# 2005 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships

The 2005 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships was an international women's boxing competition hosted by Russia from September 25 to October 2, 2005 in Podolsk. It was the 3rd championship, which debuted 2001 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States.
The World Championship was contested in 13 weight disciplines by 152 amateur woman boxers from 28 countries.
Russia won seven gold, one silver and four bronze medals, while Canada finished second with one gold, one silver and two bronze medals, followed by India with a tally of 1-0-4. The Canadian, Mary Spencer (66 kg) was awarded "Best Boxer of the Competition".

## Participating nations

| Argentina Australia Belarus Bulgaria Canada Denmark Egypt | Finland France Hungary India Ireland Italy Kazakhstan | Mongolia Netherlands North Korea Norway Philippines Poland Republic of China | Romania Russia Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine USA |

## Results

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Pinweight (–46 kg) | Mary Kom India | Jong Ok North Korea | Yelena Sabitova RussiaGretchen Abaniel Philippines |
| Light flyweight (–48 kg) | Olesya Gladkova Russia | Ri Jong-hyang North Korea | Camelia Negrea RomaniaYésica Bopp Argentina |
| Flyweight (–50 kg) | Simona Galassi Italy | Ri Hyang-mi North Korea | Kalpana Choudhury IndiaViktoriya Usachenko Russia |
| Light bantamweight (–52 kg) | Sofya Ochigava Russia | Sümeyra Kaya Turkey | Samiha Yassan EgyptViktoria Rudenko Ukraine |
| Bantamweight (–54 kg) | Mihaela Cijevschi Romania | Dina Burger Switzerland | Pak Kyong-ok North KoreaLaishram Sarita Devi India |
| Featherweight (–57 kg) | Yelena Karpacheva Russia | Yun Kum-ju North Korea | Sandra Bizier CanadaZsuzsana Szuknai Hungary |
| Lightweight (–60 kg) | Tatyana Chalaya Russia | Gülsüm Tatar Turkey | Kang Kum-hui North KoreaMitchel Martinez Philippines |
| Light welterweight (–63 kg) | Yulia Nemtsova Russia | Cecilia Brækhus Norway | Katie Dunn CanadaVinni Busk Skovgaard Denmark |
| Welterweight (–66 kg) | Mary Spencer Canada | Irina Sinezkaya Russia | Oleksandra Kozlan UkraineYvonne Bæk Rasmussen Denmark |
| Light middleweight (–70 kg) | Olga Slavinskaya Russia | Ariane Fortin Canada | Chenthittail Aswathimol IndiaNurcan Çarkçı Turkey |
| Middleweight (–75 kg) | Anna Laurell Sweden | Olga Novikova Ukraine | Mariya Yavorskaya RussiaAnita Ducza Hungary |
| Light heavyweight (–80 kg) | Galina Ivanova Russia | Selma Yağcı Turkey | Beata Malek PolandTyler Lord-Wilder United States |
| Heavyweight (–86 kg) | Mária Kovács Hungary | Şemsi Yaralı Turkey | Mariya Reyngard RussiaJyotsna Kumari India |

## Medal count table

2005 World Women's Boxing Championship :
| Pos | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia | 7 | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 2 | Canada | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | India | 1 | | 4 | 5 |
| 4 | Hungary | 1 | | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Romania | 1 | | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Italy | 1 | | | 1 |
| 6= | Sweden | 1 | | | 1 |
| 8 | North Korea | | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 9 | Turkey | | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 10 | Ukraine | | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | Norway | | 1 | | 1 |
| 11= | Switzerland | | 1 | | 1 |
| 13 | Denmark | | | 2 | 2 |
| 13= | Philippines | | | 2 | 2 |
| 15 | Argentina | | | 1 | 1 |
| 15= | Egypt | | | 1 | 1 |
| 15= | Poland | | | 1 | 1 |
| 15= | United States | | | 1 | 1 |
| | Total | 13 | 13 | 26 | 52 |