Staff Eire’s Lisa O’Rourke celebrated her twentieth birthday in type, with a classy and decisive win on the Girls’s World Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Olympic BC, Galway, boxer contested towards Maria Hernandez Moronta in her second bout of the event. The judges scores for the boxer in blue: 27:30, 27:30, 28:29, 27:30 and 28:29.
The reigning European U22 70kg champion will face Armenia’s Ani Hovsepyan within the Quarter Finals on Monday, within the afternoon session. The Armenian fighter was a silver medalist within the 2019 European U22s, the place she competed at 64kg.
One Irish boxer competes on Saturday the place, for the second day, competitors is confined to a night session, solely.
Tokyo Olympian, 57kg Michaela Walsh meets Ukraine’s Valeriia Yeroshenko in Ring A’s bout 6.
Prize cash is up for seize for podium finishes at this 12 months’s event:
| Medal | Prize Cash |
| Gold | USD 100,000 |
| Silver | USD 50,000 |
| Bronze | USD 25,000 |
| Bronze | USD 25,000 |
In an effort to be entitled to obtain the Prize Cash, the IBA says the” Boxer should win not less than one bout on the Competitors and attain place from 1st to third (gold to bronze medal)”.
Staff Eire Squad
48kg Shannon Sweeney, St.Anne’ BCs, Mayo
50kg Caitlin Fryers, Immaculata BC, Belfast
52kg Carly McNaul, Ormeau Highway BC, Belfast
54kg Niamh Fay, Phoenix of Ballyboughal, Dublin
57kg: Michaela Walsh: Emerald BC, Belfast
63kg Amy Broadhurst: St.Bronagh’s ABC, Rostrevor
66kg Kaci Rock, Enniskerry BC, Wicklow
70kg Lisa O’Rourke, Olympic BC, Galway
75kg Aoife O’Rourke: Olympic BC, Galway
Coaches:
Zauri Antia
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John Conlan
Eoin Pluck
Noel Burke
Competitors Venue:
Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul, Turkey
Competitors Dates:
Might 6th to 21st.
