BOXING: At the International Boxing Association’s (AIBA) 2014 Congress, the delegates from the national federations of AIBA voted to appoint the new Vice Presidents and Executive Committee members for the coming four years.
Boxing Australia President, Ted Tanner was elected and appointed as the Vice President for Oceania. Ted will join Kelani Bayor (Africa), Osvaldo Bisbal (America), Serik Konakbayev (Asia) and Franco Falcinelli (Europe) as the new Vice Presidents of AIBA.
Prior to this appointment Ted was on AIBA’s Executive Committee and Oceania’s Executive Committee.
Mr Ching-Kuo Wu was reappointed as the AIBA President for a third term. Dr. Wu outlined his key priorities for the coming four years, which included:
- Ensuring that more women were appointed to leadership positions in boxing;
- Establishing a ‘boxer centered’ organization by opening the doors for boxers to take up leadership positions
- Continuing to expand the World Series of Boxing (WSB) competition and the AIBA Pro-Boxing competition (APB), while at the same time increasing their commercial value;
- Investing the revenues from Elite competitions into developing future generations of boxers by targeting funds towards the grassroots of the sport around the world.
At the close of Congress, delegates unanimously adopted ‘The Jeju Declaration’, endorsing the initiatives taken by AIBA to fulfil its mission to govern the sport of boxing in all of its forms.
The Jeju Declaration included resolutions to support:
- The building of a tangible and protected career plan for AIBA boxers;
- The continued development of Women’s boxing at all levels;
- The harmonisation of technical rules for all AIBA competitions, as well as the removal of headguards in Elite Men’s competitions;
- Protection of the image and reputation of the International Boxing Association from any ill-intentioned external influence;
- Prevention and sanctions for any instances of corruption, matching fixing, gambling and violence inside or outside the ring;
- Maintaining the principle of not using the word “Amateur” in AIBA sport programs, as well as avoiding being perceived as a “Combat and Martial Arts” sport – and instead protecting boxing’s ancient heritage as the “Noble Art”.
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