ROMANIAN GOLDEN BELT

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Dean Gardiner (red) in action

 

Team Ireland depart for Romania tomorrow morning ahead of the opening bell for the Nicolae Linca Golden Belt in Galati.

Irish boxing has named a formidable looking squad including World Elite finalists Joe Ward and Kellie Harrington for the tournament.

Irish female and male boxing is building toward November’s World Women’s Elite Championships and EU Men’s Elite Championships in India and Spain.

Ward, a three-time European Elite Champion, remarked that he’s looking forward to getting some bouts under his belt ahead of the EU Championships and next year’s Olympic qualifiers.

The Galati multi-nations is named after Nicolae Linca who won Olympic gold for Romanian at  Melbourne 1956 after edging Ireland’s Fred Tiedt on a split decision in the welterweight final.

Tiedt, one of seven Irish boxers, John McNally (1952), Tiedt (1956), Michael Carruth (1992), Wayne McCullough (1992), Ken Egan (2008), Katie Taylor (2012) and John Joe Nevin (2012), to reach an Olympic final, claimed European Elite bronze for Ireland in Prague a year after the Melbourne 67kg decider.

Under today’s rules, it’s estimated the Dubliner would have picked up enough ranking points for his Olympic and European medals to be ranked in the Top 5 in the AIBA World rankings in his weight class.

Meantime, Loughlin Gannon, an AIBA 2 Star R&J, will also be between the ropes in Romania.

Boxing begins at the Nicolae Linca Golden Belt on Wednesday.

Nicolae Linca Elite Golden Belt Galati, Romania September 25/30

Irish squad

Male

52kg Conor Quinn (Clonard)

56kg Kurt Walker (Canal)

64kg Wayne Kelly (Portlaoise)

69kg Kieran Molloy (Oughterard)

75kg Michael Nevin (Portlaoise)

81kg Joe Ward (Sparticus)

91kg Kirill Afanasev (Smithfield)

91kg+ Dean Gardiner (Clonmel)

Female

51kg Ceire Smith (Cavan/Virginia)

57kg Michaela Walsh (Monktown)

60kg Kellie Harrington (St Marys)

69kg Gráinne Walsh (Sparticus)

Coaches

Zauri Antia

John Conlan

Tom Murray

Team Manager

Eugene O’Kane

Physio

Séamus Caffrey

R&J
Loughlin Gannon

 

RESULTS SO FAR IN 2018

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Please click here for all domestic and international results so far this season.

(Note results and fixtures section is on the top bar on site to the right).

Meantime, the focus of Irish boxing now switches to international competition over the next three months.

Irish squads will compete in Elite multi-nation tournaments, the Men’s EU Championships, the European Men’s and Women’s Junior Championships, the Women’s World Elite Championships and the Olympic Youths for Men and Women in October and November.

Domestically, the Celtic Box Cup, Smithfield Box Cup, Esker Box Cup, Wexford Box Cup, Michael Andrews Tournament and Belfast Halloween Open are scheduled for September and October.

The next National tournament begins on November 9 with the opening bell for the Irish Senior (formerly Intermediates) Championships at Dublin’s National Stadium.

WORLD WOMEN’S ELITE CHAMPIONSHIPS

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Kellie Harrington on medals podium at Astana 2016

 

 

The AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships will be held in New Delhi in November 13-25

 

The upcoming AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships will be the highlight of the end of the year in the globe’s boxing map. The tenth anniversary edition of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships will be held for the elite female boxers in New Delhi, India from November 13 until the 25th.

The deadline for the registrations in the AIBA Database to the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships is October 5.

The first edition of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships was held in the Unites States in Scranton in 2001. Asia is the general host of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships and New Delhi will be the four-in-a-row Asian cities organizing the event after Qinhuangdao, Jeju and Kazakhstan’s capital Astana.

On the last occasion that the World Women’s Championships were held in New Delhi, Katie Taylor, who has since switched codes, claimed Ireland’s first gold at this level. The Bray woman, also the European champion at the time, went to No. 1 in the AIBA World 60kg rankings after that win and occupied pole position for ten years in an extraordinary decade-long  dominance of the lightweight class. Current Irish Elite champion Kellie Harrington reached the light-welter World Elite final in 2016.

Irish boxing is in 9th  position in the all-time World Women’s Elite Championships medal table. Taylor (5 gold and 1 bronze) and Harrington (silver) have claimed medals at this level.

Meantime,  Asian boxers dominated the last edition of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in Astana where our ladies won six titles. Kazakhstan claimed four, China two gold medals in Astana two years ago but Chinese Taipei, DPR Korea, India and Thailand also achieved podium places.

The team delegations hotel in the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships will be the Ashok Hotel in the Diplomatic Enclave of New Delhi. Boxing Federation of India will be provided airport transfer to and from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in their Welcome Desk upon arrival to New Delhi.

All participating National Federations must arrive to New Delhi before November 13 to be there in the Sports Entries Check. All boxers must be accompanied by at least one AIBA certified coach at ringside during the bouts which will be held based on the AIBA Technical & Competition Rules.

Boxing Federation of India will be hosting an important AIBA 2-star Coach Course in the city of Rohtak between October 20 and 28 just before the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships and other education programs are under planning.

Schedule of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi

November 13-14 – Sport Entries Check

November 14 – Technical Meeting
November 14 – Official Draw
November 15 – Opening Ceremony
November 15 – Preliminaries
November 16 – Preliminaries
November 17 – Preliminaries
November 18 – Preliminaries
November 19 – Preliminaries
November 20 – Quarter-finals
November 21 – Rest Day
November 22 – Semi-finals
November 23 – Semi-finals
November 24 – Finals

November 25 – Departure of the delegations

Visa & Entry Requirements of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi

 

Boxing Federation of India
Ms. Kajiiloni Krichena
Mr. R.K. Sacheti

SCHOOLBOY SQUAD TRAINING

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Squad training resumes this Sunday at the National Boxing Stadium for all last season’s Boy 3 Champions and any Cadet Champions who were Boy 3 last season. These Boy 3 & Cadet titles were won in 2018. An International takes place against Germany next weekend.

Training starts at 11am and will be over at 3:30pm. Two sessions of boxing take place with lunch served between sessions.

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