The Boxing Task Force new Olympic quota reallocation pathway has now been formally approved by the IOC Executive Board and implemented resulting in Boxing Australia receiving a further quota place. Harry Garside, being the highest ranked Asia/Oceania athlete at 63kg has secured a quota place becoming the sixth Boxing Australia athlete to be offered a place. The new qualification system whilst being welcome and beneficial for one of our athletes has meant that the remaining athletes that attended the Asia/Oceania qualification event will now have no further opportunity to secure a quota place. This is a particularly difficult outcome for two of our female athletes that missed out on the narrowest of margins in the BTF world rankings system on account of receiving a bye through the preliminary rounds at the qualification event in Amman. However, the Combat Institute boxing technical lead believes that the new qualification pathway is the fairest method of allocating quota places in the present circumstances.

The Combat Institute of Australia are currently holding a boxing camp at the Gold Coast that was originally scheduled to help prepare the athletes due to attend the World Olympic qualification event and has now become the first phase of a preparation period for a group of our Olympic qualified athletes. Also in attendance are other athletes that will now be using this camp as a preparation block towards their competing at a World Championships selection event that will be taking place sometime this year. All those athletes that competed at the Olympic qualifier in Amman were invited to attend the Gold Coast camp as well as any other athletes categorised at Developing or above. The first extended training camp has seven athletes in attendance, four of whom have achieved an Olympic quota place, and will utilise the facilities at the Griffiths University Campus, Queensland Academy of Sport and the Gold Coast PCYC. All athletes were invited to attend for either a full 10-week period or for two 4-week blocks separated by a period back in their home environment. A number of coaches from the High Performance coaching pool have been appointed to provide support to the athletes during the course of the training camp.

The National Futures Program team has been busy setting up the State Futures selection camps. In these squads will be the States’ best performing Junior, Youth and Elite boxers 19-23yrs.

An amazing turn out to all the Selection Camps shows that athletes and coaches want to be a part of the National Futures Program and are interested in the Boxing Australia Pathway.

• 14th March 2021: Western Australia Futures Selection Camp had over 30 athlete nominations from State, golden gloves, and National Champions.

• 14th March Victorian Futures Selection Camp had over 25 athlete nominations from State, golden gloves, and National Champions including a former Youth Commonwealth Games and Youth World Championships representative.

• 20th March Queensland Futures Selection Camp Over had 40 athlete nominations from State, golden gloves, and National Champions

The forthcoming National Futures Camp from 6-10 April in Canberra, which had 6 athletes attending who had been selected from the last Youth Moderation as the best performers, has been postponed until further notice. 

National Performance Pathway Lead Jamie Pittman is currently working with the AIS pathways and the State Futures coaches on setting up 2-day State Futures camp dates and more AIS National activity.

Exciting times ahead!

The 2021 Australian Club Championships will be held at the Magic Millions Centre, Adelaide SA.

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