Boxing on the Paris Olympics is in full swing!
We’ll have each day reside protection and updates, plus we’ll be holding monitor of all the outcomes from the 2024 Summer time Video games on this submit, which is able to replace with each session each day via the ultimate bouts on Aug. 10.
Full outcomes, newest to oldest, listed beneath.
Saturday, July 27
First Session
Girls’s 54kg (Bantamweight) – Spherical of 32
- Huang Hsiao-wen (Chinese language Taipei) def. Bojana Gojkovic (Montenegro), 5-0: Huang received bronze in Tokyo and appeared sharp once more right here, however Gojkovic gave this a powerful effort in defeat to kick off the boxing in Paris.
- Jutamas Jitpong (Thailand) def. Sara Cirkovic (Serbia), 4-1: I’m guessing we’ll see Cirkovic, 20, again on the Olympics if we nonetheless have boxing for 2028, she will be able to clearly field, however Jitpong — a flyweight quarterfinalist in Tokyo — had the expertise edge and it proved out on this matchup.
- Nigina Uktamova (Uzbekistan) def. Yomna Ayyad (Egypt): A walkover win to advance Uktamova to the following spherical.
Girls’s 60kg (Light-weight) – Spherical of 32
- Thi Linh Ha (Vietnam) def. Feofaaki Epenisa (Tonga), 5-0: Linh was simply the higher boxer. Epenisa tried her greatest to seek out her manner into it all through, however Linh has medal aspirations.
- Maria Jose Palacios (Ecuador) def. Agnes Alexiusson (Sweden), 4-1: Cut up choice, and a rally win for Palacios. Alexiusson received the primary spherical on each card, however Palacios turned it round and took 4 of the 5 playing cards in the long run. Aggressive and model conflict.
- Wu Shih-yi (Chinese language Taipei) def. Oh Yeonji (South Korea), 5-0: Aggressive first spherical, however Wu fairly properly took over from there.
Males’s 63.5kg (Light-weight) – Spherical of 32
- Radoslav Rosenov (Bulgaria) def. Bakhodur Usmonov (Tajikistan), 5-0: Wonderful efficiency, however he did undergo a lower that may very well be an issue going ahead. He faces Canada’s Wyatt Sanford, the “high seed,” subsequent, so long as the lower passes a verify. Actually attention-grabbing matchup.
- Obada Alkasbeh (Jordan) vs Dean Clancy (Eire), 3-2: Alkasbeh received it regardless of some extent deduction within the third spherical, which was a good name by the ref. The youthful Clancy scrapped onerous right here, however Alkasbeh lastly will get a win in his third Olympics look, going one-and-done in Rio and Tokyo.
Males’s 80kg (Mild Heavyweight) – Spherical of 32
- Cristian Pinales (Dominican Republic) def. Weerapon Jongjoho (Thailand), 5-0: The widest win of the session and a reasonably straightforward one for Pinales.
