Anwar Chowdhry

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Anwar Khurshid Chowdhry (born October 26, 1923 in Jalalpur, Punjab , Jattan, Gujrat District Pakistan , † June 19, 2010 in Karachi , Pakistan) was a Pakistani sports official who was President of the International Boxing Association from 1986 to 2006 . He is considered to be the inventor of computer-aided scoring in boxing. He was also charged with serious corruption; In 2007 he was banned from all association activities for life.

Life

Chowdhry attended Sindh Madrasatul Islam High School and received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from NED University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi in 1950 and an MBA from the same university in 1952. He was accepted as a lecturer from his college, became an associate professor in 1958 and in 1968 Taken over as professor and institute director. In 1977 he took early retirement to fully devote himself to his career in sports administration.

Sports career

After a career as an active boxer, Chowdhry was Secretary General of the Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) from 1959 to 1984 and President of the Federation from 1984 to 2008. He also served as the Director of University Sports at Karachi University . In 1962 he co-founded the Asian Boxing Federation and worked from 1962 to 1990 as its general secretary, then until 2006 as its president. From 1966 to 1974 he was also Vice President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) and from 1974 to 1986 the General Secretary of the same association. He then became President from 1986 to 2006. At the 1984 Summer Olympics he was named the best boxing judge. In 2006 he was voted out of office as president. The Computerized Scoring System developed by Chowdhry was used internationally between 1988 and 2013. In 2007, Chowdhry was banned from boxing for life because he was alleged to have embezzled AIBA funds. He is assigned to the Adidas empire. He is considered a prominent early example of widespread corruption in top-class Olympic sport.

Awards

  • 1992 Olympic Order (IOC)
  • 1995 UNESCO Order of Merit
  • 1999 Pakistan: Sitara-i-Imtiaz '(Star of Excellence)
  • 2000 Thailand: Order of the Direkgunabhorn
  • 2001 Azerbaijan: Order of Merit
  • 2001 Morocco: Order of Merit
  • Dr. hc Azerbaijan University , State University of Uzbekistan , University of Eastern Philippines , Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture
  • Professor hc Kazakh Institute of Physical Education and Sports

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography of Prof. Khurshid Anwar Chowdhry . In: Pakistan Sports Board . 
  2. ↑ a b http://www.boxscoring.ru/
  3. ^ Former AIBA president Anwar Chowdhry dies at 87 . In: USA Today , June 21, 2010. 
  4. ↑ https://www.jensweinreich.de/tag/anwar-chowdhry/
  5. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Olympic Games as a means of politics (pp. 35–54), in: Eike Emrich , Martin-Peter Büch , Werner Pitsch (ed.): Olympic Games - still contemporary? Values, goals, reality from a multidisciplinary perspective. Saarbrücken: Saarland University Press 2013, ISBN 978-3-86223-108-9 ; http://universaar.uni-saarland.de/monographien/volltexte/2014/112/
personal data
SURNAME Chowdhry, Anwar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chowdhry, Anwar Khurshid (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani sports official
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Jalalpur, Punjab , Jattan, Gujrat District Pakistan
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 2010
Place of death Karachi , Pakistan