Saturday Nov 23rd Sarnia: Boxing Canada crowned its 2024 Elite and U23 National Champions. Top Olympic-Style boxers from across the nation converged in Southern Ontario for the four-day tournament. After multiple rounds the field of almost 200 athletes had been pared down to the 30 boxers who have earned the title of 2024 Elite and U23 National Champions.

 

Full Results

 

Women’s Champions:

U23 48kg: Zoe Courchesne, Crew (QC)

U23 54kg: Sabrina Simmons, Griffin’s Boxing and Fitness (BC)

U23 57kg: Lola Brouillette, Nelson Boxing Club (BC)

U23 60kg: Alessia Mansueto, Ring 83 (QC)

U23 70kg: Sam Bumbaca, Bell City Boxing Club (ON)

Elite 48kg: Priyanka Dhillon, PanAm Boxing Club (MB)

Elite 51kg: McKensie Wright, City Boxing Club (ON)

Elite 54kg: Scarlett Delgado, DESTINY BOXING (ON)

Elite 57kg: Marie Al-Ahmadieh, The Corner (QC)

Elite 60kg: Florence Belle-Germain, Fighter’s Pride Boxing Club (QC)

Elite 65kg: Mirelle Bindzi, The Corner (QC)

Elite 70kg: Clark Kaitlyn, Destiny Boxing (ON)

Elite 75kg: Maeva Montemiglio, Boxe Montreal (QC)

Elite 80kg: Viktoria Penney, Sully’s Boxing Gym (ON)

Men’s Champions:

U23 55kg: Alexis Turbide, Club de Boxe de l’Est (QC)

U23 60kg: Esteban Rodrigues, Club de Boxe Empire (QC)

U23 65kg: Omar Zaatiti, Ring 83 (QC)

U23 70kg: Jabob Blais, Pound4Pound (QC)

U23 75kg: Michael White, Bluewater Boxing Club (ON)

U23 80kg: Umar Carcamo, The Boxing Lab (ON)

Elite 50kg: Elias Siaca, Pound4Pound (QC)

Elite 55kg: Karan Sembhi, The Boxing Lab (ON)

Elite 60kg: Keoma-Ali Al-Ahmadieh, The Corner (QC)

Elite 65kg: Mohamed Milad, Tribal Boxing (NS)

Elite 70kg: Kuwar Manu, The Boxing Lab (ON)

Elite 75kg: Joshua Ofori, Marshall Boxing (AB)

Elite 80kg: Nickenson Denis, The Corner (QC)

Elite 85kg: Shane Mccarthy, Boomerz Boxing Club (ON)

Elite 90kg: Bryan Colwell, Sooke Boxing Club (BC)

Elite 90+kg: William Nike Blackmore, Southpaw/Goldenstars (AB)

With the end of the 2024 seasons all athletes are setting their sights on the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Boxing Canada will provide a pathway of camps, competitions, and guidance to help them make the journey. For the 2024 National Champions that pathway will begin with National Team activities in  in Montreal to assess their skills, optimize their strengths, and minimize their weaknesses.

National Team Coaches Vincent Auclair and Samir El Mais were on site in Sarnia making assessments of each boxer. After completing more than 150 round-by-round assessments El Mais remarked that “the skill level of the athletes at Nationals was some of the strongest we have seen.” Following the competition athletes and their coaches will receive the written supports from the national team staff. Auclair is excited to chart the future course for a talented group of Canadian athletes, saying “Success at the international level isn’t guaranteed simply by being the best in Canada.”

The next international competition opportunities for Canadian Boxers will be dependent on the upcoming World Boxing Calendar, but over the next four years will include the 2025 World Championships, the 2026 Commonwealth Games, the 2027 PanAm Games, and then the 2028 Olympics. High Performance Director Kraig Devlin thinks Canada has an opportunity to repeat the Bronze Medal that Wyatt Sanford won at the 2024 Paris Olympics. “Wyatt and Tammara’s success, after six years of centralization in the National Training Centre, shows that Canadians can win medals at the World-level. The 2024 Nationals provides a new starting point for the next two Olympic cycles and we are confident that Canadian will come home with medals in the future.”

For athletes too young to attend the 2024 Elite and U23 Nationals, the 2025 Junior and Youth and U23 Championships have been announced for May 28-June 1, 2025 in Quebec City as part of the long running Quebec Open tournament run by Boxe Quebec.

About Boxing Canada: Boxing Canada is the national sport organization for the sport of Olympic Boxing in Canada. It provides leadership for national programming, teams, and policies in partnership with each province and territory’s sport organization. Thanks to the Government of Canada, Canadian Olympic Committee, and all our national partners for their support.

For more information on Boxing Canada, please visit BoxingCanada.org.

Posted on: November 24, 2024