Scotland's Olympic team in Malta

The Scottish Olympic boxing team led a short training camp in Malta before the Commonwealth Championships at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium, New Delhi, India, this week.

Around 120 boxers from 13 nations will take part in the championships.

The Scotland team went through the final stages of preparation at the St Julian's Boxing Club under the direction of team manager Colin MacEwan and coaches Mike Keane and Steve Newnes.

The Scottish boxers in the team were Ian Butcher 49kg, Michael Roberts 56kg, Josh Taylor 60 kg, Aston Brown 60kg, Callum Johnstone 81 kg and Ross Henderson 90kg.

Boxers from Scotland have shown significant improvement these past few years with positive results at high level competition including the Boxing Grand Prix in the Czech Republic.

Meanwhile, Maltese boxers Haithem Laamous and Keith Azzopardi have just completed another week of training in Norwich, England, as guests of Glen Saffer, of the Kingfisher Boxing Club.

Laamous and Azzopardi practised three times daily and focused mainly on improving their skills and techniques also thanks to the excellent sparing with the likes of pro boxers Liam Walsh, Rayan Walsh, Sam Sexton and other top ranking boxers.

The training programme was held on the initiative of the Malta Boxing Federation with the assistance of UK-based Nino Spiteri and Julian Borg.