Boxing Federation of India (BFI) leader Ajay Singh has been elected because the Global Boxing Affiliation (IBA) vice-president.
Singh’s appointed was once showed all through the IBA board of administrators assembly, which was once held following the belief of the Ladies’s International Championships right here on Sunday.
Singh, who’s in his 2d time period because the BFI president, turns into IBA’s 3rd vice-president and can keep within the function until 2026 along Volodymyr Prodyvus of Ukraine and Serbia’s Abdulmutalim Abakarov.
India hosted the Ladies’s International Championships for the 3rd time and completed on best of the medals tally, fetching 4 golds.
Ultimate month, they jumped to the 3rd spot within the IBA ratings.
The BFI has additionally expressed hobby in internet hosting the Males’s International Championships and is in talks with the Global Olympic Committee (IOC) to host the Paris Olympic qualifiers.
“We can attempt to host the entire giant championships as a result of that is helping create a boxing tradition within the nation,” Singh had advised journalists at the ultimate day of the Ladies’s International Championships.
A number of different subjects had been additionally mentioned all through the assembly starting from the impending Males’s International Championships in Tashkent to making plans for long run global occasions.
The Croatian town of Porec will host the IBA Early life International Boxing Championships subsequent yr, whilst the IBA Junior International Championships this yr in Mexico will see the go back of festival for 15-16 yr age team.
Croatia has hosted some main continental-level boxing competitions, however the Early life International Championships would be the first within the nation.
The IBA mentioned in a remark on Tuesday that the 2 occasions will supply alternatives to younger boxers to exhibit their talents and “encourage the more youthful era to soak up (the) recreation”.
“Our assembly was once an excellent chance for the IBA board of administrators to return in combination and speak about vital problems associated with the way forward for boxing,” mentioned IBA president Umar Kremlev.
“We can proceed doing our utmost for our athletes, and the revival of the Junior International Boxing Championships is a brilliant testimony to that. I’m taking a look ahead to witnessing an excellent step ahead for the grassroots recreation.”