Commonwealth Games 2022: Olympic-medallist boxer Lovlina Borgohain considers the prequarterfinal exit at the recently-held IBA World Championship a muchneeded “learning” ahead of her future endeavours, starting with the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. Follow Commonwealth Games 2022 updates on InsideSport.IN
Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina’s World Championship campaign in the 70 kg category came to an early end after a disappointing loss in the pre-quarterfinals.
Commonwealth Games 2022: Lovlina Borgohain says ‘Have learnt important lesson from early exit at World Championship to prepare for CWG’
Competing in her first international event since her podium finish in Tokyo last year, Lovlina went down to Cindy Ngamba of Fair Chance Team (FCT) 1-4.
Fair Chance Team has been created by the International Boxing Association (IBA) for athletes who have been forced to leave their countries, often because of conflict.
“My preparation (for the World Championships) wasn’t that good. After the Olympics, a lot of things have changed. I had to give time to many things, fulfill commitments,” she said on the sidelines on the felicitation ceremony of the country’s three medallists in the World Championships — Nikhat Zareen (gold, 52kg), Manisha Moun (bronze, 57kg) and Parveen Hooda (bronze, 63kg).
Commonwealth Games 2022: Lovlina Borgohain says ‘Have learnt important lesson from early exit at World Championship to prepare for CWG’
“But as there is a saying you don’t learn from your wins, you learn from your defeats and this defeat has taught me very important lessons.”
Asked about her future targets, the lanky pugilist from Assam said: “My main target still remains an Olympic gold but I will have to go step by step for that. So the next step is the Commonwealth Games and I want to become champion there.”
With one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships, the Indian team secured third position in the team rankings with 23 points after Turkey (48 points) and Ireland (23 points), who finished first and second respectively.
Commonwealth Games 2022: Lovlina Borgohain says ‘Have learnt important lesson from early exit at World Championship to prepare for CWG’
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