World Boxing and Namibia NOC Discuss Boxing Development and International Cooperation!

(November 11th) World Boxing President Gennadiy Golovkin and Secretary General Tom Dielen met with Namibia National Olympic Committee President Dr Ndeulipula Hamutumwa and Chief Executive Officer Anri Parker during the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games.

The discussion focused on the development of boxing in Namibia and on practical areas where cooperation with World Boxing could be strengthened.

Namibia expressed interest in hosting a future World Boxing international event, with the NOC outlining the country’s ambition to play a more active role in the international boxing calendar.

World Boxing shared plans to expand education and training opportunities for coaches, technical officials and sports administrators, including through online programmes, and encouraged Namibia to make use of these initiatives.

The conversation also looked ahead to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games and the preparation of Namibian boxers for the international qualification pathway.

Among those discussed was Tryagain Ndevelo, silver medallist at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, who is targeting qualification for LA28. His progress was highlighted as an example of the potential within Namibian boxing.

“It is great to see the commitment from the Namibian NOC, which really values the social impact our sport can have and how boxing can be a life changer, as was clearly shown by Tryagain’s success in Glasgow,” said World Boxing Secretary General Tom Dielen.

“Thanks to this cooperation, he is now preparing for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games with the support of an Olympic Solidarity Scholarship, and we will continue to monitor his progress.”

The Namibian representatives also expressed their support for President Golovkin on behalf of the Namibia Boxing Federation and confidence in the direction of World Boxing under his leadership.

Both sides agreed to continue the dialogue and explore concrete opportunities for cooperation in event hosting, education and athlete development.

ABOUT WORLD BOXING

World Boxing is a not-for-profit, international sports federation which aims to put the interests of boxers first and ensure that boxing remains at the heart of the Olympic movement.

It was established by a group of like-minded individuals from a number of National Federations across the world in response to the persistent issues surrounding Olympic-style boxing’s international governing body, whose failure to address the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) longstanding concerns over sporting integrity, governance, transparency and financial management placed boxing’s future as an Olympic sport in doubt.

World Boxing offers an alternative to this and was founded on the principles of integrity, honesty and excellence. 

The organisation is underpinned by rigorous governance practices and aims to create a sustainable and inclusive global sporting structure where boxers from around the world can compete and excel knowing that the integrity of the sport is guaranteed and competition is fair.

It ensures the views of athletes are represented at the highest level and includes a male and female boxer with voting rights on its Executive Board.

Publicly launched in April 2023, by the start of January 2025, World Boxing had approved membership applications from 60 National Federations covering all five Continents that compete in the sport.

On 7 May 2024, World Boxing held its first formal meeting with the IOC which signalled the start of formal collaboration aimed at establishing a pathway for boxing to remain in the Olympic Games.  In September 2024, World Boxing established an Olympic Commission, chaired by the President of the National Olympic Committee of Kazakhstan, Gennadiy Golovkin, to support and assist the process of developing a pathway to ensuring that boxing is restored to the Games.

World Boxing provides principled leadership to its members and is committed to delivering five key pledges that will safeguard the future of both the sport and its athletes worldwide.

World Boxing pledges to:

Keep boxing at the heart of the Olympic movement

Ensure the interests of boxers are put first

Deliver sporting integrity and fair competitions

Create a competition structure designed in the best interests of the boxers

Operate according to strong governance standards and transparent financial management