ELITE SCHOOLBOY TRAINING THIS SUNDAY

01/02/2019IABA NewsIABA

Elite Schoolboys Squad training for Boy 3 and Boy 4 Champions last year plus Cadet Champions at those ages, will take place this Sunday, February 3rd, in the High Performance Gym at the National Boxing Stadium at 11am.

Two sessions of boxing will take place on the day and the second session will be over at approximately 3:30pm.

Boxers are advised to bring their full training gear including good quality 16oz sparring gloves, bag gloves, skipping rope, headguard, groin guard, wraps, gumshield, water for two sessions and a change of clothes.

Boxers unable to attend squad training should contact the schoolboys boxing coordinator Paddy Gallagher atpaddythegaa59@gmail.com or 087-6286269.

AIBA 2-STAR R&J COURSE AFRICA

31/01/2019IABA NewsIABA

The AIBA are pleased to announce that the Sudan Boxing Federation will host a 2-Star R&J Course in Khartoum, Sudan.

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AIBA 2-Star R&J Certification Course-Khartoum, Sudan

Arrival: March 16, 2019

Course: March 17 – March 22, 2019

Departure: March 23, 2019

For more information, please refer to the attached documents. We kindly ask you to register your candidates through AIBA Database. The registration in the database opens today 30^th January 2019 and the last date of registration is 13^th February 2019.

Please let us know in case of any query.

Regards

AIBA Education

NIKOLAY MEMORIAL UKRIANE INVITTION

30/01/2019IABA NewsIABA

Please scroll down for invitation and entry form for the upcoming Nikolay Manger Memorial Tournament which will be held in Kherson, Ukraine on April 15-21.

The tournament is for Elite male boxers.

Boxing2019 – Nikolay Manger Memorial Tournament Entry Form

More information and LOC of the event

Ukrainian Boxing Federation

ukrboxing@gmail.com

HOST CITY CHANGE FOR MEN’S WORLD ELITES

30/01/2019IABA NewsIABA

Joe Ward

The 2019 World Men’s Elite Championships, originally scheduled for Sochi, Russia, will now be hosted almost 3,000 kilometres away in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

The tournament, the 20th edition of the competition since the inaugural event at Havana 1974 runs from September 7 to 27.

The 2019 World Women’s Elite Championships will also be hosted in Russia.

The test gets underway in Ulad-Ude in eastern Siberia on October 3 and runs until October 13.

There has been a relatively short turn around for the Women’s Worlds – traditionally a biennial event along with its male equivalent – with the sport heading into the qualifiers for Tokyo 2020.

Kellie Harrington claimed her first World Elite lightweight title in New Delhi last November.

Meanwhile, the first big outing of 2019 for Irish boxing is the European Games in Belarus this summer.

Boxing at the multi-sport event starts in Minsk on June 21.

According to the above fixture list and the EUBC fixtures, the tournament will double up as the European Men’s Elite Championships.

Women’s will box in the five Olympic weights, fly, feather, light, welter and middle, in Minsk, according to the EUBC.

Joe Ward, pictured above, is the defending European Elite light heavy champion.

IABA ANNUAL AWARD NIGHT TICKETS SOLD OUT

30/01/2019IABA NewsIABA

All tickets for Friday’s, February 1, IABA Annual Awards Night have been sold.

Ireland’s top boxers, clubs, coaches, administrators and greats from the past will be lauded at the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel in Dublin.

Over forty medals were claimed in World, European and Olympic Youth competition in 2018 in an impressive haul for the sport versus the world’s finest.

Ireland’s boxers secured medals in every male and female World, European, Olympic (Youth), Elite, Youth, Junior and Schoolboy/girl tournament entered in 2018.