2001 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships

The 2001 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 the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

from October 21 to 27 2001 in Scranton, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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. It was the first championship.

Results

Bronze medals are awarded to both losing semi-finalists.

2001 World Women's Boxing Championship
Weight	Gold	Silver	Bronze
45 kg	Yelena Sabitova	Maria Norozenik	Camelia Negrea	Kim Peturson
48 kg	Hülya Şahin Hülya Sahin Hülya Şahin, aka Julia "Sunshine" Sahin, is a Turkish professional female boxer with German passport. She is a former world champion in kick boxing and was world champion in amateur boxing as well. As of September 1, 2007, she is the undefeated WIBF world junior flyweight champion...	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...	Jamie Behl	Carina Moreno
51 kg	Simona Galassi	Tammy DeLaforest	Katrin Enoksson	Diana Ungureanu
54 kg	Yelena Karpecheva	Audrey Garcia	Wendy Broad	Renate Medby
57 kg	Zhang Maomao	Henriette Birkeland	Jeannine Garside Jeannine Garside Jeannine Garside is a Canadian rising star in the sport of women's boxing. After a long and distinguished amateur career, Garside has made her presence felt as a professional, winning the WIBA Super Bantamweight World Title in just her 4th pro bout...	Alexandra Matheus
60 kg	Crystelle Samson	Tatyana Chalaya	Teuta Cuni Teuta Cuni Teuta Cuni is a retired Swedish amateur female lightweight boxer who has also practiced, but not competed in, kickboxing.-Medals:* Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships* 2001, Scranton – Bronze...	Amber Gideon
63.5 kg	Frida Wallberg Frida Wallberg Frida Wallberg born April 28, 1983 in Åtvidaberg in Östergötland, Sweden.Wallberg is Sweden's most successful female boxer. As an amateur, she won 48 of 53 games before she turned pro in 2004...	Myriam Lamare	Cristina Cerpi	Donna Mancuso
67 kg	Irina Sinetskaya	Natalie Brown Natalie Brown Natalie Brown is a Canadian-born, contemporary R&B, pop and Blue-eyed soul singer-songwriter.She is one of the first artists to successfully launch a music career using the Internet as her primary medium for publicity.-Biography:...	Melanie Horne	Tristan Whiston
71 kg	Ivett Pruzsinszky	Natalya Kolpakova	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....	Irina Smirnova
75 kg	Anna Laurell	Anita Ducza	Svetlana Andreyeva	Guo Shuai
81 kg	Olga Domouladzhanova	Viktoria Kovacs	Tanya Fowler	Faye Jacobs-Hollins
90 kg	Devonne Canady	Mária Kovács	Mariya Reingard	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....

Medal count table

2001 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...	4	2	2	8
2	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....	2		2	4
3	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	4		5
4	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	7	9
5	\| USA	1		3	4
6	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		2	3
7	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
7=	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
9	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...		2		2
10	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	2
11	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		1
11=	Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...		1		1
13	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...			2	2
14	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
14=	Moldova Moldova Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...			1	1
14=	New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...			1	1
	Total	12	12	24	48

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