Louth lightweight Amy Broadhurst and Roscommon middleweight Aoife O’Rourke, pictured, box in the afternoon and evening sessions in the semi-finals of the European Elite Women’s Championships in Madrid on Friday.
Click here and here for the schedule.
Broadhurst meets Finland’s No. 1 seed and defending 60kg champion Mira Potkonen, a bronze medallist at Rio 2016, at approximately 2.30pm (Irish time) and O’Rourke faces Russia’s current Olympic Youth and World Youth champion Anastasia Shamonova at approximately 7pm (Irish time).
Both Irishwomen are guaranteed at least bronze at the 31-nation tournament.
Today is a rest day at the tournament.
The finals will be decided on Saturday.
The Irish squad are due to arrive home via Dublin Airport this Sunday morning at 10.40am.
(Flight 1B3792; Departure Madrid: 09.10. Arrival Dublin: 10.40 (Terminal 1).
European Women’s Elite Championships Madrid, Spain August 22/31
August 30
S/Finals
60kg Amy Broadhurst (Ireland) v Mira Potkonen (Finland)
60kg Maiva Homadouche (France) v Sema Caliskan (Turkey)
75kg Aoife O’Rourke (Ireland) v Anastasia Shamonova (Russia)
75kg Love Holgersson (Sweden) v Elziebta Wojcik (Poland)
Results
August 28
Q/Finals
60kg Amy Broadhurst (Ireland) beat Anastasia Belokova (Russia) 5-0
69kg Christina Desmond (Ireland) lost to Darima Sandakova (Russia) 1-4
August 27
Last 16
69kg Christina Desmond (Ireland) beat Leonie Anna Van Leeuwen (Netherlands) 5-0
August 26
Last 16
51kg Ceire Smith (Ireland) lost to Naz Buse Cakiroglu (Turkey) 0-5
60kg Amy Broadhurst (Ireland) beat Dominika Ciklova (Czech Republic) 5-0
Q/Final
75kg Aoife O’Rourke (Ireland) beat Tetiana Petrovich (Ukraine) 5-0
August 25
Last 32
51kg Ceire Smith (Ireland) beat Krisztina Beri (Hungary) RSC2
Irish squad
51kg: Ceire Smith (Cavan/Virginia)
60kg: Amy Broadhurst (Dealgan) (Bronze, at least)
69kg: Christina Desmond (Fr Horgan’s)
75kg: Aoife O’Rourke (Castlerea) (Bronze, at least)
Team manager: JP Kinsella
Coaches: Zaur Antia and Damian Kennedy
Physio; David Cooke