The Fishal 2008 European Union Amateur Boxing Championships thread

sligobhoy67

Starts properly tomorrow but prelims today

IRISH SQUAD for EU Boxing Championships Cetniewo Poland June 15 to 22

48kg: Paddy Barnes (Holy Family)

51kg: Jamie Conlon (St John Bosco)

54kg: John Joe Nevin (Cavan BC)

57kg: David Oliver Joyce (St Michael’s Athy)

60kg: Eric Donovan (St Michael’s Athy)

64kg: John Joe Joyce (St Michael’s Athy)

69kg: Willie McLoughlin (Illies Golden Gloves)

75kg: Darren Sutherland (St Saviours OBA)

81kg: Ken Egan (captain) (Neilstown)

90kg: Con Sheehan (Clonmel)

Team Manager: Jim Walsh

Coaches: Billy Walsh and Zuar Antia

Big Ears

The European Union Championships should help give us an indication of how well our fighters will do in the Olympics .

Also it's the last major tournament before the Olympics , and fighters really would want to be medalling here if they're capable of doing anything impressive in beijing .

cowzerp

Thatsa strong team, should do well..

jayroyal

i think nevin probably our best boy in here although should be at least golds for us

Dodge

Big Ears wrote: »

The European Union Championships should help give us an indication of how well our fighters will do in the Olympics .

Also it's the last major tournament before the Olympics , and fighters really would want to be medalling here if they're capable of doing anything impressive in beijing .

For confidence maybe but if this championship is in the middle of their conditioning and they're looking to be at their absolute peak in Beijing, I won't mind the odd defeat.

Any links?

Hero Of College

Seriously hope the lads do well. I think our team has the measure of the English team at least. The draw for the Olimps will be vital. Nothing counts more in the Ammys than a good draw.

Big Ears

http://www.rte.ie/sport/boxing/2008/0616/ireland.html

Big Ears

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/boxing-irish-trio-suffer-disappointment-1413514.html

Dodge

OOOooops. Posted a link to 2007 results.

Anyway....

From www.olympicsport.ie

David Oliver Joyce reached the semi-finals of the European Union Championships after Valentin Stoychev was retired in the third round in Cetniewo, Poland.


Joyce, of the St Michael's Athy club, was 23-8 up and had forced the Bulgarian featherweight into three standing counts before his corner threw in the towel in the third round of the quarter-final.


Darren Sutherland stormed into the semi-finals courtesy of a 28-12 win over French middleweight Samy Anouche, who took a standing count in the first round.


Sutherland will meet Germanys Stefan Haertel in Thursday's 75Kg semi-final, just two fights away from winning his second European Union Championship gold medal on the trot.


Paddy Barnes has received a bye straight into the light flyweight final where he will face Bedak Pal of Hungary or Lukasz Maszyzyk of Poland who clash in the 48Kg semi final.


Olympic Team Manager Jim Walsh confirmed that the five Irish boxers competing in Thursday's semi-finals are guarenteed at least bronze medals while Barnes, from the Holy Family club in Belfast, will take home at least a silver medal.


6th European Union Championships Results and Draw:

June 18th (Quarter-finals)

57Kg: David Oliver Joyce (Ireland) beat Valentin Stoychev (Bulgaria) RET3
60Kg: Eric Donovan (Ireland) lost to Artur Schmidt (Germany) 8-23
75Kg: Darren Sutherland (Ireland) beat Samy Anouche (France) 28-12
91Kg: Con Sheehan (Ireland) beat Stephen Simmons (Scotland) 15-6

June 19th Draw (Semi-final)

81Kg: Ken Egan (Ireland) v Caner Sayak (Turkey) (2pm)
54Kg: John Joe Nevin (Ireland) v Rafael Puyol (Spain) (2pm)
75Kg: Darren Sutherland (Ireland) v Stefan Haertel (Germany) (7pm)
57Kg: David Oliver Joyce (Ireland) v Hicham Ziouti (France) (7pm)
91Kg: Con Sheehan (Ireland) v Vahagn Sahakyn (Germany (7pm)


June 21st Draw (Final)

48Kg: Paddy Barnes (Ireland) v Bedak Pal (Hungary) or Lukasz Maszyzyk (Poland) (2pm)

Big Ears

http://m.rte.ie/sport/boxing/2008/0619/boxing.html

That's very good going to have 6 of the 10 entered fighters in the final .
Sutherland v DeGale is a very interesting match , there isn't much between those too .

Let's hope for 6 gold medals come sunday

MBC

Yeah we are doing well over there.......sutherland v Degale should be a beauty alright also Egan v Jefferies should be a belter aswell.

sligobhoy67

there is three great finals there

Sutherland v James De Gale
Egan v Tony Jeffries, and my personal favourite would be

Barnes v Pál Bedák

Dodge

http://www.rte.ie/sport/boxing/2008/0621/boxing.html

4 golds. Sutherland, Egan, Nevin and Joyce

Big Ears

That's a very good performance from the lads and hopefully that form can be kept all the way to the Olympics .

The difference in success the amateurs have had in the last 2 years to several years ago is astonishing .