (70kg) and the two-time ASBC Asian Youth Champion Oltinoy Sotimboyeva (81kg) will represent Uzbekistan at the non-Olympic weight categories.
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