The International Boxing Association has confirmed that the upcoming IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships 2023 in New Delhi, India will welcome an IOC monitoring team led by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC). The Women’s World Championships are set to take place 15-26 March 2023 and will welcome more than 65 nations and 300 boxers.
The attendance of the upcoming Women’s World Championships by PwC is part of the important compliance assessment process of continuous monitoring of the IBA and its ongoing governance reform, practices, and activities. The IBA is confident that the PwC team will see first-hand IBA’s best practices regarding technical and competitions rules, specifically its heralded bout review process.
The PwC team will work in parallel with the IBA onsite, as Prof. Richard McLaren and his McLaren Independent Investigation Team (MIIT) who are responsible for the background vetting check of the Competition Officials at the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championship 2023 in New Delhi and the IBA Men’s World Boxing Championship 2023 in Tashkent.
The IBA’s commitment to ensuring the utmost integrity in the selection and evaluation processes of all technical officials is paramount and the verification of IBA’s reform efforts on this front will be a much-welcomed step in the important pathway leading to the lifting of the suspension of IBA’s recognition by the IOC ahead of Paris 2024.
The governance reforms by IBA do not sit solely regarding technical and competitions rules, as over the last two years reforms have been entrenched in IBA through the ratification of numerous new regulations and policies to the effect of implementing and enforcing IOC Rules and Principles and to follow the Governance Reform Group recommendations, and the highest ethics and integrity standards.
The IBA would like to reaffirm its strong commitment to the vision, mission and objectives set out in the IOC Code of Ethics and its Implementing Provisions, including the Principles of Good Governance within the Olympic Movement and looks forward to receiving the results of the PwC compliance assessment.
