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    ARMENIAN FIRST WOMEN BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP COMPLETED

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    01.02.2010 18:14 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ For the first time women boxers took part in the
    Armenian boxing championship held January 26-31 at the Sports-Concert
    Complex after Karen Demirchyan.

    7 women boxers fought in 3 weight categories. Haykuhi Nahapetyan
    won the champion's title in the weight category 57 kg. Kristina
    Martirosyan comes second. In the 69 kg. w/c Armine Simonyan won,
    Panaliya Dinglyanidi comes second. Anna Hovhannisyan and Ashkhen
    Simonyan med in the finals (w/c 75 kg), and Hovhannisyan won a
    gold medal.

    As Secretary General of Armenian Boxing Federation Leva Hovhannesyan
    told PanARMENIAN.Net, the Federation seeks to develop women's boxing
    in Armenia. "7 boxers took part in the championships, but since they
    were few, they fought only in 3 weight categories," Hovhannisyan said.

    Women's boxing first appeared in the Olympic Games at a demonstration
    bout in 1904. 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 Association sanctioned its first boxing
    competition for women in 1997. The first event was to be between two
    thirteen-year-olds, but one of the boxers withdrew because of hostile
    media attention. Four weeks later, an event was held between two
    sixteen-year-olds. The A.I.B.A. accepted new rules for Women's Boxing
    at the end of the 20th century and approved the first European Cup for
    Women in 1999 and the first World Championship for women in 2001 in
    Scranton, PA. Women's boxing was not featured at the 2008 Olympics;
    however, on 14 August 2009, it was announced that the International
    Olympic Committee's Executive Board (EB) had approved the inclusion
    of women's boxing for the Games in London in the 2012 Olympics.
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