The Uzbek girls train with Mr. Elshod Rasulov in Yangiabad until April 13

The Uzbek girls amazed at the recent IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Nis, Serbia where their boxers earned one silver and three bronze medals.

Their 24-year-old Navbakhor Khamidova, the two-time ASBC Asian Champion at the women’s welterweight (66kg), bagged their first ever silver medal in the event’s history.

The Uzbek female boxers bagged also 3 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals in the recent edition of the ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

The former Asian Games winner Mr. Elshod Rasulov is the head coach of the women’s elite national team and he selected a strong pool of boxers to continue the preparations after one of the main events.

The Uzbek women’s elite team has been preparing in the Yangiabad national training centre until April 13 with the leading of several famous coaches. Yangiabad is located in the Angren municipality in the Tashkent region, not far from the capital city in a mountainous area.

Their next competitions will be held in Russia and in Azerbaijan and the Uzbek female boxers want to impress once again on these challenges.

Parallel to the girls, the Uzbek elite men’s boxing team trains in the city of Kislovodsk for three weeks between March 20 and April 9 to prepare well for the next actions.

The average age of the Uzbek women’s boxing team is less than 23 therefore many of the teams are expecting their huge impact in the upcoming competitions. Farzona Fozilova, Sabina Bobokulova, Feruza Kazakova, Nigina Uktamova, Oysha Toirova, Aziza Zokirova and Oltinoy Sotimboyeva are all still in the U22 age groups.

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