Steven Donnelly in action.
Please see below attachments for draw sheets at Rio Olympics.
David Oliver Joyce and Steven Donnelly get proceedings underway for Irish boxing on Sunday. Joe Ward got the No.4 seed in the light-heavyweight class, while Uzbekistan’s Eshod Rasulov, who Ward has beaten twice,is the No. 3 seed….
London 2012 lightweight Katie Taylor received a bye into the quarter-finals and is one win away from claiming a second Olympics medal, while World Elite champion Michael Conlan got a bye into the last 16.
Boxing2016 – Rio 2016 Olympic Games Entry Men’s 69KG Draw Sheets
Boxing2016 – Rio 2016 Olympic Games Entry Men’s 60KG Draw Sheets
Boxing2016 – Rio 2016 Olympic Games Entry Men’s 52KG Draw Sheets
Boxing2016 – Rio 2016 Olympic Games Entry Men’s 49KG Draw Sheets
Irish Draw Rio Olympics
August 7th (last 32)
60kg David Oliver Joyce (Ireland) v Andrique Allisop (Seychelles)
69kg Stephen Donnelly (Ireland) v Zahir Kedache (Algeria)
August 8th (last 16)
49kg Paddy Barnes (Ireland) v Artur Havhannisyan (Armenia) or Samuel Carmona (Spain)
August 10th (last 16)
81kg Joe Ward (Ireland) v Serge Michel (Germany) or Andrea Mina (Ecuador)
August 12th (last 16)
75kg Michael O’Reilly (Ireland) v Uziel Rodriquez (Mexico) or Waheed Karawi (Iraq)
August 13th (last 32)
52kg Brendan Irvine (Ireland) v Shakhobidin Zoirov (Uzbekistan)
August 14th (last 16)
56kg Michael Conlan (Ireland) v Aram Avagyan (Armenia) or Arashi Mariska (Japan)
August 15th (Q/Finals)
60kg Katie Taylor (Ireland) v Mira Potkonen (Finland) or Adriana Araujo (Brazil)
Irish squad
Women
60kg (Lightweight) – Katie Taylor (Bray)
Men
49kg (Light-flyweight) – Paddy Barnes (Holy Family)
52kg (Flyweight) – Brendan Irvine (St Paul’s)
56kg (Bantamweight) – Michael Conlan (Clonard)
60kg (Lightweight) – David Oliver Joyce (St Michael’s Athy & AIBA Pro Boxing)
69kg (Welterweight) – Steven Donnelly (All Saints)
75kg (Middleweight) – Michael O’Reilly (Portlaoise)
81kg (Light-heavyweight) – Joe Ward (Moate & AIBA Pro Boxing)
Team Manager: Joe Hennigan
Coaches: Zaur Antia, Eddie Bolger, John Conlan
Physio: Julianne Ryan
Sport Psychologist: Gerry Hussey