Please find below Circular and attachments for the Boy 4 and Junior 1 and 2 National Championships.
Provincial weigh-ins on March 19th. Boxing begins on March 24th at the National Stadium in Dublin.
The Women’s Youth & Junior Circular will be published here on www.iaba.ie later this week.
Note – Entries are sent from Provincial Councils only. Clubs are not permitted to send entries.
CIRCULAR – Boy 4 and Junior 1 & 2
The India Boxing Federation welcomed a delegation of over 100 AIBA Commission members to New Delhi for two days of meetings from 27-28 February, during which their recommendations for the Tokyo 2020 road-map were finalised and shared. The AIBA Commission meeting concluded yesterday.
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Joe Hernon, Vice-President of the IABA and a member of the AIBA Youth Commission, Breandán Ó Conaire, former President of the IABA and a member of the AIBA Referees and Judges Commission, and referee and judge Anna Moore, a member of the AIBA Women’s Commission, represented the IABA in New Delhi.
Of particular interest to women’s boxing, which delivered Ireland’s only Olympic gold – courtesy Katie Taylor – in all sports this century, is the part of today’s AIBA statement which read “the increased participation of women in the Tokyo 2020 boxing competition.”
Women currently compete in three Olympic weights – flyweight, lightweight and middleweight.
Eamer Coughlan and Tommy Hyde with Cork City FC mascot
Ireland’s prospects continue their countdown to the Pavlyukov Youth Memorial in Anapa, Russia at the National Stadium in Dublin.
The squad are in training camp at the home of Irish boxing for the last number of weeks and have been sparring with our National U/22 champions.
Ireland leave for Anapa via Dublin Airport early next Monday morning.
Team Ireland will take part in a quality training camp with the host nation, the mighty Cuba, Scotland, Ukraine and a number of other countries before the tournament starts on March 15th in a city that Irish boxing, which has won countless medals in the Black Sea port over the last ten years, is on familiar terms with.
Irish coaches Billy McClean and Fergal Redmond report that the squad are getting a lot of work down at the National Stadium, with McClean agreeing that he knows Anapa almost as well as his native Belfast or Dublin at this stage.
“Yes, that’s true. We have had many teams there over the last number of years and they’ve all done well, all performed well, he said.
“Anapa is a fantastic development tournament. They don’t call it the mini-World Championships for nothing. All the top nations will be there and traditionally many boxers who do well in Anapa medal at the European Youths.
“They squad are training really well and getting a lot of work done. They’re getting top sparring with our U/22 champions and looking forward to the challenges of Russia in training camp and in competition.”
The European Youth Championships will be held in Turkey in October.
Irish Squad Pavlyukov Youth Memorial Anapa, Russia March 6th/20th
56kg Nathan May (Dublin Docklands)
60kg Eamer Coughlan (Riverstown)
64kg Patrick Donovan (OLOL)
64kg Aaron McKenna (Old School)
69kg Gabriel Dossen (Olympic)
69kg Jason Harty (Rathkeale)
75kg Tommy Hyde (Setanta)
Team manager: Robbie Redmond
Coaches: Billy McClean and Fergal McKenna
R&J: Martin O’Neill
Punters were treated to 9 competitive bouts with the local favourite Oran McNaughton (Dockers BC) topping the programme and advancing to the Finals on Friday night.
Monday 27th February Results Mon 27th Feb. 2017
Action continues in the same venue on Wednesday with a further 10 bouts down for decision. (see programme below).
Wednesday 1st March Programme Wed. 1st Mar. 2017 The first bout will be at 8pm.
All referee/judges, please check in for 7.30pm.
Friday 3rd March Programme CWYG Friday 3rd Mar.
Ray Moylette and Joe Ward after both won European Elite titles in 2011 in Turkey
The 2017 EUBC European Youth Men’s Championships will be held in Antalya, Turkey in October 14-23.
Boxers who were born in 1999 and 2000 are eligible to compete.
Irish boxing has excelled in international competition in Turkey this decade, with Joe Ward and Ray Moylette, pictured above, claiming double gold at the European Elites in Ankara in 2011.
Katie Rowland and Michaela Walsh also won double World Youth bronze in Antalya in 2011.
Please see below attachment for updated version of international calendar.