Boxing: Olympic future: IOC provides for World Boxing temporarily

The chances of an Olympic future of boxing have increased. The Executive Council of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognized World Boxing as an association partner within the Olympic movement at least. This was announced by the IOC after a session on Wednesday.

“This is a very gratifying day for everyone who got involved right from the start. Not many believed that, but we made it that far at a record pace,” said sports director Michael Müller from the German Box Sports Association: ” A clear goal is now the complete recognition as a top Olympic sports association. “

However, it can take a few months or even a year. In 2028, an Olympic boxing tournament will only take place in 2028 in 2028. “We want to box in the program of the Olympic Games. This is the goal, but only with a reliable partner,” said the outgoing IOC President Thomas Bach during the Olympics in Paris.

There was no boxing in Los Angeles now

Since its foundation in November 2023 in Frankfurt/Main, World Boxing has united 78 member associations from five continents and thus fulfilled an important IOC criterion. In terms of anti-doping fight, transparency, good governance and compliance, the association has also created the first facts in close coordination with the IOC.

The IOC was responsible for organizing the boxing tournaments in Paris in 2024 in Paris and three years earlier in Tokyo. The reason was the suspension of the now excluded International Boxing Association (IBA) 2019.

The IBA is criticized for corruption, leadership problems and distortion of competition. During the games in Paris, a violent argument between IOC and IBA also broke out in the gender debate about the starting right of the two Olympic champions IMANE KHELIF from Algeria and Lin Yu-Ting from Taiwan. Both had previously been excluded from the IBA from the World Cup to gender tests.