Rafa Maciel

The draw for the preliminary phase of the Europe Nations Cup:

The Bello brothers get their 2024 season underway later today when they compete in the qualifying for the Elite16 event in Dubai. They'll start their campaign against Rossi & Lupo. If they can come through that, they'll face the winner of Canet / Rotar v Pedro Solberg / Guto for a place in the main draw. Their 2023 season was hampered a fair bit by injury, and they didn't compete as on the main tour as they probably would have liked so it's great to see them starting their season so early and doing so in a top tier event. Whilst I am not expecting them to qualify for Paris through the ranking route, I do think they could be dark house for a surprise quota via the Continental Cup.

Just 2 athletes taking part in Baku Apparatus World Cup this week: Harry Hepworth - (Assuming that he didn't injure himself at the English champs at the weekend). Luke Whitehouse With regards to Giarnni Regini-Moran, he has now missed the 15 of the DSEs. I assume he will be back for the British Champs later this month and he is on the start list for the Challenge Cup in Antalya at the end of March, but he is fast running out of opportunities to impress the selectors.

First 2 rounds of the UEC BMX European Cup will take place this weekend. Pretty much a full slate for the men - Quillan Isodore, Kye Whyte and Ross Cullen are all down for the men's elite so only absentee will be Paddy Sharrock. Different story on the women's side unfortunately - no Shriever in the women's elite and no Emily Hutt in the Under-23. So, the only prospect of scoring points will be with Sienna Harvey in the women's junior event - but having done a bit more research, I'm not sure that the points from junior events will count for the Olympic qualification. I now think that the points have to be won in either the elite or under 23 division. If I am right about that, it means that Harvey's double win last weekend will count for nothing and we won't add any points this week either

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)

Men's 80Kg - Yojerlin Cesar def. Gebhard Ipinge (5-0)

Men's 57Kg - Alex Mukuka def. Tashi Yoezer

Women's 54Kg - Islem Ferchichi def. Emma Jokiaho Men's 80Kg - Nuryagdy Nuryagdyyev def. Nikita Nystedt (3-2)

Men's 80kg: Pylyp Akilov def. Taylor Bevan (5-0)

Men's 57kg: Jude Gallagher def. Hichem Maouche (5-0)

Men's 80kg: Mindaugas Gedminas def. Abraham Gabriel Buonarrigo

Men's 57Kg: Shukur Ovezov def. Francesco Iozia (4-1)

Men's 57Kg: Owain Harris def. Jose Luis De Lo Santos Feliz (4-1)

Evening Session underway Women's 54Kg: Sandra Drabik def. Anjani Teli (5-0)

and are the first nations to exit the qualifying tournament after their only fighters lost their first-round bouts. at risk of joining them fairly soon having already lost 3 of their 4 boxers.

Looks like I interpreted Boxing Canada's Instagram post incorrectly - Hovhannisyan actually won 5-0.

Session 3A & 3B results have been published on the event page but not on the athlete365 site. Result on the event page also provide more detail: day-2-session1.pdf (boxingbustoarsizio2024.com)

Day 2 morning session finished a couple of hours ago but they haven't posted the results. There were 29 bouts in the session and I was able to find about 1/3 of the results. Across the two days, and have been pretty good with quick posting results on Facebook or Insta. media is also pretty quick to post results.

Men's 80Kg: 3A Bout 61 - Jeven Beausejour def. Rafayel Hovhannisyan

Men's 80Kg: 3A Bout 77 - Kaan Aykutsun def. Charles Cox

Men's 57Kg: 3A Bout 64 - Nurbek Oralbay def. Cedrick Belony-Duliepre

Men's 57Kg: 3A Bout 54 - Makhmud Sabyrkhan def. Fikremariam Leta (5-0)

Men's 80Kg: 3A Bout 76 - Erik Richard Mendoza Escriba def. Roman Viney (5-0)

Men's 57Kg: 3B Bout 72 - Jaroslaw Iwanow def. Alexei Lagkazasvili

Men's 57Kg: 3A Bout 56 - Artur Bazeyan def. Seifeddine Letaief Men's 80Kg: 3A Bout 59 - Kelyn Cassidy def. Michail Tsamalidis