Irish boxing legend Bernard Dunne, who has produced Olympic and world champions, was on Monday named the Excessive Efficiency Director for Indian boxing.
A famend identify on the earth of boxing, Dunne will probably be becoming a member of the Indian staff following a profitable five-year stint with Irish Athletic Boxing Affiliation, serving in the identical place.
The 42-year-old, who has gained the WBA World Championship (2009) and the European Championship (2007), will take over the place which was left vacant after Santiago Nieva’s departure.
“India has enormous boxing expertise and its boxers have been performing exceedingly nicely,” stated Dunn.
“It is going to be an excellent alternative for me to work with them and contribute to their success. I am very excited to hitch the staff and take the requirements of Indian boxing to a brand new excessive altogether,” he added.
Indian boxers have produced good performances in the previous few years on the prestigious occasions together with World Championships, Commonwealth Video games and Asian Video games.
The arrival of the Irishman absolutely comes as a major step for the event of Indian boxing.
“We’re delighted to announce Bernard Dunne because the high-performance director of the Indian staff. He was a legendary boxer and has additionally finished exceptionally nicely whereas working with the Eire staff,” Boxing Federation of India President Ajay Singh stated.
“As a federation, we’re focussed on doing every little thing that’s required for our boxers to deliver glory to the nation. This can be a main increase to our purpose of successful medals on the Paris Olympics.”
Throughout Dunne’s tenure with the Eire staff, Kellie Harrington emerged the Olympic champion in Tokyo in addition to the world champion in 2018.
He additionally guided Amy Broadhurst and Lisa O’Rourke to gold medals on the final World Championships, and Aidan Walsh to bronze medal on the 2020 Olympic Video games.
Dunne led the Irish high-performance boxing staff from 2017 to 2022, and beneath his management they carried out on the highest degree, successful European, World and Olympics gold medals.
Dunne, who has 13 nationwide titles to his identify, has joined the Indian boxing elite programme at Patiala.