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AIBA Awards Ceremony Caps a Brilliant Year for Boxing

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AIBA Boxing News 4th Edition 2008 - October - November - December

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AIBA President’s Message Historic Year for Boxing and for AIBA Welcome to this final edition of the AIBA Boxing News magazine for 2008. It has been a memorable year for AIBA and for international boxing and I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all those who have participated.

Nine Olympic Games continental qualifying events, the incredibly successful 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, the AIBA Youth World Championships Guadalajara 2008, the AIBA Women’s World Championships Ningbo City 2008, the AIBA World Cup Moscow 2008 and the inaugural AIBA Annual Awards and AIBA Forum made for a very special year, a year in which AIBA has grown significantly.

Each tournament proved to be monumental step in AIBA’s continued reform. Not only did athletes’ endeavours bring joy to faces both in the ring and around, but competing in the knowledge that AIBA is successfully implementing its reforms, has brought satisfaction to all involved in our beautiful sport.

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AIBA Awards Ceremony

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AIBA Forum

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AIBA Youth World Championships

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AIBA has received congratulations from many different quarters including the Olympic Movement but we can’t stop. We must capitalize on this momentum and realize our dream of taking boxing to the top of the sporting world. There are still many projects and challenges which await us. The AIBA Boxing Academy, the World Series of Boxing and a proposal to include Women’s Boxing in the Olympic Games are some of the exciting developments in store for us in 2009.

AIBA Women World Championships

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AIBA World Cup

I look forward to working with you all to help AIBA continue to achieve more success for boxing.

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European Elite Championships

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European Youth and Junior Girls Championships

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USA Top 2008 Americas Women’s Continental Championships

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AIBA News

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AIBA Calendar

Yours boxing, Dr. Ching-Kuo Wu, AIBA President

Boxing News Fourth Edition 2008 SN 1814-7518 October - November December

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Moscow Hosts Inaugural AIBA Awards Ceremony & AIBA Forum

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AIBA Awards Ceremony Taylor and Enkhbat named AIBA’s Best Boxers of 2008 The International Boxing Association proudly announced in December that Badar-Uugan Enkhbat (MGL) and Katie Taylor (IRL) were named as the 2008 AIBA Best Male and Female Boxer of Year at the inaugural AIBA Annual Awards Ceremony at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Moscow, Russia.

Enkhbat claimed gold in the 54kg Beijing Olympic Games to became Mongolia’s first Olympic boxing gold medallist (out of eight Olympic Games, Mongolia had previously won two bronze medals - 1988, 1992) and second ever gold medallist in its history.

The 23-year-old is also the Asian champion and was a silver medallist at the AIBA World Championships Chicago 2007.

Taylor, meanwhile, defended her AIBA Women’s World Championships 60kg title with victory at the 2008 edition in Ningbo City, China in November.

Taylor convincingly beat China’s Dong Cheng 13:2 in an incredible display of speed and power in the final and was named Boxer of the Tournament.

When accepting the award Taylor told the audience in Moscow, “I would like to thank AIBA for this very special award, it means a lot not only to me but also to all the female boxers who practice our beautiful sport. Women’s boxing is amazing at the moment, the level is increasing and

Katie Taylor is one of the most recognized athletes in women’s boxing

the recent Women’s World Championships were a perfect example of the very high standard we find ourselves competing in. This award is great recognition of the excellent progress women’s boxing has made in recent years and I would like to dedicate it to all the female athletes around the world who are training hard and competing in the hope that we will be able to participate in the 2012 Olympic Games.”

In other awards, China’s Li Qingsheng was named AIBA Referee and Judge of the Year, Cuba’s Pedro Roque Otano AIBA Coach of the Year while Terry Smith (WAL) received a special recognition award for his performance as the head Technical Delegate at the 2008 Olympic Games.

The award winners were selected by the AIBA Executive Bureau which consists of Executive Committee members from each Continent: AIBA President Dr. Ching-Kuo Wu (TPE), AIBA Executive Vice-President Mr. Gofur Rahkimov (UZB), AIBA Vice-President Dr. Humbert Furgoni (FRA), Dr. Abdallah Bessalem (ALG) and Chairperson of the AIBA Medical Commission Dr. Charles Butler (USA). The selection criteria was based on all international boxers’ performances both inside and outside of the ring.

Badar-Uugan Enkhbat celebrates winning gold at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing

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AIBA Awards Ceremony

“To be acknowledged in this way will live with me for a lifetime.”

Pedro Roque Otaño

Cuban coach Pedro Roque Otaño made a tribute to all

Earlier in the year, Roque Otaño took eight boxers into the

boxing coaches around the world after receiving the AIBA

semifinals of the 2008 Olympic Games and gave thanks to

Award 2008 Best Coach of the Year at the International

the training system in his home country.

Boxing Association’s (AIBA) Annual Awards Ceremony, which was held on the rest day of the AIBA World Cup

“These young guys have performed according to our expectations,” he said at the time. “Sometime it’s hard for

Moscow 2008, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Moscow, Russia in December.

“It is an honour to be standing

“It is an honour to be standing in front of you all receiving this award”

in front of you all receiving

the Cuban people to believe how difficult it is to build a team after so many defections and only one year before the Olympics. Now we are

this award,” Roque Otaño, who has been coaching the national Cuban squad since 2005, said to the audience after receiving the award from AIBA President Dr. ChingKuo Wu. “But when accepting this award I do so on behalf of all the coaches and trainers around the world who are sacrificing many hours and dedicating their own time to a sport we all love. Thank you to AIBA and President Wu for

proud of our results and we can say that we’ve made it.

“I admire the discipline and camaraderie that this team has because when we work as a team we get good results.

With six guaranteed medals and two more possibilities out of ten boxers, I have to say ‘thank you,’ not only to the other coaches but also to the youth coaches who trained these kids for much more than a year.”

introducing this occasion into the AIBA curriculum. To be acknowledged in this way will live with me for a lifetime.”

The head Technical Delegate at the 2008 Olympic Games Mr. Terry Smith was acknowledged at the 2008 AIBA Awards Ceremony by AIBA President Dr. Ching-Kuo Wu for his excellent performance in Beijing. The 2008 Olympic Games were the most successful in AIBA history with a recordbreaking split of different countries winning gold medals (nine countries winning a gold medal out of a possible 11) and first Olympic boxing medals for Armenia, India and Mauritius.

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AIBA Forum A fascinating AIBA Forum on the subject of Ethics, and Refereeing and Judging concluded an historic day for AIBA following an extraordinarily successful 2008 AIBA Awards Ceremony at the Crowne Plaza Hotel held during the rest day of the AIBA World Cup Moscow 2008 in December.

Two panels of international boxing experts discussed and debated the issues of Ethics in AIBA and Judging the Boxing Competition with Ed Hula, the editor of the respected Olympic Movement publication Around the Rings, moderating.

The first forum saw AIBA PR & Press Commission member András Gáll, AIBA Vice President, Executive Committee and Ethics Commission member Dr. Humbert

Furgoni and AIBA PR & Communications Director Richard Baker discuss Ethics in AIBA. Mr Gáll opened the session before questions were taken from the audience which included athletes, coaches, AIBA Executive Committee members, AIBA officials and AIBA stakeholders.

Welterweight (69kg) boxer Toureano Johnson of the Bahamas poses a question to the panel AIBA PR & Press Commission member András Gáll opens the session on AIBA Ethics at the AIBA Forum

AIBA Forum

Executive Director of the Boxing Federation of Russia Mr. Vladimir Surkov was thanked for hosting the inaugural AIBA Awards Ceremony & AIBA Forum

The second part of the AIBA Forum discussed the subject of Judging the Boxing Competition with the panel featuring AIBA Executive Committee member and chairman of the AIBA Medical Commission Dr Charles Butler, AIBA Executive Committee and Technical & Rules Commission member Kishen Narsi, Ray Silvas AIBA Refereeing & Judging Commission member, Boxing Federation of Russia coach Semen Rikhtman and AIBA Referee & Judge from India, Jay Kowli.

Chairman of the AIBA ScientiďŹ c & Research Commission Dr. Mohamed Soltani opened the session before an open discussion was held on the different issues pertaining to

AIBA Referee and Judge Jay Kowli (IND)

The chairperson of the AIBA Technical and Rules Commission Mr. Franco Falcinelli raises a point with the panel during the forum on Refereeing and Judging

judging. Questions were addressed to the panel while panel members also discussed a range of issues concerning one of the most important aspects of the sport of boxing.

The inaugural AIBA Forum was the idea of AIBA President Dr. Ching-Kuo Wu to encourage discussion and debate on two of the most fundamental issues within AIBA, in order to facilitate the process of improving the world of international boxing and the administration of the International Boxing Association as a whole.

Video footage of the AIBA Forum can be found on www.aiba.org

AIBA Referee and Judging Commission Vice Chairperson Ray Silvas (USA)

AIBA Vice-President Dr. Humbert Furgoni poses a question Members of the panel during the forum on Refereeing and Judging – AIBA to the panel during the forum on Refereeing and Judging Executive Committee members Kishen Narsi and on his left, Dr. Charles Butler who is also the chairperson of the AIBA Medical Commission AIBA Boxing News 4th Edition 2008 - October - November - December

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AIBA Youth World Championships Guadalajara, Mexico 25 October - 1 November 2008

AIBA Youth World Championships Guadalajara 2008 Cuba continued its fine tradition for boxing at age group level by claiming four gold medals at the inaugural AIBA Youth World Championships at the “Unidad Deportiva López Mateos” Gymnastic Complex in Guadalajara, Mexico in November.

The AIBA Youth World Championships Guadalajara 2008 (formerly called the AIBA Junior World Championships) for boxers aged 17 and 18, saw Cuba top the medal table with four gold, a silver and a bronze medal to total six, equal with Russia, however the Europeans managed only one gold.

The 64kg winner’s podium – Gold: Frank Izla (CUB), Silver: Jamie Kavannagh (IRL), Bronze: Zdenek Chladek (CZE) and Uktamjon Rahmonov (UZB)

Finals Results Weight Category Light Flyweight 48kg

Flyweight 51kg

Bantamweight 54kg

Featherweight 57kg

Lightweight 60kg

Light Welterweight 64Kg

Welterweight 69kg

Middleweight 75kg

Light Heavyweight 81kg

Heavyweight 91kg

Super Heavyweight +91kg

Corner

Last Name

First Name

NOC

RED

NIKOLAYCHUK

Grigoriy

RUS

BLUE

THOKCHOM

Nanao Singh

IND

RED

ROBLES

Yuniel

CUB

BLUE

GONZALEZ

Jonathan

PUR

RED

ANDREIANA

Razvan

ROU

BLUE

KURBANOV

Magomed

RUS

RED

DADASHEV

Maxim

RUS

BLUE

VALDEZ

Oscar Ragael

MEX

Winner

Result

Time/PTS/ Decision

BLUE

PTS

15:5

BLUE

PTS

12:5

BLUE

WO

BLUE

PTS

12:0

BLUE

PTS

3:1

RED

YELEUSSINOV

Daniyar

KAZ

BLUE

MOYLETT

Raymond

IRL

RED

KAVANNAGH

Jamie

IRL

BLUE

ZLA

Frank

CUB

BLUE

PTS

7:2

RED

MOLINA

Oscar

MEX

RED

PTS

9:1

BLUE

MAHMUDOV

Boturjon

UZB

RED

RECIO

Rey

CUB

RED

PTS

4:2

BLUE

KOELLING

Enrico

GER

RED

MAGOMEDOV

Marten

RUS

BLUE

LARDUET

Jose Angel

CUB

BLUE

RSC

R1 1:42

RED

DYCHKO

Ivan

KAZ

BLUE

SAVON

Erislandy

CUB

BLUE

PTS

10:8

RED

BRECHLIN

Erik

GER

BLUE

DAWEJKO

Joseph

USA

BLUE

PTS

9:1

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AIBA Youth World Championships Guadalajara 2008 Frank Izla (64kg), Rey Recio (75kg), Jose Angel Larduet (81kg) and Erislandy Savon (91kg) all stood on the top step of the medal podium and were joined by two from the home nation - Oscar Rafael Valdez (57kg) and Oscar Molina (69kg).

Izla and Savon expectedly won their finals against Irishman Jamie Kavannagh and Ivan Dichko from Kazakhstan respectively while the last two bouts of the tournament finished with the same score 9:1 as Molina and Dawejko claimed the honours.

Other youth world champions were India’s Nanao Singh Thokchom (48kg), Jonathan Gonzalez (51kg) from Puerto Rico, Russia’s Magomed Kurbanov (54kg), Ireland’s Raymond Moylett (60kg) and Joseph Dawejko (+91kg) of the United States.

Meanwhile, Puerto Rico’s national senior champion Gonzalez surprised by convincingly beating Cuba’s Yuniel Robles 12:5 in the 51kg final while local hero Valdez left Maxim Dadashev (RUS) scoreless in the 57kg final, much to the enjoyment of the boisterous ‘home’ fans at the Unidad Deportiva López Mateos.

In a tournament ruled by Cuban boxers, Irishman Moylett caused the biggest upset in the 60kg division by beating Daniyar Yelelussinov (KAZ) against popular expectation.

The next AIBA World Youth Championships are due to be held in 2010 and will act as a qualifying event for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

India’s Thokchom was also sensational in the final of the 48kg class where he outclassed Russian youth champion Grigoriy Nikolaychuk 15:5.

India’s Nanao Singh Thokchom beat Grigoriy Nikolaychuk of Russia 15:5 in the 48kg final

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AIBA Youth World Championships Guadalajara 2008

Frank Izla of Cuba was too strong for Ireland’s Jamie Kavannagh (red) in the 64kg final

Top 8 Light Flyweight 48kg

Flyweight 51kg

Bantamweight 54kg

THOKCHOM

Nanao Singh

IND

GONZALEZ

Jonathan

PUR

KURBANOV

Magomed

RUS

NIKOLAYCHUK

Grigoriy

RUS

ROBLES

Yuniel

CUB

ANDREIANA

Razvan

ROU

BECCU

Jeremy

FRA

LOPEZ

Adam

USA

KOOTA

Matti

FIN

DIAZ

Luis Miguel

DOM

MASHRAPOV

Bunyodbek

UZB

WILLIAMS

Timacoy

AUS

Karen

ARM

CABRAL

Marcos

ARG

DOM

QUELIZ de la CRUZ

Miguel Angel

DOM

MARTINEZ

Fernando

ARG

AYLAZYAN

KANALAS

Robert

HUN

PEREZ ZAPATA Orlando Felx

CHIA-LUN

Lu

TPE

ZHAKIPOV

Almas

KAZ

VALAREZO

Jonathan

ECU

LATIPOV

Jasurbek

UZB

APODARESEI

Ciprian

ROU

MACHADO

Josue

PUR

Featherweight 57kg

Lightweight 60kg

Light Welterweight 64kg

VALDEZ

Oscar Rafael

MEX

MOYLETT

Raymond

IRL

IZLA

Frank

CUB

DADASHEV

Maxim

RUS

YELEUSSINOV

Daniyar

KAZ

KAVANNAGH

Jamie

IRL

OLEG

Sheffer

UKR

HALETSICH

Aliaksei

BLR

RAHMONOV

Uktamjon

UZB

MARIN

Dragos

ROU

SARUKHANYAN

Vage

RUS

CHLADEK

Zdenek

CZE

VARABYEU

Vitali

BLR

GARCIA

Juan

CUB

SALAZAR MENDOZA

Minor Javier

CRC

ARIAS ROMERO Wellintong

DOM

TODA

Kenki

JPN

WOJCICKI

Patrick

GER

SCHMIDT

GER

ROMERO

Juan Pablo

MEX

MUSTAFIN

Nursultan

KAZ

UZB

GUDENKO

Viacheslav

UKR

USIKOV

Roman

RUS

Eduard

GAIBNAZAROV Fazliddin

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AIBA Youth World Championships Guadalajara 2008 Top 8 Welterweight 69kg

Middleweight 75kg

Light Heavyweight 81kg

MOLINA

Oscar

MEX

RECIO

Rey

CUB

LARDUET

Jose Angel

CUB

MAHMUDOV

Boturjon

UZB

KOELLING

Enrico

GER

MAGOMEDOV

Marten

RUS

JOYCE

David

IRL

BIVOL

Dimitry

RUS

ROSCIGLIONE

Gianluca

ITA

ABDULAI

Satula

GER

ARIAS

Luis

USA

McCARTHY

Thomas

IRL

BENIWA

Balvinder

IND

DUNN

Zac

AUS

FISH

Collin

CAN

YEONG GIL

KIM

KOR

LAKOMY

Oskar

CZE

SCHMIDT

Arturs

GER

JURATONI

Bogdan

ROU

HUAZANO

Luis Raul

MEX

BODILCU

Ionut

ROU

SPENCE

Errol

USA

VOLODYMYR

Savenko

UKR

SEIFKHANI

Pezhman

SWE

Heavyweight 91kg

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Super Heavyweight +91kg

SAVON

Erislandy

CUB

DAWEJKO

Joseph

USA

DYCHKO

Ivan

KAZ

BRECHLIN

Erik

GER

SIWY

Marcin

POL

IEGOR

Plevako

UKR

MANOLE

Aurel

ROU

IBANEZ

Omar

CUB

PRETENI

Agron

CRO

MANSOUR

Dino

CRO

KORABKOV

Alexander

RUS

AKSHABAY

Bauyrzhan

KAZ

DENYSENKO

Taras

UKR

HIRACHETA

Juan Isidro

KISNER

Nicholas

USA

SULEIMANOV

MEX RUS

The 60kg final between Ireland’s Ray Moylette (blue) and Daniyar Yeleussinov from Kazakhstan was an extremely close affair

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AIBA Youth World Championships Guadalajara 2008

Medal Standings Rank NOC Code

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

Rank by Total

1

1

6

=1

2

=8

1

CUB - Cuba

4

2

MEX - Mexico

2

3

RUS - Russia

1

3

2

6

=1

4

IRL - Ireland

1

1

2

4

3

5

USA - United States

1

2

3

=4

6

IND - India

1

1

=11

6

PUR - Puerto Rico

1

1

=11

8

GER - Germany

2

3

=4

9

KAZ - Kazakhstan

2

2

=8

10

ROU - Romania

1

2

3

=4

10

UZB - Uzbekistan

1

2

3

=4

12

UKR - Ukraine

2

2

=8

13

AUS - Australia

1

1

=11

13

BLR - Belarus

1

1

=11

13

CZE - Czech Republic

1

1

=11

13

DOM - Dominican Republic

1

1

=11

13

FIN - Finland

1

1

=11

13

FRA - France

1

1

=11

13

ITA - Italy

1

1

=11

13

POL - Poland

1

1

=11

22

44

Total

11

11

1

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5th AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships Ningbo City 2008 November, 17 – 29

AIBA Women’s World Championships Ningbo City 2008 Finals Results Weight Category

Corner

Last Name

First Name

NOC

Pinweight 46kg

RED

DUTA

Steluta

ROU

BLUE

M.L.

Mary Kom

IND

RED

YING

Chen

CHN

BLUE

SARAH

Ourahmoune

FRA

RED

SAVELYEVA

Elena

RUS

BLUE

KIM

Hyang Ok

PRK

BLUE

PTS

9:2

RED

PTS

4:3

RED

PTS

10:6

BLUE

PTS

6:1

BLUE

PTS

13:2

BLUE

PTS

11:0

BLUE

PTS

9:2

BLUE

PTS

11:6

BLUE

PTS

9:1

BLUE

PTS

11:1

BLUE

PTS

7:2

Light Flyweight 48kg

Flyweight 50kg

Light Bantamweight 52kg

Bantanweight 54kg

Featherweight 57kg

Lightweight 60kg

Light Welterweight 63kg

Welterweight 66kg

Light Middleweight 70kg

Middleweight 75kg

Light Heavyweight 80kg

Heavyweight 86kg

RED

REN

Can Can

CHN

BLUE

ALBANIA

Annie

PHI

RED

MICHALCZUK Karolina

POL

BLUE

ADAMS

ENG

Nicola

RED

NAGISETTY

Usha

IND

BLUE

QIN

Jian

CHN

RED

DONG

Cheng

CHN

BLUE

TAYLOR

Katie

IRL

RED

LOPATINA

Liubov

RUS

BLUE

TATAR

Gulsum

TUR

RED

JACKSON

Vanessa Nicol

USA

BLUE

SPENCER

Mary

CAN

RED

YANG

Ting Ting

CHN

BLUE

FORTIN

Ariane

CAN

RED

LAURELL

Anna

SWE

BLUE

LI

Jin Zi

CHN

RED

WAGONER

Mioshia

USA

BLUE

TANG

Jie Li

CHN

RED

HOSU

Adriana

ROU

BLUE

YARALI

Semsi

TUR

Winner

Result Time/PTS/ Decision

BLUE

PTS

7:1 *

BLUE

* Ms. Ying Cheng failed anti-doping test and is suspended until 29.11.2010

AIBA Women’s Boxing Ambassador Anna Laurell (SWE)

Karolina Michalczuk is overcome with emotion after claiming Poland’s first Women’s World Championships gold medal

Two-time world champion Arianne Fortin from Canada

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AIBA Women’s World Championships Ningbo City 2008 Kom’s light continues to shine bright while Canada does the double Wonderful scenes of celebration and accomplishment were plentiful after an historic day was complete for Canada, Poland and Mary Kom (IND) following the completion of the 5th edition of the AIBA Women’s World Championships in Ningbo City, China in November.

Light middleweight (70kg) Ariane Fortin and welterweight (66kg) Mary Spencer become Canada’s first double gold medallists for both women and men after they beat China’s Yang Tin Tin 11:6 and Vanessa Nicol Jackson of the USA 9:2 respectively.

Meanwhile pinweight (46kg) Kom, 25, dedicated her fourth successive World Championship title to her twin sons Rechungvar and Khuneigar, who were born in August last year, after beating Romania’s Steluta Duta 7:1 in a repeat of the 2006 final.

“I am so thrilled, this is amazing,” Kom, who has appeared in every edition of the AIBA Women’s World claiming four gold and one so thrilled, Championships silver medal (2001), said. “There were times during this tournament that I wasn’t sure but this is amazing” I got better and better as the tournament went Spencer won gold in 2005 but lost in the semifinals on. The final was tough, Steluta was very in 2006 and had revenge on her mind. strong but I ground out an excellent victory. It is an amazing feeling to be a world champion for the fourth time.”

“This means a lot to me, I was heartbroken after the defeat in India,” the 24-year-old said. “For the past two years all I have Karolina Michalczuk will also be the toast of her country after been thinking about is this moment. It means a lot to get my claiming Poland’s first Women’s World Championship gold medal back. medal with a 10:6 win over England’s Nicola Adams, who also had the honour of being the first Women’s World Championship “The competition here has been excellent throughout. At the medallist for her country. beginning I had my usual bout of competition jitters but my “This is just awesome, I love it” Fortin, the defending world champion, said. “It’s obviously tough to beat China on their home patch and to do so makes it all the “I am more special. I was sure I could beat Yang, I had the skills I just had to concentrate.”

toughest bout was in the quarterfinals (an 8:6 win over Russia’s Irina Poteyeva). In the final I knew I could beat her, I had beaten her 4:0 in the Pan American Games but I didn’t want that to affect me.”

Canada had previously won gold in 2006 (Fortin) and 2005 (Spencer) but never more than one in any one tournament.

“I don’t have any words to describe this moment,” 29-year-old Michalczuk said. “I am stunned. I never dreamt I could become a world champion and now the moment has arrived.”

Other key results saw defending lightweight (60kg) champion Katie Taylor named as the Boxer of the Tournament after she convincingly beat China’s Dong Cheng 13:2 in an incredible

With four gold medals and a silver, India’s Mary “The Magnificent” Kom is the most successful female boxer in the world

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Pinweight (46kg) Guan Xao Feng of China

display of speed and power in the final. Dong had no answer to Taylor’s superior combinations and sublime speed.

“This has been a dream,” the 22-year-old duel international said.

“Finally it’s all over, the pressure back home was immense and all I feel now is relief that it is over and that I have pleased the fans back home with this victory. People even came from Beijing to spur me on so the support was incredible, I am happy I delivered.”

Mary Kom celebrates claiming her fi fth World Championship medal

While two-times middleweight (75kg) champion and AIBA women’s boxing ambassador Anna Laurell from Sweden just wasn’t on her game as she went down 9:1 to China’s Li Jin Zi. China topped the medal standings with an incredible total of 11, of which five were gold while Turkey and Canada claimed two golds apiece. Russia holds the overall record for number of gold medals with seven, which it won in 2005 in Poldosk.

Bantamweight Bolortuul Tumurkhuyag of Mongolia

AIBA Women’s World Championships Ningbo City 2008 Top 8 Pinweight 46kg

Light Flyweight 48kg

Flyweight 50kg

M.L.

Mary Kom

IND

OURAHMOUNE SARAH

FRA

KIM

Hyang Ok

PRK

DUTA

Steluta

ROU

KULESHOVA

RUS

SAVELYEVA

Elena

RUS

JONG

Ok

PRK

HAEDINGZ

Jenny

SWE

CRUZ

Analisa

PHI

GABUCO

Josie

PHI

PARK

Jacqueline

CAN

LOURA

Chhoto

IND

GUAN

Xiao Feng

CHN

RI

Jong Hyang

PRK

LI

Si Yuan

CHN

KAZ

ION

Lidia

ROU

VIRGINIE

Nave

FRA

LUNGO-VESENNENatalie

SWE

DAKHINA

Tetiana

UKR

TIMOFTE

Diana

ROU

SHTAKUN

UKR

KOB

Tetyana

UKR

BORANBAYEVA Nazgul

Oxana

Light Bantamweight 52kg

Alexandra

Bantamweight 54kg

REN

Can Can

CHN

MICHALCZUK

ALBANIA

Annie

PHI

ADAMS

RUDENKO

Viktoria

UKR

ZHANG

SARITA

Laishram

IND

MORENO

Cynthia Marella

TSERENDORJ

Tserenchimeg

MGL

LORNA

Weaver

TONG

Song Hye

PRK

SUSHMA KUMARI Yadav

CHIU

Ching-Ya

TPE

MINOWA

LE

Hang

VIE

CHEN

Lightweight 60kg TAYLOR

Katie

DONG GADZHIEVA

Karolina

Featherweight 57kg POL

QIN

Nicola

ENG

NAGISETTY

Usha

IND

Qin

CHN

OCHIGAVA

Sofya

RUS

USA

PEZDANY

Edina

HUN

TATAR

Cheng

CHN

LOPATINA

Ayzznat

RUS

MA

ORAIN

Cindy

FRA

SVENSSON

CELESTE

Peralta

ARG

DUNN

CHN

FRA

OSTAWARI

Sabrina

AUS

IND

ABEL

Lucy

ENG

Ayako

JPN

YUN

Kum Ju

PRK

Chia-Ling

TPE

GUL

Nagihan

TUR

Light Welterweight 63kg IRL

Jian

Gulsum

Welterweight 66kg

TUR

SPENCER

Mary

CAN

Liubov

RUS

JACKSON

Vanessa Nicol USA

Jian Xia

CHN

RI

Suk Yong

Klara

SWE

WANG

Qian

Kathleen

CAN

FISCHER-RASMUSSEN Naomi-Lee

PRK CHN AUS

MARTINEZ

Mitchel

PHI

JONAS

Natasha

ENG

SHAKIMOVA

Dariga

KAZ

SYDORENKO

Oleksandra

UKR

RI

Hyon

PRK

POTEYEVA

Irina

RUS

BARRY

Caroline

USA

ZAVYALOV

Yana

UKR

KOZLAN

Oleksandra

UKR

Light Middleweight 70kg

Middleweight 75kg

FORTIN

Ariane

CAN

LI

Jin Zi

CHN

YANG

Ting Ting

CHN

LAURELL

Anna

SWE

CARKCI

Nurcan

TUR

KONIKOW

Amber

CAN

KOLTSOVA

Yelena

KAZ

DUCZA

Anita

HUN

BKAORE

Debbie

PNG

ORLOVIC

Nikolina

CRO

JANG

Un Hui

PRK

TURCIN

Luminita

ROU

VYSTROPOVA

Elena

RUS

TAYLOR

Chimere

TRI

DURNYEVA

Liliya

UKR

GIUSTIAN

Meredith

USA

Light Heavyweight 80kg TANG

Jie Li

Heavy 86kg

CHN

YARALI

Semsi

TUR ROU

WAGONER

Mioshia

USA

HOSU

Adriana

YAGCI

Selma

TUR

HEARN

Tiffanie Nichole USA

PARASCHIVA

Fetti

ROU

ZHANG

Li Na

CHN

WATPOOL

Melinda

CAN

KUSIAK

Sylwia

POL

MOHAMED

Nadia

EGY

SURKOVA

Elena

LESNIK

Beata

POL

SHEVCHENKO Inna

UKR

GLADKIKH

Anna

RUS

GLADKIKH

RUS

Anna

RUS

AIBA Women’s World Championships Ningbo City 2008 Medal Standings Rank

NOC Code

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

Rank by Total

1

CHN - China

4

2

4

10

1

2

TUR - Turkey

2

2

4

=3

3

CAN - Canada

2

1

3

=6

4

IND - India

1

2

4

=3

5

1

PRK - DPR Korea

1

2

3

=6

6

FRA - France

1

1

2

=11

7

IRL - Ireland

1

1

=13

7

POL - Poland

1

1

=13

9

RUS - Russia

3

2

5

2

10

USA - United States

2

2

4

=3

11

ROU - Romania

2

1

3

=6

12

PHI - Philippines

1

2

3

=6

12

SWE - Sweden

1

2

3

=6

14

ENG - England

1

1

=13

15

HUN - Hungary

2

2

=11

16

KAZ - Kazakhstan

1

1

=13

16

UKR - Ukraine

1

1

=13

25

52

Total

13

13

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AIBA World Cup

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AIBA World Cup: December 10 - 14, 2008 Moscow, Russia

The head of Moscow City Department of Physical Culture and Sport Mikhail Stepanyants at the Official Draw Ceremony for the AIBA World Cup Moscow 2008

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AIBA World Cup December 10 - 14, 2008 - Moscow, Russia Cuba Top World Cup Podium Boxing super powers Cuba and Russia claimed six and three gold medals respectively at the 1st AIBA World Cup Moscow 2008 which was held in the Megasport Sport Palace in Moscow, Russia in December. brought the curtain down on an exhilarating year for AIBA and boxing which featured Olympic qualifying tournaments, the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the Youth World Championships and Women’s World Championships.

With prize money of $10,000 up for grabs for each champion, and $5,000 for each runner-up it was a healthy pay-day for two of boxing’s proudest nations.

Cuba’s brilliant performance at the AIBA end-of-year event saw the central American country total eight medals with six gold and two silvers from its eight boxers making for a total prize money pool of $70,000. Russia finished second on the medal tally with three gold, a silver and five bronze while Armenia and the Philippines tied for third with one gold apiece.

With a seeding system, where the top two seeds were split in the draw, in operation for the first time in AIBA history, Cuba will now hold its head high following an excellent performance in Moscow, during a week which also featured the inaugural AIBA Annual Awards and Forum, where Cuban coach Pedro Roque Otano received the Best Coach of the Year Award.

The inaugural AIBA World Cup, which changed from its former team’s event format to an invitation based individual competition,

Finals Results Weight Category

Light Flyweight 48kg

Flyweight 51kg

Bantamweight 54kg

Featherweight 57kg

Lightweight 60kg

Light Welterweight 64kg

Welterweight 69kg

Middleweight 75kg

Light Heavyweight 81kg

Heavyweight 91kg

Super Heavyweight +91kg

Corner

Last Name

First Name

NOC Code

RED

HERNANDEZ G

Yampier

CUB

BLUE

TANAMOR

Harry

PHI

BLUE PTS

15:7

RED

ALOYAN

Misha

RUS

RED

PTS

20:6

BLUE

LAFFITA

Hernandez

CUB

BLUE PTS

10:1

BLUE PTS

12:8

BLUE PTS

12:10

RED

GOJAN

Veaceslav

MDA

BLUE

LEON ALARCON

Yankiel

CUB

RED

IGNATYEV

Sergey

RUS

BLUE

TORRIENTE

Idel

CUB

Winner Result

Time/PTS/ Decision

RED

HU

Qing

CHN

BLUE

SELIMOV

Albert

RUS

RED

URANCHIMEG

MunkhErdene

MGL

BLUE

IGLESIAS

Roniel

CUB

BLUE PTS

16:2

RED

BANTEAUX SUAREZ Carlos

CUB

RED

PTS

15:4

BLUE

MAHMUDOV

UZB

BLUE PTS

10:9

17:7

Dilshod

RED

BLANCO

Alfonso

VEN

BLUE

HAKOBYAN

Andranik

ARM

RED

ATOEV

Abbos

UZB

BLUE

BETERBIEV

Artur

RUS

BLUE PTS RED

WO

RED

WO

RED

ACOSTA DUARTE

Osmai

CUB

BLUE

USYK

Oleksandr

UKR

RED

ALFONSO

Acea Robert

CUB

BLUE

TOMASOVIC

Marko

CRO

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AIBA World Cup AIBA World Cup Moscow 2008 Finals by Weight Category 51kg At 20-year’s-old Russia’s Misha Aloyan boxed beyond his years to complete an epic journey on his way to his second title of the year. The Czech Grand Prix winner produced an incredible performance to beat Cuban second seed and Olympic Games silver medallist Hernandez Laffita 20:6 in a repeat of the Czech tournament final which he won 20:11. It completed an astonishing run which saw Aloyan beat the top seed Vincenzo Picardi (ITA) in the semifinals and concede a total of only 11 points in three bouts.

“It was my second bout against (Hernandez Laffita), so I knew what I had to do,” Aloyan said. “I prepared myself psychologically before the bout, so upon entering the ring I was already mentally prepared to win. I decided that I have to win and I did! During the bout I tried to pre-empt, to be faster than him.”

48kg Harry Tanamor, 31, added a World Cup title to his illustrious career after proving too clinical for the Cuban and Pan American champion Yampier Hernandez winning 15:7.

Tanamor, a 2003 World Championship bronze medallist and 2008 President’s Cup winner stunned Hernandez, the 2008 Olympic bronze medallist, with superior speed and execution.

“I am elated to have won this title, it means a lot to me,” Tanamor said. “I think I may have caught (Yampier Hernandez) on a bad day but I also had to perform well.

This is a proud moment for me and I’m now looking forward to going back home to be welcomed by my fans, friends and family to celebrate this victory.”

54kg Second-seed Yankiel Leon Alarcon from Cuba lived up to his billing as the favourite in the final by completely outclassing Moldova’s Veaceslav Gojan. The match up saw the 2008 Olympic Games silver medallist versus the bronze medallist and Leon Alarcon, 26, proved the pundits right with an awesome display of finesse, conceding only one point in the opening round against 25-yearold Gojan, who had earlier knocked the 2007 world champion and top seed Sergey Vodopyanov out of the competition in the semifinals.

“Everything was fine, I am extremely satisfied with the result,” the Cuban national champ said. “What helped me to win is all my hard training and, of course, my trainer.

I am very grateful to him. The bout was difficult and exhausting because I had to take on an Olympian who won bantamweight bronze at the Beijing Games but I managed to do the job I had set out to do.”

57kg With both top seeds out of the tournament in the first round, the 57kg division was the only weight category not to include at least one seed in the final. The second Cuba v Russia bout of the day saw Pan American champion Idel Torriente outlast Russia’s national champ Sergey Ignatyev 12:8 with a storming last round which the 22-year-old claimed 4:1.

“This victory is very important for me, it was my dream,” Torriente said.

“The support of my coach and my team helped me a lot. Now I can concentrate on an exciting 2009 which includes the world championships in Milan.”

60kg One of the closest bouts of the day saw 2007 57kg world champion Albert Selimov of Russia put on a devastating display of power to claim a 12:10 win over top seed Hu Qing of China. Down 9:8 at the end of round three, Selimov overcame a distinct reach disadvantage before warming to the local support, charging home 4:1 in the final round to claim Russia’s second gold of the tournament.

“The main difficulty was the fact that my opponent is taller than me and kept me at a distance,” 23-year-old Selimov said. “But I was prepared for it, so I trained with taller boxers before the World Cup and everything worked out well. Our coach Alexander Lebzyak took us off the team which competed at the European Championships in Liverpool so that we could rest and prepare for the World Cup here in Moscow, which was very important for us.”

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AIBA World Cup 64kg Cuba’s third gold of the day came when second seed Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo, the 2008 Olympic bronze medallist, completely outclassed Mongolia’s MunkhErdene Uranchimeg 16:2. Uranchimeg, who had beaten top seed Alexis Vastine (FRA) in the semis, was no match for the Cuban national champ only scoring a point in the second and final rounds.

67kg

75kg The bout of the day saw Armenia’s Andranik Hakobyan sneak home against top seed Alfonso Blanco from Venezuela 10:9. The bout went point for point with the scores at 2:2 after the first round , 5:4 after the second, 7:7 after the third before Hakobyan claimed the decisive fourth.

The win capped a remarkable tournament for 27-yearold Hakobyan who claimed his first gold medal in two years and his first AIBA competition victory in his career.

“I am very happy. I had a very strong opponent, who was a World Championships finalist in Chicago but I was fully prepared for the bout and I knew I was going to win,” Hakobyan, whose last tournament success was the Grand Prix Usti nad Labem in 2006.

Another gold went Cuba’s way when top seed Carlos Banteaux Suarez outclassed 2008 President’s Cup champion Dilshod Mahmudov (UZB) 15:4. Banteaux Suarez, the Olympic silver medallist, was ahead 15:4 after the third round before shutting up shop in the last.

“This bout was easier than I expected,” the 23-yearold said. “It was interesting to face Mahmudov as he is a tough opponent but I’m very proud of my victory, it’s a great honour for me.”

81kg Russia’s third and final gold medal came in the only final which featured the two top seeds with the mightily impressive Artur Beterbiev gaining his second successive win over world champion Abbos Atoev (UZB) in 2008. In a repeat of the AIBA World Championships Chicago 2007 final, which Atoev won 20:17, second seed Beterbiev was pumped up from the opening bell, riding on the huge support of the home fans to charge to an 8:2 lead thanks to an 8:0 run in the second round. The 23-year-old increased his lead to 15:3 after the third before closing out the memorable win for his third title of 2008, which also included victory at the Gee Tournament, where he beat Atoev in the fourth round.

“It was not the first time that I faced my opponent so I was fully prepared for the bout in advance,” Beterbiev said. “I entered the ring determined to win but I was careful in the first round, trying to figure out my rival (Atoev led 2:0), and then I increased the tempo. I would not like to compare myself to a lion in the jungle but if you are strong, let the others fear.”

91kg and +91kg Cuba won the last two of their gold medals in the 91kg and +91kg with Osmai Acosta Duarte and Robert Alfonso Acea claiming the titles respectively courtesy of walkovers after the Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk (91kg) and Croatia’s Marko Tomasovic (+91kg) were ruled out with an injured shoulder and jaw respectively.

AIBA World Cup TOP 8 Lightweight Fly 48kg TANAMOR

Harry

Flyweight 51kg

Bantamweight 54kg

PHI

ALOYAN

Misha

RUS

LEON ALARCON Yankiel

CUB

HERNANDEZ G Yampier

CUB

LAFFITA

Hernandez

CUB

GOJAN

Veaceslav

MDA

MASCZCZYK

Lukasz

POL

PICARDI

Vincenzo

ITA

KUMAR

Akhil

IND

ZHAKYPOV

Birzhan

KAZ

KUMAR

Jitender

IND

VODOPYANOV

Sergey

RUS

CARVALHO

Paulo

BRA

RISCAN

Alexandr

MDA

NAJAFOV

Rahim

AZE

PUREVDORJ

Serdamba

MGL

YUNUSOV

Anvar

TJK

IKGOPOLENG

Khumiso

BOT

GALANOV

Belik

RUS

CHERIF

Walid

TUN

SCHNEIDER

Marcel

GER

RASULOV

Murodjon

TJK

GAGE

Jo

WAL

TOJIBAEV

Hoorshid

UZB

Featherweight 57kg

Light weight 60kg

TORRIENTE

Idel

CUB

SELIMOV

Albert

IGNATYEV

Sergey

RUS

HU

LAKRA

Lalit Anthresh

IND

PEDRAZA

Light Welterweight 64kg RUS

IGLESIAS SOTOLONGO Roniel

CUB

Qing

CHN

URANCHIMEG

MunkhErdene MGL

Gonzalez

PUR

IVANOV

Alexander

RUS

SULTONOV

Bahodirjon

UZB

SULEYMANOV

Famil

AZE

VASTINE

Alexis

FRA

CHADI

Abdelkader

ALG

KRAMOU

Hamza

ALG

AMANOV

Romal

AZE

LI

Yang

CHN

LITTLE

Antony

AUS

KAWACHI

Masatsugu

JPN

SANTOS REYES Arturo

MEX

POPESCU

Georgian

ROU

ZUBOK

Alexey

RUS

LOMACHENKO Vasyl

UKR

SHIGASHEV

Sergey

RUS

NAGZIBEKOV

Madadi

TJK

Welterweight 69kg

Middleweight 75kg

Light Heavyweight 81kg

BANTEAUX SUAREZ Carlos

CUB

HAKOBYAN

Andranik

ARM

BETERBIEV

Artur

RUS

MAHMUDOV

Dilshod

UZB

BLANCO

Alfonso

VEN

ATOEV

Abbos

UZB

CULCAY-KETH

Jack

GER

RASULOV

Elshod

UZB

KUMAR

Dinesh

IND

SOSTAKS

Dmitrijs

LAT

CHUDINOV

Dmitry

RUS

KURBANOV

Dzhakhon

TJK

JOHNSON

Toureano

BAH

WANG

Jianzheng

CHN

BENCHABLA

AbdelhaямБd

ALG

NOEL

Xavier

FRA

NUNEZ

Argenis

DOM

SIVOLJIJA

Marijo

CRO

KIM

Jung-Joo

KOR

CHO

Deokjin

KOR

GRISHUNINS

Nikolajs

LAT

IVANOV

Dmitriy

RUS

COTIUJANSHII

Victor

MDA

CHELES

Vladimir

MDA

AIBA President Dr. Ching-Kuo Wu thanks Boxing Federation of Russia President General Evgeny Murov for being an outstanding host federation for the AIBA World Cup Moscow 2008

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Russia’s Artur Beterbiev beat Dinish Kumar from India in the 81kg semifinals

Heavyweight 91kg ACOSTA DUARTE Osmai

Super Heavyweight +91kg CUB

ALFONSO

Acea Robert

CUB

USYK

Oleksandr

UKR

TOMASOVIC

Marko

CRO

MASALIMOV

Roman

RUS

FAYZULLIN

Niyaz

RUS

MUNTEAN

Mihai

MDA

MAMMADOV

Azar

AZE

ALIZADE

Eichin

AZE

ZHANG

Zhilei

CHN

PAVLIDIS

Ilias

GRE

OHWARIEME

Onoriode

ARJAOUI

Mohammed

MAR

KAPITONENKO Rouan

UKR

ROMANOV

Evgeniy

RUS

HUNTER

USA

A total of 13 Beijing Olympic medallists were in Moscow

Michael

NGR

Cuba’s Carlos Banteaux Suarez on top of the 69kg winner’s podium

Medal Standings Rank

NOC Code

Gold

Silver

1

CUB - Cuba

6

2

2

RUS - Russia

3

1

3

ARM - Armenia

3

PHI - Philippines

5

UZB - Uzbekistan

2

6

MDA - Moldova

1

7

CHN - China

7

Total

Rank by Total

8

=2

9

=1

1

1

=7

1

1

=7

2

4

=3

1

2

=5

1

1

=7

CRO - Croatia

1

1

=7

7

MGL - Mongolia

1

1

=7

7

UKR - Ukraine

1

1

=7

7

VEN - Venezuela

1

1

=7

12

IND - India

4

4

=3

13

AZE - Azerbaijan

2

2

=5

14

FRA - France

1

1

=7

14

GER - Germany

1

1

=7

14

ITA - Italy

1

1

=7

14

KAZ - Kazakhstan

1

1

=7

14

LAT - Latvia

1

1

=7

14

POL - Poland

1

1

=7

14

PUR - Puerto Rico

1

1

=7

14

TJK - Tajikistan

1

1

=7

22

44

Total

11

11

Bronze

5

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Ukraine dominates 2008 European Champs The 37th European Elite Championships, which was expertly hosted by the English Amateur Boxing Association, were held in Liverpool in November (615) with the Ukraine claiming the Team of the Tournament award and 57kg Olympic and new European champion Vasyl Lomachenko the Boxer of the Tournament award.

three boxers a great ovation for three of the most exciting boxers in the sport.

They also got in behind England’s only boxer to reach a final, 54kg Luke Campbell from Hull. And the two-time national champion didn’t disappoint, claiming England’s first European amateur champion for 47 years after

beating 2003 World Championships bronze medallist Detelin Dalakliev on a countback after the Bulgarian tied the bout at 5:5 with seconds remaining in the contest. The result gives the 25-year-old 2004 Olympian consecutive European silver medals.

The 20-year-old Ukrainian headed a fantastic performance from the Eastern European squad, who collected four gold medals and one bronze medal on a finals night which saw all four of their boxers walk away victorious. Lomachenko, especially, was in sublime form, completing an excellent tournament where he only conceded six points in four bouts including a comfortable 7:1 win over Russia’s Araik Ambartsumov in the final. His award as the Best Boxer of the Tournament followed his Val Barker Trophy win, which is also awarded to the best boxer at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Not far behind were his 75kg and 81kg compatriots Ivan Senay and Oleksandr Usyk who beat Russia’s Maxim Koptyakov and Siarhei Korneyev from the Belarus respectively with Usyk collecting the biggest winning margin on the night of 11:2.

The Liverpool public inside the spectacular Echo Arena gave all

Boxer of the Tournament Vasyl Lomachenko looks on as David Oliver Joyce of Ireland receives an eight-count in the 57kg quarterfinals

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European Elite Championships Liverpool 2008

The 48kg winner’s podium (left to right): Silver - Jose de la Nieve Linares (ESP), Gold Hovhanncs Danielyan (ARM), Bronze - Eerhat Pehlivan (TUR) and Istvan Ungvari (HUN)

Equal to Ukraine’s medal count, in total at least, was regular powerhouse Russia who, after claiming nine gold and two silver in 2006, had to settle for two gold and three silver medals, highlighting the fact that there were plenty of new faces in the Russian squad.

Russia’s two champions were 19-year-old national title holder Leonid Kostylev who won the 60kg title in his first international tournament by beating the 2006 bronze medallist Vazgen Safaryants of Belarus 7:3, and 24-year-old two-times 75kg national champion and 2005 World Elite Championships quarter finalist Egor Mekhontsev who beat Armenia’s Tsolak Ananikyan 9:2.

Other countries to claim gold included Armenia (2), Belarus and Bulgaria with one apiece.

The Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk shows off his 81kg gold medal

In other key results, 21-year-old Hovhannes Danielyan claimed the first of two gold medals for Armenia in the first bout of the night in sensational circumstances after Spain’s José Kelvin De La Nieve was given a warning for a low blow with 18 seconds remaining in the bout. The warning, which earns two points to the opposition, saw Danielyan, a bronze medallist at the 2006 European Championships, move into the lead at 7:6, which proved to be the end result.

Meanwhile, 19-year-old Salomo N’Tuve claimed Sweden’s first European Championship silver medal for more than 40 years after losing to the 25-year-old 2008 Olympian Georgiy Chygayev of the Ukraine 5:0.

Sweden’s Bashir Hassan (red) beat Sandro Schaer of Germany 14:4 in the 57kg quarterfinals

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European Elite Championships Liverpool 2008 The Medallists Light Flyweight 48kg

Flyweight 51kg

Bantamweight 54kg

DANIELYAN

Hovhanncs

ARM

CHYGAYEV

Georgiy

UKR

CAMPBELL

Luke

ENG

de la NIEVE LINARES

Jose

ESP

N'TUVE

Salomo

SWE

DALAKLIEV

Detelin

BUL

UNGVARI

Istvan

HUN

VELI

Munin

MKD

MAKAROV

Denis

GER

PEHLIVAN

Eerhat

TUR

RISCAN

Alexandr

MDA

SELBY

Andrew

WAL

Featherweight 57kg

Lightweight 60kg

Light Welterweight 64kg

LOMACHENKO Vasyl

UKR

KOSTYLEV

Leonid

RUS

HAMBARDZUMYAN

Eduard

ARM

AMBARTSUMOVAraik

RUS

SAFARYANTS

Vazgen

BLR

KATE

Gyula

HUN

ZIOUTI

Hicham

FRA

VARGA

Miklos

HUN

LEGOWSKI

Marcin

POL

HASSAN

Bashir

SWE

HICKEY

Ross

IRL

JOYCE

John Joe

IRL

Spain’s Jose de la Nieve Linares (blue) takes on Hovhanncs Danielyan of Armenia in the 48kg final

Welterweight 69kg

Middleweight 75kg

Light Heavyweight 81kg

NURUDZINAU

Mohamed

BLR

SENAY

Ivan

UKR

USYK

Oleksandr

UKR

CULCAY-KETH

Jack

GER

KOPTYAKOV

Maxim

RUS

KARNEYEU

Siarhei

BLR

KOROGLIN

Abdulkadir

TUR

COTIUJANSHII

Victor

MDA

GRISHUNINS

Nikolajs

LAT

CHIGUER

Jaoid

FRA

O'KANE

Eamon

IRL

KRAUSE

Rene

GER

Heavyweight 91kg MEKHONTSEV

Egor

RUS

ANANIKYAN

Tsolak

ARM

GANANAU

Petrisor

ROU

DARMOS

Jozsef

HUN

30 AIBA Boxing News 4th Edition 2008 - October - November - December

Super Heavyweight +91kg PULEV

Kubrat

BUL

SERGEEV

Denis

RUS

KAPITONENKO Rouan

UKR

HADZIC

BIH

Memnun

AIBA President Dr. Ching-Kuo Wu addresses the audience at the finals of the 2008 European Championships in Liverpool, England watched on by President of the Europe Confederation and AIBA Vice-President Dr. Humbert Furgoni and Chairman of the Amateur Boxing Association of England Keith Walters

31 AIBA Boxing News 4th Edition 2008 - October - November - December

European Youth and Junior Girl’s Championships Bright Future for Russia, Poland and Bulgaria The 1st European Youth and Junior Girl’s Championships were successfully completed in Yambol, Bulgaria in December (10-13) with Russia, Poland and hosts Bulgaria topping the Youth European Championships medal tally.

Russia’s three gold, five silver and three bronze medals were closely followed by Poland’s three gold and five bronze medals. Bulgaria’s two gold, a silver and two bronze was enough for it to finish third on the medal tally but equal-fourth on the medal by total with the Ukraine having claimed one gold, two silver and four bronze and Turkey three silvers and two bronze medals.

A total of 12 countries claimed medals at the four-day Youth World Championships with Finland, Hungary and Wales rounding out the bottom of the table, claiming a bronze medal each.

A total of more than 130 boxers from 17 countries participated in the inaugural tournament for girls aged 17 and 18, and 15 and 16 covering 13 weight categories both in the youth age group (born in 1990-1991) and in the junior age group (born in 1992-1993).

The Medallists Pinweight 46kg Junior

Youth

Light Flyweight 48kg

Medal

Last Name

First Name

Country

Gold

STRÖMBERG

Maja

SWE

Silver

NEEZHLEVA

Kristina

RUS

Bronze

ILIESCU

Rodica

ROM

PETROVA

Alexandra

BUL

Junior

Medal

Last Name

First Name

Country

Gold

DERENKO

Maria

RUS

Silver

CHALAKOVA

Tonka

BUL

Bronze

ARAS

Ozlem

TUR

KATARZYNA

Cichosz

POL UKR

Gold

LUNGO

Natalie

SWE

Gold

KNYAZ

Nataliya

Silver

OKUNEVA

Eveniya

RUS

Silver

YARINA

Anastasia

RUS

Bronze

CSILLA

Dobradi

HUN

Bronze

FAIRHEAD

Chole

ENG

BEDNAREK

Patrycja

POL

STEFANIAK

Aneta

POL

First Name

Country

Youth

Flyweight 50kg Junior

Youth

Light Bantamweight 52kg

Medal

Last Name

Gold

KATARZYNA

Brodacka

Silver

SKARZHYNETS

Alina

Bronze

EROGLU

Eda

TUR

KHADZHI

Elena

RUS

Junior

Medal

Last Name

First Name

POL

Gold

YAKOVLEVA

Diana

UKR

UKR

Silver

MIZSEI

Vivien

HUN

Bronze

EROGLU

Seda

TUR

NUSRALLAKH

Lolita

RUS BUL

Youth

Gold

KULESHOVA

Aleksandra

RUS

Gold

GEORGIEVA

Greta

Silver

SAKAL

Binnur

TUR

Silver

YURLOVA

Mariya

UKR

Bronze

SAVOIU

Evelina

ROM

Bronze

SODERSTROM

Juliana

SWE

SOLIANIK

Vitalina

UKR

WITWICKA

Kamila

POL

Bantamweight 54kg Junior

Youth

Country

Featherweight 57kg

Medal

Last Name

First Name

Country

Medal

Last Name

First Name

Country

Gold

NERSESYAN

Armine

RUS

Junior

Gold

YAKUSHINA

Yaroslava

RUS

Silver

WALSH

Mikeala

IRL

Silver

NEREN

Matilda

SWE

Bronze

LYSUN

Yuliya

UKR

Bronze

BASER

Gamze

TUR

MLADENOVA

Kremena

BUL

SYLWIA

Pel

POL

Gold

NADIM

Diana

DEN

Gold

KAMENOVA

Svetlana

BUL

Silver

ILIEVA

Tania

BUL

Silver

MASHKOVA

Zinaida

RUS

Bronze

VERTOGOLOVA Nadezda

RUS

Bronze

KRUPENIA

Ivanna

UKR

HYVONEN

FIN

BRACE

Ashley

WAL

Maiju

Youth

32 AIBA Boxing News 4th Edition 2008 - October - November - December

European Youth and Junior Girl’s Championships The Medallists (continued) Lightweight 60kg Junior

Youth

Light Welterweight 63kg

Medal

Last Name

First Name

Country

Gold

HOLGERSSON

Love

Silver

BELYAKOVA

Anastasia

Bronze

CLOSE

Junior

Medal

Last Name

First Name

Country

SWE

Gold

HÄNNINEN

Mirella

FIN

RUS

Silver

KATARZYNA

Krukowska

POL

Sarah

IRL

Bronze

VYSTROPOVA

Kristina

RUS

ALABAKOVA

Stanislava

BUL

PIKÁCS

Mercedesz

HUN

Gold

ABRAMOVA

Daria

RUS

Gold

JUNGER

Felicia

SWE

Silver

ERKAN

Melek

TUR

Silver

PROKOPENKO

Viktoriya

RUS

Bronze

FEDIS

Oleksandra UKR

Bronze

GOLCEK

Gulnar

TUR

OKRAJNI

Marta

LESZNER

Marta

POL

Youth

POL

Welterweight 66kg Junior

Youth

Light Middleweight 70kg

Medal

Last Name

First Name

Country

Medal

Last Name

First Name

Country

Gold

KARASU

Meryem

TUR

Gold

SKAEVA

Yana

RUS

Silver

NAK

Yesim

TUR

ENG

Silver

TAYSAEVA

Madina

RUS

Bronze

DJANABETSKA

Tswetimila

BUL

BOLD

Gabriela

ROM

Junior

Gold

STELMACH

Magdalena

POL

Gold

MARSHALL

Savannah

Silver

RODIONOVA

Olga

RUS

Youth

Silver

MERCAN

Gulden

TUR

Bronze

ANGELOVA

Eva

BUL

Bronze

CIORDAS

Roxana

ROM

TERTYCHNA

Svitlana

UKR

GARIPOVA

Ilmira

RUS

Middleweight 75kg Junior

Youth

Light Heavyweight 80kg

Medal

Last Name

First Name

Country

Gold

KOSOVA

Svetlana

Silver

GADJEVA

Alexandra

Gold

ABRAMOVA

Daria

RUS

Silver

FIDURA

Lidia

POL

Bronze

Medal

Last Name

First Name

Country

RUS

Gold

IVANOVA

Daria

RUS

BUL

Silver

NATALIA

Bujanowska POL

Gold

ZYABLIKOVA

Ekaterina

RUS

Silver

CHIS

Raluca

ROM

VLAD

Anca

ROM

KOBITSKAYA

Anna

RUS

Junior

Youth

Heavyweight 86kg Junior

Medal

Last Name

First Name

Country

Gold

KUSIAK

Sylwia

POL

Silver

SHEVCENKO

Inna

UKR

Bronze

SAGIROGLU

Merve

TUR

PANAIROVA

Maria

BUL

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USA top 2008 Americas Women’s Continental Championships The US national team collected four gold medals and five silver to claim first place at the 2008 Americas Women’s Continental Boxing Championships held in the Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago in October (1-8).

Other countries to win gold included Canada (3), the Dominican Republic and Brazil with two gold medals each while Mary Spencer, the 66kg continental champion from Canada, warmed up well for the upcoming AIBA Women’s World Championships Ningbo City 2008 where she would defend her title, by being elected as the best boxer of the tournament.

Gold and Silver Medallists Pinweight 46kg

Light Flyweight 48kg

Flyweight 50kg

LEONARDO

Karen

DOM

ESPARZA

Marlene

USA

BUJOLD

Mandy

CAN

ALLEN

Stephanie

TRI

SOUZA

Daniela

BRA

HOULIHAN

Cheryl Lyn

USA

Bantamweight 54kg

Light Bantamweight 52kg

Featherweight 57kg

DOWNING

Sacred Ann

USA

MORENO

Cynthia

USA

CARDOSO

Tayna

BRA

CAPECCE

Loren

BRA

MARTINELLI

Elisangela

BRA

WELLER

Jody-Anne

USA

Lightweight 60kg

Light Welterweight 63kg

Welterweight 66kg

ARAUJO

Adriana

BRA

DUNN

Katie

CAN

SPENCER

Mary

CAN

BARRY

Caroline

USA

UNDERWOOD

Quanitta Lee

USA

JACKSON

Vanessa

USA

Light Middleweight 70kg

Middleweight 75kg

MONICH

Franchon

USA

GUILLEN

Yenibier

DOM

COSTA

Andreia

BRA

TAYLOR

Chimere

TRI

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AIBA News Keith Walker new EC member AIBA President Dr Ching-Kuo Wu appointed Mr. Keith Walker from New Zealand to fulfill Mr. Jim Little’s position as an Oceania AIBA Executive Committee member in December.

Mr. Walker is a member of the AIBA Refereeing & Judging Commission and his appointment will be effective as of January 1, 2009.

AIBA President and IOC Member Dr Ching-Kuo Wu has been selected as part of the IOC Evaluation Commission for the 2016 Olympic Games.

The team comprises representatives from the Olympic Movement, as well as a number of advisors.

The 2016 Evaluation Commission will analyse the candidature files of the four bidding cities - Chicago (USA), Madrid (Spain), Rio de Janeiro (BRA), and Tokyo (Japan) - as well as making on-site inspections in order to issue a technical appraisal for IOC Members.

The city hosting the XXXI Summer Olympic Games will be elected on October 2, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Earlier, President Wu reluctantly accepted the resignation letter of Mr. Little, 61, due to health reasons. Mr. Little, who is from the Cook Islands and had been an AIBA Executive Committee member since 1994, kindly offered his services to continue helping the AIBA HQs Office if and when it may be necessary.

TD appointed for 16th Asian Games AIBA is pleased to announce that the AIBA Technical & Rules Commission chairman and Executive Committee member Mr. Franco Falcinelli (ITA) has been appointed as the Technical Delegate for the 16th Asian Games, which will take place in Guangzhou from November 12-27, 2010.

Anti-Doping Update for 2009 The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published a new Prohibited Substances and Methods List for 2009, which comes into effect on January 1, 2009.

Please visit the Anti Doping section on the AIBA website www.aiba.org or http://www.aiba.org/default.aspx?pId=167 for full details

35 AIBA Boxing News 4th Edition 2008 - October - November - December

AIBA News Application to include women’s boxing in the 2012 Olympic Games

AIBA Boxing Academy job vacancy

The AIBA President Dr. Ching-Kuo Wu informed all members

In its Extraordinary meeting in Beijing, China

and federations in October that the AIBA head office officially

in August, the AIBA Executive Committee

submitted to the IOC its application to include women’s boxing

chose the City of Bécancour, Canada, to

in the 2012 Olympic Games.

host the first AIBA Boxing Academy.

The AIBA application outlines the strengths of women’s boxing

Although the grand opening of the AIBA

and illustrates the key points behind why women’s boxing should

Boxing Academy new facilities is not

be included in the Olympic Games. The Olympic Programme

foreseen before 2010, some temporary

Commission will now review the application before making a

installations will already be at disposal

recommendation to the IOC Executive Board, which will make

during the course of next year. This is the

a decision in 2009.

reason why AIBA has already started to

With the momentum behind women’s boxing gathering great

search for its Academy Director who will

speed the President mentioned that he looked forward to having

be responsible for the general oversight,

the full support and participation of members and federations in

direction and for the operations.

a united effort to make this dream be realized.

If interested, please write to info@aiba.

The President finished by saying that it is the IOC who will make

org to receive the corresponding job

a decision at its Executive Board meeting at the end of 2009 and

description.

“whatever the result, we know that the IOC will be acting in the best interests of boxing”.

36 AIBA Boxing News 4th Edition 2008 - October - November - December

Other News Commonwealth Youth Games - Final Results

Medallists by Weight Category Weight

Category Medal

Name

NOC

Light Flyweight

48kg

Gold Silver Bronze

THOKCHOM Nanao Singh DAVIES Zack NGANGA Eddie SANELE Sinapapa

IND WAL KEN SAM

Flyweight

51kg

Gold Silver Bronze

CHAPMAN Daniel DICKENS James MAKHETHA Tankiso SADHU Sunil

WAL ENG RSA IND

Bantamweight

54kg

Gold Silver Bronze

QUIGLEY John ROCK Clevon VANKALA Durga Rao TAYLOR Josh

ENG GUY IND SCO

Featherweight

57kg

Gold Silver Bronze

WEAVER Iain BALLA Ibrahim HYLAND Paul SLOWEY Jonathan

ENG AUS NIR SCO

Lightweight

60kg

Gold Silver Bronze

PHILLIPS Daniel DUFFY Sean ALEXANDER Jai GOYAL Neeraj

ENG NIR AUS IND

Light Welterweight

64kg

Gold Silver Bronze

VIROTHU Shanthosh ALEXANDER Jonker McKEE Robert ZWINILA Lentswe

IND RSA SCO BOT

Welterweight

69kg

Gold Silver Bronze

BENIWAL Balwinder SHAMOON Benjamin ROSS Jesse MORGAN Joseph Granville

IND CAN AUS WAL

Middleweight

75kg

Gold Silver Bronze

TWARDZIK Stuart SATINDER Satinder HARDING Keiron GARVEY Kirk

CAN IND WAL ENG

October 13-17 Pune, India The third Commonwealth Youth Championships in Pune, India were held in October with the hosts dominating the medal tally.

The Indian boxing team topped the competition medal tally with seven, three of which were gold.

England and Wales followed just after India with five and four medals respectively with England matching India’s gold medal count of three.

The boxing bouts were held at the Shri Shiv Chhatrapati Sports City, Balewadi, where a total of 32 medals were allocated to 12 different countries, coming from all five continents.

Scoring System Update: Installation Guide Changes 3 x 3 and RSCOS A manual to help each federation to reset its AIBA Scoring System as per the new AIBA Competition Rules of 3 rounds of 3 minutes each bout and the removal of the RSCOS is now online on the AIBA website www.aiba.org.

Please follow the instructions in the manual to reset your scoring system for future use.

The timing settings need not be changed on the software unless you have a scoring keypad.

Federations that have bought the scoring keypad can contact AIBA at info@aiba.org for instructions pertaining to the scoring keypad software.

37 AIBA Boxing News 4th Edition 2008 - October - November - December

AIBA News Ten federations inline to host AIBA’s 2010 and 2011 events The deadline to register an intent to host any of AIBA’s four major events in 2010 and 2011 closed on September 30, with a total of 10 federations registering their interest to host as per the following: 1. 2010 Women World Championships: • Barbados

3. 2011 World Championships: • Ireland • Korea • Russia • Turkey • Wales

4. 2010 World Cup: 2. 2010 Youth World Championships: • Belarus • England • France • Thailand

New EC for Sierra Leone Boxing Association The election to the Executive Committee of Sierra Leone Boxing Association (SLBA) took place in the capital city, Freetown on December 4.

Five people were elected to the EC of SLBA, in a meeting in which representatives of the National Olympic Committee of Sierra Leone, the National Sports Council of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, as well as the Electoral Commission and observers from other national sporting disciplines were present.

The new Executive Committee which will run boxing in Sierra Leone for three years is formed by: • • • •

President: Mr Ulric Caramba-Coker Vice President: Mr Murana E. Kamara Secretary General: Mr Christian Campbell Treasurer: Mr Ibrahim G.T. Sankoh

• Financial Secretary: Miss Grace Brown

The AIBA office extended the deadline one more month for the 2010 World Cup following requests from several federations to do so.

The host cities for these events will be decided at the AIBA EC meeting to be held in February, 2009, in Milan, Italy.

New President for Cuba Federation The Cuba Boxing Federation called an Extraordinary Assembly on October 21 with the only point in the agenda of announcing the resignation of former AIBA EC member Mr. Jorge Guzman as President of the Federation and to elect a new President.

After receiving the explanation of Mr. Guzman and the irrevocability of his resignation, the Assembly acknowledged the work developed by him and elected Mr. Jose Barrientos Martinez as the new President for the period remaining until the year 2012.

Resignation Notice of the Tanzania Boxing Federation The national Boxing Federation of Tanzania under the leadership of Mr. Alhaji Shaban Mitanga Kondo officially resigned in October.

The Vice President of the Boxing Federation of Tanzania Christopher Mutarubukwa wrote to AIBA President Dr. Ching-Kuo Wu informing of the decision. Mr Mutarubukwa explained that due to a series of serious allegations against Federation members, the Boxing Federation of Tanzania Executive Committee took the decision to resign to restore national integrity and its image.

Pakistan Boxing Federation Election The Pakistan Boxing Federation concluded its elections on December 20 in Islamabad.

The National Olympic Committee of Pakistan oversaw the proceedings during which the following persons were elected: • President: Mr Doda Khan Bhutto • Secretary: Mr Akram Khan

38 AIBA Boxing News 4th Edition 2008 - October - November - December

Other News Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan dominate 52nd World Military Championships Beijing Olympian Alexis Vastine claimed gold while host nation Azerbaijan dominated the medals at the 52nd World Military Boxing Championships which were held in Baku in November.

represented their countries in India in 2007 and 169 boxers were in Germany in 2006. This decrease is blamed on the Summer Olympic Games and a busy end of year international and national calendar.

The week-long tournament (November 23-29) saw Azerbaijan claim six gold medals across the 11 weight divisions while Vastine, an Olympic bronze medallist from France, claimed the 64kg title by beating Nekrasov Searhei of Belarus 14:2.

Four countries, host nation Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, India, and Sri Lanka took part with full, 11-member teams while four continents - Europe, Asia, Africa, and America were represented.

The World Military Boxing Championships is traditionally an annual event for young soldiers. The five founding nations - Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, and Luxembourg - created CISM in Nice on 18 February 1948. Although the founders were only European countries, CISM is now a global project with 131 member nations.

Only 17 countries and 99 soldiers, of which nine competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, took part in the event in Baku, whilst 188 competitors Light Flyweight 48kg

The biggest star of the tournament, 20-year-old European Championships’ silver medallist and World Championships’ bronze medallist Samir Mammadov from Azerbaijan lost in the first round of preliminaries to 27-year-old two-times Olympian Tulashboy Doniyorov from Uzbekistan, who went on to win the bantamweight division.

Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan dominated with six and four gold medals respectively while France’s Vastine claimed the only other gold, India collected seven medals in total without reaching the top of the dais.

Flyweight 51kg

Bantamweight 54kg

ABIYEV

Ceyhun

AZE

NAJAFOV

Rahim

AZE

DONIYAROV

Tulachboy

UZB

PARAMJIT

Sing

IND

SURANJOY

Sing

IND

PARINELLO

Vittorio I

ITA

HRIB

Ilya

BLR

BEKISH

Anton

BLR

KABANCHUK

Ivan

UKR

ISAKOV

Shahriyar

UZB

SULTANOV

Rafokjan

UZB

UCHUNCU

H. Ibrahim

TUR

Featherweight 57kg

Lightweight 60kg

Light Welterweight 64kg

ISMAILOV

Elshan

AZE

MAMAJONOV

Bakhodir

UZB

VASTINE

Alexis

FRA

CHHOTE

Lal Yadav

IND

KOCHABASH

Husnu

NED

NEKRASOV

Searhei

BLR

OUDAHI

Mohammad Amin

ALG

HALTSICH

Allaksei

BLR

SOM

Bahadur Pun IND

Di SAVINO

Avessio

ITA

DZHABRAILOV

Raset

UKR

HOLMURATOV

Ulugbek

Welterweight 69kg

Middleweight 75kg

YUNUSOV

Bekzod

UZB

BAYLAROV

KUZMIRUK

Vitali

BLR

MAHARRAMOV

Emil

AZE

HOUARI

Lancene

ALG

Rahib

Light Heavyweight 81kg AZE

GADIROV

Elnur

DAUHALIAVETS Mikhail

BLR

ABDURAHIMOV

Sherzod

UZB

BAKR ABDIN

Hosam

EGY

KUZMIN

Sergei

BLR

DEMIANENKO

Pavlo

UKR

MAHENDRA

Thapa

IND

Heavyweight 91kg ALIZADE

UZB

AZE

Super Heavyweight +91kg

Elchin

AZE

ABDULLAYEV

Sardor

UZB

MANPREET

Sing

IND

SHEPHERD

Andrew

USA

BANDARA

Ajith

SRI

MEHAR

Sing

IND

YARUK

Pavel

BLR

JHAFFAR

Anwer Jasser

EGY

39 AIBA Boxing News 4th Edition 2008 - October - November - December

AIBA Boxing Calendar 2009 - 2012 2009

2010

2011

2012

January

Olympic QT

January

February

Olympic QT

February

March

Olympic QT

March

Olympic QT

April

Youth World Championships Grenoble or Nice / FRA, 4/3-10

April

May

Junior World Championships Yerevan/ARM, 5/22 - 31

May

June

June

Junior World Championships 7/22 - 31

July

August

September

World Championships Milan/ITA, 8/29 - 9/13

October

Women World Championships BAR, 9/10-18

World Championships Busan / KOR, 9/16 - 10/1

July

August

Youth World Championships 9/13 - 23

September

October

World Cup Women World Championships 10/25 - 11/4

November

December

November

President Cup Baku / AZE, 12/7-13

World Cup 12/2 - 12

President Cup 12/2 - 11

All dates for AIBA events include arrival & departure days for ofďŹ cials and team delegations

40 AIBA Boxing News 4th Edition 2008 - October - November - December

December