More than 300 boxers entered to the 75th Strandja Memorial Tournament
The oldest international competition of the world, the 75th edition of the Strandja Memorial Tournament will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria from in the upcoming days after the Boxam Tournament until the 12th.
After the strong Strandja Memorial Tournament, the Bulgarian Boxing Federation will welcome the National Federations in a joint international training camp as well.
The traditional event will be a great opportunity to prepare actively before the 1st World Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event. The 1st World Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event will take place in Busto Arsizio, North Italy between February 29 and March 13.
Altogether 106 female and 215 male boxers from 27 strong nations will be attending at the Strandja Memorial Tournament in the upcoming days.
Algeria, Armenia, Austria, host Bulgaria, China, Croatia, France, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, India, Iran, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Tajikistan, Thailand, Ukraine and Uzbekistan all will be there in the strong Strandja Memorial Tournament.
Uzbekistan’s top stars such as their three qualified male boxers, the Olympic Champions, Hasanboy Dusmatov, Bakhodir Jalolov and the World Champion Abdumalik Khalokov all entered to the Strandja Memorial Tournament together with the two-time Asian Champion Saidjamshid Jafarov and the World silver medallist Ikboljon Kholdarov.
China qualified seven boxers to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games through the Asian Games and all of them will use the Strandja Memorial as preparation including their female stars as Chang Yuan, Yang Liu, and Li Qian.
The Bulgarian aces as the World Champion Stanimira Petrova, the European Games silver medallist Svetlana Kamenova, Javier Ibanez, and the multiple European Champion Radoslav Rosenov will be their main gold medal hopes in this new edition.
Ireland’s top female boxers, the Olympic Games winner Kellie Harrington, the World Champions as Amy Broadhurst and Lisa O’Rourke, furthermore the European Champion Aoife O’Rourke all will be there on the start of the Strandja Memorial.
France’s stars as the World silver medallist Billal Bennama, the two-time World Champion Sofiane Oumiha, the European Games winner Amina Zidani, and Davina Michel all registered to participate in the Strandja Memorial.
Thailand’s female team, their medallists from the World Championships and several other competitions such as Chuthamat Raksat, Jutamas Jitpong, and Janjaem Suwannapheng are already arrived to the venue in Bulgaria.
India’s best team will participate in the Strandja Memorial Tournament and their boxers arrived to Sofia last evening including the Asian Games winner Amit Panghal, and their female World Champions, Lovlina Borgohain and Nikhat Zareen.
Kazakhstan’s team will be strengthened by their minimumweight World Champion Sanzhar Tashkenbay, and the Asian Champion Tursynbay Kulakhmet.
Tajikistan will send also their best boxers to the Strandja Memorial Tournament including their new Asian Games winner Davlat Boltayev, the Tokyo Olympian Shabbos Negmatulloev and the Paris Olympian Mizhgona Samadova.
Algeria’s Imane Khelif is one of the top stars at the women’s welterweight (66kg) and she has already qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The best Georgians, their European Champions and World medallists, Sakhil Alakhverdovi, Artiush Gomtsyan, Lasha Guruli, and Giorgiy Kushitashvili all plan to participate in the prestigious competition.
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