The 2005 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 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...

 from September 25 to October 2, 2005 in Podolsk

Podolsk

Podolsk is an industrial city and the administrative center of Podolsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Pakhra River...

. It was the 3rd championship, which debuted 2001 in Scranton, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, USA.

The World Championship was contested in 13 weight disciplines by 152 amateur woman boxers from 28 countries.

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...

 won seven gold, one silver and four bronze medals, while 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...

 finished second with one gold, one silver and two bronze medals, followed by India

India

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 with a tally of 1-0-4. The Canadian, Mary Spencer

Mary Spencer

Mary Spencer Mary Spencer Mary Spencer (born December 12, 1984 is a Canadian boxer who currently competes as a 75 kilogram middleweight. She has won three World Championships, five Pan American Games gold medals, and eight Canadian Championships. Spencer began serious boxing training in 2002. As of...

 (66 kg) was awarded "Best Boxer of the Competition".

Participating nations

Argentina Australia Belarus Bulgaria Canada Denmark Egypt

Finland France Hungary India Ireland Italy Kazakhstan

Mongolia Netherlands North Korea Norway Philippines Poland Republic of China

Romania Russia Sweden Switzerland Turkey Turkey at the 2005 World Women's Boxing Championship Turkey participated in the 3rd World Women’s Boxing Championship held between September 25 and October 2, 2005 in Podolsk, Russia.With thirteen women boxers participating, Turkey garnered five medals, four silver and one bronze...  Ukraine USA

Results

Bronze medals are awarded to both losing semi-finalists.

2005 World Women's Boxing Championship
Weight	Gold	Silver	Bronze
46 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...	Jong Ok	Gretchen Abaniel	Yelena Sabitova
48 kg	Olesya Gladkova	Ri Yong-Hiang	Yesica Bopp Yesica Bopp Yesica Yolanda Bopp, born April 11, 1984 in Villa Domínico is women's boxing champion in the light flyweight division. Nicknamed "Tuti," Bopp stands 5'0" tall and has a perfect professional record of 18-0....	Camelia Negrea
50 kg	Simona Galassi	Ri Hyang-Mi Ri Hyang-mi Ri Hyang-mi is a North Korean short track speed skater. She won an individual bronze medal at short track at the 2003 Winter Asian Games. She was a competitor at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino.-External links:**...	Chowdhury Kalpana	Viktoriya Usachenko
52 kg	Sofiya Ochigava	Sümeyra Kaya Sümeyra Kaya Sümeyra Kaya-Yazıcı, née Kaya, is a European champion Turkish female boxer competing in the flyweight division. She is a member of the Fenerbahçe Boxing club in Istanbul, Turkey....	Viktoriya Rudenko	Samiha Yassan
54 kg	Mihaela Cijevschi	Dina Burger	Laishram Sarita Devi Laishram Sarita Devi L. Sarita Devi is an Indian woman boxer and national champion. She won gold medal in world championship. She was awarded Arjuna award for her achievements. She hails from Manipur....	Pak Kyong-Ok
57 kg	Yelena Karpacheva	Dina Burger	Sandra Bizier	Zsuzsana-Beata Szuknai
60 kg	Tatyana Chalaya	Gülsüm Tatar Gülsüm Tatar Gülsüm Şeyma Tatar is a world and European champion Turkish female boxer. After having boxed seven years for the sports club Fenerbahçe Boxing in Istanbul, she transferred in 2010 to Birlikspor in Kayseri, Turkey....	Kang Kum-Hui	Martinez Mitchel
63 kg	Yuliy Nemtsova	Cecilia Brækhus Cecilia Brækhus Cecilia Brækhus is a and , professional Norwegian boxer and a former kickboxer. She is currently the World Champion in Welterweight in the World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, World Boxing Organization and World Professional Boxing Federation...	Kathleen Dunn	Vinni Busk Skovgaard
66 kg	Mary Spencer Mary Spencer Mary Spencer Mary Spencer Mary Spencer (born December 12, 1984 is a Canadian boxer who currently competes as a 75 kilogram middleweight. She has won three World Championships, five Pan American Games gold medals, and eight Canadian Championships. Spencer began serious boxing training in 2002. As of...	Irina Sinezkaya	Yvonne Bæk Rasmussen	Oleksandra Kozlan
70 kg	Olga Slavinskaya	Ariane Fortin-Brochu	Chenthittail Aswathimol	Nurcan Çarkçı Nurcan Çarkçi Nurcan Çarkçı Göksel is a Turkish female boxer. Since the end of 2006, she is member of the sports club Kıraç Municipality in Istanbul, Turkey....
75 kg	Anna Laurell	Olga Novikova	Anita Ducza	Mariya Yavorskaya
80 kg	Galina Ivanova	Selma Yağcı Selma Yagci Selma Yağcı is a Turkish female boxer competing in the cruiserweight division. She is a member of the Municipality club in Denizli, Turkey....	Tyler Lord-Wilder	Beata Malek
86 kg	Maria Kovács	Şemsi Yaralı Semsi Yarali Şemsi Yaralı is a world and European champion Turkish female boxer competing in the heavyweight division. She is a member of the TSE club in Ankara, Turkey....	Jyotsana Kumari	Mariya Reyngard

Medal count table

2005 World Women's Boxing Championship
Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	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...	7	1	4	12
2	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	1	2	4
3	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		4	5
4	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
5	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	2
6	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
6=	Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	1			1
8	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...		4	2	6
9	Turkey Turkey at the 2005 World Women's Boxing Championship Turkey participated in the 3rd World Women’s Boxing Championship held between September 25 and October 2, 2005 in Podolsk, Russia.With thirteen women boxers participating, Turkey garnered five medals, four silver and one bronze...		4	1	5
10	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...		1	2	3
11	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
11=	Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....		1		1
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...			2	2
13=	Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...			2	2
15	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...			1	1
15=	Egypt Egypt Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...			1	1
15=	Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...			1	1
15=	USA			1	1
	Total	13	13	26	52