Young Lyari Boxing Club Clinched 1st women Boxing championship Senior Category title.

KARACHI -- Young Lyari Boxing Club clinched the senior category title of the 1st Two-day Karachi Women's Boxing Championship with three gold and one silver medal.

Janbaz Boxing Club won one gold and two silver medals and took second position.

In the junior category, Faqir Colony Boxing Club emerged first with three gold medals while Young Baloch Club emerged runner-up with two gold medals.

Young Lyari Boxing Club's Sarah Malang was declared championship's best boxer.

The championship was played at Ali Muhammad Qambrani Boxing Stadium Lyari under the auspices of Sindh Boxing Association and in collaboration with DMC South.

As many as 47 female boxers participated from three districts of Karachi including South, West and Central.

In the junior finals, Sehar Rashid defeated Mahesh Akhtar 3-0 in the 36kg weight category, Aaliya Soomro defeated Naseeba Sattar by 2-1 in the 38kg category and Rukhsar Sher defeated Imam Fatima 3-0 in the 40kg category.

In the senior category final, Samia Khan defeated Ganj Bibi 3-0 in 48kg, Gul Jabeen defeated Asawara 2-1 in 52kg and Sarah Malang defeated Samira 3- 0 in 60kg to win the gold medal.

Special guest of the final Deputy Commissioner South Irshad Ali Sodhar distributed prizes among the players and officials.

Addressing the occasion, Deputy Commissioner South Irshad Ali Sodhar said that Lyari was called the boxing nursery in Pakistan.

In past too, many players from here had made the country famous through their sport at the...