The 2006 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships was an international women's boxing competition hosted by India from 18 November – 23 November 2006 in New Delhi. It was the 4th championship, which started in 2001 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, US.

The World Championship was contested in thirteen weight disciplines by 180 amateur women boxers from 32 countries, and was conducted in the Talkatora Indoor Stadium.

India won four gold, one silver and three bronze medals, while Russia, last year's champion, finished second with three gold and three bronze medals, followed by North Korea with a tally of 2-0-1. Canadians, the runners-up in 2005 edition, were fourth with one gold and two bronze.

Participating nations

Results

Bronze medals are awarded to both losing semi-finalists.

2006 Women's World Boxing Championship
Weight	Gold	Silver	Bronze
46 kg	Mary Kom	Steluța Duță	Jong Ok	Nazgul Boranbayeva
48 kg	Ri Jong Hyang	Yesica Bopp	Alice Kate Aparri	Marlen Esparza
50 kg	Hasibe Erkoç	Siyuan Li	Chhotu Loura	Fadia el Idrissi
52 kg	Sarita Devi	Viktoria Rudenko	Samiha A Ali Hassan	Jagoda Karge
54 kg	Sofya Ochigava	Karolina Michalczuk	Zhang Qin	Lyumdmyla Hrytsay
57 kg	Yum Kum Ju	Usha Nagisetty	Bin Wu	Mihaela Cijevschi
60 kg	Katie Taylor	Erica Farias	Mitchel Martinez	Tatiana Chalya
63 kg	Jenny R. L.	Klara Svensson	Katie Dunn	Yulia Nemtsova
66 kg	Aya Cissoko	Oleksandra Kozlan	Aruna Mishra	Mary Spencer
70 kg	Ariane Fortin	Akima Stocks	Luminita Turcin	Olga Slavinskaya
75 kg	Lekha K.C.	Jinzi Li	Anita Ducza	Olga Novikova
80 kg	Irina Sinetskaya	Chitiqua Hemingway	Renu Gora	Beata Malek
86 kg	Elena Surkova	Mária Kovács	Adriana Hosu	Şemsi Yaralı

Medal count table

2006 Women's World Boxing Championship
Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India	4	1	3	8
2	Russia	3		3	6
3	North Korea	2		1	3
4	Canada	1		2	3
5	Turkey	1		1	2
6	Ireland	1			1
6=	France	1			1
8	China		2	2	4
8=	Ukraine		2	2	4
10	US		2	1	3
11	Argentina		2		2
12	Romania		1	3	4
13	Poland		1	2	3
14	Hungary		1	1	2
15	Sweden		1		1
16	Philippines			2	2
17	Egypt			1	1
17=	Kazakhstan			1	1
17=	Denmark			1	1
	Total	13	13	26	52

Competitions

Preliminary rounds

18 November 2006
Weight	Red		Blue
48 kg
	O Myloserdna	RSCI R-3	Valerie Bedard
	Monika Csik	19 – 8	Laura Tosti
	Olesya G	18 – 7	Nargul B
	Ri Jong Hyang	RSCOS	Koufi Arbia
54 kg
	Ri Kwang Suk	23 – 22	Lydia Walczak
	Preeti Beniwal	9 – 24	Karolina M
	A Issatayeva	RSCOS	L Hyrtsay
	E Klinefelter	7 – 20	Sabriye Sengül
	Sofya Ochigava	RSCOS	Jasmine D
	Kati Collander	25 – 5	B Erdengerel
57 kg
	Alexis P	15 – 16	Mihaela Cijevschi
	O Sydorenko	8 – 26	Nagehan Gül
	Ronica Jeffery	13 – 19	Myriam Dellal
60 kg
	Eva Wahlström	18 – 4	Valerya Kurluk
	Katie Taylor	RSCOS	Carolina Barry
66 kg
	Dawn Chalmers	14 – 21	Aya Cissoko
	Irina Poteyeva	20 – 25	Marichelle De
	Lisa Kuronya	18 – 26	Mary Spencer
	Diana B	RSCOS-2	T Ariunjrgal
	Yan Zhong	12 – 16	Oleksandra Kozlan
	Anna Ingman	RSCOS	Bianka Nagy
70 kg
	Natalia O	RSCOS	Ariane Fortin
	Ting Ting Yang	13 – 29	Olga Slavinskaya
	Nurcan Çarkçi	RSCOS	Engi Saad M
75 kg
	Hatice Aliç	RSC	S Elhaddad
19 November 2006
Weight	Red		Blue
46 kg
	S Gnevanova	RSCOS	O Shtakun
	Rina Na	25 – 16	E V Calabres
	N Branbayeva	12 – 8	Derya Aktop
	Sofia Moelholt	28 – 26	Chou Hsin Chen
	Hrim Rezk	RSCOS	Steluta Duta
48 kg
	Camelia Negrea	4 – 12	Yesica Bopp
	C Kalpana	24 – 7	Nadia Shehata
	G Nandintsetse	12 – 22	Alice Katea
	Wensi Huang	13 – 10	P Ewlina
	G Basibütün	23 – 24	Marlen Esparza
	Jenny Hardingz	13 – 13	A Tuwakku
	O Myloserdna	13 – 26	Monika Csik
	Olesya G	10 – 16	Ri Jong Hyang
57 kg
	Yum Kum Zu	15 – 8	Elena G
	Z Szuknia	20 – 9	Ikram Salem
	L G Munkhjarga	RSC R-1	Mi Sun Yu
	Chien Hsin Tzu	8 – 20	Bin Wu
	Ingrid Egner	16 – 15	Anna Kasprzak
	Sandra Bizier	14 – 20	N Usha
	Izhuldazai	10 – 22	Mihaela Cijevschi
	Nagehan Gül	26 – 12	Myriam Dellal

Semifinals

22 November 2006
Weight	Red		Blue
46 kg
	M C Mary Kom	20 – 8	Jong Ok
	Nazgul Boranbayeva	RSCOS	Steluta Duta
48 kg
	Yesica Bopp	16 – 9	Alice Kate Aparri
	Marlen Esparz	RSCOS	Ri Jong Hyang
50 kg
	Chhoutu Loura	8 – 17	Hasibe Erkoç
	Siyuan Li	25 – 6	Fadia El Idrissi Aparri
52 kg
	Sarita Devi	RSCOS	Samiha A Ali Hassan
	Jagoda Karge	RSCOS	Viktoria Rudenko
54 kg
	Qin Zhang	11 – 17	Karolina Mihalczuk
	Lyumdmyla Hyrtsay	4 – 21	Sofya Ochigava
57 kg
	Yum Kum Ju	23 – 4	Bin Wu
	N Usha	15 – 10	Mihaela Cijevschi
60 kg
	Anabella Farias	18 – 13	Mitchel Martinez
	Tatiana Chalya	6 – 23	Katie Taylor
63 kg
	Jenny R L	25 – 19	Katie Dunn

Finals

23 November 2006
Weight	Red		Blue
48 kg	Yesica Bopp		Ri Jong Hyang
50 kg	Hasibe Erkoç	18 – 12	Siyuan Li
54 kg	Karolina Mihalczuk		Sofya Ochigava
60 kg	Anabella Farias		Katie Taylor
63 kg	Jenny R L		Klara Svensson
66 kg	Aya Cissoko		Oleksandra Kozlan
70 kg	Akima Stocks		Ariane Fortin
75 kg	C Lekha		Jinzi Li
80 kg	Chitiqua Hemingway		Irina Sinetskaya
86 kg	Maria Kovacs		Elena Surkova
46 kg	M C Mary Kom		Steluta Duta
52 kg	Sarita Devi		Viktoria Rudenko
57 kg	Yum Kum Ju		N Usha

Abbreviations

• RSCOS: Referee Stopped Contest Out Scored
• RSCI: Referee Stopped Contest Injury

External links

• NDTV
• Kerela News
• Zee News
• Women Boxing
• The Hindu