Olympic medalist Chen Nien-chin took home a bronze medal at this year’s World Boxing Championships after losing in the women’s 65kg semi-final in Liverpool, England, on Friday.
Chen was edged out 2-3 by Uzbekistan’s Navbakhor Khamidova after three hard-fought rounds at M&S Bank Arena, but she still claimed Taiwan’s first medal at the flagship World Boxing event.
She had previously defeated Khamidova by a unanimous decision in the women’s 66kg quarter-finals at the Paris Olympic Games last year, where she also earned a bronze medal.
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Meanwhile, fellow Taiwanese Huang Hsiao-wen, who claimed a bronze medal in the women’s 51kg category at the Tokyo Olympics, beat South Korea’s Im Ae-ji in the 54kg semi-finals yesterday with a clear 5-0 victory. Im also won an Olympic bronze in Paris. Huang is next to face American Perez Yoseline in the finals tonight.
World Boxing is the new international federation for Olympic-style boxing, provisionally recognized by the International Olympic Committee.
As of late July, it had 118 national federations as members.
This year’s World Boxing Championships is the inaugural edition of the federation’s world championships, with more than 540 boxers from 66 national federations taking part.
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