Boxing: Jaismine Lamboria, Minakshi Hooda earn gold for India at World Boxing Championships 2025
India bag four medals at 2025 World Boxing Championships
Over 500 boxers spanning 68 nations arrived at the Liverpool Arena for the World Boxing Championships 2025, and after two weeks of intense competition, India bagged an impressive haul of four medals.
The undoubted headline result for Team India came in the 57kg category, where 24-year-old Jaismine Lamboria defied the betting odds to clinch gold against the top-seeded Julia Szeremeta of Poland.
After a slow start and losing the first round, the 24-year-old bounced back incredibly in round two and overcame the Paris Games silver-medalist 4-1 via split decision to become the first Indian champion under the aegis of World Boxing.
However, Lamboria was not the only Indian boxer to leave Liverpool with gold around her neck, as Minakshi Hooda followed suit in the 48kg category by beating Nazym Kyzaibay - bronze medalist in Paris - 4-1 on Sunday afternoon.
In total, India had three finalists at the tournament, but Nupur Sheorana fell at the final hurdle against Agata Kaczmarska of Poland. The team’s medal tally was rounded out by Pooja Rani, who clinched bronze in the 80kg class.
Among the more well-known Indian boxers who failed to return at the World Championships were Lovlina Borgohain and Nikhat Zareen, both of whom were making their first competitive appearances since the 2024 Olympic Games.
Borgohain disappointingly bowed out of the competition in the second round of the 75kg category, while Zareen reached the quarter-final before running into two-time Olympic silver-medalist Buse Naz Cakiroglu of Turkey.
World Boxing Championships 2025 medal table
India sent a team of 20 boxers to the World Boxing Championships this year, meaning that four medals won equated to a 20% return rate for the nation, while it also saw them clinch third place overall in the final medals tally.
Kazakhstan were the most successful nation in this year’s competition with nine medals including six gold, only narrowly edging out Uzbekistan, which also managed nine medals, though only five were gold.
| Rank | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kazakhstan | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 | Uzbekistan | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 | India | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Brazil | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | Poland | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Ireland | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | Chinese Taipei | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Turkey | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Japan | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Australia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| - | Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| - | Mongolia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| - | Spain | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| - | United States | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | China | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 17 | Cuba | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| - | England | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 19 | Azerbaijan | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 20 | Austria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| - | Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| - | Colombia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| - | Croatia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| - | Georgia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| - | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| - | Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| - | Jordan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| - | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| - | Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| - | Venezuela | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
