LEINSTER DEVELOPMENT SQUAD HEAD TO LITHUANIA

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The Leinster Development Squad (LDS) are on the move again for their 21st trip away, when they travel to Pasvalys in Lithuania for a multi-nations tournament.

The team leaves Wednesday and returns next Sunday, 22nd April.

This tournament is now an annual event for the LDS and everyone is looking forward to it and expecting to bring home some medals.

Last year, the six-strong LDS squad claimed an impressive haul of two gold, three silver and one bronze.

This year, the LDS have five boxers taking part – Sean Ruth (Marble City), Darragh Gilroy (Ballymore/Hollywood), Michael McDonagh (Navan), Lee Mackin (Dealgan) and David McDonagh (Navan),

The coach/team manager is Vicktor Kuzmenko (Spartacus) and coach Richie Ruth (Marble City).

“All members of the Leinster Development Squad wish our team every success and a safe journey,” said Mick Darby.

 

IRELAND TO MEET ENGLAND IN WARRINGTON

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Mary Kate Nevin (red) in action

 

Ireland is sending a Youth & Junior Team to Warrington from the 17th to the 20th April to compete in two Internationals with England.

 

Please see below attachment for teams.

 

England V Ireland 2017 Team-1
Following the recent Girls Youth & Junior Competition at the National Stadium over forty girls were invited to join the IABA Development Programme at the High-Performance Unit. One of the first actions taken by IABA President, Pat Ryan on taking up office was to bring Women’s Boxing in under the High-Performance Unit. This has proven to be a very positive move towards bringing our young girl boxers up to the standard of their counterparts throughout Europe. This was evidenced in the outstanding performance of Team Ireland in the Queens Cup in Germany last year. Fifteen boxers took home fifteen medals, Mary Kate Nevin won Best Boxer and Ireland was named Best Team.

Head Coach, Jimmy Payne and his team are building on this success with many exciting new prospects added to the programme. The IABA Development Programme is part of a continuous assessment process to select a team to represent Ireland at the forthcoming EUBC European Women’s Youth & Junior Championships 2017.

Payne said, “The potential in Girls Youth and Junior boxing in Ireland is growing and we are looking forward to seeing the girls performance in England. England is currently the benchmark in Europe so this will be a good test for the team. This competition is all about performance. This is part of our process to get the girls ready for European and World Championships later this year which are qualifiers for the Youth Olympic Games in Argentina 2018.”

TICKET PRICES – BOY 1,2 & 3 CHAMPIONSHIPS

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Ticket prices, payable at the door, for the National Boy 1,2 & 3 Championships are €10 for adults and €5 for children (U/14) per day up until the finals.

Finals tickets: €15 for adults and €5 for children (U/14).

The tournament begins next Tuesday and runs straight through until the finals on Friday, April 21st and Saturday, April 22nd.

Please click here for all draws.

ELITE INTERNATIONAL ROUND ROBIN TEAMS

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Evgeny Tishchenko, Russia,Olympic heavyweight champion

 

Please scroll down for teams for the upcoming Round Robin tournament between Ireland, France, Germany, Italy and Russia at the National Stadium.

Tournament dates: April 28th,29th and 30th.

Germany, under former Irish coach Eddie Bolger, and France, along with Russia, have named formidable sides for the visit to Dublin.

The Italian team will be confirmed shortly.

The Irish squad will be drawn from our No. 1 and No. 2 athletes. Rio Olympians Joe Ward and Brendan Irvine and European medallist Dean Walsh and Sean McComb will be in the mix along with all the current National Elite champions.

London 2012 Olympian Darren O’Neill will meet Russia’s current Olympic heavyweight champion Evgeny Tishchenko. Both men have fought twice in the past and share one victory each.

Patrick Mongan and George Bates are in line to face Vladimir Nikitin, who has moved up from bantam to light, and France’s Rio  2016 silver medallist Sofiane Oumiha.

“All the teams coming here are the number one teams,” said Irish head coach Zaur Antia. “It will be an excellent competition with world class boxers.” Europe is building toward June’s European Elite Men’s Championships in the Kharkiv, Ukraine.

The top eight boxers in each of the weight classes in the Ukraine qualify for the World Elite Championships in Hamburg, Germany in August/September.

Germany will receive ten places at the World Championships as the host nation and don’t have to go through the Ukraine, which is the sole qualifier for Hamburg 2017.

France

49kg –
52kg –
56kg Jordan Rodriguez
60kg Sofiane Oumiha
64kg Wahid Hambu
69kg –
75kg Bengoro Bamba
81kg Leonardo Mamadou Diabira
91kg Paul Omba
91kg+ Dini Aboudou

Coach: Luis Marian Gonzalez Cosme
Coach: Mehdi Nichane

Germany

49kg Salah Ibrahim
52kg –
56kg Dominik Hirsch
60kg Artur Bril
60kg Robert Harutyunyan
64kg Artem Harutyunyan
69kg Christian Dezel
75kg Artur Beck
75kg Brian Hellwig
81kg Ibragim Bazuev
91kg Nikola Weizmann
91kg+ –

Team manager: Beatrice Bastian
Coach: Eddie Bolger
Coach: Michael Timm
Coach: Gregory TolkoversPhysio: Tim Peschwitz
R&J: Stephan Hipp

Russia

49kg Vasili Egorov
52kg Vadim Kudraikov
60kg Vladimir Nikitin
60kg Gabil Mamedov
64kg Vitaly Dunaysev
69kg Petr Khamuko
81kg –
91kg Evgeny Tishchenko
49kg Tamir Galanov
52kg Viacheslav Tashkarakov
56kg Nazir Balaev
60kg –
64kg Aital Diakonov
64kg Dmitri Polianski
69kg Artem Zaitsev
75kg Dmitri Nesterov
81kg Georgii Kushiatashvili
91kg Ilia Kvasnikov
91+kg Artem Suslenkov

Head coach: Oleg Menshikov

Coach: Rustam Umarov
Coach: Ruslan Dotdaev
Coach: Artur Pakhomov
Coach: Sergei Gonbdurkaev
Doctor Dmitri Sergiun