Antrim’s Elite boxers, pictured, claimed 2 gold and a silver medal at the prestigious Catalan ‘Il Torneo Internacional De La Amistad’ Saturday and Sunday past. Kurt Walker (Canal 60kg) and Seamus Og Deeds (Emerald 64kg) both earned gold and Carly McNaul (Holy Trinity 54kg) claimed silver.

Multi decorated champion and AIBA 1 Star coach Tony Leonard pushed the team to the limit over the two day competition with heat and humidity draining the boxers along with tough Spanish, Italian, Swiss, German and French opposition.

Antrim squad.

On the first day’s semi-finals, Nathan Watson (Saints 69kg) was unfortunate to receive an injury and couldn’t continue after two absorbing rounds, while Eamon McNally (St Michael’s 56kg) looked to be cruising to victory but lost on a 3-2 split mysteriously.

Harry Cunningham manager and Malachy Scott R&J completed the team for County Antrim. A great experience at International level for all the team ensuring the success of Antrim boxing will continue.

Dublin, Wednesday 28^th September, the Irish Athletic Boxing Association (“IABA”) has been made aware that two members of the Irish Olympic Boxing Team, Steven Donnelly and Michael Conlan have been reprimanded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for violating Rules relating to gambling set out in the Olympic Movement Code on the Prevention of Manipulation of Competitions.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) were satisfied that there was no intent to manipulate any event and both of the Irish boxers are obliged to follow and contribute to various integrity educational programmes as part of the reprimand.

Athletes participating in the Olympic Games, are prohibited from any form of gambling. This is set out in the OCI’s Conditions of Participation signed by all participating Irish athletes in the Olympic Games.

The IABA is very disappointed to learn that two members of the Irish Boxing team have engaged in such activity during the Rio Olympic Games.We fully endorse and support today’s ruling by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It is likely no further action will be taken by the IABA as the matter has already been dealt with by the IOC.

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The IABA would like to welcome Eimear Griffin to the Role of Membership Manager for the IABA. Eimear has just taken up her position as of today, Wednesday 28th September.

Joe Ward and Ray Moylette show off the gold medals they won at 2011 European Elites – both men are Ireland’s only two World Youth champions.

Ireland is building up toward November’s AIBA World Men’s Youth Championships in St Petersburg, Russia.

The squad for the tournament will be confirmed shortly.

Irish boxing has a proud history at this level. Click here, here, here for reports from www.iaba.ie in 2008 and 2010.

So far, 13 medals have been claimed at the World Men’s Youths, formerly called the World Junior Championships before being reclassified in 2008.

Eamonn Loughran and Denis Galvin won silver and bronze at the 1987 Worlds in Cuba and Eamonn Magee secured silver two years later in Puerto Rico, followed by a bronze medal win for Neil Sinclair at Canada 1992.

Six years later, Harry Cunningham took home silver from Argentina in the light-fly class and Coleman Barrett won bronze at Hungary 2000.

Andy Lee

Former WBO World middleweight champion Andy Lee had to settle for light-middle silver on a hot and humid evening in Santiago de Cuba in 2002, and Irish boxing, courtesy of Ray Moylette, won its first World Youth gold in Mexico in 2008.

Jamie Kavanagh and Tommy McCarthy brought home silver and bronze to add to Moylette’s top of the podium finish to celebrate Ireland’s best outing at this level so far. The Guadalajara-hosted Championships marked the first occasion the tournament was formally called the World Youth Championships.

Two years later, Joe Ward and Ryan Burnett secured gold and silver in Azerbaijan, which qualified both men for the inaugural Olympics Youths the same year in Singapore where Burnett won an historic gold.

Kurt Walker reached the semi-finals in Armenia in 2012 to add to Ireland’s collection of two gold, six silver and five bronze medals so far from the AIBA World Men’s Youth Championships.

Katie Rowland and Michaela Walsh won double bronze at the 2011 World Women’s Youth Championships in Turkey and Christina Desmond secured silver at the 2013 edition of the tournament, while Natasha Logan Logan won bronze in 2015 in Chinese Taipei to improve Ireland’s medal haul for both sexes at World Youth level to two gold, seven silver and eight bronze.

The Irish Athletic Boxing Association Annual Convention will be held at the Ringside Club adjacent to the National Stadium in Dublin on Sunday, October 2nd.

Proceedings begin at 11am.

Please see below attachment.

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