“Amir Hossein Akhwan”. In an interview with IRNA regarding the hosting of the country’s youth boxing tournament, which was accompanied by the championship of his provincial team, he said: Khorasan Razavi province hosted the national tournament for the last time in 1380, and after 21 years, we hosted this event again.
Head of Boxing Khorasan Razavi added: Based on the planning, communication and interaction we had with the sponsors of the private sector, we entered the pit to host. The host province must also evaluate its team and we had the provincial team in the preparatory camp for about 6 months and we selected boxers from different cities of the province.
An expert from the boxing federation said: This was the first time after the Islamic revolution that Khorasan Razavi province was able to win the championship in national boxing competitions.
Referring to the difficulties of hosting, he said: All our efforts were to host the tournament well, which I think we were successful to a large extent, but I wonder why the problem that happened to the championship platform was so much attention in the virtual and media space, but hosting Our wish was not mentioned.
The member of the Board of the Boxing Federation stated: Security personnel, police force and we warned many times and asked them to cooperate with the organizers to receive the awards. We didn’t even allow more than five people to go on the platform to receive the award. We also installed a big banner in a corner of the hall for the teams to take their souvenir photo there.
Head of Boxing Khorasan Razavi continued: First of all, I must say that the platform did not break and only took the bow. We are not experts in platform installation and had outsourced it. Unfortunately, the members of a team all went to the platform to take pictures and that happened.
He said: “It is not fair to ignore all the efforts that were made to host and bring the satisfaction of the boxing family with this small incident.” It is not good to feed the hostile media from inside the country.
Regarding the assistance of the Provincial General Administration and the Federation for hosting this event, the Brotherhood said: Khorasan Razavi General Administration provided Shahid Beheshti Hall to us for 6 days free of charge. The federation is also going to bear some of the expenses. Holding this event cost us more than 500 million tomans.
Regarding the judging of the country’s youth boxing championship, he explained: I am grateful to the judges’ committee. Judging in boxing is not a definitive position and there is relativity in it because boxing is a sport of moments. Any coach whose athlete throws more punches will consider him a winner when he shouldn’t be. Finally, I must say that the judging was good.
Regarding the boxing conditions of Khorasan Razavi province in the last 3 years, he said: When I took the responsibility of the committee. Khorasan Razavi’s boxing was ranked 26th in the country, but now it is ranked 3rd. After many years, we participated in the league and despite the problems caused by Corona, with the efforts of the coaches and boxers, we achieved good results. Our training courses are done continuously, for the first time we had a fix athlete in the age group teams, we had a 38% increase in performance in the cities and three boxing houses have been opened.
Regarding the performance of the boxing federation in recent years, the member of the head of the federation said: The federation is trying hard and we should know that the financial problems for the federation are more than the provinces. The result of the efforts was numerous Asian medals in 1400 and the showcase of honors was also the world championship medal by “Daniel Shahbakhsh”.