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The Chairman of Sri Lanka’s Boxing Association Dian Gomes, has been elected to the executive committee of the Asian Boxing Confederation. The most important part of the ASBC General Assembly, the ASBC Elections for the Vice-Presidency and the ASBC Executive Committee memberships was held in the Grand Fourwings Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand yesterday (April 17). The reports note that 36

Dian Gomes, the President of the Boxing Association of Sri Lanka has been appointed as an executive committee member of the International Boxing Association (AIBA), the world governing body for boxing. A former Royal College fly weight boxing champion and a former President of CIMA Sri Lanka Division, Dian has been a leading corporate personality for the better part of

Dian Gomes has been appointed as an Executive Committee Member of the world boxing body of AIBA, the supreme and most prestigious global association dedicated to boxing. Dian needs no special introduction as his name is synonymous with the renaissance of sport in our island. A former Royal College fly weight boxing champion and former President of CIMA Sri Lankan

Dian Gomes, the in­cum­bent Pres­i­dent of the Am­a­teur Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion of SriLanka (ABA), has been ap­pointed as an Ex­ec­u­tive Com­mit­tee mem­ber of the world box­ing body,aiba. Gomes is no stranger to the box­ing arena in Sri Lanka as his name is syn­ony­mous with the re­nais­sance of the sport in Sri Lanka, and was re­cently elected as the head of the

The Annual General Meeting and the election of the officials of the Boxing Association of Sri Lanka will be held on August 20 but the nominations submitted today in Colombo. The President of the Boxing Association of Sri Lanka Mr. Dian Gomes uncontested and will be re-elected on August 20 for the next four years which revealed after the nominations.

Boxing would have been dead in Sri Lanka if Dian Gomes had not ig­nited the Olympic dream and kept the flame alive by giv­ing dy­namic lead­er­ship dur­ing the past two decades with his strate­gic plan­ning, vi­sion­ary zeal and love for the sport. Af­ter the dop­ing dis­grace at the 2010 Delhi Com­mon­wealth Games, boxing plunged to the low­est depths with fin­gers

Dian Gomes, a name synonymous with boxing in Sri Lanka, is embarking on a third round as the head of the Amateur Boxing Association of Sri Lanka (ABA) which was confirmed at a press briefing recently. Gomes’ first stint as the head of the ABA was in 2004 and it was during this successful first tenure that boxer Anuruddha Ratnayake

The renaissance in boxing did not happen overnight. It took time, effort, commitment and inspirational leadership of the ABA to bring the game to its present level.  For a sport that has been vilified and maligned by some and adored and revered by others, boxing has risen like the legendary phoenix in Sri Lanka over the past few years. Professional

Gomes’ first stint as the head of the ABA was in 2004 and it was during this successful first tenure that boxer Anuruddha Ratnayake qualified for the Beijing Olympics in 2008. It was after a lapse of four decades, since H.K. Karunaratne in 1968, that Sri Lanka was able to achieve this. Gomes’ second stint started in 2017 and continues

Dian Gomes was elected uncontested as President of BASL for the third occasion for another four-year term at the recently held AGM. Previously he held this position from 2004-2009 and 2017-2020. The BASL focuses to the long term plans to get gold medals for the country and President of BASL believes the country has a realistic chance in the 22nd

The President of the Boxing Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) Dian Gomes believes Sri Lankan boxers have a realistic chance of winning Gold medals at the Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games in the near future. The godfather of Sri Lanka boxing for two decades, Dian Gomes has been appointed uncontested to the post of President for another four-year term at