New technologies will be presented at AIBA World Boxing Championships 2019
September 9th, 2019 / IBA, Ekaterinburg 2019
Russian Boxing Federation (RBF) partnered with STATISPORT to inaugurate a world premiere in boxing by introducing Performance Data collection during the AIBA Men’s World Championships 2019 in Ekaterinburg.
STATISPORT will collect in-competition data using proprietary sensors technology and machine learning algorithms. STATISPORT will also work alongside with the Russian Boxing Federation on developing in the future new advance technologies to bring real-time advanced analytics to fans, teams, media providers, partners and competition officials.
Russian Boxing Federation is the first boxing governing body to embrace sensors technology and by infusing an advanced analytics system in a major competition.
“We’re thrilled to have STATISPORT onboard to start innovating in the AIBA Men’s World Championships 2019. It presents a very exciting opportunity for our sport, our athletes and boxing fans. STATISPORT brings innovative ways to analyze the sport and we strongly believe it will change the way Boxing is perceived.” said Umar Kremlev, Russian Boxing Federation Secretary General. “The sport of Boxing has been expecting new technologies development and we shall act as the driving force in terms of innovation and embracing new solutions.”
“We are excited to partner with the Russian Boxing Federation and having the possibility to work on the biggest Elite boxing competition platform” said Jerry Krylov, co-founder of STATISPORT. “There has been a lot of discussions about what technology will bring to boxing, so to see RBF taking the lead and embracing new technologies to a major competition, we feel very honored to have been chosen. Our advanced analytics will bring in the future an unprecedented level of competition insight to fans throughout the world. We’re entering a new era, and we couldn’t be happier to be doing so directly with RBF.”