BFI appoint Irish legend Bernard Dunne as India’s new high-performance director

Irish boxing legend Bernard Dunne, who has produced Olympic and world champions, was on Monday named the High Performance Director for Indian boxing.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Oct 17, 2022 15:22 IST

Bernard Dunne confirmed as India’s new high-performance director (BFI Photo)

By India Today Web Desk: Irish boxing nice Bernard Dunne has been named the high-performance director (HPD) for Indian boxing. A famend identify on the planet of boxing, Dunne shall be becoming a member of the Indian group following a profitable five-year stint with the Irish Athletic Boxing Association, serving in the identical place.

The 42-year-old, who has received 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 huge boxing talent and its boxers have been performing exceedingly well,” stated Dunn.

“It will be a great opportunity for me to work with them and contribute to their success. I’m very excited to join the team and take the standards of Indian boxing to a new high altogether,” he added.

Indian boxers have produced sensible performances in the previous few years at prestigious occasions together with the World Championships, the Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games.

The arrival of the Irishman certainly got here as a big step within the improvement of Indian boxing.

“We are delighted to announce Bernard Dunne as the high-performance director of the Indian team. He was a legendary boxer and has also done exceptionally well while working with the Ireland team,” Boxing Federation of India President Ajay Singh stated.

“As a federation, we are focussed on doing everything that is required for our boxers to bring glory to the country. This is a major boost to our aim of winning medals at the Paris Olympics.”

During Dunne’s tenure with the Ireland group, 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 a bronze medal on the 2020 Olympic Games.

Dunne led the Irish high-performance boxing group 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.