The 2021 AIBA World Men’s and Women’s Youth Championships will be hosted in Poland next Spring.
The tournament begins at an exact date to be confirmed in Kielce in south-central Poland next April.
Two candidates, Poland and Nicaragua, were intended to host the tournament.
The AIBA Executive Committee voted with the majority for Poland’s bid.
Vladivostok, if loosely translated from Russian, means “to conquer the East”.
The Irish Olympic boxing squad of 2008, pictured above, headed to Vladivostok, the home base of the Russian Pacific nuclear fleet, to train and spar with the Russian national team in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics.
The Irish Athletic Boxing Association are delighted to announce that we have partnered with Blocworx, a digital solution provider, to supply IABA affiliated clubs with access to a FREE digital contact tracing application. Government Covid-19 requirements specify that sporting clubs must keep a digital record of all persons attending their club for contact tracing purposes.This digital app will provide all affiliated clubs access to a user-friendly solution that is fully compliant with GDPR and Covid-19 requirements
INFORMATION FOR CLUBS IN RELATION TO TRAINING DURING LEVEL 3 RESTRICTIONS 18/09/20:
Ireland has moved from a short-term emergency response approach to a medium-term approach to managing risk and repairing the damage that COVID-19 has inflicted on society. A Framework for Restrictive Measures has been developed to help us to go about our daily lives as much as possible, while managing the behaviour of the virus.
A message from the Board of Directors Secretary Mr. John Nangle states:
Irish Athletic Boxing Association would like to advise that the Irish Athletic Boxing Convention and (AGM), scheduled to take place on Sunday 4th October 2020, has been postponed in keeping with ongoing advice from Government on social distancing. Notification of the rescheduled date will issue in due course.