IBA World Boxing Championships 2023: Indian Boxers Who Will Be In Action in Tashkent on May 1

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Tashkent, 30 April: The highly anticipated IBA World Boxing Championships 2023 will begin on Monday (May 1) in Tashkent, Uzbekistan with round one. Several Indian boxers are going to be in action on the opening day of the global competition.

Mohammed Hussamuddin (57kg) and Varinder Singh (60kg) will be taking centre stage on Monday to kick off India's campaign in the marquee competition where top boxers from world over are participating. (World Boxing Championships 2023: India Squad, Schedule & Live Streaming Info)

2022 Asian Championships bronze medallist Hussamuddin - who is a seasoned campaigner - will fight against Alen Rustemovski of Macedonian in the first round. While the national champion from Patiala Varinder Singh will go up against Mujibillo Tursunov of Uzbekistan in the 60 kg category.

IBA has announced big prize money for the winners. The gold medalists will walk away with prize money of USD 200,000. The silver medallists are to be given USD 100,000, and both bronze-medallists will be awarded USD 50,000 each.

Indian Boxers Who Will Be In Action on May 2?

Tokyo Olympian and 2019 Asian Championships silver medallist Ashish Chaudhary will take on Meysam Gheshlaghi of Iran in the 80kg opening round on Tuesday. Debutant Harsh Choudhary (86 kg) will look to make an instant impact as he will take on Australia's B. Mcallister on Tuesday (May 2).

Nishant Dev (71kg), who finished in the quarter-finals in the 2021 edition will take on World championships bronze medallist Sarkhan Aliyev of Azerbaijan.

Boxers in Action Later This Week

Four Indian pugilists will start their campaign on Thursday. In the 48 kg category, Govind Sahani will fight M Shafiev of Tajikistan, while, 2019 Asian Championships silver medallist Deepak Bhoria (51kg) will square off against Luis Delgado in the first round.

Deepak is expected to face Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist and reigning World Champion Saken Bibossinov of Kazakhstan in the second round.

Six-time Asian Championships medallist and second seed Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) got a bye in the opening round and will play against the winner of the bout between D. Phillip of Trinidad and Tobago and Brazil's Dos Reis Yuri in the round of 16.

Narender Berwal (92+kg), who is seeded eighth in the tournament will take on Tajikistan's M. Abroridinov in the pre-quarters.

Naveen Kumar (92kg) will fight P. Amiri in the pre-quarters on Friday as he also got a bye in the first round of the tournament. Akash Sangwan (67kg) and Sumit Kundu (75kg) will be up against M. FU (China) and sixth seed Pavel Sosulin of Russia in the round of 16, respectively.