Zamkovoi, 34, was one of three candidates elected by accredited athletes at the EUBC Championships in Yerevan, Armenia, from which Russian and Belarusian boxers are banned over the war in Ukraine.

Zamkovoi received six votes, with Lasha Guruli of Georgia earning 22 votes and Italy’s Dmytro Tonishev, topping the vote with 24, becoming director of the EUBC Board.

On the second day of competition, Italy’s Alfred Commey made his way into the quarter-finals of the light-heavyweight (75-80kg) division after a heated bout against Britain’s Taylor Bevan.

Bevan’s compatriots Garan Croft and Joe Tyers won their bouts to earn places in the last 16 of, respectively, the light-middleweight (67-71kg) and lightweight divisions - but both now face challenging bouts to progress.

Croft took on Switzerland’s Adam Messibah in a fiercely contested bout, earning the split decision (3:2) from the judges and he will now face number two seed Alban Baqiri of Albania.

"It was my first bout as a senior at a major so that was a bit nerve-wracking but that’s all out the way now and I can look ahead," Croft told GB Boxing.

Tyers, from Billingham, earned a convincing unanimous verdict against Ireland’s Brandon McCarthy and now faces the host nation’s number one seed, Hovhannes Bachkov, a Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist.

Five boxers from Britain are in action tomorrow.

Up first is England flyweight Kiaran MacDonald who takes on Scotland’s Lennon Mulligan.

Then Welsh flyweight Jake Dodd will seek a quarter-final place at the expense of Georgia’s Nodari Darbaidze.

Scotland’s Sam Hickey and England’s Lewis Richardson are then in middleweight action against Robert Cservenka of Hungary and Ukraine’s Ivan Papakin respectively.

Featherweight Niall Farrell will box against Sweden’s Nebil Ibrahim.