The attracts for the 2025 IBA Girls’s World Championships have taken place in Nis, Serbia, that means the Irish staff have learnt their first spherical destiny.
48kg Carleigh Irving, the 2024 European U23 silver medalist, opens her match at Final 32 stage, in opposition to Venezuela’s Tayonis Cendeno Rojas, who has just lately dropped down from 50kg. Paris Olympian, 50kg Daina Moorehouse has a bye, and begins her match within the Final 16, in opposition to China’s eighth seeded Hu M.
54kg Paris Olympian, Jenny Lehane will get underway within the final 32, in opposition to Thailand’s Natnicha Chongprongklang, the 2024 Asian champion on the weight. Double Olympian, Michaela Walsh faces dwelling opposition in her opening bout within the final 32; she contests in opposition to Andjela Brankovic.
There’s a final 16 begin for Olympian, 66kg Grainne Walsh – the Offally native is between the ropes in opposition to Uzbekistan’s Navbakhor Khamidova. Khamidova is a fellow Olympian, the reigning Asian champ and medaled on the 2023 Girls’s Worlds.
2022 World Champion, 70kg Lisa O’Rourke begins on the Final 16 stage in opposition to Azerbaijan’s Aynur Rzayeva – 2016 European Girls’s champ at 81+kg; the 2022 European silver medalist, and a 2023 Girls’s World bronze medalist.
The Castlerea native’s sister, double Olympian 75kg Aoife O’Rourke, is the highest seed in her weight. As such, she has a bye to the quarter-finals. She’ll meet the winner of the competition between Bulgaria and Uzbekhistan
Preparations for this staff have included post-Elites squad coaching in December, January and February, a house sparring camp with France, and an 11 day sparring camp with China in Beijing.
Boxing begins on the ninth. March fifteenth is a relaxation day on the match, and all finals can be boxed on Sunday, March sixteenth.
Watch
Day One, Ring A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10UAyIV2SWY
Day One, Ring B https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB8wERlMxC0
Pictures, per day and per session, are anticipated to be accessible right here
Group Eire
48kg Carleigh Irving, Oakleaf Boxing Membership, Derry
50kg Daina Moorehouse, Enniskerry Boxing Membership, Wicklow
54kg Jenny Lehane, DCU Athletic Boxing Membership, Dublin
57kg Michaela Walsh, Holy Household GG, Belfast
66kg Grainne Walsh, St. Mary’s BC Tallaght, Dublin
70kg Lisa O’Rourke, Castlerea BC, Roscommon
75kg Aoife O’Rourke, Castlerea BC, Roscommon
81+kg Judy Bobbett, Liberty Boxing Membership, Wicklow.
Group Supervisor, Ciara Plunkett
Head Coach Zauri Antia
Coach Damian Kennedy
Coach Eoin Pluck
Physiotherapist Rob Tuomey
