World Muaythai Council

General Chetta Thanajaro the Honoury President of the Olympic Committee of Thailand congratulated IFMA on their recognition by the IOC. The WMC which was established in 1995 under directive of the Royal Thai government to foster and promote all aspects of Muaythai has been a firm partner of IFMA since day 1. The marriage of WMC and IFMA is unbreakable as all key officials of IFMA hold executive positions in the WMC committee, by example the ...

AMTAT is the sole recognised Muaythai federation in Thailand recognised by the National Olympic Committee and the Sports Authority of Thailand to send the official national team abroad and organise the Muaythai World Championships in the Kingdom. Doctor Sakchye Tapsuwan, the President of AMTAT welcomed all delegates to the AMTAT quarters inside the Sports Authority of Thailand giving them a detailed briefing on the many upcoming events such as the SEA Games, the IFMA World Championships in Abu Dhabi, the ...

IFMA has joined up with anti-trafficking charity Mission 89 and GoodCorporation alongside other leading sports organisations such as FIFA, to commit to the fight against child trafficking in sport, by supporting the principles outlined in the Framework on Safeguarding Children from Trafficking in sport. The Framework draws on best practice models from international organisations such as UNICEF, FIFA and StreetFootballWorld. Practices and procedures that should be followed to manage the safe recruitment of child athletes from ...

Only 10 months to go until the opening of the World Games in Birmingham, USA. 30 international federations and sports are part of this important multi-sport games event and one of the major events within the Olympic family. This month's highlight The World Games is the pathway towards the Olympics as all of the five new sports that were added in the Tokyo Olympic Games have been included in a past edition of the World ...

Olympic Day celebrates sport, health and being together inviting everyone around the globe to be active and move together with purpose on June 23rd every year. Olympic Day commemorates the day the International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, where Pierre de Coubertin rallied the revival of the Ancient Olympic Games on 23 June 1894. Olympic Day symbolizes making the world a better place through sport. Celebrations of this day date back to 1947 and every year ...

Every year on the 17th of March, the muaythai world celebrates the birthday of the legend “Nai Knom Tom” in celebration of Wai Kru day in the ancient city of Ayuddhaya. This year’s celebration attracted more than 1400 muaythai enthusiasts from masters to students. The City of Ayuddhaya in partnership with the Tourism Authority of Thailand and the Ministry for Tourism and Sport organized the Nai Kanom Tom day festivities and parade. The festivities were hosted ...

IFMA’s presence at this year’s SportAccord Convention proved to be the most successful yet. This year’s edition of the SportAccord Convention was one of the most important to date, as it was held in London just one year before the 2012 London Olympic Games. That’s why the IFMA international office worked tirelessly to ensure that the bar was raised yet again this year, to create and design the biggest and most attractive booth since ...

Saturday the 27th May saw the latest serving of Thai Fight, this time in the beautiful city of Turin, Italy. The event was held to commemorate 149 years of Thai-Italian relations and also to promote tourism in the region. To celebrate this momentous occasions the superstar Thai team consisting of WMC legends such as Saenchai, Saiyok and Sudsakorn took on the local Italian team putting on an epic performance which was telecast live on Domestic ...

October the 9th is a date for the muaythai calendar as Nina Scheucher from K.S.F. Gym Leoben (Austria) and Raffaella Di Biasi from Profighting Lampertheim (Germany) will compete for the WMC European title in Leoben, Austria. The title will be contested during the Austrian National Championships which will be the first IFMA/WMC Austria event to be held since IFMA was fully recognised by the IOC. Athletes from seven provinces are expected to take part in the championships ...