World Boxing Challenge

Medals have been distributed after four days of boxing action at the Winter Stadium in Ústí nad Labem, Czechia, with 184 entered boxers whittled down to 19 gold medallists.

Brazil saw the most success, winning six gold medals along with one silver and three bronze, leading the overall table with ten medals.

USA were second best with nine total medals, followed by Japan with eight, while Italy and Canada made up the top five with five medals each. Every National Federation in attendance left with something, with every nation earning at least one bronze medal.

The full list of gold and silver medal winners is below:

Weight Class	Gold	Silver
W48kg	SHINOHARA Hiraku JAP	DURIKOVA Nicole SVK
W51kg	KAIVO-OJA Pihla FIN	NISHINAKA Yuna JAP
W54kg	PEREZ Yoseline USA	DAVIDSON Charley ENG
W57kg	MENDOZA Alyssa USA	ERDENEDALAI Michidmaa MNG
W60kg	SANTOS Rebeca BRA	AL AHMADIEIT Marif CAN
W65kg	DERIEW Oshin Tahnee BEL	HAMORI Luca HUN
W70kg	dos SANTOS Barbara BRA	ROSENDO Marie-Angelis USA
W75kg	PEREIRA Viviane BRA	GEMINY Melissa ITA
W80kg	ORTIZ Citlalli Vanessa MEX	PENNEY Victoria CAN
50kg	MAKINO Soushi JPN	ALDARKHISHIG Battulga MNG
55kg	YAMAGUCHI Rui JAP	TRINDADE Michael Douglas BRA
60kg	OLIVEIRA Luiz Gabriel BRA	KITAMOTO Shunsuke JAP
65kg	ERDENETSOGT Bat-Ulzii MGL	NISHIYAMA Shion JAP
70kg	REIS Kaian BRA	MAKIN Callum ENG
75kg	OFORI Joshua CAN	GUIDI Rontani ITA
80kg	AKHILOV Pylyp HUN	DENIS Nickenson CAN
85kg	BEDIRHAN Kalkan TUR	DEROUICHE Michael AUT
90kg	FILHO Isaias BRA	GEORGES Malachi USA
+90kg	LENZI Diego ITA	WATTS Kelvin USA

The Grand Prix Ústí nad Labem has been hosted by the Czech Boxing Association for more than half a century and was given World Boxing Challenge status for the second year in a row.

Following the conclusion of the action in Czechia, focus now shifts to the World Boxing Cup—Astana, Kazakhstan 2025, taking place from 30 June – 6 July 2025. The event will take place in the Beeline Arena and is the final major World Boxing competition before the inaugural World Championships in Liverpool, this September.

To catch up on the livestreams, visit: https://www.youtube.com/@BoxCBA

To view the full results, visit: https://czechboxing.cz/grand-prix-usti-nad-labem

The Grand Prix Ústí nad Labem has been hosted by the Czech Boxing Association for more than half a century and has been given World Boxing Challenge status for the second year running.

184 boxers from 23 National Federations are ready to battle it out in the competition that runs from 11 – 14 June at the Winter Stadium in Ústí nad Labem, Czechia, with the official draw taking place at 21:00 CEST today (10 June). Preliminary action gets underway from 12:00 CEST tomorrow (11 June).

With the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool just a few months away, this event offers boxers and coaches a chance to make final preparations, given it features the same ten men’s and ten women’s categories.

The following nations have registered athletes for the event: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechia, England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Mongolia, Moldova, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Switzerland, USA and Wales.

Marek Simak, President of the Czech Boxing Association, said: “This year it will be a special moment also for the Czech Boxing Association as we will celebrate 100 years anniversary. Last year’s edition of this top boxing tournament was held for the first time in cooperation with World Boxing as the World Boxing Challenge.

“We are proud that the Grand Prix has been awarded World Boxing Challenge recognition again.”

Following the conclusion of the World Boxing Challenge, attention will turn to the World Boxing Cup—Astana, Kazakhstan 2025, taking place from 30 June – 6 July 2025. The competition will take place in Beeline Arena and is the final major World Boxing competition before the World Championships in Liverpool.

To follow the action live, visit: https://www.youtube.com/@BoxCBA

To view results, photos and general information, visit: https://czechboxing.cz/grand-prix-usti-nad-labem

The boxing came to a close yesterday after an exciting weekend of action at the World Boxing Challenge Tammer Tournament, Tampere 2024.

Across the 11 categories, Brazil came away as the most successful nation having won four golds, closely followed by the English with three and the home nation, Finland, with two winners. Notably, the weekend saw Finnish boxer Pihla Kaivo-oja claim her fourth gold in the history of the Tammer Tournament.

The full list of gold medallists at the World Boxing Challenge Tammer Tournament, Tampere 2024 is:

Women’s 50kg: Pihla Kaivo-oja, FIN

Women’s 54kg: Ivy-Jane Smith, ENG

Women’s 57kg: Gabriella Weerheim, NED

Women’s 60kg: Rebeca Santos, BRA

Women’s 66kg: Kayla Allen, ENG

Women’s 75kg: Viviane Pereira, BRA

Men’s 57kg: Ramon Conceição, BRA

Men’s 63.5kg: Ismail Umar, FIN

Men’s 71kg: Calum Makin, ENG

Men’s 80kg: Felipe Iganacio, BRA

Men’s 92kg+: Nikita Putilov, GER

For more information and updates, visit the Tammer Tournament website at: https://tammerturnaus.com/

More than 150 boxers from 16 countries are set to take part in The Eindhoven Box Cup when the action gets underway this weekend at the Van der Valk Hotel in Eindhoven, 18-20 May 2024.

The event is part of the World Boxing Challenge series of competitions and has been organised by the Noble Art of Boxing Foundation in collaboration with the Dutch Boxing Association, World Boxing and NOC*NSF.

Some of the standout names set to compete in the competition include: Misheelt Battumur (Mongolia, bronze world championship), Beatriz Ferreira (Brazil, world champion), Imane Khalif (Algeria), Kan Chia-Wei (Chinese Taipei, Asian champion) and Harry Garside (Australia, bronze medallist at the Tokyo Olympics).

The list of countries taking part in the competition includes: Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Algeria, Canada, Belgium, Brazil, Mongolia, Chinese Taipei.

In addition to the elite competition, The Eindhoven Box Cup will also include bouts between grassroots boxer and aims to provide a platform for boxers at all levels in the Netherlands to compete.

Further information on the competition and all of the results will be available at: https://eindhovenboxcup.com/

Every bout at Eindhoven Box Cup will be livestreamed on Facebook at:

Quarter-Finals:

Ring A: (session 1) https://fb.me/e/dQcOZyMN4 & (session 2) https://fb.me/e/1oNbWtIME

Ring B: https://fb.me/e/4Isb8k8FH

Semi-Finals:

Ring A: (session 1) https://fb.me/e/4XB4ySx7J & (session 2) https://fb.me/e/7lbU770vJ

Ring B: https://fb.me/e/5K8XtGDEu

The finals will be livestreamed on the Netherlands’ major sports website www.sportnieuws.nl.   

The World Boxing Challenge is designed to provide a structure to the existing calendar of competitions delivered by National Federations and awards ranking points to boxers based on their performances at these events which count towards their eligibility to compete in the World Boxing Cup and other major tournaments.

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Eleven boxers from five countries won gold medals at the first ever World Boxing Challenge event that took place in Tampere, Finland last weekend (24-26 November 2023).

The event, widely known as The Tammer Tournament, was hosted by the Finnish Boxing Federation in collaboration with World Boxing as part of its new World Boxing Challenge series. 

The World Boxing Challenge is designed to provide a structure to the existing calendar of competitions delivered by National Federations and awards ranking points to boxers based on their performances at these events which count towards their eligibility to compete in the World Boxing Cup and other major tournaments.

The action in Finland, which included five female weight classes and six for men, saw a strong performance from the home nation with Pihla Kaivo-oja (50kg) and Vilma Viitanen (57kg) winning gold in the women’s categories and Ismail Umar (63.5kg) matching them in the men’s.

It was a feat equalled by England and Germany, whose team’s also won three golds each.  The other nations that finished with a boxer on top of the podium were Norway and Wales who saw Sunniva Hofstad (75kg) and Rosie Eccles (66kg) respectively, triumph in their weight classes.

The full list of winners is:

Weight	Boxer	Country
Women’s 50kg	Pihla Kaivo-oja,	Finland
Women’s 54kg	Charley Davidson	England
Women’s 57kg	Vilma Viitanen	Finland
Women’s 66kg	Rosie Eccles	Wales
Women’s 75kg	Sunniva Hofstad	Norway
Men’s 51kg	Salah Ibrahim	Germany
Men’s 63.5kg:	Ismail Umar	Finland
Men’s 71kg	Magomed Schachidov	Germany
Men’s 80kg	Ramtin Musah	England
Men’s 92kg	Patrick Brown	England
Men’s 92+kg	Nelvie Tiafack	Germany

All of the results from the tournament can be viewed at

https://tammerturnaus.com/tulokset/.

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