The Govt Board of World Boxing has authorised six extra membership functions from the Nationwide Federations for boxing in Kosovo, Syria, Hungary, Malawi, Estonia and Switzerland to take its membership to 78 nations.
The affirmation of Hungary because the seventy fifth nation to have its membership software authorised by World Boxing’s Govt Board signifies that the Worldwide Federation has achieved one of many broadly established standards for Olympic inclusion, {that a} sport have to be practiced in not less than 75 nations on 4 continents.
All the new Nationwide Federations have accomplished a rigorous software course of to hitch World Boxing. They’re deemed to be in good standing and, by means of their statutes and working processes, in a position to show: a clear and open election course of; the existence and operation of WADA-recognized insurance policies and processes; proof of unbiased, structured, dispute decision and appeals processes; formal recognition by both their Nationwide Olympic Committee (NOC) or Ministry for Sport and a stable nationwide and worldwide boxing program.
The President of World Boxing, Boris van der Vorst, mentioned: “This can be a very important milestone for World Boxing, and I’m delighted to welcome our six latest members and thank every of them for making the choice to hitch our mission to make sure that boxing stays on the coronary heart of the Olympic Motion.
“It’s a specific pleasure to welcome Hungary as our seventy fifth member as which means that World Boxing has achieved one of many broadly established standards for a sport to be included within the Olympic Video games.
“That is very optimistic information for everybody concerned with boxing, in any respect ranges all through the world, and I wish to thank all of our member Nationwide Federations for his or her steadfast help and dedication to delivering a greater future for boxers and everybody related to our sport.
“We’re persevering with to obtain functions from Nationwide Federations throughout the globe that need to be a part of World Boxing, and I urge all boxing leaders that need to guarantee their boxers have the chance to compete at a future Olympic Video games to do the identical and apply to hitch World Boxing.”
A full checklist of the 78 Nationwide Federations which are members of World Boxing could be seen right here: https://worldboxing.org/membership/
World Boxing was launched in April 2023 and is dedicated to making sure that boxing stays on the coronary heart of the Olympic motion.
On Could 7, 2024, it held its first formal assembly with the IOC which signaled the beginning of collaboration geared toward establishing a pathway for boxing to stay within the Olympic Video games. On September 26, 2024, World Boxing introduced that it had set-up an Olympic Fee, chaired by the President of the Nationwide Olympic Committee of Kazakhstan, Gennadiy Golovkin, to help and help the method of growing a pathway to making sure that boxing is restored to the Video games.
