07/05/2009 18:02
Youth World Boxing Championship 2009 to host 51 states
The number of the participating states in theYouth World Boxing Championship 2009 to be held in Yerevan May 23-30 has hit 51, the Armenian Boxing Federation says. The last three countries to have submitted participation application are Ghana, Montenegro and Venezuela. The countries will be represented by 6, 1 and 9 sportsmen respectively.
The application deadline was April 23, but the federation still receives more and more participation applications even after the deadline has expired. Many countries failed to decide on participate-or-not timely because of the world economic crisis and their sports plans. Nevertheless, there is an agreement between the Armenian Boxing Federation and AIBA not to refuse any country to make a participation application, irrespective of the application deadline.