{"id":234750,"date":"2023-03-28T20:05:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=234750"},"modified":"2023-03-28T20:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T14:35:33","slug":"golden-fist-on-the-victory-for-indian-women-boxers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/golden-fist-on-the-victory-for-indian-women-boxers\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden fist: On the victory for Indian women boxers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>S<\/strong><strong>ource<\/strong>: The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cGolden fist: On the victory for Indian women boxers<\/strong><strong>\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>published in<strong> The Hindu <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>28th March 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 2: Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: About Indian women boxers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Indian women boxers collected four gold medals in the recent Delhi World championships. This is a significant milestone ahead of Hangzhou Asian Games, a qualifying event for the 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<h2>What are some significant achievements of Indian women boxers in the recent Delhi World championship?<\/h2>\n<p>Nitu Ghanghas, Nikhat Zareen, Lovlina Borgohain and Saweety Boora have won the gold medals and India topped the medal sheet.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note<\/strong>: In 2006 also India collected four gold medals as M.C. Mary Kom, Sarita Devi, K.C. Lekha and R.L. Jenny won.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nikhat Zareen became the second Indian after Mary to win more than one World title.<\/p>\n<h2>How International Boxing Association (IBA) is helping women boxers?<\/h2>\n<p>The IBA tried to ensure transparency and fairness. It took action against below-par match officials and athletes who seemingly enjoyed an unfair advantage. It offered a lucrative prize purse, including $100,000 to each winner, and financial support to boxers as an incentive to boost participation.<\/p>\n<h2>What will be the way forward?<\/h2>\n<p>The IBA is in conflict with the International Olympic Committee due to its exclusion from the Olympics over various issues. This has to be rectified.<\/p>\n<p>The event demonstrated the competitiveness and appeal of women\u2019s boxing.\u00a0The successful conduct of the event has encouraged the IBA to look at India as a potential market for boxing destinations. The Boxing Federation of India\u2019s also need to conduct more elite events to inspire the boxing community further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cGolden fist: On the victory for Indian women boxers\u201d\u00a0published in The Hindu on\u00a028th March 2023. Syllabus: GS \u2013 2: Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre. Relevance: About Indian women boxers. News: Indian women boxers collected four gold medals in the recent Delhi&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/golden-fist-on-the-victory-for-indian-women-boxers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Golden fist: On the victory for Indian women boxers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-234750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704876835},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}