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• (a)up to three boxer entries in both the 69-75kg and the 81-91kg elite male weight categories; or
• (b) up to four boxer entries in either the 69-75kg or the 81-91kg elite male weight category.

• in each such case, the Member Association shall identify which of the boxers entered by it is or are to be deemed its third and, where applicable, its fourth entrant in the elite male weight category concerned;
• each third and, where applicable, fourth boxer entry submitted by the Member Association in the 69-75kg or the 81-91kg elite male weight category must first be approved as an entrant by the Board of BAI before the boxer concerned shall be entitled to compete in that weight category;
• and for each third and, where applicable, fourth boxer entry submitted by the Member Association in the 69-75kg or the 81-91kg elite male weight category, that Member Association’s entitlement to otherwise submit two boxer entries in the 75-81kg elite male weight category shall be reduced by one boxer entry entitlement.

• promote women’s boxing  ‘Olympic Pathway’ qualification competition , and
• enable men boxers in the 75-81 kg weight category who are able to vary their boxing weight to continue in the ‘Olympic Pathway’ by changing up or down into the adjoining weight categories. 

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ELECTION OF BAI BOARD DIRECTORS

Boxing Australia is calling for nominations for two Director positions to the Boxing Australia Board.

Persons who may be interested in nominating need to fill in a Nomination Form and forward it to the Returning Officer by 4pm (EST) Friday 7th October 2011.

The election process will take place at Boxing Australia’s Annual Council Meeting on Saturday 12th November 2011.

A Nomination Form and information regarding election to the BAI Board of Directors can be found by following this link.

Posted 21 September 2011

OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION
The Australian Team leaves on Wednesday 21 Sept for the 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships. The Championships will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, 25 September – 8 October. Initial entries indicate over 700 boxers from 130 nations will be competing.

The Championships are the first Men’s Qualifying Event for the 2012 Olympic Games – the first 10 boxers in the eight weight categories 46-49 kg through to 75-81 kg and the first 6 boxers in the 81-91 kg and 91+ kg weight categories will qualify.  The 9th and 10th and 5th and 6th place getters will be determined by which boxers were defeated by the eventual World Champion and Runner-up in the respective weight categories.

In Oceania the Elite Men’s second Qualifying Event for any weight categories that do not have an Oceania qualified boxer following the World Championships will be the Oceania Olympic Qualifying Event. Boxing Australia Inc. has invited the International Boxing Association (AIBA) to conduct this tournament 21-25 March, 2012, at the Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra.

The Women’s single Olympic Qualifying Event will be the Elite Women’s World Championships to be held 21 May – 3 June, 2012, in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China.

The Boxing Qualification System and Nomination Criteria for the 2012 Olympic Games can be viewed on Boxing Australia Inc.’s website’s ‘Documents’ page.
Posted 20 September 2011

AUSTRALIAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TEAM

The Australian Team to the 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships is -
Reggie Palm Island (Q’ld): Light Flyweight 46-49 kg
Andrew Moloney (Vic): Flyweight 49-52 kg
Luke Boyd (NSW): Bantamweight 52-56 kg
Luke Jackson (Tas): Lightweight 56-60 kg
Jeff Horn (Q’ld): Light Welterweight 60-64 kg
Mark Basile (Vic): Welterweight 64-69 kg
Rob Jankovski (Vic): Middleweight 69-75 kg
Damien Hooper (Q’ld): Light Heavyweight 75-81 kg
Sammy Blyth (WA): Heavyweight 81-91 kg
Alexey Mukhin (ACT): Super Heavyweight 91+ kg

David Pike (Vic): Team Manager
Don Abnett (BAI National Coach): Head Coach
Kel Bryant (Vic): Assistant Coach
Vince Cosentini (AIS): Soft Tissue/Massage Therapist

The best wishes from the Australian boxing community go with the Team on their World Championships and Olympic quest.
Posted 20 September 2011

AIBA WORLD RANKINGS AND AUSSIE BOXERS

The International Boxing Association (AIBA) awards world rankings to Elite Men and Women category boxers. The rankings can be viewed on the International Boxing Association (AIBA) website. In relation to Australian boxers some of the rankings are -

Elite Women
Kate Skinner 45-48 kg (ranked 6th in the world)
Shannon O’Connell 48-51 kg (ranked 2nd in the world)
Bianca Elmir  51-54 kg (ranked 3rd in the world)
Sabrina Ostowari 54-57 kg (ranked 3rd in the world)
Claire Ghabrial 57-60 kg (ranked 3rd in the world)
Jessica Bouquet 60-64 kg (ranked 6th in the world)
Naomi Fischer-Rasmussen 64-69 kg (ranked 1st in the world)

Elite Men
Jason Moloney 49-52 kg (ranked 7th in the world)
Andrew Moloney 49-52 kg (ranked 12th in the world)
Luke Jackson 56-60 kg (ranked 6th in the world)
Luke Woods 60-64 kg (ranked 6th in the world)
Cameron Hammond 64-69 kg (ranked 6th in the world)
Damien Hooper 75-81 kg (ranked 4th in the world)
Giancarlo Squillace 81-91 kg (ranked 6th in the world)
Alexey Mukhin 91+ kg (ranked 16th in the world)

The AIBA rankings are awarded for results in certain international tournaments and are progressively updated and, accordingly, are subject to change.

Posted 20 September 2011

THREE GOLD MEDALS IN CYG CHAMPIONSHIPS

Yesterday at the Commonwealth Youth Games held in the Isle of Man, Daniel Lewis (NSW - U64 kg), Dylan Hardy (Tas. - U75 kg) and Brandon Allan (WA - U81 kg) won Gold Medals. Jackson Woods (Tas. - U52 kg) won Silver.

Daniel, Dylan, Brandon and Jackson, with the other team members - Dylan Cooney (Tas. – U56 kg), Brandon Ogilvie ( wa – U60 kg) and Kurtis Cooper (ACT – U69 kg) - placed the Australian Team second overall in the Championships to the English Team – Australia 3 Gold Medals, England 5 Gold Medals.

Congratulations to all the Team and especially our medal winners.

Brandon Allen on his way to becoming the Commonwealth Youth Light-Heavyweight Champion defeated England 15-13 and Wales 26-12. Dylan Hardy defeated Barbados 10-19, Canada 12-14 and Scotland 15-16 to become the Commonwealth Youth Middleweight Champion. Daniel Lewis defeated IoM RSCI, Wales 14-18 and England 24-27 to become the Commonwealth Youth Light-Welterweight Champion. Jackson Woods defeated Kenya 20-7 and Wales 15-8 before lowering his colours to England 8-13 to become Commonwealth Youth Flyweight Runner-Up. Kurtis Cooper was defeated in his first bout by the eventual Commonwealth Youth Welterweight Champion from England, and similarly Dylan Cooney was defeated in his first bout by the eventual Commonwealth Youth Bantamweight Champion from England. Brandon Ogilvie was defeated in his first bout by a Canadian who was beaten on count-back by the eventual Commonwealth Lightweight Champion from England.

Thank you to Coach Craig Woods (Tas.) and Team Manager Allan Nicolson Snr. (Q’ld) for their leadership of the Team.

Posted 12 September 2011

TWO GOLD MEDALS AT AIBA JUNIOR MALE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Posted 31 July 2011

ELITE MEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TEAM APPOINTMENTS

The BAI Board has appointed David Pike (Vic) the Team Manager of the Australian Team to the 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships and Kel Bryant (Vic) as the Assistant Coach of the Team.

Previously Don Abnett (BAI National Coach) has been appointed by the Board as the Head Coach of the Team.

Vince Cosentini (AIS) will be the Team Physiotherapist.

The Elite Men’s World Championships will be held 22 September – 10 October in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Posted 15 July 2011

MEN’S JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS TEAM

The Australian Team leaves Tuesday 19 July for the 2011 Men’s Junior World Championships

The Men’s Junior World Championships will be held 23 -31 July in Astana, Kazakhstan.

The Australian Team is:

Team Manager/ Head Coach – Mark Wilson (Q’ld)

Assistant Coaches – Gareth Williams (Q’ld) and Peter Stokes (WA)

Boxers –

44-46 kg: Clay Waterman (Q’ld)

46-48 kg: Liam Wilson (Q’ld)

48-50 kg: Jack Haines (SA)

50-52 kg: Aaron Crossan (Tas)

52-54 kg: Shane Carroll (WA)

54-57 kg: Nathaniel May (WA)

57-60 kg: Luke Pilarinos (Vic)

63-66 kg: Peter Proum (Q’ld)

66-70 kg: Jason Mallia (Vic)

70-75 kg: Jack Killingbeck (NT)

75-80 kg: Jay Opetaia (NSW)

80+ kg: Ryan Foulds (Q’ld)

 Best wishes for success to all members of the Australian Team.

 And, thank you to the Commonwealth Games Association for its grant of $24,500 towards the Team’s expenses.

Posted 15 July 2011

AUSSIES WIN GOLD IN INDONESIA

In the prestigious Indonesian President’s Cup international tournament held last week in Jakarta Claire Ghabrial in the Lightweight 57-60 kg category and Damien Hooper in the Light Heavyweight 75-81 kg category became President Cup Champions.

On his way to victory Damien defeated boxers from Indonesia, India and Turkmenistan.

Claire on her way to victory defeated boxers from Indonesia, Korea, Vietnam and Japan.

And, Claire was selected as the Best Women’s Boxer of the Tournament.

Coach Don Abnett is leading an Australian Team of Claire and Damien, and Dylan Perkins (Light Flyweight 46-49 kg), Andrew Moloney (Flyweight 49-52 kg) and Luke Jackson (Lightweight 56-60 kg) on a competition tour that now moves on to tournaments in Moscow and Minsk.

Congratulations to Claire and Damien on their success and good wishes to all team members in the coming tournaments.

Posted 14 July 2011

BOX OFF FOR LIGHT FLYWEIGHT POSITION IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Dylan Perkins (Boxing ACT) and Reggie Palm Island (Boxing Queensland) are to box off for the Light Flyweight (46-49 kg) position in the Australian Team to the 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships.

The bout will be held on Sunday, 7 August next, at the Reggio Calabria Club, 476 Brunswick Rd., Parkville (Melbourne), Victoria.

Dylan Perkins won the Elite Men’s Light Flyweight category at the 2011 Australian Championships. He was the only entrant to weigh-in for the Elite Men’s Light Flyweight category at the 2011 Australian Championships which was designated the Selection Event for the Australian Team to the 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships. However, given this circumstance and under the conditions set for the selection of boxers for the Australian Team to the 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships, and provisions in BAI’s Technical and Competition Rules and the Nomination Criteria for the Australian Boxing Team to the 2012 Olympic Games (the 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships is a Qualification Event for the 2012 Olympic Games), the Board is empowered to determine another method for selection of a boxer to represent Australia in this weight category.

Accordingly, the BAI Board has determined that due to an extenuating circumstance that prevented Reggie Palm Island from competing in the 2011 Australian Championships that he and Dylan Perkins should box off to seek selection to the Australian 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships Team.

Good luck to both boxers.

Posted 3 July 2011

AIBA GIVES WORLD RANKINGS TO AUSSIE BOXERS

Following the inaugural Women’s Junior and Youth World Championships the International Boxing Association (AIBA) has given world rankings to boxers.

Congratulations to Caitlin Parker, Junior U66 kg, who has been ranked number 3 in the world; and Haylee Verrier, U60 kg, and Skye Nicolson, U57 kg, who have both been ranked number 5 in the world in their weight categories.

Amelia Burghardt, Youth U51 kg, may very well also have received a top 8 ranking if she had not been drawn against and been defeated in her first bout at the World Championships by a boxer AIBA has ranked number 2 in the world in that weight category.

Posted 3 May 2011

NEW BAI BOARD DIRECTOR

To fill the vacancy arising following Ron Pengelly’s resignation from the BAI Board the other Board Directors have appointed Julia Felton as a Director of BAI.

Julia has resigned her position as Secretary of Boxing ACT. She will hold membership of the BAI Board until the 2011 Annual Meeting of the BAI Council (likely to be held in Nov.) when the Director’s position she holds will by ‘rotation’ come up for election by the Council’s Delegates.

Julia is registered to practice as a barrister and solicitor in the ACT. She has long experience of managing boxing tournaments at the Member Association level as well as experience of conducting tournaments at the national and international levels.

Posted 2 May 2011

CAITLIN PARKER MEDALS AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Caitlin Parker (WA) Junior U66 kg has won a Bronze medal at the first-ever Women’s Junior and Youth World Championships which were held last week in Antalya, Turkey.
There were 257 boxers from 41 countries at the World Championships. Australia was represented by a team of 5 boxers.

Caitlin defeated a Kazakhstan boxer 15-7 but had to lower her ‘colours’ 22 -14 to a Polish boxer who went on to an RSC (38-12, Rd. 3) stop of her opponent in the Final to win Gold.
Haylee Verrier (WA) Junior U60 kg defeated a Turkish boxer 14-8 but was beaten 24-8 by a Russian who went on to win Silver.
Skye Nicolson (Q’ld.) Junior 57 kg defeated a Serbian 11-5 but was defeated 12-12 on countback by a Ukrainian.
Chernaka Johnson (Q’ld.) Junior U54 kg was defeated 17 -12 by an Indian.
Amelia Burghardt (SA) U 51 kg was defeated by a Swede 26-9.

Congratulations to all our boxers for their performances. Special congratulations to Caitlin for her medal win.
Thank you to Team Manager – Coach Maria Pittiglio and Coach Allan Nicolson Jnr. for their leadership of the team.

Posted 2 May 2011

2012 PATHWAY TO LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES

The Board of Boxing Australia Inc. has determined that the 2012 Australian Championships will be the National Selection Event for the Australian Teams to the 2012 Oceania Olympic Qualifying Event [for men] (21 – 25 March, location to be determined) and the 2012 Elite Women’s World Championships (21 May – 10 June, Qinhuangdao, China).

The 2012 Australian Championships will be held 1 – 5 February in Hobart, Tasmania.

On BAI’s website ‘Documents’ page can be viewed the International Boxing Association’s 2012 Olympic Games Qualification System and BAI’s 2012 Australian Olympic Team Nomination Criteria.

Subject to the stipulated requirements in BAI’s 2012 Australian Olympic Team Nomination Criteria winners of:

• all Elite Men weight categories, and
• the Elite Women 48-51 kg, 57-60 kg and 69-75 kg weight categories,

at the 2012 Australian Championships will qualify to compete at the above international 2012 Olympic Games Qualification Events.

Firstly, however, subject to the Nomination Criteria, the winners of Elite Men’s weight categories at the 2011 Australian Championships will compete in the 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships which is the men’s first Olympic Qualification Event for the 2012 Olympic Games.

If boxers qualify in accordance with the International Boxing Association’s 2012 Olympic Games Qualification System and BAI’s 2012 Australian Olympic Team Nomination Criteria, and continue to comply with the stipulated requirements in BAI’s Nomination Criteria, BAI will nominate those boxers to the Australian Olympic Committee to be members of the 2012 Australian Olympic Team. The Australian Olympic Committee reserves to itself the right to select the Australian Team.

Posted 27 April 2011

OLYMPIC GAMES PATHWAY BEGINS AT MEMBER ASSOCIATION LEVEL
 
BAI  Member Associations have been informed that the Olympic Games ‘Pathway’ begins with each Association's ‘selection’ of its boxing team and that each must undertake the selection of their Elite Men’s and Elite Women’s Teams for the 2012 Australian Championships in accordance with the following requirements:

Posted 27 April 2011

AIBA BAN ON PROFESSIONAL COACHES

The BAI Board has been shocked to learn of a provision in AIBA ‘s new Technical and Competition Rules that prohibits a coach ‘active in professional boxing’ from seconding boxers in ‘AIBA and/or WSB competitions at any level’ (section: Rules for Competition Officials - Rule 12.3.1). The Board believes that the prohibition on the participation of ‘professional’ coaches applies to ‘AIBA Controlled Events’ and ‘AIBA Approved Events.’

The Board will address this matter in the near future and determine what action it should take. The Board will consider acting to have this new Rule rescinded as it is contradictory to over 100 years of progress in ‘Western’ countries of developing social integration and cohesion. It appears, also, to contradict the ‘direction’ of World Series Boxing. And it has the potential to harm the development of Australian amateur boxing.

 Posted 20 April 2011

COACHING POSITIONS WITH AUSTRALIAN TEAMS RE-OPENED

In view of the AIBA ban on ‘professional’ coaches and because, apparently, in one Member Association the ‘Call’ for applications for appointment as coaches of our national teams was not widely disseminated with some interested coaches only recently becoming aware of the availability of the positions, the Board has decided to re-open to 5pm (AEST), 2 May next, the Application / Nomination period for:

    * Assistant Coach of the Australian Team to the 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships
    * Team Manager/ Coach of the Australian Team to the 2011 Junior Men’s World Championships
    * Assistant Coach of the Australian Team to the 2011 Junior Men’s World Championships

Previous applications for any of these positions will be retained and considered current applications – accordingly, previous applicants do not need to make a new application as the Board still considers their Applications to be current.

Application Papers for the above positions are available on the above links. Applications must be submitted through a BAI Member Association and be received by BAI by 5pm (AEST) 2nd May 2011.

Posted 20 April 2011

2011 COMMONWEALTH YOUTH GAMES

BAI will nominate to the Australian Commonwealth Games Association the following Australian Team for the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games to be held in the Isle of Man, 7-13 September:

52kg Jackson Woods (TAS)
56kg Dylan Cooney (TAS)
60kg Brandon Ogilvie (WA)
64kg Daniel Lewis (NSW)
69kg Kurtis Cooper (ACT)
75kg Dylan Hardy (TAS)
81kg Brandon Allan (WA)

Allan Nicolson Snr. has been nominated the Boxing Section Manager and Craig Woods will be nominated as Coach. The ACGA reserves to itself the right to select the Team.

Posted 20 April 2011

AUSTRALIANS MEDAL IN EUROPE

Australian boxers figured prominently at Finland’s international Bee-Gee Tournament.

Bianca Elmir (ACT) U51 kg and Naomi Fischer-Rasmussen (WA) U75 kg won Gold in their divisions, as did Damien Hooper (Q’ld) in his U75 kg division. Luke Jackson (Tas) U60 kg and Jeff Horne (Q’ld) U64 kg won Silver.

They were part of an Australian squad that had competed in tournaments in Germany and the Czech Republic before the Finnish tournament.

Full results of the Bee-Gee tournament can be found on the ‘Results’ page.
 
Posted 20 April 2011

AUSTRALIANS BOXING IN EUROPE
 
Day 1 (8 April 2011) results from the Gee Bee Memorial Tournament, Helsinki, Finland
 
1. 52 KG Pedro Matos POR - Nikolai Tsaskin EST 11-3
2. 52 kg Michail Conlon IRL - Jaroslav Nalivaiko RUS 10-5
3. 60 kg Luke Jackson AUS - Tobias Persson SWE 10-4
4. 60 kg Artjoms Ramlavs LAT - Rashid Shahi FIN 9-2
5. 60 kg David Oliver Joyce IRL - Martin Ward ENG 16-4
6. 69 kg Henri Kekäläinen FIN - Alexander Jacobsen NOR KO 2 r.
7. 69 kg Aleksander Klinkov RUS - Howing Grigorijan AUT 9-2
8. 69 kg Scott Cardle ENG - Jesse Ross AUS 10-5
9. 69 kg Adam Nolan IRL - Mikhail Kiiski FIN 6-0
10. 91 kg Rain Karlson EST - Francesco Soggia ITA 6-4
11. 56 kg Matti Koota FIN - Tyrone McCullagh IRL 7-0
12. 56 kg Ilja Maksimov RUS - Dmitrijs Gutmans LAT 9-3
13. 56 kg Bashir Hassan SWE - Ciro Cipriano ITA 6-4
14. 56 kg Luke Campbell ENG - Nordine Ait Ihya FRA 11 - 5
15. 64 kg Jeff Horn AUS - Arturs Ahmetovs LAT 15-4
16. 75/A kg Jason Quicley IRL - Artjom Fjodorovs EST 12 - 4
17. 75/A kg Leon Chartoi SWE - Arbi Tschakajew AUT 5 - 2
18. 75/A kg Anthony Ogogo ENG - Joni Polishsuk FIN 11 - 0
19. 75/B kg Kaupo Arro EST - Maxim Kiiski FIN 5 - 2
20. 81/A kg Damien Hooper AUS - Luca Capuano ITA 9-3

Posted 11 April 2011

2012 AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

The 2012 Australian Championships will be held over 5 days from 1 – 5 February in Hobart, Tasmania. The dates of the 2012 Australian Championships have been chosen to accommodate the decision of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) that the Oceania Olympic Qualifying Event is to be held 21 – 25 March, 2012 and to facilitate meeting in good time the consequential organizational requirements for entry of the Australian Team to this important event.

Boxer age requirements for the 2012 Australian Championships are:

Elite Men and Women – to have been born in the years 1978 -1995
Youth Men and Women – to have been born in the years 1994 -1995
Junior Men and Women – to have been born in the years 1996 – 1997
Schoolboys/girls – to have been born in the years 1998 – 1999

Entry of boxers to the Championships by their BAI Member Association is required by 4pm (AEDT), 16 December 2011.

At the 2012 Australian Championships only boxers entering the designated National Team Selection Events, that is, only boxers entering the Elite Men’s, Elite Women’s and Youth Men’s competitions need to produce their current Australian Passport.

Posted 7 April 2011

2012 SELECTION EVENT FOR AUSTRALIAN TEAMS

The Board of Boxing Australia Inc. has designated the 2012 Australian Championships as the National Selection Event for Australian Teams to the 2012 Oceania Olympic Qualifying Event (for men), the 2012 Elite Women’s World Championships and the 2012 Youth Men’s World Championships.

The 2012 Oceania Olympic Qualifying Event will be held 21 – 25 March in a location to be advised.

The 2012 Elite Women’s World Championships will be held 21 May – 10 June, in Qinhuangdao, China.

The 2012 Youth Men’s World Championships will be held 13 – 23 September, in a location to be advised.

The winners at the 2012 Australian Championships of weight divisions in the relevant competition categories to be contested at the foregoing international tournaments will be considered for selection to Australian Teams to these tournaments. A fee to compete in these tournaments may be levied on boxer members of the teams as determined individually appropriate by the Board of Boxing Australia Inc.

Posted 7 April 2011

AUSTRALIAN TEAM: 2011 WOMEN’S YOUTH & JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Australia will be represented by a team of 5 boxers at the 2011 Women’s Youth and Junior World Championships which will be held in Antalya, Turkey, 21 April – 1 May next.

The Australian Team will be Catlin Parker (BWA) Junior U66 kg, Haylee Verrier (BWA) Junior U60 kg, Skye Nicolson (BQI) Junior U57 kg, Cherneka Johnson (BQI) Junior U54 kg and Amelia Burghardt (BSA) Youth U51 kg.

The Team Manager/ Coach is Maria Pittiglio and Coach is Allan Nicolson Jnr.

Entering a team of teenage female boxers for the first ever Women’s Youth and Junior World Championships is ‘new territory’ for BAI. Due to the short time between the Australian Championships and;
  a/ determination as to whether there were potential Australian international standard boxers in these age groups,
  b/ the selection of the team, and
  c/ the closing date for team entries (21 March) to the World Championships,

to meet the team nomination deadline possible coaches and team managers were approached directly and the Board is pleased that two internationally and world championships experienced and capable persons in Maria Pittiglio and Allan Nicolson Jnr. are available to look after the Australian Team at this historic tournament.

Posted 30 March 2011

NOMINATION OF 2011 COMMONWEALTH YOUTH GAMES TEAM MANAGER

Allan Nicolson Snr., Secretary of Boxing Queensland Inc., has been nominated by the BAI Board to the Australian Commonwealth Games Association to be the Section Manager of the Australian Boxing Team to the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games to be held in the Isle of Man, 7-13 September.

Posted 30 March 2011

CALL FOR 2011 AUSTRALIAN TEAM POSITIONS

The BAI Board has called for Applications for appointment to the following Australian Team positions:

Australian Team to the 2011 World Junior Men’s Championships
Head Coach/Team Manager (one position)
Assistant Coach

Australian Team to the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games
Head Coach
Assistant Coach

Australian Team to the 2011 World Elite Men’s Championships
Team Manager
Assistant Coach

Information regarding these positions and their Application Papers can be found at these links: World Junior Men's Championships, Commonwealth Youth Games, World Elite Men's Championships.

Applications for these positions close 5 p.m. (AEST), Thursday, 31 March, 2011.

Posted 17 March 2011

APPOINTMENT OF HEAD COACH - 2011 WORLD ELITE MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIPS

The BAI Board has appointed Mr. Don Abnett as the Head Coach of the Australian Team to the 2011 World Elite Men’s Championships.

Posted 17 March 2011

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR SECTION (TEAM) MANAGER OF 2011 CYG TEAM

The BAI Board is seeking applications for appointment as the Section (Team) Manager of the Australian Boxing Team to the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games to be held in the Isle of Man 7 - 13 September next.
 
Applications need to be submitted through a BAI Member Association and must be received by 3 pm Friday, 25 March 2011.
 
The Application Paper including information regarding the position can be found by following this link.

Posted 11 March 2011

FULL RESULTS OF AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

The results of each bout at the Australian Championships are available in a single PDF file from our Results page.

Posted 11 March 2011

AMENDMENT TO BAI TECHNICAL & COMPETITION RULES

The BAI Technical and Competition Rules were amended on 24 February 2011, and are available from the Documents page of this website. The amendment was to Appendix 9, and the effect is to allow the BAI Board to enter 2 boxers in any weight category at an Australian Championships and/or National Selection Event.

Posted 28 February 2011

AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS: SEEDING OF ELITE MEN BOXERS

For the 2011 Australian Championships the BAI Board has suspended the provisions of BAI's Technical and Competition Rules relating to points to be awarded for performance at the tournaments listed in the diagram in Appendix 5 for seeding ranking purposes. Seeding ranking of boxers at Australian Championships applies only to Elite Men boxer weight categories.

In replacement the Board has resolved the following seeding ranking be implemented for the Elite Men's weight categories at the 2011 Australian Championships:

a/ Boxers who competed for the Australian Team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

b/ Boxers who competed for the Oceania Team at the 2009 President's Cup

c/ Boxers who won Elite Men's weight categories at the 2009 Australian Championships

in priority order of a, b, and c be 'rank seeded' in the weight category for which they have entered in the 2011 Australian Championships irrespective of the weight category for which they may have competed in the foregoing tournaments.

The BAI Board has taken this decision following advice from the Championships organizers that because of the short time now remaining before the Championships ‘seeding’ of boxers for the Championships in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Technical and Competition Rules could not be adequately undertaken. This circumstance has arisen as a result of one BAI Member Association not conducting its selection trials until last weekend. However, it is believed the simplified seeding ranking process adopted for the 2011 Australian Championships will facilitate implementation of an acceptable seeding ranking system.

Posted 25 February 2011

ENTRY LISTS FOR AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Clicking here will download a spreadsheet* containing 16 tabs with the initial listing of entries (as at 6pm 28 February) and possible timetable of bouts for the 2011 Australian Championships.
 
Please note that it is expected there will be amendment of these entries and they should be regarded as indicative only. Accordingly, the timetable is also subject to change.
 
* To read this spreadsheet you will need Microsoft Excel, or the free OpenOffice Calc, or a similar spreadsheet program.  If you do not have a spreadsheet program installed on your computer, you can freely download Microsoft's Excel Viewer which allows you to open, view and print a spreadsheet, but you cannot make changes to it. You can download MS Excel Viewer from Microsoft - note that the viewer file size is 78 megabytes.

Posted 23 February 2011, updated 28 February

FUTURE BAI HIGH PERFORMANCE STRUCTURE AND PROGRAMS
Boxing Australia Inc. is pleased to announce its new High Performance Structure and Programs. It is exciting times for the sport as we move into a new era that will see BAI manage the whole ‘boxing pathway’.

HIGH PERFORMANCE STRUCTURE

• BAI Academy located in Dickson, ACT – A centralised National program focusing on 4-6 athletes (male and females). Athletes train under two full-time coaches and receive support such as Sports Science & Sports Medicine (SSSM), domestic & international competition, full-time daily training environment, National Athlete Career & Education (NACE), uniform, direct athlete funding, rewards & incentives.

• BAI Centre of Excellence – A decentralised National program targeting 30 athletes (including a minimum of 6 females). Athletes train in their home environment and receive support such as SSSM, National Technical Days, potential for domestic & international competition, State Camps, direct athlete funding and uniform

• BAI Futures – A program targeting the best Youth and Junior boxers (10 athletes). Athletes will receive training programs and guidance from the National Coaches, invitations to state camps, a uniform and a potential Oceania Tour.

• BAI Girl Power – A program targeting female Youth and Junior boxers, as well as Talent Identification & Development (TID) of novice boxers and combat athletes (10 athletes). Athletes will receive training programs and guidance from the National Coaches, invitations to state camps, a uniform and a potential Oceania Tour.

• BAI Road to Rio – A program targeting talented indigenous and heavyweight boxers (10 athletes).  Athletes will receive training programs and guidance from the National Coaches, invitations to state camps, uniform and a potential Oceania Tour

Program activity will start a week after the 2011 Australian Championships with a team to tour Europe.

Potential athletes will be required to give the program a verbal commitment at the Australian Championships, as all arrangements need to be finalized at 9am on Monday 7th March. Selection will be made on Sunday 6th March post competition.

For details on selection, click on National Programs Selection Guidelines which also appears in the Documents section of this website.

A formal presentation will be given at the Australian Championships on Friday 4th March after weigh-in for all potential athletes, state & home coaches and Member Associations to explain the High Performance Structure and Programs.

Posted 23 February 2011

INFORMATION REGARDING THE 2011 AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Submission of entries

BAI has a long-standing rule that entries for Australian Championships are to be made one clear month before the Championships. However, following advice by the BAI Board to BAI Member Associations on 2 February that it would delay by six days to 9 February the need for entry by BAI Member Associations of their teams for the 2011 Australian Championships, Boxing Australia (NSW) advised that it would not be conducting its selection trials until 19/20 February.

The BAI Board, in order not to disadvantage NSW boxers through non-acceptance of their entries or imposition of ‘late entrance’ fines, resolved that the names of entered boxers for the 2011 Australian Championships would be accepted until 12 Noon (AEDT), 21 February next.

However, to minimize inconvenience in organization of the Championships, Member Associations on 4 February were advised that notice of their intention to enter boxers in the various weight categories i.e. Elite Men and Women, Youth Men and Women, Junior Men and Women, and Schoolboy and Schoolgirl weight categories, was still required by 5pm (AEDT), 9 February (that is, each weight category for which a Member Association intends to enter a boxer has to be advised by the Member Association even if the name of the entered boxer cannot be supplied).

Numbers of entries

Member Associations may enter two boxers in each Elite Men’s weight category and one boxer in each Elite Women’s, Youth Men’s and Women’s, Junior Men’s and Women’s, and Schoolboy and Schoolgirl weight category. Additionally, the BAI Board may enter up to 2 boxers in each Elite Men’s weight category as long as the number of entrants for that weight category does not exceed 16 boxers.

Scoring of bouts

No decision has been taken by the BAI Board to change the presently used process of electronic scoring of bouts. The advice of the Chairmen of BAI’s Rules and R&J Committees is that until AIBA supplies the new computer ‘software’ to facilitate the proposed new AIBA process of electronic scoring of bouts the existing process of electronic scoring of bouts continue in Australia. The reason to not introduce the new process of scoring until the AIBA ‘software’ is received is that to manually implement the new process by converting the scores, in the 60 seconds available round by round, of the existing generated scores for each boxer by deletion of judges’ highest and lowest scores and averaging of the 3 remaining scores, would be ‘courting’ a mathematical mistake at some stage and a possible wrong result.

Australian WSB boxers granted the right to challenge 2011 Elite Men’s Australian Champions for consideration for selection in the Australian Team to the 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships

The BAI Board has resolved that any Australian World Series Boxing (WSB) boxer participant will be permitted to challenge a winner of a 2011 Australian Championships Elite Men’s weight category for the right to be considered for selection to represent Australia in the 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships (which is a 2012 Olympic Games Qualification Event).

The effect of this decision is to remove the right of a winner of any selected Elite Men’s weight category at the 2011 Australian Championships to be the person for their weight category eligible to be considered for selection by the BAI Board to represent Australia at the 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships.

The decision has been taken to meet the International Boxing Association (AIBA) request that WSB boxers not be disadvantaged in Olympic Pathway selection (the 2011 Australian Championships is part of Australian men boxer’s Olympic Pathway).

The Board’s Resolution is:

Any Australian boxer participant in WSB boxing activity as at 3 March, 2011, will be given the opportunity, at a time, date and location determined at the sole discretion and decision of the BAI Board, to ‘challenge’ the winner of a 2011 Australian Championships Elite Men’s weight category that he chooses, if such challenge bout is in accordance with BAI’s Technical and Competition Rules, in order to seek to gain selection to represent Australia in the 2011 Elite Men’s World Championships.

The Board is aware that Trent Rawlins (previously competed at 91+ kg) and Luke Boyd (previously competed at U56 kg) are participants in WSB boxing.

It is anticipated that any ‘challenge bout(s)’ will be held in May/June.

Presentation of Australian Passports by entrants

As previously advised, all Elite, Youth and Junior entrants (men and women) to the Australian Championships are required at their initial weigh-in at the Championships to present their current Australian Passport. No current Australian Passport, no entry to the Australian Championships.

This requirement is part of BAI’s Technical and Competition Rules. It will facilitate the travel of successful boxers for overseas training and competition including purchase of the most advantageous air fares by BAI for boxer squads and teams. The inconvenience and increased cost caused in arranging travel of squads and teams in previous years through some boxers entering selection events without this basic requirement for travel is unfair to other boxers, courts non-acceptance of team entries into important overseas tournaments and causes undue increased work, and will no longer be tolerated.

Schoolboy and Schoolgirl entrants do not have to present a current Australian Passport, however, they should be Australian citizens and must present evidence of their age at their initial weigh-in.

Posted 7 February 2011

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