The main purpose of opening these bids at such an early stage is to give sufficient lead time to federations and bidding cities to prepare the bid files and the necessary guarantees including the budget.

The host cities for these events will be decided at the 2009 AIBA Executive Committee Meeting to be held in February in Milan, Italy.

All necessary information on fact sheets a bidding timetable and all requirements to complete the bid files are in the bid section on this website.

For those interested in hosting any of these events please fill in attached Letter of Intent and send it to AIBA HQs office by August 31, 2008.