Ireland’s talented young boxers begin their quest to upgrade their guaranteed bronze medals to at least silver at the European Schoolboy Championships in Zagreb, Croatia today.

Cain Lewis, Francis Maughan, Patrick Collins, Jason Irwin, William Hayden and Jason Myers are between the ropes.

Today’s semi-finals will be decided over two sessions beginning at 1pm and 5pm (Irish times).

Boxing2016 – EUBC European Confederation Schoolboys Boxing Championships Day6 Schedule

All six Irish boxers weighed-in this morning and are eager to get proceedings underway, according to team manager Paddy Gallagher.

“The boys are all ready for action in what should be a very exciting day,” he said.

Irish boxing entered the tournament with a record of having medalled at every European Schoolboy Championships since the inaugural tournament in Rome in 2003.

The class of 2016 maintained that proud sequence this week with six medals secured. The colour of those medals will be decided over the next 24 hours.

Team Ireland are due to arrive home via Dublin Airport via Frankfurt at 11.05am on Monday morning (Terminal 1).

 

European Schoolboy Championships Zagreb, Croatia

July 24th
Preliminaries (last 32)
44.5Kg Eoghan Quinn (Ireland) beat Kros Ermas (Bosnia & Herzegovina) 3-0
46Kg Steve Cairns (Ireland) beat Severin Yordanov (Bulgaria) 3-0

July 25th
38.5KG Jerome Lonergan-Gartland (Ireland) beat Krasimer Dzhurov (Bulgaria) 2-1
44.5KG Eoghan Quinn (Ireland) beat Matteo Ferraro (Italy) 3-0
40KG Thomas Donovan (Ireland) lost to Ignas Liaudanskis (Lithuania) 1-2
46KG Steve Cairns (Ireland) lost to Maksim Demenenko (Russia) 0-3
50KG Shane O’Gorman (Ireland) lost to Nermin Ajetovic (Serbia) 0-3

July 26th – last 16
41.5KG Ger McDonagh (Ireland) lost to Mikail Harmanci (Denmark) 0-3
52KG Paddy Myers (Ireland) beat Shilov Aleksander (Russia) 3-0
54KG Francis Maughan (Ireland) beat Rakitin Ilya (Russia) 2-1
59KG Jason Irwin (Ireland) beat Gramos Berisha (Kosova) 3-0
62KG Matthew Tyndall (Ireland) lost to Kofan Maksym (Ukraine) 1-2
76+KG John Sweeney (Ireland) lost to Timur Avdoian (Russia) 0-3

July 27th Q/Finals
38.5KG Jerome Lonergan-Gartland (Ireland) lost to Kiril Kladovikov (Russia) 0-3
44.5KG Eoghan Quinn (Ireland) lost to Cameron Whyte (Scotland) 0-3
52KG Paddy Myers (Ireland) lost to Anton Georsiev (Bulgaria) 1-2
76KG Thomas Doherty (Ireland) lost Vasily Kaverin (Russia) 0-3
54KG Francis Maughan (Ireland) beat Olekski Dentsenkov (Ukraine) 2-1
65KG William Hayden (Ireland) beat Nazar Karaka (Belarus) TKO2

July 28th Q/Finals
48KG Cain Lewis (Ireland) beat Daniel Salerno (Italy) 2-1
43KG Jonathan Hughes (Ireland) lost to Maksym Havryliuk (Ukraine) 0-3
56KG Patrick Collins (Ireland) beat Giuseppe Recuderoi (Italy) 3-0
59KG Jason Irwin (Ireland) beat Ageev Nikitin (Russia) 3-0
68KG Jason Myers (Ireland) beat Valentin Laurentiu (Romania) 3-0
72KG Jamie Edwards (Ireland) lost to Andrei Voevodin (Russia) 0-3

July 30th S/Finals
48KG Cain Lewis (Ireland) v Vlasiuk Maksym (Ukraine)
54KG Francis Maughan (Ireland) v Matej Hlaca (Croatia)
56KG Patrick Collins (Ireland) v Alexandru Badea (Romania)
59KG Jason Irwin (Ireland) v Giacomo Micheli (Italy)
65KG William Hayden (Ireland) v Viktor Kashin (Russia)
68KG Jason Myers (Ireland) v Ryan Dickens (England)

Irish squad

38.5KG Jerome Lonergan Gartland (Clonmel)
40KG Thomas Donovan (Olympic)
41.5KG Gerard McDonagh (Glen) cpt
43KG Jonathon Hughes (Jobstown)
44.5KG Eoghan Quinn (St.Johns Derry)
46KG Steven Cairns (Loughmahon)
48KG Cian Lewis (Ballymun) (Bronze, at least)
50KG Shane O’Gorman (St.Malachys)
52KG Paddy Myers (Sligo City)
54KG Francis Maughan (St.Marys Dublin) (Bronze, at least)
56KG Patrick Collins (Baldoyle) (Bronze, at least)
59KG Jason Irwin (Castleblaney) (Bronze, at least)
62KG Matthew Tyndall (Monkstown Dublin)
65KG William Hayden (Crumlin) (Bronze, at least)
68KG Jason Myers (Titans) (Bronze, at least)
72KG Jamie Edwards (Crumlin)
76KG Thomas Doherty (Baldoyle)
76+KG John Sweeney (Ennis)

Team Manager: Paddy Gallagher (Maynooth)
Coaches: Igor Khmil (Smithfield), JP Kinsella (Monkstown),Eoin Pluck (Arklow), Brian Barry (Riverstown) R&J: Martin Fennessy (Clonmel)

 

 

 

 

Ireland’s male Olympians move into the Olympic village just after noon local time today after finishing up their final training camp with Brazil and the USA yesterday with the countdown to the opening bell for boxing at the Games just over a week away.

The team have been training and sparring with the Brazilians and the Americans at a naval base in the host city for the 31st Olympiad.

Male boxing begins on August 6 at the 9,000 capacity Pavilion 6 venue.The draw for the tournament will be made Thursday, August 4 at 11am (local time) at the Village Mall in Barra, Rio.

Two hundred and eighty six boxers – 250 males and 36 females – go into the hat.

Katie Taylor joins the team on August 2. Female boxing begins on August 12.

The light-flyweights, lightweights, light-heavyweights and heavyweights are the first in action on August 6, although whether Paddy Barnes, David Oliver Joyce and Joe Ward, Ireland’s representatives in the first three aforementioned weights,are out on Day 1 is contingent on seeding.

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Barnes has one official duty to perform before he begins trading leather with the world’s top light-flyweights at his third successive Olympics.

The Belfast dynamo leads out Team Ireland at the opening ceremony for the Games on August 5.

Barnes is the 7th Irish boxer to be chosen as Irish flag bearer at an Olympic opening ceremony after Matt Flanagan at Amsterdam 1928.

Over 100 boxers have represented Ireland at the Olympicr Games since Paris 1924.

 

Irish Squad Rio Olympics

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

Please see below attachment for semi-final schedule

European Confederation Schoolboys Boxing Championships Day6 Schedule

Ireland will be taking home six medals from the 14th European Schoolboy Championships in Zagreb,Croatia.

The colour of those medals will be determined at the weekend, but, as things stand, at least six bronze are in the post.

Cain Lewis, Patrick Collins, Jason Myers and Jason Irwin impressively won in the quarter-finals today to join Francis Maughan and William Hayden, who both won yesterday, in the semi-finals.

Lewis and Collins did a double over Italy’s Daniel Salerno and Giuseppe Recuderoi and Myers completed the hat-trick against Romania’s Valentin Laurentiu this afternoon. Top performances all round from the trio.

Irwin excelled en route to a unanimous decision over Ageev Nikitin of Russia this evening.The Castleblaney BC stand out refused to be bullied, held his ground when he had to in the face of almost constant aggression and repeatedly found the target with slick shots off both hands.

Jonathan Hughes and Jamie Edwards were involved in cracking bouts this evening but had to settle for a top eight finish.

Hughes, who showed his class in sportingly hold the hand of his opponent aloft after a fiery three-rounder, was on the wrong end of the unanimous decision to Maksym Havryliuk of the Ukraine in a contest which could have gone either way.

Likewise with Edwards who gave a fine account of himself in another close battle with Andrei Voevodin, the Russian getting the verdict after three tight frames in Zagreb.

The Ireland v Russia head-to-head after seven bouts in Croatia this week now stands at 4-3 to Russia.

Friday is a rest day at the tournament.

Ireland’s semi-finalists will be back in action on Saturday targeting places in Sunday’s finals.

European Schoolboy Championships Zagreb, Croatia

July 24th
Preliminaries (last 32)
44.5Kg Eoghan Quinn (Ireland) beat Kros Ermas (Bosnia & Herzegovina) 3-0
46Kg Steve Cairns (Ireland) beat Severin Yordanov (Bulgaria) 3-0

July 25th
38.5KG Jerome Lonergan-Gartland (Ireland) beat Krasimer Dzhurov (Bulgaria) 2-1
44.5KG Eoghan Quinn (Ireland) beat Matteo Ferraro (Italy) 3-0
40KG Thomas Donovan (Ireland) lost to Ignas Liaudanskis (Lithuania) 1-2
46KG Steve Cairns (Ireland) lost to Maksim Demenenko (Russia) 0-3
50KG Shane O’Gorman (Ireland) lost to Nermin Ajetovic (Serbia) 0-3

July 26th – last 16
41.5KG Ger McDonagh (Ireland) lost to Mikail Harmanci (Denmark) 0-3
52KG Paddy Myers (Ireland) beat Shilov Aleksander (Russia) 3-0
54KG Francis Maughan (Ireland) beat Rakitin Ilya (Russia) 2-1
59KG Jason Irwin (Ireland) beat Gramos Berisha (Kosova) 3-0
62KG Matthew Tyndall (Ireland) lost to Kofan Maksym (Ukraine) 1-2
76+KG John Sweeney (Ireland) lost to Timur Avdoian (Russia) 0-3

July 27th Q/Finals
38.5KG Jerome Lonergan-Gartland (Ireland) lost to Kiril Kladovikov (Russia) 0-3
44.5KG Eoghan Quinn (Ireland) lost to Cameron Whyte (Scotland) 0-3
52KG Paddy Myers (Ireland) lost to Anton Georsiev (Bulgaria) 1-2
76KG Thomas Doherty (Ireland) lost Vasily Kaverin (Russia) 0-3
54KG Francis Maughan (Ireland) beat Olekski Dentsenkov (Ukraine) 2-1
65KG William Hayden (Ireland) beat Nazar Karaka (Belarus) TKO2

July 28th Q/Finals
48KG Cain Lewis (Ireland) beat Daniel Salerno (Italy) 2-1
43KG Jonathan Hughes (Ireland) lost to Maksym Havryliuk (Ukraine) 0-3
56KG Patrick Collins (Ireland) beat Giuseppe Recuderoi (Italy) 3-0
59KG Jason Irwin (Ireland) beat Ageev Nikitin (Russia) 3-0
68KG Jason Myers (Ireland) beat Valentin Laurentiu (Romania) 3-0
72KG Jamie Edwards (Ireland) lost to Andrei Voevodin (Russia) 0-3

July 30th S/Finals
48KG Cain Lewis (Ireland) v Vlasiuk Maksym (Ukraine)
54KG Francis Maughan (Ireland) v Matej Hlaca (Croatia)
56KG Patrick Collins (Ireland) v Alexandru Badea (Romania)
59KG Jason Irwin (Ireland) v Giacomo Micheli (Italy)
65KG William Hayden (Ireland) v Viktor Kashin (Russia)
68KG Jason Myers (Ireland) v Ryan Dickens (England)

Irish squad

38.5KG Jerome Lonergan Gartland (Clonmel)
40KG Thomas Donovan (Olympic)
41.5KG Gerard McDonagh (Glen) cpt
43KG Jonathon Hughes (Jobstown)
44.5KG Eoghan Quinn (St.Johns Derry)
46KG Steven Cairns (Loughmahon)
48KG Cian Lewis (Ballymun) (Bronze, at least)
50KG Shane O’Gorman (St.Malachys)
52KG Paddy Myers (Sligo City)
54KG Francis Maughan (St.Marys Dublin) (Bronze, at least)
56KG Patrick Collins (Baldoyle) (Bronze, at least)
59KG Jason Irwin (Castleblaney) (Bronze, at least)
62KG Matthew Tyndall (Monkstown Dublin)
65KG William Hayden (Crumlin) (Bronze, at least)
68KG Jason Myers (Titans) (Bronze, at least)
72KG Jamie Edwards (Crumlin)
76KG Thomas Doherty (Baldoyle)
76+KG John Sweeney (Ennis)

Team Manager: Paddy Gallagher (Maynooth)
Coaches: Igor Khmil (Smithfield), JP Kinsella (Monkstown),Eoin Pluck (Arklow), Brian Barry (Riverstown) R&J: Martin Fennessy (Clonmel)