Claudia Nechita reached the 1/8 finals of the Women’s World Boxing Championship in New Delhi in the category up to 57 kg, defeating Mexican Jennifer Yazmin Carrillo (5-0) by points.

Claudia Nechita defeated Jennifer Yazmin Carrillo at CM Box

The athlete from CSA Steaua, who took fifth place at the Olympics in Tokyo, clearly dominated the Mexican boxer and won the judges’ decision 5-0, winning every round of the fight, writes Agerpres.

However, in the round of 16, Nechita will meet a very good opponent, Taiwan’s Yu-Ting Lin, the 2018 world champion in the 54 kg weight category and the 2022 world champion in the 57 kg weight category. The Taiwanese has two more Asian championship titles, in 2017 and 2019.

Also Thursday Alexander George was defeated on points by Yulia Apanasovich of Belarus (1-4), in cat. 52 kg.

The cat has 54 kg, Lâcâmioara Perijocqualifies directly for the 1/8 finals, where on March 18 she will fight the winner of the match between Hanna Lakkotar (Hungary) and Priti Dahiya (India).

On March 18, he climbed into the ring and Loredana Marin (cat. 60 kg), who will meet in the first round with the participant of the Olympics in Tokyo from Tunisia, Marie Khomrani.

Four Romanian boxers went to New Delhi: Lacramioara Perihoc (category 54 kg), vice-champion of the world, Claudia Nechita (category 57 kg), who took fifth place at the Olympics in Tokyo, Loredana Marin (category 60 kg), champion European Juniors, all from CSA Steaua and Oleksandr Gheorghe (cat. 52 kg) from CSM Slatina. They are accompanied by coaches Adrian and Mihaela Liakatus.

The world competition is held with the participation of more than 300 athletes from 65 countries in the 6,000-seat KD Jadhav Hall in the capital of India.

The IBA has promised a prize pool of $2.4 million, the prizes are the same as last year: $100,000 – a gold medal; 50,000 – silver and 25,000 – bronze.