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BFI recalls Santiago Nieva, appoints him head coach of women's boxing team
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|November 29, 2025
After a below-par outing in Paris 2024, where the boxing contingent returned empty-handed, the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) went back to Santiago Nieva, appointing the Swedish high-performance expert as the head coach of the national women's boxing team ahead of a crucial new Olympic cycle.
Nieva, who earlier served as India's High Performance Director from 2017 to 2021, returns with a clear mandate, to strengthen the women's programme and build sustained global competitiveness ahead of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.
His previous stint in India left a deep impact on the country's high-performance structure. During his tenure, India recorded two podium finishes at the 2019 men's World Championships with Amit Panghal's historic silver and Manish Kaushik's bronze, followed by the country's largest-ever Olympic boxing contingent at Tokyo 2020, where Lovlina Borgohain claimed a bronze medal.
This story is from the November 29, 2025 edition of The Statesman Bhubaneswar.
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