Shymkent is ready for the ASBC Asian Junior
29 March
The next Asian Boxing Confederation’s event will be the ASBC Asian Junior Continental Championships in the city of Shymkent, South Kazakhstan where talented young boxers who born in 1997 and 1998 are able to compete in the event for the medals.
According to the entry list of the ASBC Asian Junior Continental Championships altogether 112 boxers from 14 nations will be competing from each regions of Asia. The participating countries will be as follows: Bhutan, China, DPR Korea, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan.
The first continental event for this age group was held in the capital city of Vietnam, in Hanoi in the end of 2004 after the Athens Olympics. That regional event was scheduled for cadet boxers but following that AIBA changed the name of the age groups to junior therefore this event will be the first edition of ASBC Asian Junior Continental Championships.
Kazakhstan will be joining to the championships with full 13-member team and has got great expectations in the front of the home crowd in Shymkent. The Kazakh Boxing Federation have been held its junior national event in January while their best hopes prepared actively at the Yukov Junior Memorial Tournament in Gomel, Belarus where they bagged ten gold medals. Both competitions have been used as selection for the ASBC Asian Junior Championships.
Kazakhstan’s biggest rival Uzbekistan is also sending a full team to Shymkent and they also prepared for the continental championships in an international event, at the Konstantin Matviychuk Junior Memorial Tournament in Russia where some of their team members proved excellent performance in Magnitogorsk.
Tajikistan claimed a gold medal at the last 2011 AIBA Junior World Championships and following Asror Vohidov’s success might be their new team members will be able to continue the golden path in Shymkent. China could not compete in this level previously but they confirmed their participation with eleven boxers in the ASBC Asian Junior Championships. Japan’s boxing life turned into a successful era while Mongolia, India, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan also have got excellent fighters in this age group.