Key Highlights
- “Yes CA Kuttappa has been appointed as the coach in charge and Dharmender Yadav will also continue to be a part of the coach staff,” BFI Executive Director Col Arun Malik said.
- The change at the helm comes in the wake of an underwhelming couple of years for Indian men’s boxing.
- Only two male boxers managed to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the slide continued at the 2025 World Championships in Liverpool, where the men’s contingent failed to win a single medal for the first time in 12 years.
- (PTI) Kuttappa is no stranger to the role, having previously served as the men’s head coach during both the Tokyo and Paris Olympics.
- (PTI) Over the years, he has been closely associated with several major milestones in Indian boxing and was part of the national support staff during the 2008 Beijing Games, where Vijender Singh clinched the country’s first-ever Olympic medal in the sport.