Three European Super Heavyweights Advance To Quarter Finals At Paris Olympics

Nine European boxers who participated at the Paris Olympics in +92 kg weight category were in action yesterday.

Five of them won their contests in the 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐝, and moved to the last eight phase. 23-year-old Italian, 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨 𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐢, defeated Joshua Edwards from the USA by split decision. In the quarterfinals he will face strong German 𝐍𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐚𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐤, who was better than Abdullayev from Azerbaijan.

European super heavyweights who are now in quarterfinals are: 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐣𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢-𝐃𝐢𝐧𝐢 from France, 𝐀𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐛 𝐆𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐟𝐚 from Spain and 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐧 from Armenia.

Besides super heavyweights, boxers competing in the light welterweight division were also in the ring yesterday. Radoslav Rosenov from Bulgaria and Malik Hasanov from Azerbaijan have lost their bouts, while 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐊𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐬 from Hungary, 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐎𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐡𝐚 from France and 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚 𝐆𝐮𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐢 from Georgia have won, and placed themselves into quarterfinals.

60 kg women boxers also fought in round of 16. Olympic champion 𝐊𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 from Ireland defeated Alessia Mesiano from Italy, and European champion 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 from Serbia was better than Dounia Khelif from Algeria. 25-year-old lightweight from Netherlands, 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐲 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐣𝐧𝐞𝐧, defeated Won Ungyong from North Korea. Heijnen will box her next match against strong Brazilian Beatriz Ferreira.

Today’s programme starts at 11am. Men’s boxers will compete in 51 kg and 80 kg, while the women’s boxers will fight in 54 kg and 57 kg weight categories.

Credit: EUBC