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Three boxers move Delhi HC after failing to make cut for World Ch'ship team
Updated On: 07 March, 2023 09:21 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
"We wrote to the BFI and haven`t got a reply from them as yet," she added. The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) maintains that winning a gold medal at the Nationals was not a criteria to pick the team
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Left out of the Indian team for the upcoming Boxing World Championships, reigning national champions Manju Rani, Shiksha Narwal and Poonam Poonia on Monday dragged the national federation to the Delhi High Court, seeking its intervention for their inclusion. The Delhi High Court has accepted their writ petition and will hear the matter on Tuesday. In their writ petition, the three boxers argued that all the gold medallists at the national championships held in December 2022 at Bhopal, were selected except them. "...the petitioners have requested the relevant authorities for considering their names for selection in women`s world championship, but they did not get any fruitful results," they wrote. "When the nine other boxers (who won the nationals) got direct qualification then why haven`t we three from Railways got it," Manju, who won a silver at the 2019 World Championships, said during an interaction with PTI.
"We wrote to the BFI and haven`t got a reply from them as yet," she added. The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) maintains that winning a gold medal at the Nationals was not a criteria to pick the team. According to BFI, the new selection policy for the men`s and women`s World Championships and the Asian Games was followed to pick the national team and Manju (48kg), Shiksha (54kg) and Poonam (60kg) could not make it to the 12-member side. According to the new policy, drafted in consultation with High Performance Director (HPD) Bernard Dunne, the boxers underwent an evaluation process for three weeks where they were judged on various parameters. The boxers were "tested for performance in training to include endurance and S&C," in the first week and in the second and third weeks, "athletes were tested for technical and tactical skills during sparring sessions." The HPD, Bhaskar Bhatt and CA Kuttapa -- the women`s and men`s teams` head coaches -- marked the boxers and a ranking list was made. Nine of the 12 national champions were ranked one and qualified for the marquee event.
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