Correct Answer - Option 3 : A
The correct answer is Cuba.
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The 2015 AIBA World Boxing Championships in Doha will be the 18th edition of the major global event.
- Held every four years up until 1986, the competition has taken place every two years since Moscow played host in 1989.
- Cuba top the overall medal standings with a haul of 128, including 71 golds, 32 silvers and 25 bronzes.
- The country won four of the gold medals on offer at the 2015 World Championships in Qatar’s capital Doha, coming out on top in the light flyweight, lightweight, middleweight and light heavyweight divisions.
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- The very first edition was held in Havana, Cuba in 1974, when the home fans cheered their hero Teofilo Stevenson to his first gold medal.
- Since then, many of the biggest names in world boxing have won titles including the most successful fighter of all time, Cuba’s Felix Savon, who won an unprecedented six titles between 1986 and 1997 and remained unbeaten in international competition during the period.
- Triple Olympic Champion Stevenson was also a three-time AIBA World Champion during the era when the event was held in four-yearly cycles.
- Crowned at the historic first event in 1974, he defended his title in 1978 and repeated the achievement in 1986, having lost his quarter-final bout to the Italian legend Francesco Damiani in 1982.
