Amateur Boxing Scotland Chairman Richard Thomas recently made a two day trip to the AIBA Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland to attend the AIBA Technical and Rules Commission Meeting.
During his visit he sat and passed the International Technical Official (ITO) Exam. This consisted of 100 questions across all technical aspects of the sport.
Top Left Clockwise - Ho Kim (Executive Officer), Angel Villareal (USA), Abdelilah Oudhgiri (Morocco), Yue Yan (China), Syed Abdul Kadir (Singapore), Richard Thomas (Scotland), Jae Kyu Jung (Korea), Luiz Boselli (Brazil), Franco Falcinelli (Italy), Ching-Kuo Wu (President), Helmut Ranze (Germany), Mukhamadali Karimov (Uzbekistan)
On passing this exam Richard has now been appointed as an AIBA International Technical Official (ITO). See Rule 4 of the Rules for Competition Officials Document – Here
The Technical and Rules Commission of which Richard is now part of, is comprised of qualified delegates from around the World and is responsible for all technical related issues in boxing competitions, from National to International and Olympic level and at all age groups and weight categories.
