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The IBA Men's World Boxing Championships are biennial amateur boxing competitions organised by the International Boxing Association (IBA, previously known as AIBA), which is the sport governing body. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Alongside the Olympic boxing programme , they are the highest level of competition for the sport.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, women's boxing events were added to the programme for the first time. [2] In 2016, the IBA allowed professional boxers to compete in Olympic events, previously being limited to amateur or state-funded boxers, for the first time. [6] [7]
Amateur boxing emerged as a sport during the mid-to-late 19th century, partly as a result of the moral controversies surrounding professional prize-fighting.Originally lampooned as an effort by upper and middle-class gentlemen to co-opt a traditionally working class sport, the safer, "scientific" style of boxing found favour in schools, universities and in the armed forces, although the ...
India's Mary Kom is a six-time World Amateur Boxing champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships. [3] She also became the first Indian woman boxer to get a Gold Medal at the Asian Games during the 2014 Asian Games at Incheon, South Korea.
USA Boxing, formerly known as the United States Amateur Boxing Federation, has governed amateur and Olympic boxing in the United States since 1978. [6] USA Boxing officially recognized women's boxing in 1993, becoming the first organization to do so in the world with a fight between Dallas Malloy & Heather Poyner in Lynwood, Washington.
For example, Anthony Joshua’s Olympic gold-medal win in 2012 was part of his amateur career. Meanwhile, his heavyweight title fights with Oleksandr Usyk in 2021 and 2022 were professional bouts.
The International Boxing Association was banished from the Olympic family on Thursday, ending a years-long dispute fueled by defying advice and instructions from the IOC. Boxing, however, will ...
Boxing: Medal record. Representing India; Women's amateur boxing; Asian Games; 2022 Hangzhou: Bantamweight Preeti Pawar (born 23 October 2003) is an Indian boxer.