Australia's first boxing twins are among ten pugilists confirmed by the Australian Commonwealth Games Association to represent the nation at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi this October.

Nineteen-year-old twin brothers Andrew and Jason Moloney (both Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holders) have come a long way, since first taking up the sport five years ago to improve their fitness while playing football in the Victorian Eastern Football League.

Andrew, who will compete in the light flyweight 46-49kg category, is one minute younger than Jason who will bout in the 49-52kg flyweight class.

A bunch of fresh faces, including five teenagers, will make their debut in Delhi, with 2006 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Luke Jackson (lightweight 56-60kg) the most experienced member of the Australian contingent.

One of Australia's hottest young boxing prospects, Damien Hooper, will compete in the middleweight 69-75kg class. The 18-year-old won a silver medal at the 2010 AIBA World Youth Championships and will represent Australia at next month's inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.

Following in the footsteps of his proud father and 1983 Australian boxing champion Craig Woods, Tasmanian Luke Woods will make his Commonwealth Games debut in the light welterweight 60-64kg class after only taking up the sport four years ago.

It won't be hard to miss Queenslander Dane Mulivai, who will compete in the light heavyweight division. The 26-year-old proudly sports the word 'Samoa' tattooed across his chest to portray his Samoan heritage, and also has a tattoo of a kangaroo holding an Australian flag on his right shoulder.

The super heavyweight and veteran of the team at 29 years of age is Russian-born Alexey Mukhin who has successfully completed two university degrees and only started boxing for fun. His step-father, Roman Filimonov, was a renowned boxer in Europe.

Also named in the team is plumbing apprentice Ibrahim Balla (bantamweight 52-56kg), Western Australia's Giancarlo Squillace (heavyweight 81-91kg) and New South Wales's Cameron Hammond (welterweight 64-69 kg), who came through the Australian Sports Commission's National Talent Identification and Development program.

Australian Commonwealth Games Association CEO Perry Crosswhite said that although a fairly young and inexperienced team will enter the ring, they still had strong medal prospects.

'We hope that our boxers in Delhi will achieve similar success to that gained by our 2002 Manchester and 2006 Melbourne boxing squads,' Crosswhite said.

'This will be a challenge as we not only expect tough competition from the traditionally strong boxing nations such as England and Canada, but also increased strength in the lighter weight divisions from the local Indian boxers.'

Delhi 2010 will feature events in ten weight categories (men only), light flyweight 46-49kg, flyweight 52kg, bantamweight 56kg, lightweight 60kg, light welterweight 64kg, welterweight 69kg, middleweight 75kg, light heavyweight 81kg, heavyweight 91kg and super heavyweight over 91kg.

The Delhi 2010 boxing competition will be held from 5 to 13 October 2010 at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium.

2010 Australian Commonwealth Games boxing team