Twitter Celebrates as Nikhat Zareen Bags Gold at the World Boxing Championships

Nikhat Zareen won the World Boxing Championships 2022, defeating Thailand's Jitpong Jutamas by 5-0 in the finals.

India's Nikhat Zareen won the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships 2022 on Thursday, in Istanbul, Turkey.

Nikhat defeated Thailand's Jitpong Jutamas 5-0 in the 52 kg flyweight final to win the gold medal and has become the fifth Indian female boxer to win at the World Championships.

Nikhat won all her five bouts at the event by the same dominant 5-0 scoreline.

ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS ✍️ 🤩

⚔️@nikhat_zareen continues her golden streak (from Nationals 2021) & becomes the only 5️⃣th 🇮🇳woman boxer to win🥇medal at World Championships🔥

Well done, world champion!🙇🏿‍♂️🥳@AjaySingh_SG#ibawwchs2022#IstanbulBoxing#PunchMeinHaiDum#Boxing pic.twitter.com/wjs1mSKGVX

— Boxing Federation (@BFI_official) May 19, 2022

This was Nikhat's first time as a finalist in the World Boxing Championships and it was a successful campaign for the champion. Earlier she had defeated Brazil's Caroline de Almeida 5-0 in the semi-finals match on Wednesday.

Nikhat was the only Indian boxer who made it to the final of the prestigious tournament this year.

Indian boxing fans took to Twitter to celebrate and congratulate the young boxer for winning the World Boxing Championships gold medal.

Nikhat Zareen can finally change her Twitter bio from Jr. World Champion to World Champion after years of wait. So happy for her. She really took down some heavyweights in her path to gold. 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 #NikhatZareen @nikhat_zareen #IBAWWC2022 @BFI_official pic.twitter.com/qTs1DyUDgp

— sitanshu ♡*･ﾟ.° 𓃵 (@Sitanshusaran_) May 19, 2022

Congrats #NikhatZareen
Proud of you pic.twitter.com/1CtPn7mhrm

— Phani Kandukuri (@buduggadu) May 19, 2022

NIKHAT ZAREEN IS A WORLD CHAMPION! 🥇 #Boxing #IBAWWC2022 @nikhat_zareen pic.twitter.com/TDWeJ8l6iJ

— Khwaja Moinuddin (@khwajamoinddin) May 19, 2022

Fantastic show, Nikhat Zareen of Hyderabad (India) wins Women's World Championship gold. What a moment for Indian sport

— V V Subrahmanyam (@hydvvs) May 19, 2022

Wowww Nikhat is world champion!!!

Have to say sorry because when she challenged the GOAT and then got owned i did not believe in her talent but she's done the unthinkable!!!!!

Apologies and Congratulations

@/nikhat_zareen

— Cricweet (@BeingCricketMad) May 19, 2022

Wowow India’s Nikhat Zareen wins gold 🥇 at the world boxing championship 🤩🤩🤩 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/DFRHVYw25k

— Mehran मेहरान (@mehranzaidi) May 19, 2022

Its GOLD !!! Superb NIKHAT Zareen outplayed JITPONG Jutamas (🇹🇭) in the final of Women's Fly (50-52kg) category at #ibawwchs2022. pic.twitter.com/PRITGIyrhD

— Sports Desk (@Shuvo10976159) May 19, 2022

Nikhat Zareen @nikhat_zareen wins gold in Aiba world championship.
First gold medal for India in 51kg category defeats 🇹🇭 Olympics quarter final by Jitpong by 5-0.#NikhatZareen pic.twitter.com/uIfjgn4w7x

— Olympics fan (@Olympics1993) May 19, 2022

Hopefully, just a start this for Nikhat Zareen! #boxing #ibawwchs2022

— Abhijit Nair (@Abhiee0312) May 19, 2022

Nikhat Zareen wins gold in 52kg at the women's world boxing championships in Istanbul. Fifth boxer to do so in worlds

— Indro (@indraneel0) May 19, 2022

India's Nikhat Zareen wins gold medal at World Boxing Championships 😍 🇮🇳#NikhatZareen #WorldBoxingChampionship #Boxing pic.twitter.com/uKlr9a4S1G

— SportsTiger (@sportstigerapp) May 19, 2022