60 women's, juniors and young women's boxers compete in the Republic Championship

Damascus-SANA

The Republic Championship for Female Boxing, which was held by the Game Federation in Al-Jalaa Sports City in Damascus, concluded with the participation of 60 players, representing most of the provinces, in addition to the police and student bodies.

The women’s weights championship resulted in the winning of Loujain Assi (Damascus), Reham Bakour (Lattakia), Carla Al-Hussein (Homs), Sana Muhammad (Lattakia), Zainab Sherbo (Aleppo), Solai Jeridi (Suwayda) and Reem Al-Ali Hama, respectively, with weights 46, 48, 50, 52 and 54. And 66 and 70 kg.

In the young women’s category, Maryam Ibrahim (Tartous), Sima Al-Khatib (Damascus), Maha Hassan (Hama), Lina Ibrahim (Damascus), Sidra Mahmoud (Police) and Lujain Debo (Homs), respectively, with weights of 46, 48, 51, 57, 60 and 67 kg, while the women’s category ended Shahd Rihawi (Aleppo) with 48 kg, Massa Baira (Damascus) with 50 kg, Ahlam Ali (Tartous) with 54 kg and Mirna Jabbour won.

(Al-Suwayda) with a weight of 57 kg, Sahar Al-Abdullah (Al-Hasakah) with a weight of 60 kg, Jana Bahloul (Damascus) with a weight of 63 kg, Elham Dabbas (Damascus) with a weight of 66 kg, Hanin Shehadeh (Lattakia) with a weight of 70 kg and Nahed Ishba (Tartous) with a weight of 75 kg.

The head of the Boxing Federation, Muhammad Kamel Shabib, pointed out, in a statement to SANA, the good participation in this tournament, which aims to revitalize the game among the female category, especially that the International Federation of the Game obligated the local federations to activate women’s boxing and form teams for them, indicating that the federation is in the process of preparing the women’s team to participate in the Arab championship, which It will be held in the coming period.

The Secretary of the Federation referred to the good skill levels that appeared among a number of female players in the tournament, which enabled the Federation to stand on the real level of boxing for the female category in Syria, where the Federation will work to develop and qualify them in an optimal manner to reach the level required to participate in the upcoming foreign tournaments.

The tournament director, Marah Haidar, explained that the tournament was held with the participation of 60 players, 31 of them in the women’s category, 12 in the young women’s category, and 17 in the junior category, indicating that the tournament marked a new start for female boxing after a three-year hiatus from the republic’s championships.

The head of the technical committee for the game in Damascus, Muhammad Dhamiriya, expected that with continuous training and good preparation, our players are able to achieve remarkable results in foreign tournaments, especially that this tournament witnessed good levels despite the short period of preparation for it due to the connection of a number of players to the academic exams.

The world and nothing else seems to be the common denominator that unites the players of the noble art sport, as the players expressed their willingness to train intensively in the coming period to fight the strongest fights in the upcoming tournaments and represent Syrian boxing as well as men’s boxing.

Muhammad Al-Raheel-Hana Sukour

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