30 days left until the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships

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The AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 13-27 and only 30 days left until the start of the important competition. Boxers who were born in 1998 and in 1999 are eligible to compete in St. Petersburg where the Asian nations can continue their successes in 2016.
St. Petersburg hosted also the last edition of the AIBA Junior World Boxing Championships one year ago where Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan claimed gold medals and among those boxers who attended in that competition some of them will be returning to the city to compete actually in the youth age group.
Kazakhstan hosted the 2016 edition of the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships in Pavlodar in May and their boxers claimed six gold medals in that continental event. Among Kazakhstan’s top youth boxers Sadreddin Akhmedov (69kg) and Bekzat Nurdauletov (81kg) returned from their injuries and ready to box in the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships in St. Petersburg. Shalkar Aikynbay and Rio 2016 Olympian Ablaikhan Zhussupov claimed their gold medals in the 2014 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships and their new generation is also ready to do big things in St. Petersburg.
Uzbekistan reached amazing results in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games with their two titles and several other medals. The country had also three medals in the last edition of the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships in Sofia where Bektemir Melikuziev claimed gold. Since then he bagged silver also in the AIBA World Boxing Championships in Doha and in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Uzbekistan’s top youth boxers such as Otabek Kholmatov (52kg), AIBA Junior World Champion Bilolbek Mirzarakhimov (60kg), Ulugbek Sobirov (69kg) and Sanjar Tursunov (81kg) are all preparing for the St. Petersburg event.
Japan will be the host of the next Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020 therefore their current youth team has been preparing for that event and the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships is an important step for their talents. Hayato Tsutsumi won the gold medal at the Flyweight class (52kg) in the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships in Pavlodar and he is a boxer who needs to be followed in St. Petersburg besides to his developing teammates.
India established its new federation and their debut in the international competitions will be the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships in St. Petersburg. Their youth boxers achieved two silver medals in the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships in Pavlodar therefore their current squad in this age group is enough strong to compete against the bests of the world.
South Korea’s 17-year-old Lee Hee Seop claimed silver medal in the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships in Pavlodar where he proved world class performance and planning to get a medal also in St. Petersburg. Thailand hosted the FISU World University Boxing Championships in the recent days and their youth boxers are also ready to compete successfully in the AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships.
China, Jordan, Mongolia, Philippines, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan also have got strong teams in the youth age group and ready to do their bests in the St. Petersburg event. Chinese Taipei’s youth team also developed well enough in the recent years and their boxers are able to beat now top opponents as well while a promising boxing nation Afghanistan will be also sending a team to St. Petersburg.