Phnom Penh: This is the first world-class competing event
that the Cambodia Boxing Federation will send four national athletes to
compete, which will officially take place from November 30 to December 14, 2025
in the United Arab Emirates.
The president of the Cambodia Boxing Federation, H.E. Buy
Sophoan, said that: This is the first time for the Cambodia Boxing Federation
and can also be said that to be history, because Cambodia boxing athletes have
never participated before. This first participation is the vision and main
direction of the Cambodia Boxing Federation to strengthen the qualifications of
athletes as well as provide opportunities for athletes to participate in
world-class competitions to gain experience, techniques, and learn about the
level of equality of world-class athletes, because the Cambodia Boxing
Federation wants to strengthen the athletes’ capabilities to be more potential
by participating in more competitions as preparation for major events at the
Asian level in 2026.
His Excellency continued that: Four Cambodia national boxing
athletes have won medals for Cambodia from national and international
competitions, including male athlete Sao Rainsy, bronze medalist at the 31st
SEA Games in 2022 in Vietnam, male athlete Vy Sophoas, bronze medalist at the
International Boxing Championship in the People's Republic of China in 2021,
and male athlete Nasredinov Anwar, two medalists, including a silver medal at
the 2024 Asian Boxing Championship and a gold medal recently won from an
international boxing competition in the People's Republic of China, while male
athlete Rajapov Abdullah, gold medalist at the 2023 SEA Games, which Cambodia
hosted, and is also a silver medalist at Asian level competitions and many
other medals.
