The Govt Board of World Boxing has accepted six extra membership purposes 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 utility accepted by World Boxing’s Govt Board signifies that the Worldwide Federation has achieved one of many extensively established standards for Olympic inclusion, {that a} sport have to be practiced in at the least 75 nations on 4 continents.
All the new Nationwide Federations have accomplished a rigorous utility course of to affix World Boxing. They’re deemed to be in good standing and, by their statutes and working processes, in a position to reveal: a clear and open election course of; the existence and operation of WADA-recognized insurance policies and processes; proof of impartial, 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 vital milestone for World Boxing, and I’m delighted to welcome our six latest members and thank every of them for making the choice to affix 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 because of this World Boxing has achieved one of many extensively 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 want to thank all of our member Nationwide Federations for his or her steadfast assist and dedication to delivering a greater future for boxers and everybody related to our sport.
“We’re persevering with to obtain purposes 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 affix World Boxing.”
A full checklist of the 78 Nationwide Federations which can be members of World Boxing may 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 Might 7, 2024, it held its first formal assembly with the IOC which signaled the beginning of collaboration aimed 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 assist and help the method of growing a pathway to making sure that boxing is restored to the Video games.
