(SEPT 21) The AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships will be held in New Delhi in November 13-25 and herewith all the latest news of deadlines if you or your country wishes to enter these championships.

The upcoming AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships will be the highlight of the end of the year in the globe’s boxing map. The tenth anniversary edition of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships will be held for the elite female boxers in New Delhi, India from November 13 until the 25th.

The deadline for the registrations in the AIBA Database to the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships is October 5.

The first edition of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships was held in the Unites States in Scranton in 2001. Asia is the general host of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships and New Delhi will be the fourth-in-a-row Asian city organizing the event after Qinhuangdao, Jeju and Kazakhstan’s capital Astana.

On the last occasion that the World Women’s Championships were held in New Delhi, Katie Taylor, who has since switched codes, claimed Ireland’s first gold at this level. The Bray woman, also the European champion at the time, went to No. 1 in the AIBA World 60kg rankings after that win and occupied pole position for ten years in an extraordinary decade-long dominance of the lightweight class.

In that final she met- and comprehensively defeated - Argentina’s hot favourite Erica Annabelle Farias 31-14 under the then AIBA scoring system. Now of course they are both highly successful Professionals, who may one day meet again for a World title belt. So how did it feel to the young Bray woman 10 years later when she was still World Number 1 Lightweight?

“I became number one just after the World Championships in India. I was very young then and I remember it was just a great feeling, my first World Championship.

“Since then I have always wanted to be the best and be the number one but no, it’s not something I would constantly think about. It’s not something I really chased, you know, to be number one for 10 years.

“But as I’ve always said and I’m sure other people will say it as well, you don’t do it on your own. I’ve a great group of people, a great family behind me all the way, all the time. You cannot underestimate that.”

Current Irish Elite champion Kellie Harrington reached the light-welter World Elite final in 2016. And together with Michaela Walsh will be the main Irish hopes this time round.

Irish boxing is in 9th position in the all-time World Women’s Elite Championships medal table. Taylor (5 gold and 1 bronze) and Harrington (silver) have claimed medals at this level.

India’s MC Mary Kom who like Taylor has won 5 Golds in this event is aiming to make the record ‘all her own’ when the Championships return to New Delhi.

She won successive gold medals in the 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2010 editions.

Meantime, Asian boxers dominated the last edition of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Astana where they won six titles. Kazakhstan claimed four, China took two gold medals home whilst Chinese Taipei, DPR Korea, India and Thailand also achieved podium places.

The team delegations hotel for the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships will be the Ashok Hotel in the Diplomatic Enclave of New Delhi. The Boxing Federation of India will provide airport transfer to and from the Indira Gandhi International Airport at their Welcome Desk upon arrival to New Delhi.

All participating National Federations must arrive to New Delhi prior to November 13 in good time for the Sports Entry “check in” for the tournament. Boxers must be accompanied by at least one AIBA certified coach at ringside during the bouts which will be based on the AIBA Technical & Competition Rules.

The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) will be hosting an important AIBA 2-star Coach Course in the city of Rohtak between October 20 and 28 just before the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships.

Schedule of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi

November 13-14 – Sport Entries Check

November 14 – Technical Meeting
November 14 – Official Draw
November 15 – Opening Ceremony
November 15 – Preliminaries
November 16 – Preliminaries
November 17 – Preliminaries
November 18 – Preliminaries
November 19 – Preliminaries
November 20 – Quarter-finals
November 21 – Rest Day
November 22 – Semi-finals
November 23 – Semi-finals
November 24 – Finals
November 25 – Departure of delegates

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