Kenya’s featherweight Pauline Chege became the 14th African boxer to be eliminated from the ongoing Women’s World Boxing Championships in Nis, Serbia.
Making her second appearance in this global event, Pauline lost to Tajikistan’s Mijgona Samadova via a second round stoppage.
Samadova won bronze at the 2022 Asian Games. She cliched the President prize of $4,584 and a one-room apartment in Tajikistan’s capital city, Dushanbe.
Pauline Chege is the seventh Kenyan boxer to kiss goodbye to Serbia Worlds.
Sierra Leone’s middleweight Aminata Koroma appears in the schedule but according lto coach William Brereron, she didn’t travel after failing to secure Serbia visa.
The other Serra Leone boxer in the same boat is light-welterweight Rebecca Sovula.
“We only had three boxers and two, Aminata and Sovula had problems with visa,” said Brereton.
Meanwhile, Morocco’s Rabab Cheddar outpointed Mexico’s Galicia Gomez to power her into the quarter-finals.
Rabab’s pre-quarters victory brings to six the number of African boxers already in the quarter-finals.
Others through are three Moroccans, bantamweight Widad Bertal, welterweight Mounia Toutire and light-heavyweight Hasnae Larti, Sierra Leone’s lightweight Josefien Betist and Kenya’s light-heavyweight Liz Andiego who received a bye to the last eight for his third appearance in the World Championships quarters.
Credit: Boxers World Kenya
