(DEC 12, 2020) Lausanne, Switzerland – Umar Kremlev is the new president of the International Boxing Association (AIBA), winning the election on Saturday with 57.33 per cent of the vote. Kremlev has called for unity and reforms in AIBA, the sports body that represents amateur boxing worldwide. The election was held virtually at AIBA’s ongoing
(JULY 15) Ireland’s boxers have claimed hundreds of medals in all competitions from the Olympic Games to the European Schools Championships. Please scroll down for all-time medal haul. OLYMPIC GAMES Helsinki 1952 54kg John McNally Silver Melbourne 1956 67kg Fred Tiedt Silver 51kg John Caldwell Bronze 54kg Freddie Gilroy Bronze 60kg Tony Byrne Bronze Tokyo 1964
(MAR 4, 2020) Extraordinary AIBA Congress, scheduled in Budapest on March, is postponed for 3-month period because of Coronavirus outbreak. AIBA Executive Committee took this decision by e-mail vote due to the force majeure. AIBA National Federations are invited to attend an Extraordinary AIBA Congress on June 20th, 2020 in Budapest, Hungary. The mandate of
Boxing fans the world over are ‘’reeling’’ with the news that boxing, one of the oldest Olympic sports, may NOT be included in Tokyo 2020 unless the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C) is satisfied that changes in the Association’s structure will be put in place in the coming months. The I.O.C. had already expressed its displeasure
(FEB 4) Today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board decided to maintain the financial suspension of AIBA and demanded a new report on AIBA governance by April 30th. This decision was made despite AIBA’s fulfillment of the IOC’s request to submit a Progress Report outlining all steps AIBA was asked to take and continues
(AUG 10) As we revealed earlier this week, Edenderry in County Offaly, Ireland will host an International Female Boxing sparring camp 22nd /29th August and we can now bring the sensational news that Team India’s 22 woman squad will include the famous 5 time World champion Mary Kom, the only woman apart from our own
On Saturday, as a service to our readers we published an AIBA Press Release into the events in Rio which brought the Olympic boxing tournament into disrepute – that Press Release concluded that “Whilst the Special Investigation found no active interference in the results, AIBA moved quickly to identify those involved and took the necessary
The AIBA Special Investigation Committee (SIC), consisting of experts from its Refereeing and Judging (R&J), Technical and Rules, as well as Disciplinary Commissions, has concluded its investigation into the practices and procedures of officials during the Rio 2016 Olympic Boxing Tournament. The SIC’s recommendations for improvements to R&J structure for the Tokyo 2020 Cycle are
Good news for boxing fans in general comes today in the form of a joint Press Release issued in London by IMG Media and the AIBA. There are though no major female championships scheduled for 2017, but next year will be a busy year and of course by then we will also have the new
International Boxing Association (AIBA) Press Releases are noted more for what they do NOT tell us than what they do but even so the fact that there was no formal Press Release following December’s Executive Committee meeting in Switzerland did ring ‘ alarm bells’ in several countries. Such meetings usually agree any major changes in