The World Young Boxing Championship 2024 was held at Budva City Sports Center, the Republic of Montenegro. At this tournament, the International Boxing Association (IBA) pays all the accommodation for athletes, as well as a maximum of 3 coaches per group. Therefore, the delegations only have to pay for air tickets and the 4th and higher coach in the team when attending the tournament.
Also according to information from the Organizing Committee, the tournament recorded 593 fighters of 73 countries and territories registered to attend. This figure has not changed much compared to the tournament that took place 2 years ago. However, unlike the tournament held by 2022, this time Vietnam did not send boxers to compete.
Boxing Vietnam does not have boxers to attend the World Young Boxing Championship 2024 for 3 reasons. Firstly, in case Vietnam attends, the Department of Sports will not pay for the competition. Before that, according to the source of iThethao.vnthe entire budget allocated to Boxing and Kickboxing has been put to 2 qualifying and Olympic Games.
With the Department of Sports and Sports does not pay funds, Vietnamese boxers attending the World Young Boxing Championship 2024 will only go if the locality stands out to ensure the source of money. Another way, that is, the athletes mobilize socialization funding to compete. This is not feasible with boxing Vietnam at the present time.
Secondly, in the case of Vietnam appointing fighters to attend the prize, the possibility of athletes with medals and achieving good achievements is not high. Unlike 2022-2023, when Boxing Vietnam has many medals in international youth tournaments, achievements in age groups have come down in 2024. The reason comes from the fact that many international teams have very strong forces.
The evidence shows that the power of international teams is shown in two Vietnam boxing groups attending in 2024, is the U22 and Asian Championships, as well as the Asian Youth Championship. These are the Vietnamese leagues with only a few martial artists who won bronze medals, thanks to the draw to reach the semi -finals of the tournament.
Thirdly, to minimize the drawing of “dividing” medals, the 2024 World Young Boxing Championship decided to draw manually, instead of using a computer allocated as usual. This helps minimize the controversy, if there are too many boxers of some countries to enter the favorable branch at the tournament.