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An international boxing tournament among youth of class A, after which the best boxers go to represent their country at the World and European Championships.

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Context

Young people have always needed and still need support in developing their talents and fulfilling their dreams. It is good to have those who are ready to provide it. Then young people get everything they need to develop and reach the top. Participation in a tournament of this format is an important step towards becoming an ambitious and successful youth, and becomes a springboard for further victories at the European and World Championships. It also provides all the opportunities to exchange experience with other tournament participants and to build intercultural dialogue.

Mission

Promoting boxing as an Olympic sport among young people, improving the sports skills of participants, strengthening and developing friendly relations with boxers from Ukraine and abroad, popularizing a healthy lifestyle among the population, and discovering young talented athletes.

Who can participate?

Athletes

Young boxers who have a sports qualification of at least 1 sports category.

Project format

Each year, about 150 participants took part in the competition. It was thanks to this tournament that the boxing world first learned about future Olympic champions Vasyl Lomachenko and Oleksandr Usyk, world champion Yevhen Khytrov, Olympic bronze medalist Vyacheslav Glazkov, and many other outstanding athletes who have been increasing the glory of Ukrainian sport year after year.

ACHIEVEMENT

1923

Athletes took part in the project

Countries joined the competition

750

Boxers received prizes

HISTORY

1998

2003

2018

The tournament was initiated by the Ukrainian boxing community in 1998 and supported by Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko.

Since the establishment of the Klitschko Foundation in 2003, the tournament has acquired the status of a project and has been held under the auspices of the foundation ever since.

Project completed

In 2013, I went to the All-Ukrainian competitions for the first time, they were very important for me, they made me realize that I wanted to devote my life to this. In 2014, I went to the European Championships, and my professional career began in June. The first fight was easy, and in the second I fought against the strongest member of the Russian team. It was difficult for me, but I managed to win by unanimous decision. This year I lost the Ukrainian Championship, but I'm not upset. Now I have an external independent evaluation, an admission, it's hard to combine. In 2018, the Youth Olympic Games will begin, I am determined and ready to win

Dmytro Maidakov

project participant

When I was a kid, I couldn't decide for a long time what kind of sport I wanted to play, if any. I was interested in both football and basketball. However, my father's words were decisive. It was he who inspired me to take up boxing and eventually make it my career. I remember my first fight, which I was looking forward to. Without sports, I would have been a completely different person. When the winners of the Klitschko Brothers tournament were announced, I was very nervous. But when my name was called, I was so happy and full of emotions that I couldn't say a word.

Asseme Nouali

Finnish boxer, winner of the Klitschko Tournament 2016

When I decided to start training athletes, it was not my job. It was more like a hobby. For the first five years, I taught boxing to young athletes and trained myself at the same time. But for 10 years now, I have been a full-fledged mentor for boxers. Young boxers need to be shown their own path of defeats and victories. This way they see a real-life example to be inspired by and strive for. Sometimes losses break boxers. They lose the desire to continue their journey in the sport. So coaches should remind them that climbing the sports Olympus is a long process, and it is impossible without defeats.

Jarkko Pitkanen

Head coach of the Finnish Boxing Federation