Kyrgyzstani Omar Livaza won silver at the World Boxing Championship
At the World Championship held in Dubai (UAE), the boxer from the Kyrgyzstan national team, Omar Livaza, won a silver medal. In the decisive match, he faced the Russian boxer Ilya Popov, losing and thereby taking second place. Livaza became the first Kyrgyzstani to reach the finals at the World Boxing Championship for adults and received a silver medal.