The winner of the 2023 World Boxing Championship, Anastasia Demurchyan, said she felt the fault of the organizers who did not play the Russian anthem right away at the awards ceremony. “Sport Express”.
“The moment was not very pleasant. At first, I did not understand that they did not turn on our anthem, at that time there were such feelings that I did not understand what was going on. A few seconds later I heard Tchaikovsky, insulting. But after that, all our fans sang the anthem with us, and then I walked around the ring with the Russian flag.”
On March 25, Demurchyan won the gold medal in the weight category up to 70 kg. In the final, the Russian woman Australia defeated the Australian representative Francis Scott.
At the awards ceremony, for the first time in a long time, the Russian anthem was played in the international arena and the country flag was flown. It is worth noting that this is not the first time. During the awarding of Demurchyan, the organizers of the World Championships raised the Russian flag, but instead of the anthem, a part of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto was heard.
It was previously reported that the coach of the Russian national boxing team, Albert Mutalibov, was dismissed. ConfessedHe said that the incident with the anthem during the award ceremony at the World Cup in India spoiled the atmosphere.