AIBA Women’s Boxing World Championships 2012: Josie Gabuco wins gold

20 05 2012

Josie Gabuco earned the Philippine‘s first ever gold medal in the history of AIBA Women’s Boxing World Championships. Gabuco beat hometown bet Xu Shiqi for the light-flyweight gold medal, 10-9. While her victory did not give her an olympic slot, it was nevertheless a good news for Philippine boxing specially amateur boxing. With only one boxer going to London, the well-funded Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines (ABAP) are looking for new heroes to show that the country is still relevant in the olympic sport which we used to dominate in the Asian level. Gabuco is no stranger in giving the country honor as she is a back to back Southeast Asian games gold medal winner and a bronze medallist in the 2008 women’s boxing world championships.

Here are the other results of the final matches:

Light-Flyweight:

XU Shiqi 9

GABUCO Josie 10

Flyweight:

REN Cancan 14

ADAMS Nicola 10

Bantamweight:

GORDINI Terry 10

KULESHOVA Aleksandra 16

Featherweight:

BROWN Tiara 24

KRUK Sandra 21

Lightweight:

TAYLOR Katie 11

OCHIGAVA Sofya 7

Lightwelterweight:

STELMACH Magdalena 5

PAK Kyong 10

Welterweight:

ADULINA Mariia 14

MILLER Raquel 8

Middleweight:

VYSTROPOVA Elena 15

MARSHALL Savannah 17

Light-Heavyweight:

YUAN Meiqing 18

CREWS Franchon 11

Heavyweight:

LI Yunfei 21

MAMATKULOVA Yulduz 13

Final Medal Standing

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	3	1	1	5
2	United States	1	2	2	5
3	Russia	1	1	7	9
4	Great Britain	1	1	2	4
5	Ireland	1	0	0	1
5	North Korea	1	0	0	1
5	Philippines	1	0	0	1
5	Ukraine	1	0	0	1
9	Poland	0	2	1	3
10	Kazakhstan	0	1	1	2
11	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
11	Italy	0	1	0	1
13	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
13	Hungary	0	0	1	1
13	India	0	0	1	1
13	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
13	Sweden	0	0	1	1
13	Tajikistan	0	0	1	1