Amateur boxing adds weight classes

THE Worldwide Boxing Affiliation (Aiba) will enhance the variety of boxing weight courses and evaluations allowed to taking part groups in any respect its competitions from 1 August. The lads’s weight classes will go from 10 to 13, and girls’s will rise from 10 to 12.

Aiba undertook a widespread session of stakeholders earlier than deciding on the brand new weight courses, its secretary basic, István Kovács, mentioned in his current report back to the Aiba board.

“We consider this step will permit a larger pool of boxers to take part within the respective weight classes the place they really feel most sturdy and cozy,” he mentioned.

The modifications have been made for the security of boxers by guaranteeing simpler weight administration and equal preventing, he mentioned.

For males, the featherweight (57 kg) class has been added again to the fold together with the sunshine middleweight (71 kg) and cruiserweight (86 kg) courses.

The bantamweight has been introduced again to 54 kg from the present 56 kg.

The ladies’s divisions have added the sunshine flyweight at 50 kg, and the sunshine middleweight class at 70 kg.

“Now we have collected all proposals from nationwide federations, in addition to from revered Aiba committees. Every voice has been heard. This innovation will assist boxing to develop from grassroots to elite,” the secretary basic mentioned.

Beginner boxing’s world governing physique mentioned the variety of evaluations per workforce has been elevated from two to 3.

The charge of US$1 000 (about N$14 370) for failed bout evaluations has been scrapped.

This was completed in a bid to enhance transparency in judging and to curb contentious choices of previous occasions.

“We’re implementing this significant change now whereas widespread reform of Aiba’s complete competitors construction is in course of,” Aiba president Umar Kremlev mentioned.

Beneath this method, the workforce supervisor or the top coach of the shedding boxer will get quarter-hour after the choice is introduced to submit a protest, and to finish the paperwork for it within the half-hour thereafter.

All choices, aside from knockouts, abandonments and disqualifications, will be challenged.

The load courses are as follows:

Girls – Minimal weight (45-48 kg) mild flyweight (50); flyweight (52); bantamweight (54); featherweight (57); light-weight (60); mild welterweight (63); welterweight (66); mild middleweight (70); middleweight (75); mild heavyweight (81); heavyweight (+81);

Males – Minimal weight (46-48kg); flyweight (51), bantamweight (54); featherweight (57); light-weight (60); mild welterweight (63,5); welterweight (67); mild middleweight (71); middleweight (75); mild heavyweight – 80); cruiserweight (86); heavyweight (92); and tremendous heavyweight (+92 ).