Nesthy Petecio, seen on the 2023 World Championships. Picture from Petecio’s Fb
For the second straight Olympics, Nesthy Petecio can be leaving with a medal.
The 32-year-old from Davao Metropolis, Philippines cemented herself in historical past as the primary boxer from her nation to earn two Olympic medals after defeating China’s Xu Zichun by a 5-0 rating within the quarterfinals of the ladies’s 57 kilogram competitors on the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France.
Petecio, who earned silver on the Tokyo Video games, will face Poland’s Julia Szeremeta on Wednesday, August 7 for an opportunity to return to the gold medal match as soon as once more. The relative upstart Szeremeta, 20, earned her spot within the semis by beating Puerto Rico’s Ashleyann Lozada Motta by a 5-0 resolution.
Petecio established her dominance early on towards the taller Xu, discovering the angles to land her overhand left repeatedly. After sweeping the primary spherical on all 5 playing cards, Petecio started to make the most of Xu’s over-aggression, touchdown proper hook counters as Xu superior, whereas utilizing her higher physique motion to dodge incoming punches.
Down 20-18 on all 5 playing cards after two, Xu went for broke within the third, opening up with mixtures to Petecio’s physique and even throwing her to the ground within the opening minute. Even with the struggle received, Petecio was content material to trade punches, touchdown sneaky left arms to the pinnacle and physique and ripping uppercuts with each arms to show again her opponent’s decided problem.
Petecio is one among two Filipinas who will contend for medals as 50kg boxer Aira Villegas will face Turkey’s Buse Naz Çakıroğlu within the semifinals on Thursday.
Arlen Lopez, the Cuban Olympic legend, additionally can be going dwelling with a medal however not the one he had hoped for.
The 31-year-old misplaced a razor skinny 3-2 resolution to Ukraine’s Oleksandr Khyzhniak within the 80kg semifinals, denying him an opportunity to turn out to be the third ever boxer to win three Olympic gold medals.
Khyzhniak, the 29-year-old silver medalist from the Tokyo Video games, will face Kazakhstan’s Nurbek Oralbay within the gold medal match on Wednesday. Oralbay, 24, earned his spot with an identical 3-2 resolution, defeating Cristian Pinales of the Dominican Republic.
Khyzhniak caught to his trademark model of nonstop aggression, firing mixture after mixture at Lopez within the opening spherical as Lopez appeared to counter again with single punches that packed extra energy. Lopez struggled to maintain up with the tempo of his Ukrainian foe, abandoning his typical field and transfer technique, and opting to stay his chin inside and commerce punches.
With the struggle on the desk heading into the third, Khyzhniak continued to push ahead as Lopez started to indicate his fatigue below the fixed barrage and physique punching.
Khyzhniak and Lopez traded angrily in direction of the ultimate bell, with Khyzhniak touchdown a punch simply after the bell sounded, which drew the ire of Lopez, who glared at his opponent earlier than returning to his nook.
Cuba, which has lengthy been one of many absolute powerhouses of Olympic boxing, can have only one boxer preventing for gold in Paris as Erislandy Alvarez superior to the 63.5kg gold medal match with a 5-0 resolution over Georgia’s Lasha Guruli. He’ll face France’s Sofiane Oumiha, a three-time world champion and 2016 silver medalist, earned his spot within the gold medal match with a 4-1 resolution over Canada’s Wyatt Sanford, who turned the primary Canadian boxer since David Defiagbon earned heavyweight silver to carry dwelling an Olympic medal.
Full Outcomes
Girls’s 57kg – quarterfinals
Lin Yu Ting (TPE) 5-0 Svetlana Kamenova Staneva (BUL)
Esra Yildiz Kahraman (TUR) 4-1 Jucielen Cerqueira Romeu (BRA)
Nesthy Petecio (PHI) 5-0 Xu Zichun (CHN)
Julia Szeremeta (POL) 5-0 Ashleyann Lozada Motta (PUR)
Girls’s 75kg – quarterfinals
Li Qian (CHN) 4-1 Lovlina Borgohain (IND)
Caitlin Parker (AUS) 4-1 Khadija Mardi (MAR)
Cindy Winner Djankeu Ngamba (EOR) 5-0 Davina Michel (FRA)
Atheyna Bibeichi Bylon (PAN) 3-2 Elzbieta Wojcik (POL)
Girls’s 54kg – semifinals
Chang Yuan (CHN) 3-2 Pang Cholmi (PRK)
Hatice (TUR) 3-2 Im Aeji (KOR)
Males’s 51kg – semifinals
Billal Bennama (FRA) 5-0 Yunior Alcantara Reyes (DOM)
Hasanboy Dusmatov (UZB) 5-0 David de Pina (CPV)
Males’s 63.5kg – semifinals
Sofiane Oumiha (FRA) 4-1 Wyatt Sanford (CAN)
Erislandy Alvarez (CUB) 5-0 Lasha Guruli (GEO)
Males’s 80kg – semifinals
Nurbek Oralbay (KAZ) 3-2 Cristian Javier Pinales (DOM)
Olekandr Khyzhniak (UKR) 3-2 Arlen Lopez (CUB)
Males’s 92kg – semifinals
Loren Alfonso (AZE) 4-1 Enmanuel Reyes Pla
Lazizbek Mullojonov (UZB) 4-1 Davlat Boltaev (TJK)
