ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships – Chinese Taipei Preview

Chinese Taipei will hunt for medals in the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships

Chinese Taipei will be sending seven-strong team to the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships to Pavlodar, Kazakhstan which event will be starting with its first competition day on May 2. The women boxers of the country claimed medals in the recent main competitions but their men athletes had only a few successes.
Chinese Taipei’s current men youth team is stronger than their previous age groups and they are planning to get medals in Pavlodar. Chinese Taipei’s last big success was achieved by Jan Chun Hsien who claimed bronze at the 2013 AIBA Junior World Boxing Championships in Kiev and now he is member of their elite national squad.
Southpaw Hsu Cheng Yu claimed four national titles in the recent four years and has got chance to win contests in the Light Flyweight class (49 kg) which is one of the strongest in the Asian continent. Hsu is spending his first year among the youth boxers and the Pavlodar event will be his first one out of the country.
Chinese Taipei’s new Flyweight class (52 kg) boxer Hung Chuan Hsun is one of the youngest competitor of the whole ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships who will be turning to 17 only in December but his style is very difficult for several other boxers. He is only 159cm tall but has got dynamic and aggressive technique in the ring.
Two-time Chinese Taipei Secondary School Boxing Champion Chen Po Yi trains 20 hours in a week who began his career six years ago therefore his experiences are high in the national level. He is one of the tallest among the Bantamweight class (56 kg) boxers who is using his long hands to keep the distance.
Sung Wei Chieh is one of the most experienced in the team who attended in the AIBA Junior World Boxing Championships in Kiev in 2013 where he lost to only Bulgaria’s Daniel Asenov who is the current EUBC European Confederation Champion. The 18-year-old Lightweight class (60 kg) hope is also a boxer who has been working from longer range.
Two-time Chinese Taipei Secondary School Boxing Champion Hsieh Kai Yu is a new face in the youth national squad who can box out of his country at the very first time. Chinese Taipei’s Welterweight class (69 kg) talent Wu Yen Yu will be turning to 17 only next month but he claimed five National titles from 2012 therefore his expectations are great in the upcoming Pavlodar event.
Kan Chia Wei won the gold medal at the Chinese Taipei National Olympic Trials in January celebrating his 18th birthday and received the right to box for his country in the AIBA Asian & Oceanian Olympic Qualification Event in Qian’an. The Middleweight class (75 kg) talent is Chinese Taipei’s main medal hope in the Pavlodar competition.