WORLD YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018

 

 

The male light-flyweights, flyweights, bantamweights and welterweights are the first in action at the AIBA World Men’s and Women’s Youth Championships in Hungary.

Boxing at tournament, the inaugural joint male and female competition at this level, begins on Tuesday, August 21 in Budapest.

Up to 500 athletes will compete in the Hungarian capital.

Click here for the World Youth website.

Ireland has named an 11-strong squad for Budapest.

The panel are in training camp at the High-Performance Centre in Abbotstown and leave for Hungary the weekend after next.

Irish amateur boxing is proudly sponsored by Liffey Crane.

 

AIBA WORLD MEN’S AND WOMEN’S YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS

Irish squad

 

Male

 

49kg Jude Gallagher (Two Castles)

52kg Dean Clancy (Ballinacarrow)

56kg Brandon McCarthy (St Michael’s Athy)

60kg Alex Higgins (Fr Horgans)

64kg Callum Walsh (Riverstown)

69kg Edward Donovan (OLOL)

 

Female

 

48kg Daina Moorhouse (Enniskerry)

51kg Caitlin Fryers (Immaculata)

54kg Mary Geraghty (Baldoyle)

57kg Dearbhla Rooney (Sean McDermot)

75kg Lauren Kelly (St Brigid’s Edenderry)

 

Team manager: Stephen Connolly and Tara Mari Robins

Head coach: Billy McClean

Coaches: Michael Carruth, Michael Mongan, Anita Just

Physio: David Cooke