Boxer Lovlina Borgohain gets ‘bye’ in the first round of Olympics pre-quarter.
Lovlina’s opponent in the pre-quarter of the women’s Welterweight section is Germany’s Nadeen Apage.
The boxer’s pre-quarter final match will be held on July 27 at 10:57 am.
Lovlina Borgohain, the boxer from Assam was qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in March 2020 when she won the Asia and Oceania Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament.
Her big break came in 2018 when she was selected to the women’s boxing team for the Commonwealth Games.
This call-up came after she won a bronze medal at the 2018 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships. She won a gold medal at the 1st India Open International Boxing Tournament held in New Delhi and a silver medal at the 2nd India Open International Boxing Tournament held in Guwahati that year.
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