Armenian First women boxing championship completed

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For the first time women boxers took part in the Armenian boxing championship held January 26-31 at the Sports-Concert Complex after Karen Demirchyan.



7 women boxers fought in 3 weight categories. Haykuhi Nahapetyan won the champion’s title in the weight category 57 kg. Kristina Martirosyan comes second. In the 69 kg. w/c Armine Simonyan won, Panaliya Dinglyanidi comes second. Anna Hovhannisyan and Ashkhen Simonyan med in the finals (w/c 75 kg), and Hovhannisyan won a gold medal.



As Secretary General of Armenian Boxing Federation Leva Hovhannesyan told PanARMENIAN.Net the Federation seeks to develop women's boxing in Armenia. "7 boxers took part in the championships, but since they were few, they fought only in 3 weight categories," Hovhannisyan said.

Women's boxing first appeared in the Olympic Games at a demonstration bout in 1904. For most of the 20th century, however, it was banned in most nations. Its revival was pioneered by the Swedish Amateur Boxing Association, which sanctioned events for women in 1988. The British Amateur Boxing Association sanctioned its first boxing competition for women in 1997. The first event was to be between two thirteen-year-olds, but one of the boxers withdrew because of hostile media attention. Four weeks later, an event was held between two sixteen-year-olds. The A.I.B.A. accepted new rules for Women's Boxing at the end of the 20th century and approved the first European Cup for Women in 1999 and the first World Championship for women in 2001 in Scranton, PA. Women's boxing was not featured at the 2008 Olympics; however, on 14 August 2009, it was announced that the International Olympic Committee’s Executive Board (EB) had approved the inclusion of women’s boxing for the Games in London in the 2012 Olympics.