India’s dismal efficiency within the latest Olympic Qualifiers for boxing has triggered a training disaster simply 4 months earlier than the Paris Games as High Performance Director Bernard Dunne has stepped down whereas international coach Dmitry Dmitruk is probably going to be proven the exit door very quickly.
Dunne, a former Irish skilled boxer who was appointed because the HPD in October 2022, despatched out his resignation from Italy, the place he was with the Indian staff for the primary World Olympic Boxing Qualifiers.
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After two qualification occasions — the Asian Games and the primary World Olympic Boxing Qualifier — not one Indian male pugilist has been in a position to e book a spot for the Olympics.
The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) has known as an government assembly on Friday to assess the state of affairs.
“Bernard is out. We have called an executive meeting tomorrow, where we will assess everything. A call on Dmitry’s future will also be taken in tomorrow’s meeting,” BFI Secretary General Hemanta Kalita advised PTI.
Dmitruk assumed cost in February final 12 months, simply forward of the ladies’s World Championships.
The federation is now taking a look at Indian coaches to take cost of the boys’s and ladies’s groups with two months left for the ultimate Olympic qualifier in May.
“There will be no foreign coaches as of now. We will be looking at Indian coaches,” he added.
At current, lengthy-serving C A Kuttappa is the one Indian in males’s teaching employees, whereas the ladies don’t have an Indian coach after Bhaskar Bhatt stepped down to as soon as once more take over as youth coach in June final 12 months.
Indian boxers reduce a sorry determine on the lately-concluded first World Olympic Boxing Qualifiers in Italy the place all 9 pugilists — two ladies and 6 males — returned empty-handed.
Barring Nishant Dev (71kg), who was a win away from profitable a quota, all different boxers crashed out within the opening spherical in Italy.
More than the defeat, it was the way during which the boxers misplaced, together with a primary-spherical RSC and a knockout, that has triggered issues.
All 4 quotas in boxing have come within the ladies’s competitors with two-time world champion Nikhat Zareen (50kg), Preeti Pawar (54kg), Parveen Hooda (57kg), and Tokyo Olympics bronze-medallist Lovlina Borgohain (75kg) securing their passage to Paris.
Indian boxers now have one final probability to e book their Olympic tickets through the second World Olympic Boxing Qualifier, scheduled to be held in Bangkok from May 23.
With little or no time left, the BFI may have to take a number of massive calls, together with persevering with with the contentious choice course of that was drafted by Dunne.
The Irishman did away with choice trials, as an alternative choosing an analysis course of, during which the boxers had been judged on varied parameters.
Many boxers and even coaches, together with former males’s chief coach Narender Rana, resisted the the transfer alleging that the method is “subjective”.
Rana was subsequently relieved from his submit.
Several boxers just like the nation’s lone males’s World Championship silver-medallist Amit Panghal (51kg) went to courtroom after repeatedly dropping out to Deepak Bhoria within the evaluation.
Under Dunne, the camp for boxers who compete in non-Olympic weight divisions was additionally shifted to Pune from Patiala.
“He just wanted minimum boxers in the camp, two each in the Olympic weight categories,” Rana mentioned.
This resulted in a paucity of sparring companions, which many imagine harm the elite boxers.
“Indian boxing’s strength is the large number of boxers and the different playing styles. Not utilising sparring partners with different playing styles, who are easily available has hurt our boxers,” one other coach added.
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