Ireland was right in the mix in the medals tables at World and European level in 2015, with eight gold medals secured at all levels and forty medals overall.

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Michael Conlan, who claimed double World and European gold, Katie Taylor, Joe Ward, Michael O’Reilly, Amy Broadhurst and Michael Nevin, who secured double female and male European Youth gold, and Jason Harty finished on top of their respective podiums.

Europe won five of the ten gold medals available at the World Elite Men’s Championships in Qatar, with Conlan winning Ireland’s first title at this level.

Europe won 16 of the 40 medals available in Qatar, with Conlan, Ward and Michael O’Reilly winning three of that total.

Conlan, Ward and O’Reilly took home two medals apiece from the World and European Championships and European Games in 2015.

In the World Series of Boxing, Paddy Barnes topped the light-fly rankings last year after posting seven wins from seven.

 

Please scroll down for the award categories at the Annual IABA Awards.

The award ceremony will take place at the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel in Dublin on Friday, January 29th next.

Ireland’s boxers claimed over 40 medals in World and European Elite, Youth, Junior and Schoolboy competition in 2015.

Michael Conlan became the first Irish male boxer to win an AIBA World Elite gold in Qatar.

Tickets are now on sale for the January 29th Awards Night.

Contact the National Stadium on (01) 453 3371 or email sally@iaba.ie for ticket information.

 

 

IABA Award Categories

 

 
World Achievement Award

Lifetime Achievement Award

International Achievement Award

International Achievement Award

International Achievement Award

Services to Boxing Award 2015

Services to Boxing Award 2015

Services to Boxing Award 2015

Services to Boxing Award 2015

Hall of Fame (Boxer)

Hall of Fame (Administrator)

Services to Coaching Award

Commitment to Boxing Award

Best Referee 2015

Best Judge 2015

Best Club Award 2015

Best Coaching Award 2015

Best Schoolgirl 2015

Best Schoolboy 2015

Best Junior Award 2015

Best Junior Award 2015

Best Youth Award 2015

Best Youth Award 2015

Best Intermediate Award 2015

Best Intermediate Award 2015

Best Elite Award 2015

Best Elite Award 2015

 

 

 

The International Boxing Association (AIBA) have confirmed that boxers will compete over three, three minute rounds in the World Series of Boxing (WSB) versus AIBA Pro Boxing (APB) Olympic qualifiers in Sofia, Bulgaria in May.

WSB boxers usually compete over five rounds, with APB fighters competing over eight and twelve rounds (championships matches).

AIBA Open Boxing (AOB) – regular amateur boxing – bouts are contested over three, three minute rounds.

Super heavy Dean Gardiner, heavyweight Darren O’Neill, welterweight Steven Donnelly and light-flyweight Paddy Barnes are signed for WSB sides for the new season which begins next weekend.

Lightweight David Oliver Joyce and light-heavy Joe Ward are Ireland’s APB boxers. Ward, Donnelly and Barnes have already qualified for Rio 2016.

WSB boxers must have competed at least twice – regardless of result – in the WSB this season, or once last season and once this season, to participate in the WSB versus APB qualifiers.

The top three ranked boxers in the eight weights from light-fly to light-heavy qualify for Rio in Sofia. Heavyweights and super-heavyweight must win gold in the Bulgarian capital to book tickets for the 31st Olympiad.

Irish WSB Boxers 2016 Season

91kg+ Dean Gardiner (Puerto Rico Hurricanes)
91kg Darren O’Neill (Venezuela Caciques)
75kg Steven Donnelly (Hussars Poland)
49kg Paddy Barnes (Hussars Poland)

 

2016 Elite Schoolboys Squad Training commences this Sunday at 11am for all last seasons Boy3 and Boy4 Champions plus Cadet Champions at those age groups.

Training takes place in the High Performance Gym at the National Stadium from 11am – 3:30pm. Dinner will be provided between the two sessions (11am-12:30pm & 2pm-3:30pm).

All boxers are advised to be there at 10:45am for an initial weigh-in with full boxing equipment plus water for both sessions and please inform the Schoolboys Coordinator Paddy Gallagher ( 087-6286269 or paddythegaa59@gmail.com ) if your boxer is unable to attend.

 

 
Olympic 100m champion Usain Bolt won’t be looking over his shoulder, not yet anyway!

Ireland’s Elite boxers completed a day hard day of track work in Santry, Dublin today, with AIBA World Elite champion Michael Conlan admitting that his legs were falling off him after the session.

Conlan, Paddy Barnes, Sean McComb and Kurt Walker were amongst 16 members of the Elite team – nine men and seven women – being put through paces part in Santry.

Ireland is building up toward April’s AIBA Open Boxing (AOB) Olympic qualifiers for men and women in Istanbul, Turkey, with Ireland’s female boxers out again in May for the AIBA World Women’s Elite Championships and Olympic qualifiers in Kazakhstan.

There will also be an Olympic qualifier involving the World Series of Boxing versus AIBA Pro Boxing in Sofia, Bulgaria in May, followed by the final Rio 2016 qualifier – for men – in Baku, Azerbaijan in June.

Irish boxing will be aiming for a further nine Olympic berths in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria and Azerbaijan between April and June of this year.

So far, Ireland leads the way for western Europe with four – Barnes, Conlan, Steven Donnelly and Joe Ward – qualified for the 31st Olympiad.

Barnes, Donnelly and Conlan booked tickets through the WSB – although Conlan also qualified again through AOB – and Ward through AOB.