![\"File](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/File-image-of-Santiago-Nieva--right----Raj-K-Raj-H_1761676159085.jpg\" "\\"File")
File image of Santiago Nieva (right). (Raj K Raj\/HT PHOTO) <\/p>\nUpdated on: Oct 29, 2025 12:02 am IST <\/p>\n
The former HPD is in contention for a senior coaching role with the senior women\u2019s team, it is learned <\/p>\n
New Delhi: Santiago Nieva, who served as the High Performance Director (HPD) with Boxing Federation of India (BFI) for five years, is likely to return to India in a senior coaching role with the women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n
File image of Santiago Nieva (right). (Raj K Raj\/HT PHOTO) <\/p>\n
The Swede is currently serving as the head coach of Boxing Australia\u2019s (BA) High Performance unit and is yet to resign, it has been learned. While the BFI is keen on getting Nieva back, his contract is being worked out by SAI. Pending ministry\u2019s go-ahead, Nieva will join the women\u2019s team as high-performance coach.<\/p>\n
The post of HPD, however, is vacant since Irishman Bernard Dunne resigned last March following team\u2019s disastrous show at the Olympic qualifiers in Italy where Indian boxers failed to win a single Olympics quota. The BFI is still following the assessment and evaluation system \u2014 introduced by Dunne \u2014 at the national camp.<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s team, currently coached by Dronacharya awardee D Chandralal, won four medals at this year\u2019s World Championships, including two gold medals and will look to add more laurels at next month\u2019s World Cup Final in Greater Noida. Earlier this year, the women excelled at the second stage of the World Boxing Cup held in Astana, grabbing three gold, one silver and two bronze medals.<\/p>\n
Nieva\u2019s earlier stint with the Indian national team began in 2017 and was highlighted by twin medals at the 2019 men\u2019s World Championships where Amit Panghal clinched a silver and Manish Kaushik won a bronze.<\/p>\n
Two years on, India sent their largest-ever boxing contingent to Tokyo Olympics after nine pugilists qualified for the Games with Lovlina Borgohain winning a bronze medal in the women\u2019s 69kg event.<\/p>\n
According to sources, Nieva is awaiting a final confirmation from sports ministry before putting in his papers. As of now, there are no foreign coaches with the senior teams with BFI preferring Indian coaches following Russian Dmitry Dmitruk\u2019s exit after Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n
See Less <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated on: Oct 29, 2025 12:02 am IST The former HPD is in contention for a senior coaching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[38902,2560,27669,98232,27720,98231,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-231536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-bfi","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-federation-of-india","tag-high-performance-coach","tag-sai","tag-santiago-nieva","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761549548_53_story_trending@2x.png\" "\\"\\"\/")
Stay updated with the latest sports news<\/a>, including latest headlines and updates from the Olympics 2024<\/a>, where Indian athletes will compete for glory in Paris. Catch all the action from tennis<\/a> Grand Slam tournaments, follow your favourite football<\/a> teams and players with the latest match results, and get the latest on international hockey tournaments and series. Stay updated with the latest sports news<\/a>, including latest headlines and updates from the Olympics 2024<\/a>, where Indian athletes will compete for glory in Paris. Catch all the action from tennis<\/a> Grand Slam tournaments, follow your favourite football<\/a> teams and players with the latest match results, and get the latest on international hockey tournaments and series. <\/p>\n