2002 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships

The 2002 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships
World Amateur Boxing Championships
The World Amateur Boxing Championships is a biennial amateur boxing competition organised by the International Boxing Association , which is the sport governing body. Alongside the Olympic boxing programme, it is the highest level of competition for the sport...

was an international women's boxing

Women's boxing

Women's boxing first appeared in the Olympic Games at a demonstration bout in 1902. 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...

competition hosted by Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

from October 21 to 27 2002 in Antalya

Antalya

Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. With a population 1,001,318 as of 2010. It is the eighth most populous city in Turkey and country's biggest international sea resort.- History :...

. It was the 2nd championship, which debuted 2001 in Scranton, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, USA.

Results

Bronze medals are awarded to both losing semi-finalists.

2002 World Women's Boxing Championship
Weight	Gold	Silver	Bronze
45 kg	Mary Kom Mary Kom Mangte Chungneijang Merykom, also known as MC Mary Kom or Mary Kom, is a female boxer from Manipur, India who is supported by Olympic Gold Quest. Mary Kom, a mother of two, is five times World Boxing Champion, successively...	Jang Song-Ae	Derya Aktop Derya Aktop Derya Aktop Akı is a Turkish female boxer. She won a bronze medal in the 48 kg category at the 2002 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Antalya, Turkey and a silver medal in the 46 kg category at the 2004 Women's European Amateur Boxing Championships held in Riccione,...	Svetlana Miroshnichenko
48 kg	Ri Jong Hyang	Tatyana Lebedeva	Monica Csik	Kumari Meena
51 kg	Simona Galassi	Kim Kun-Son	Lidiya Andreyeva	Elefheria Paleologou
54 kg	Zhang Xiyan	Marzia Davide	Son Bi-Ha	Anges Tapai
57 kg	Jo Pok-Sun	Henriette Kitel-Birkeland	Svetlana Kulakova	Maria Semertzoglu
60 kg	Jennifer Smith-Ogg	Areti Mastroduka	Ana Santos	Naguana Smalls
63.5 kg	Myriam Lamare	Yasemin Ustalar Yasemin Ustalar Yasemin Ustalar is a Turkish female boxer. She was born in Şereflikoçhisar . She won a silver medal in the 63.5 kg category at the 2002 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships held in Antalya, Turkey.-References:...	Daniela David	Sida Gasanova
67 kg	Irina Sinetskaya	Natalie Brown	Tina Hansen	Desi Kontos
71 kg	Larisa Berezenko	Yvonne Reis	Paola Gabriela Casalinuovo	Roxanne Lalancette
75 kg	Olga Slavinskaya	Betina Karlsen	Guo Shuai	Karamjit Kaur
81 kg	Anzhela Torskaya	Irina Smirnova	Jennyfer Grenon	Olga Novoselova
90 kg	Maria Kovacs	Mariya Yovorskaya	Devonne Canady	Jyotsana Haryana

Medal count table

2002 World Women's Boxing Championship
Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	North Korea North Korea The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...	2	2	1	5
2	Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...	2	1	2	5
3	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	1	1	3	5
4	Belarus Belarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...	1	1		2
4=	Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	1	1		2
6	India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...	1		3	4
7	Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	1		2	3
7=	Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...	1		2	3
9	China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...	1		1	2
10	France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	1			1
11	USA		2	2	4
12	Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....		1	2	3
13	Denmark Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...		1	1	2
13=	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...		1	1	2
15	Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...		1		1
16	Argentina Argentina Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...			2	2
17	Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...			1	1
17=	Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...			1	1
	Total	12	12	24	48

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