Olympic Boxing News and Updates – for: Irish Boxing’s World Championships Team, AIBA World Championships and Olympic qualifiers, USA Boxing’s World Championships Team, WSB's first season qualifies, AIBA have recently announced, 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

• Irish Boxing’s World Championships Team The Irish Amateur Boxing Association will hold a press conference on Wednesday (September 7th) ahead of the upcoming AIBA World Championships and Olympic qualifiers in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Wednesday's Press Conference will be held at the National Stadium gym at the National Stadium in Dublin, beginning at 12 noon.  All media are invited to attend.

The entire Irish squad and coaches will be available for interview at Wednesday's Press Conference.

The Irish squad will leave for a training camp in Cologne with hosts Germany, Holland and Moldova on September 11th.

The squad will travel straight from Cologne to Azerbaijan ahead of the opening bell for the AIBA World Championships and Olympic qualifiers on Monday, September 26th.

Irish Squad 2011 AIBA World Championships Baku, Azerbaijan

49Kg (Light-flyweight) - Paddy Barnes (Holy Family BC, Belfast)

52Kg: (Flyweight) - Michael Conlon (St John Bosco BC, Belfast)

56Kg: (Bantamweight) - John Joe Nevin (Cavan BC)

60Kg: (Lightweight) - David Oliver Joyce (St Michael's Athy BC, Kildare)

64Kg: (Light-welterweight) - Ray Moylette (St Anne's BC, Mayo)

69Kg: (Welterweight) - Roy Sheehan (St Michael's Athy BC, Kildare)

75Kg: (Middleweight) - Darren O'Neill (Paulstown BC, Kilkenny)

81Kg: (Light-heavyweight) - Joe Ward (Moate BC, Westmeath)

91Kg: (Heavyweight) - Ken Egan (Neilstown BC, Dublin)

91Kg+: (Super-heavyweight) - Con Sheehan (Clonmel BC, Tipperary)

Team manager: Des Donnelly

Coaches: Billy Walsh, Zuar Antia, Jimmy Halpin

Physio: Scott Murphy

Performance Psychologist: Gerry Hussey

Performance Analysis: Alan Swanton

USABoxing’s World Championships Team - (COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – All 10 winners from the recent U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Men’s Boxing enjoyed nearly two weeks of celebratory events with the friends, family and fans for their tremendous accomplishment in Mobile. Yet the time for fun is over, the boxers will travel to Colorado Springs and the U.S. Olympic Training Center today for a preparatory training camp before they go to Baku, Azerbaijan for the 2011 AIBA Men’s World Championships, September 22-October 10.

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• WSB's first season qualifies five boxers for the London 2012 Olympic Games

Following their great WSB season, five boxers will have the pleasure to compete at the London 2012 Olympic Games next summer. (Source WSB)

- Kanat Abutalipov, from Kazakhstan, will compete in 56kg at the Olympic Games.

- Rachid Azzedine, from France, will compete in 60kg at the Olympic Games.

- Soltan Migitinov, from Azerbaijan, will compete in 75kg at the Olympic Games.

- Abdelhafid Benchabla, from Algeria, will compete in 81kg at the Olympic Games.

- Clemente Russo, from Italy, will compete in 91kg at the Olympic Games.

AIBA have recently announced that the following five (5) companies have become AIBA Official Licensees starting from August 2011:

Adidas, Double-D from Germany - Top Ten from Germany  - Wesing from China - FBT from Thailand- Velocity from Australia.

• Super seven are ready for 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games

A team of seven will represent England in the Commonwealth Youth Games on the Isle of Man from 7-13 September.

The team recently returned from the Youth European Championships in Dublin, where they got in some final preparations, and will fly to the Isle of Man on Wednesday 7th September.

Mick Gannon, south of England head coach, said: 'This is one of the best prepared teams we've ever sent to a major tournament. The boxers have recently taken part in a three nations tournament, followed by a youth round robin which was kindly hosted by Ireland, and they enjoyed some excellent sparring between rounds at last week's Youth European Championships. I'm confident that the boxers are on good form and will perform well.'

The team:

49kg Jack Bateson (17, Burmantofts ABC & Bradford College AASE Programme, Leeds)

52kg Samson Sykes (17, Capitol ABC, Leicestershire)

56kg Qais Ashfaq (18, Burmantofts ABC, Leeds)

60kg Henry Thomas (17, Darlington ABC, Durham)

64kg Darren Tetley (18, Platinum ABC, Bradford)

69kg Damon Jones (18, West Leeds ABC, Leeds)

81kg Jack Massey (18, Northside ABC, Manchester)

More than 1,000 athletes will compete in seven sporting events during the week-long event. The venue for the Boxing events is the Royal Hall in the Villa Marina, which has permanent seating for 1,000 spectators.