Team GB at IOC 1st World Qualification Boxing Tournament

[Rafa Maciel 1,594]

After a bit of a disappointing set of results at European Games, hopefully we can add a few quotas this week.

 

Women's 50Kg: Savannah Stubley has a bye in round 1 and will fight either  Nicole Durikova or  Rinka Kinoshita in the round of 32.

 

Women's 57Kg: Elise Glynn has a bye in round 1 and will fight  Jekaterina Sorokina in round of 32. 

 

Women's 60Kg: Shona Whitwell has a bye in round 1 and will fight  Donjeta Sadiku in round of 32. 

 

Women's 75Kg: Chantelle Reid will fight  Eyed Angel George in round 1. 

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Men's 51Kg: Kiaran Macdonald will fight  Istvan Szaka in round 1

 

Men's 57Kg: Owain Harris-Allan will fight  Jose Luis De Lo Santos Feliz in round 1

 

Men's 63.5Kg: Patris Mughalzai is up against  Samuel Contreras in round 1

 

Men's 71Kg: Lewis Richardson fights  Nishant Dev in round 1

 

Men's 80Kg: Taylor Bevan fights  Pylyp Akilov in round 1

 

Men's 92Kg: Patrick Brown has a bye in round 1 and will fight  Ilioski Boban in round of 32.

 

Edited March 3 by Rafa Maciel

[Rafa Maciel 1,594]

Men's 51Kg: Kiaran Macdonald takes out  Istvan Szaka 3-2 in round 1. 

 

He will be up against  Al Jaleel Jokhu in the round of 32. Jokhu competed in the BoxAm tournament in La Nucia last month and lost in the first round (RSC Round 1) against  Istvan Szaka so Macdonald should be the favourite to get through to last 16. 

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No Brits in action tomorrow morning but 2 will be competing in the evening session:

 

Men's 57Kg: Owain Harris-Allan v  Jose Luis De Lo Santos Feliz

 

Men's 80Kg: Taylor Bevan v  Pylyp Akilov

 

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Men's 57Kg: Owain Harris-Allan came through with a 4-1 win against  Jose Luis De Lo Santos Feliz. He'll next fight  Alex Mukuka in what should be a winnable bout. 

 

Men's 80Kg: It was a disappointing end to the night with Taylor Bevan going down to 5-0 defeat at the hands of  Pylyp Akilov. 

 

Three  fighters take to the ring tomorrow:

Morning Session:

Women's 60Kg - Shona Whitwell v  Donjeta Sadiku

 

Afternoon Session:

No Brits

 

Evening Session:

Men's 63.5Kg - Patris Mughalzai v  Samuel Contreras

Men's 71Kg - Lewis Richardson v  Dev Nishant (India having a pretty poor tournament so far - hopefully Richardson can continue that trend) 

[Olympicsnell 300]

how many do you think gb will qualify/ how many do you think they will be happy with on top of the 3 allready in? i'd like to see 2...maybe 3 get through this tournament?

[Rafa Maciel 1,594]

25 minutes ago, Olympicsnell said:

how many do you think gb will qualify/ how many do you think they will be happy with on top of the 3 allready in? i'd like to see 2...maybe 3 get through this tournament?

I think we are probably heading for the smallest GB boxing team since Beijing. For the last 3 games, GB have had at least 10 boxers qualify - at the moment I can't see us getting into double figures for Paris. In Beijing, we had 7 and we might even struggle to match that this time. Having said that, probably worth bearing in mind that the number of places available in boxing has dropped for Paris - there's about 40-50 fewer quotas available. 

 

Perhaps more worrying is the lack of an obvious medal favourite in the squad - if they don't come back with any medals from Paris then GB Boxing will likely see their funding cut significantly. 

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 poor run of form continues on day 3 - Shona Whitwell loses to  Donjeta Sadiku by unanimous decision. 

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13 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said:

I think we are probably heading for the smallest GB boxing team since Beijing. For the last 3 games, GB have had at least 10 boxers qualify - at the moment I can't see us getting into double figures for Paris. In Beijing, we had 7 and we might even struggle to match that this time. Having said that, probably worth bearing in mind that the number of places available in boxing has dropped for Paris - there's about 40-50 fewer quotas available. 

 

Perhaps more worrying is the lack of an obvious medal favourite in the squad - if they don't come back with any medals from Paris then GB Boxing will likely see their funding cut significantly. 

Probably removed entirely. Even the successful sports are preparing for cuts particularly if the narrative of the entire games is a big decrease in medals. 
 

There needs to be golds in the primetime sports of swimming and Athletics and I’m not sure either will produce a gold.

Edited March 5 by Orangehair43

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's pretty mediocre performance in the tournament continues in the evening session

 

Men's 63.5Kg - Patris Mughalzai def.  Samuel Contreras on a split decision (4-1) and will be up  or  opponent in the round of 32. 

Men's 71Kg -  Dev Nishant def. Lewis Richardson on a split decision (3-1). This was always going to be a tough bout with a World Champs bronze medalist but it is still a disappointing end to the day.