Iranian Youth team prepares for the main goals of 2017

The Iranian youth team has been preparing with full speed to accomplish their goals in 2017 which will be another busy year for all Asian countries in the first period of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic era. Iran’s top talents have been invited to the training camp to start the year with physical preparation to raise their fitness and speed.
The Enghelab Sport Complex, which is the venue of the Iranian youth team’s training camp, was opened in 1958 and the sport hall hosts about 10,000 people daily who participate in different activities and trainings. The sport complex hosted several Iranian national boxing events in the recent years.
Following the decision of the Iranian Boxing Federation 14 boxers have been invited from the 1999-2000 born age group to take part in the training camp in Tehran. The boxers have arrived from 10 different parts of Iran including Mazandaran, Khuzestan, Golestan, Kurdistan, Tehran, Central region, Eastern Azerbaijan and Bushehr as well.
Mazandaran has got always strong boxers, used to be their hero was Asian Games winner and ASBC Asian Champion Ali Mazaheri who was the best athlete in our continent at the heavyweight (91kg) between 2010 and 2012. Five youth talents have been selected from the Mazandaran region including Ashkan Rezaei who has got enough international experiences from 2016 to do great things in the New Year.
Iran’s biggest boxing talent, Hossein Mousa Khani of Bushehr, who is five-time National Champion in different age groups, also invited to the training camp to Tehran to raise their current skills. The 17-year-old boxer achieved bronze medal in the 2015 ASBC Asian Confederation Junior Boxing Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and has got chance to reach better results among the youth athletes in 2017.
Iran has got strong super heavyweight (+91kg) boxers and their current youth No.1 in that category is Amir Mohammad Noorshad who took bronze medal in the Abbas Agalarov Youth Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan one month ago. The 17-year-old talent is also enough experienced now to get medals for Iran in the 2017 competitions.
Mohammad Asghari trains in Tehran and competed well enough in the Abbas Agalarov Youth Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan in December which delivered for him a place in the training camp. The 17-year-old talent was the only boxer from the capital city of the big country who was selected to take part in the preparation.
The next edition of the ASBC Asian Confederation Youth Boxing Championships will be held in Bangkok, Thailand in July and the Iranian squad is planning to get medals in the continental event in Southeast Asia.