Lausanne: Members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday voted unanimously to suspend recognition of amateur boxing's troubled governing body the AIBA as an Olympic governing body ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Games.

The IOC stripped the AIBA of the right to run the event at next year's Games in May after an investigation into alleged serious mismanagement at boxing's crisis-ridden ruling authority. The IOC members rubber-stamped that decision at a meeting in Lausanne. The IOC will now organise boxing in AIBA's place, the federation becoming the first to have been stripped of its right to organise its own sport at an Olympics. Qualification, split between four continents -- Africa (Dakar), Europe (London), Asia/Oceania (China) and Americas (Buenos Aires) -- will be held between January and the end of March, with a final global qualifier to be held in May in Tokyo.