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สหพันธ์มวยไทยนานาชาติ · saphan muay thai nanachat
Got the sport into the Olympic movement by taking the country out of its name.
What it is
The International Federation of Muaythai Associations, founded 1993, the amateur governing body, with 128 member countries.
The long version
In 2006 the sport was admitted to SportAccord, whose rules say no sport may carry a country's name. So IFMA amended its constitution and the sport became Muaythai, one word, for Olympic purposes.
The rest followed: the World Games in 2017, full IOC recognition on 20 July 2021, and a demonstration slot at Paris in 2024.
Inference — the price of admission was the adjective. A sport whose entire claim is that it is Thai had to stop saying so in its own name to be let in.
Connected to
- Somrak Khamsing The medal that came twenty-five years earlier.
- The World Muaythai Council The professional body.
Named here by
- Somrak Khamsing The body that got the recognition.
- The World Muaythai Council The amateur side.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there