A top of the podium finish in Russia at the Pavlyukov Youth Memorial led to a top of a podium position at the St Patrick’s Day celebrations for Galway’s Kieran Molloy and the Oughterard BC yesterday.

 

Ireland finished in joint 5th spot with Georgia in the medals table at the presitgous Memorial, known as the mini World Championships, in Anapa earlier this week.

 

Russia, who used 57 boxers, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ireland and Georgie, in that order, commanded the top positions.

 

Molloy, whose name is spelt  МАЛЛОЙ Киеран in the Russian alphabet, claimed gold and Michael Nevin took home bronze from Anapa. Team Ireland were in training camp and competition with Russia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Scotland and the world’s top boxing nations in Russia.

 

Please see below attachments for tournament stats.

 

Boxing2016 – Pavlyukov Youth Tournament 69KG Final Sheet

Boxing2016 – Pavlyukov Youth Tournament 64KG Final Sheet

Boxing2016 – Pavlyukov Youth Tournament Teams

Boxing2016 – Pavlyukov Youth Tournament Top8

 

 

Pavlyukov Youth Memorial Anapa, Russia March 11/15

March 12th

Preliminaries (last 16)

52kg Shane Flavin (Ireland) lost to Ruslan Sinicyn (Russia) 1-2

64kg Kieran Molloy (Ireland) beat Tyler Jolly (Scotland) 2-1

56kg Aaron McKenna (Ireland) beat William Stuart (Scotland) 2-1

56kg James McGivern (Ireland) beat Mamapali Nursuit (Kyrgyzstan) 3-0

60kg Paddy Donovan (Ireland) beat Hamraous Loures (France) 3-0

69kg Michael Nevin (Ireland) beat Aybek Akylkbekuulu (Kyrgyzstan) 3-0

75kg Kevin Kehoe (Ireland) beat Jack Gipp (Australia) 3-0

March 13th

Q/Finals

56kg Aaron McKenna (Ireland) lost to Denis Darilov (Russia) 1-2

56kg James McGivern (Ireland) lost to Sanatali Taltaev (Kazakhstan) 0-3

60kg Paddy Donovan (Ireland) lost to Artem Butaev (Russia) 1-2

64kg Kieran Molloy (Ireland) beat Dmitry Zubko (Russia) 3-0

69kg Michael Nevin (Ireland) beat Vladimir Tolozyam (Russia) 3-0

75kg Kevin Kehoe (Ireland) lost to Lenar Perez-Fransua (Cuba) 0-3

81kg Brian Kennedy (Ireland) lost to Sergey Murashey (Russia) 1-2

March 14th

S/finals

64kg Kieran Molloy (Ireland) beat Danis Gabdrafikov (Russia) 2-1

69kg Michael Nevin (Ireland) lost to Oleg Matveychuk (Kazakhstan) 0-3

March 15th

Final

64kg Kieran Molloy (Ireland) beat Damien Sifonte-Lescay (Cuba) 3-0

 

 

Irish squad

52kg Shane Flavin (Paulstown)

56kg Aaron McKenna (Old School)

56kg James McGivern (St Georges)

60kg Paddy Donovan (OLOL)

64kg Kieran Molloy (Oughterard) (Gold)

69kg Michael Nevin (Portlaoise) (Bronze)

75kg Kevin Keogh (Marble City)

81kg Brian Kennedy (St Marys D)

Team manager: Gerry O’Mahony

Coaches: Billy McClean & Fergal McKenna

Physio Orla O’Rourke

R&J: Larry Durand

 

 

 

  The Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA) wishes you a very Happy St Patrick’s Day.

 

 

 

Team Ireland begin their training camp with Lithuania at the National Stadium in Dublin today.

Current European Elite welter champion Eimantas Stanionis and current European Elite bronze medallist Evaldas Petrauskas are included in a strong Lithuanian panel.

The camp runs until March 24 at the home of Irish boxing.

Both nations are preparing for next month’s European Olympic qualifiers in Samsun, Turkey.

Thirty Rio 2016 places will be up for grabs for men and six for women at the Samsun qualifiers. Boxing begins on April 9.

The top three males in each of the ten weight classes in Samsun qualify for Rio 2016. The finalists automatically qualify and the losing semi-finalists box-off for the third Olympic place.

The top two (finalists) females in the three Olympic weights – flyweight, lightweight and middleweight – qualify.

However, the losing female semi-finalists will also box-off in Samsun to determine an accurate rankings in the event of a reallocation of quota places after May’s World Women’s  Championships in Kazakhstan, which is also an Olympic qualifier.

In the event of a female athlete earning an Olympic quota places in both Samsun and at the World Championships, the World Championships place will prevail and quota place will go to the next best placed boxer in Samsun.

Meantime, following the training camp with Lithuania, Team Ireland leave for a final training camp in Assisi, Italy on March 28.

Rio 2016 Olympians Paddy Barnes, Michael Conlan, Steven Donnelly and Joe Ward are included on the Irish team for the Assisi training camp.

The Irish squad for Samsun will be ratified in due course. Boxing begins on April 9 in Samsun.

Ireland and Lithuania squads training camp National Stadium Dublin

Ireland

1. Stephen McKenna

2. Paddy Barnes

3. Brendan Irvine

4. TJ Waite

5. Michael Conlan

6. Kurt Walker

7. David Oliver Joyce

8. Sean McComb

9. Tiernan Bradley

10. Dean Walsh

11. Wayne Kelly

12. Steven Donnelly

13. Adam Nolan

14. Martin Stokes

15. Michael O’Reilly

16. Conor Wallace

17. Joe Ward

18. JP Delaney

19. Darren O’Neill

20. Kirill Afanasev

21. Dean Gardiner

22. Thomas Carty

Lithuania

1. Evaldas Petrauskas,

2. Eimantas Stanionis,

3. Mantas Valavicius

4. Edgaras Skurdelis,

5. Todas Tamasauskas,

6. Tomas Piorun

7. Vladimiras Bajevas (coach)

8. Vidas Bruzas (coach)

9. Arunas Cialka (physio)

10. Valeriu Dadeo

 

 

Elite Schoolboys Squad Training has now finished until after the completion of the All-Ireland Championships.

The National Seniors will be training with the Lithuanian Seniors this coming weekend so the gym will be in use and then the All-Irelands will be commencing in the weeks after.

The Schoolboys Coaches would like to take this opportunity to wish all our boxers the best in the upcoming championships and thank them for their commitment thus far this year.