Chloe Black IFMA Youth World Championship

 Carlow Muaythai Club are honored and delighted to announce that Chloe has been selected to compete in the u12/13 category at the  IFMA world Championships in Turkey in September this year as part of the Irish MuayThai Council team, where she won silver last year out in Thailand.This event is an International Olympic Recognised event and will have participants from all over the world. This is a great honor for Chloe, her club and country. 

Chloe has been training extremely hard for this opportunity and its a real confidence boost for her after what the Irish Athletic Boxing Association done to her in May. After they received a childish complaint from Illies Golden Gloves Boxing Club in Donegal where they banned Chloe from boxing at the age of 12 because she competes in Muaythai.

Chloe who just turned 13 years old and has been a member of Carlow Muaythai for over three years now and since then has shown her ability and dedication at her chosen sport. She started competing on the Irish circuit and has steadily progressed. This year and last year she was selected on the Irish junior team that competed in Lithuania and won 2 gold medals. Chloe also traveled with the Irish team in November to Antalya Turkey  where she also won a gold medal. She also started boxing in February last year where she won three Micheal Andrews championships  two Leinster titles and an All Ireland title as well as making it to the final this year, and then been told she wasn't allowed to compete 15 minutes before she was due to get into the ring because she takes part in Muaythai. 

The cost of participating in these events is very high for all involved. We are a small gym that receives no Government funding and have paid for our training equipment, gloves, pads and bags etc. ourselves. We estimate that the cost of sending Chloe to Antalya Turkey will be about €2,500 and we are trying to raise money at the moment through various events as well as looking for donations 

We would be very grateful if you would be in a position to give us a donation towards this cost