Boxer Tamang wins silver in U-22 Boxing Championship

RSS: Nepali boxer Sushma Tamang has clinched a silver medal in the U-22 Boxing Championship. In the women’s 48 kg category, she lost 5-0 to Fozilova Farzona from Uzbekistan in a match in Bangkok, Thailand.

This is a historic achievement by Tamang for Nepal. This is the first time Tamang made it to the finals in the competition in the history of Nepal, and this is the first medal Nepal won in the Asian Boxing Championship. Earlier, Nepal won a bronze medal in a boxing competition.

She reached the final by defeating a Mongolian boxer. Three women and three men from Nepal participated in the competition.