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February 20–25: 2024 African Muay Thai Championships in Cairo [159] September 24–29: 2024 Pan American Muay Thai Championships in Ottawa [160] November 7–14: 2024 European Muay Thai Championships in Pristina
This is a list of the Muay Thai practitioners [a] who participated at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama, United States from 15 to 17 July 2022. 89 Muay Thai practitioners competed in the Games across 12 events.
Muay Thai (Thai: มวยไทย, RTGS: muai thai, pronounced [mūaj tʰāj] ⓘ), sometimes referred to as Thai boxing, the Art of Eight Limbs [3] or the Science of Eight Limbs, [4] is a Thai martial art and full-contact combat sport that uses stand-up striking, sweeps, and various clinching techniques. [5]
The IFMA World Muaythai Championships are annual Muay Thai competitions organised by the International Federation of Muaythai Associations (IFMA). Alongside the World Games , it is the highest level of world competition for Muay Thai.
The muaythai competition is organized as a set of tournaments, one for each weight class.The number of weight classes has never changed in the two editions (currently 8 for men and 3 for women), and the definition of each class has changed several times, as shown in the following table.
The International Federation of Muaythai Associations, or IFMA, called the International Federation of Muaythai Amateur until 27 July 2019, is a sport governing body of amateur and professional Muay Thai and Muay boran consisting of 140 member countries worldwide with 5 continental federations after unification of International Federation of Muaythai Amateur and World Muaythai Council.
Surachai Sirisute (Thai: สุรชัย ศิริสูตร์, born October 16, 1948), commonly known as Chai Sirisute or Ajarn Chai, is a Thai martial arts Instructor who is the founder and president of the Thai Boxing Association of the US and responsible for introducing Muay Thai to the United States.
This is a list of WBC Muaythai female world champions, showing every female world champion certificated by the World Boxing Council Muaythai (WBC Muaythai).The WBC, which is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing, started certifying their own Muay Thai world champions in 19 different weight classes in 2005.