Please see above attachments for Youth & Junior home training sessions.

Please see above attachment for 2021 International Calendar.

Note that fixtures and venues are subject to change.

Notice is hereby given of the Annual General Meeting of Irish Athletic Boxing Association Company Limited by Guarantee “IABA” on 11th December 2020 at 5.30pm.

Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic, the current travel and social distancing restrictions and public health advise, the IABA is unable to hold this year’s AGM in a traditional face-to-face format.

The Board of Directors met recently and agreed that in view of the current restrictions the 2020 AGM will be held virtually. It is envisaged that once large gatherings are possible again that a following EGM/Convention format meeting will take place in Q1 2021.

In accordance with the Companies Act 2014 Section 175, as amended in Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions (Covid-19) Act 2020 Section 174A (3),(5)

The Annual General Meeting of the Irish Athletic Boxing Association will take place on the 11th December 2020 at 5.30pm via Zoom Video Conference.

The Agenda is as follows:

1. Chairperson’s Address

2. Safeguarding Report

3. Anti-Doping Report

4. 2019 Audited Financial Statements & Directors’ Report

5. Re-Appointment of Auditors

6. Presidents closing Address

Copies of all relevant documents will be available on our website http://iaba.ie/site3/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/DRAFT-Financial-Statements-2019.pdf where you will find the AGM notice, Minutes of our 2019 AGM, our 2019 Audited Financial Statements & Directors’ Report.

Please note every club is entitled to have 2 club members attend the AGM (one with voting rights and one without).

Please click on the link below to the Eventbrite Event Page to register your club’s attendees (selecting correct ticket types depending on who is voting on behalf of your club or not)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-athletic-boxing-association-annual-general-meeting-tickets-129490596861

Note: in order to attend the meeting, you will be required to register via Eventbrite for tickets and also set up a Zoom Account with a matching email address per attendee. Details on how to do this is below this invite and will emailed to you following registration and prior to the AGM.

We would recommend that you set up your Zoom account well before the AGM, please see link to instructions on how to set up a Zoom account – http://iaba.ie/site3/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Instructions-for-setting-up-a-Zoom-Account.docx.

Should you have any problems you can contact nicky@iaba.ie

Kind regards,
John Nangle
Company Secretary,
IABA Ltd.

The European qualifiers for the Tokyo Olympics will be decided next April in London.

The new dates for the postponed tournament are April 22 to April 26 at a venue to be confirmed in the English capital.

The tournament was shelved after three days of competition in London on March 16 last because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Irish captain Brendan Irvine qualified for Tokyo on the afternoon of March 16 a few hours before the competition was postponed.

As things stand, Kellie Harrington, Michaela Walsh, Aoife O’Rourke, George Bates, who is one win away from qualification, Emmett Brennan, Aidan Walsh, Michael Nevin, Kiril Afanasev and Dean Gardiner are still in play (see below fixtures) in London.

The Irish boxers that lost in London last March will, if selected, get a final shot at qualification at the final World qualifiers at a venue to be confirmed in early June.

It’s anticipated that the World qualifiers will be decided in Paris.

All of the Irish athletes – besides Bates who will book a ticket for Tokyo if he beats Azeri light-welter Javid Chalabiyev – remaining in the London qualifiers are two wins away from automatic qualification.

Box-offs will be used to determine the final places in London. For instance, if an athlete requiring a top-six finish reaches the quarter-finals and is beaten, he or she will go into a box-off with the other beaten quarter-finalists to determine the top six places.

There’s no ambiguity about the position of boxers needing to reach to last four – they must get to the semi-finals to qualify for the 32nd Olympiad.

(Irish skipper Irvine will meet Spain’s Gabriel Escobar in the quarter-finals for at least bronze in London. Both men have qualified for Tokyo.)

European Qualifiers for Tokyo 2020

Copperbox Arena London March 13/24, 2020

(Tournament was postponed on March 16 because of the Covid-19 outbreak)

March 17

Last 16

(Postponed)

57kg Michaela Walsh (Ireland) v Mona Mestian (France)

60kg Kellie Harrington (Ireland) v Aneta Rygielska (Poland)

63kg George Bates (Ireland) v Javid Chalabiyev (Azerbaijan)

75kg Aoife O’Rourke (Ireland) v Viktoriya Kebikava (Belarus)

75kg Michael Nevin (Ireland) v Arman Darchinyan (Armenia)

81kg Emmet Brennan (Ireland) v Uke Smajli (Switzerland)

91kg Kiril Afanasev (Ireland) v Emanual Reyes (Spain)

March 18

Last 16

(Postponed)

69kg Aidan Walsh (Ireland) v Wahid Hambli (France)

91kg+ Dean Gardiner (Ireland) v Petar Belberov (Bulgaria)

March 19

Q/Final

(Postponed)

52kg Brendan Irvine (Ireland) v Gabriel Escobar (Spain)

Results

March 16

Last 32

69kg Aidan Walsh (Ireland) beat Pavel Kamanin (Spain) 5-0

75kg Michael Nevin (Ireland) beat Max der van Pas (Netherlands) 4-1

Last 16

52kg Brendan Irvine (Ireland) beat Istavan Szaka (Hungary) 5-0

51kg Carly McNaul (Ireland) lost Charley Davison (Team Great Britain) 0-5

57kg Kurt Walker (Ireland) lost to Hamsat Shadolov (Germany) 0-5

March 15

Last 32

63kg George Bates (Ireland) beat Leon Dominguez (Spain) RSCI1

81kg Emmet Brennan (Ireland) beat Radenko Tomic (Bosnia & Herzegovina) RSC2

91kg Kiril Afanasev (Ireland) beat Begadze Nikoloz (Georgia) 4-1

Last 16

69kg Christina Desmond (Ireland) lost to Angela Carina (Italy) 0-5

Irish squad

(Olympic qualification standard in brackets)

Male

52kg Brendan Irvine (St Paul’s, Antrim) Cpt (Top 8) (qualified)

57kg Kurt Walker (Canal, Antrim) (Top 8)

63kg George Bates (St Mary’s, Dublin) (Top 8)

69kg Aidan Walsh (Monkstown, Antrim) (Top 6)

75kg Michael Nevin (Portlaoise, Laois) (Top 6)

81kg Emmet Brennan (Dublin Docklands) (Top 6)

91kg Kiril Afanasev (Smithfield, Dublin) (Top 4)

91+kg Dean Gardiner (Clonmel, Tipperary) (Top 4)

Female

51kg Carly McNaul (Ormeau Road, Belfast) (Top 6)

57kg Michaela Walsh (Monkstown, Antrim) (Top 6)

60kg Kellie Harrington (St Mary’s, Dublin) (Top 6)

69kg Christina Desmond (Fr Horgan’s, Cork, Garda BC) (Top 5)

75kg Aoife O’Rourke (Castlerea, Roscommon) (Top 4)

High-Performance Director: Bernard Dunne

Coaches: Zaur Antia, John Conlan, Dmitry Dimitruk

On the 01/12/20 clubs in the Republic of Ireland (ROI) moved to Level 3 Covid-19 government restrictions. Please see link below for updated Level 3 training guidance for clubs in ROI: