Tuesday proved one other difficult day for Staff Eire on the Girls’s World Championships in Good, Serbia.
Two Paris Olympians, Daina Moorehouse and Grainne Walsh, have been in motion and each suffered defeat.
Moorehouse, contesting at 50kg, had a bye, and commenced her event towards China’s eighth seeded Hu Meiyi. This was a extremely aggressive bout during which the Ednederry boxer was 3-2 down within the first, regardless of a low touchdown fee by her opponent, and received the final spherical. The 4-1 cut up determination went to Hu. Judges scores can be found right here.
There was additionally final 16 begin for Olympian, 66kg Grainne Walsh – she was between the ropes towards Uzbekistan’s Navbakhor Khamidova. Khamidova is a fellow Olympian, the reigning Asian champ who medaled on the 2023 Girls’s Worlds. This was a extremely bodily, excessive octane bout between two steely contenders. The Offally native was given a standing rely within the second spherical and some extent deduction for holding following a warning. The 4-0 determination went to the Uzbek boxer. Judges scores can be found right here
Of the Staff Eire boxers but to start their championships, 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 on Thursday.
239 boxers from 51 federations are contesting the event; in 2023, the final iteration of those championships, 324 boxers from 64 federations competed.
March fifteenth is a relaxation day on the event, and all finals will likely be boxed on Sunday, March sixteenth.
Day 4
Only one Staff Eire boxer in motion within the fourth day of the event.
2022 World Champion, 70kg Lisa O’Rourke begins on the Final 16 stage towards 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.
That’s Bout 6 of Ring B’s Night Session.
The programme for Ring B’s Night Session is out there right here
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Staff 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.
Staff Supervisor, Ciara Plunkett
Head Coach Zauri Antia
Coach Damian Kennedy
Coach Eoin Pluck
Physiotherapist Rob Tuomey.
