Ching Kuo-Wu re-elected AIBA President

Almaty: Incumbent Ching-Kuo Wu was on Tuesday re-elected unopposed as the president of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) for a second

successive term. "The 106 member countries represented at the AIBA Congress voted by acclamation for Dr Ching-Kuo Wu from Chinese Taipei to serve a second four-year term as the president of the Association," the AIBA said in a statement. The result means Wu, a member of the International Olympic Committee, will return for a further four-year term as the head of the association which he has been heading since 2006, when he put an end to the tenure of former president Anwar Choudhry from Pakistan. As the only candidate for the election, Wu was voted in by acclamation. Four confederation presidents were also re-elected as vice-presidents of the association: Dr Abdullah Bessalem for the African Boxing Confederation; Domingo Solano for the American Boxing Confederation; Dr Humbert Furgoni for the European Boxing Confederation and Keith Walker for the Oceania Boxing Confederation. "I want to thank all the delegates for your confidence and trust placed in me," Wu said after the election. "I clearly remember four years ago in Santo Domingo when I was elected president I delivered my election speech. The first thing I said is that the president of AIBA is a servant of boxing for AIBA and for our national federations.” "I now repeat this. With your confidence and trust I will continue to give my commitment to you. In the past four years I have travelled over 300 days a year. Maybe over the next four years this will be over 350 days a year." Wu presides over the world`s third biggest international sports federation after the congress delegates ratified three new provisional members today, bringing the organisation`s total number of member federations to 195. The new members are Guinea Bissau, Tanzania and Kiribati, one of the world`s smallest countries by surface area. PTI