The Chief Govt of UK Sport, Sally Munday OBE, has praised GB Boxing for its function in serving to to encourage  the nation via sporting success. 

The feedback are within the visitor Foreword Munday contributed to GB Boxing’s newly printed Annual  Evaluate 2022-23, “Delivering sporting success in a altering world’ which will be seen and downloaded HERE. 

Within the Evaluate, Munday says: “The World Class Programme (WCP) for boxing is undoubtedly an essential  participant in our household of sports activities. The performances of the boxers have been central to this, however equally  importantly, boxing is a major sport throughout the high-performance panorama because it performs an important function in  reaching many various communities and widening the enchantment of Olympic sport. 

“The various make-up of the athlete cohort at GB Boxing, which represents a wide-cross part of  society, means it’s a very efficient sport at inspiring folks in hard-to-reach communities and has the  capability to ship constructive outcomes that transcend efficiency within the boxing ring.” 

In a wide-ranging piece that assesses the broader influence of GB Boxing as an organisation, Munday  describes it as “a beacon for the promotion of girls’s sport, with the historic achievements of Nicola  Adams and, extra just lately, Lauren Worth and Karriss Artingstall”.  

She goes on to reward GB Boxing’s function in establishing a brand new worldwide federation, World Boxing,  which is targeted on making certain that boxing stays on the Olympic programme at Los Angeles 2028 and  past. 

Munday says: “Generally organisations must step ahead and take motion and I feel the board and  management of GB Boxing deserve nice credit score for his or her work in attempting to protect boxing’s place on the  coronary heart of the Olympic motion.” 

In summing up the ethos of GB Boxing and her aspirations for the way forward for the World Class Programme  (WCP) which is funded by UK Sport, she provides: “ A perception in placing the athletes first is among the key  rules that has underpinned a lot of the success that GB Boxing has achieved in recent times.

“I  have little question that, no matter challenges it comes up in opposition to sooner or later, the WCP for boxing will  proceed to thrive and its boxers will carry on inspiring the nation.”