The Annual Kazakhstan Boxing Federation Conference was held under the chairmanship of Mr. Timur Kulibayev in Almaty on January 27, 2014. The agenda covered topical issues of boxing development in Kazakhstan.
During this conference it was mentioned that the past year was special for the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation. It was marked with both important events in the history of boxing in Kazakhstan and tremendous achievements of Kazakhstan boxers. For the first time in the history of sports in Kazakhstan the country hosted an Olympic sport event, the World Adult Boxing Championships. It is symbolic that this event took place in a year of the 80thanniversary of systemic boxing development in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan boxers made a great present for this jubilee having achieved outstanding results – the country’s national team won 4 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals and the first place in team scoring for the first time in the history of the Kazakhstan team’s performance at world championships. In addition, the Kazakhstan team demonstrated unparalleled results at the Asian Championships having won 7 gold medals and one silver medal and the first place in team scoring in Amman, Jordan. Another achievement of Kazakhstan boxing was the victory of Astana Arlans team in Season Three of the World Series of Boxing.
In 2013, the Federation was mainly focused on issues related to the arrangement of the world championships in Almaty and training of the National Boxing Team of the Republic of Kazakhstan for performance at the home-hosted global competition.
In addition, the Federation continued working in the main activity areas defined by the Federation’s President for the current Olympic cycle. These include the following:
– to arrange trainings and competitions as well as procurement and financial support for the National Boxing Teams of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
– to cooperate with regional federations;
– to cooperate with coaches and judges;
– to provide for scientific and medical support for the national teams;
– to participate in international activities and AIBA projects; and
– to promote boxing and carry out PR activities.
With a view to further improving the work with national teams of the Republic of Kazakhstan and creating an intergenerationa
In 2013, the Federation arranged and financed the participation of the National Boxing Teams of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as part of the training process, in the following events:
adults - 8 training camps and 10 tournaments;
women - 5 training camps and 6 tournaments; and
juniors and youth - 9 tournaments.
The Federation pays special attention to boxing development at the regional level, in particular, to infrastructural improvements.
Thus, in 2013, the Federation launched construction of standard sports and recreation centers for combat and strength sports (boxing, wrestling, judo, taekwondo, weight lifting) in Turkestan and Semei. These centers will be commissioned in 2014. Besides, construction of another two sports and recreation centers will be started in 2014.
In 2013, the Federation carried out monitoring of boxing development at the regional level. The work will be continued this year as well. There was approved a trip schedule for the chief coach of the national team of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the coordinator of the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation who will get acquainted with the athletes’ training process, including that in the boxing sections of sports schools and boarding schools. The monitoring is expected to result in the provision of recommendations aimed to enhance the sport training level.
The Federation continues standardization of the fitting-out and functioning framework of boxing sections and departments at the regional level, including the following activities:
- drafting of training programs on theoretical and practical courses for coaches, judges, athletes and other specialists;
- issuing of courseware for regional boxing sections;
- development of a boxing development program for 2014-2017 to cover the athletes’ training process from regional through national teams.
In order to develop boxing at the regional level and to identify young talented athletes the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation Cup Tournament is held at the initiative of Mr. Timur Kulibayev, President of the Federation. In 2013, the Astana city team won this tournament for the second time.
It is planned that women’s teams will participate in Season 5 of the KBF Cup and such teams will consist of representatives of three Olympic weight classes.
In 2013, 5 coaches’ workshops were carried out and AIBA certification of coaches was performed under the auspices of the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation. Now, 24 coaches have the AIBA highest ‘3 Stars’ category, 11 coaches have ‘2 Stars’, and 44 coaches have ‘1 Star’.
Last year, the Federation started training coaches under the Bolashak Program. Twelve persons have already undergone advanced training courses under this program. Now Serik Sapiyev is studying at the London University. This year, the Federation will continue working in this direction. Both the number of students will be increased and the range of disciplines will be expanded. In particular, it is planned to send national mass media journalists specializing in sports for training.
2014 is declared the Year of Coach as the main focus is on the training of coaches. Therefore, the permanent Higher Coach Training Courses have been established at the initiative of the Federation in collaboration with the Agency for Sports and Physical Culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Thus, the first group of coaches attended a workshop under these courses on January 15-20 at the Olympic Boxing Training Center in Almaty.
Another equally important focus area is to provide for competent judging. This is one of the most important factors that influence the sport development dynamics. The Federation systematically works with judges. Training and qualification courses for judges are carried out on a regular basis.
Taking into consideration the fact that new technical rules for AIBA competitions were introduced in 2013, the Federation carried out 4 workshops for Kazakhstan judges. One workshop was conducted in January 2014 with four more workshops scheduled to be held later this year.
It should be noted that the actions taken have had a positive effect. At present, there is one judge with AIBA’s ‘5 Stars’ category, seven ‘3 Stars’ judges, three ‘2 Stars’ judges, and eight ‘1 Star’ judges.
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The Federation cooperates with the Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center and involves the Center’s specialists for support of the Kazakhstan National Boxing Team athletes during training camps.
The Federation takes an active part in the AIBA innovative projects, World Series of Boxing (WSB) and AIBA Professional Boxing (APB). Thus, the APB development program, which is planned to be started in June-July 2014, was represented to the meeting members by Mr. Ho Kim, AIBA Executive Director, who had come to Kazakhstan specifically for this purpose.
The Federation delegation took part in the 2014 AIBA Committees Meeting that was held in Baku on January 21-24, 2014. The main topics discussed at the representative forum of this respectable international sports organization included the following: new technical rules, the Olympic qualification system, review of the World Championships held in Almaty. It should be noted that the Almaty World Championships was highly appraised by the AIBA management and all its participants.
A large-scale PR campaign was arranged on the instruction of the Federation’s President in cooperation with the general sponsor, KazMunayGas National Company JSC. The following activities were performed as part of this campaign: the championships website was launched; mass TV broadcasting of semi-final and final fights was arranged; films dedicated to the history of boxing in Kazakhstan, the performance of the National Team of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the 30th Olympic Games and the sports career of Serik Sapiyev (the Olympic Champion, two-time World Champion and Val Barker Trophy winner) were produced and broadcasted on national TV channels; and the third edition of the Kazakhstan Boxing Encyclopedia was published.
