Womens world championships

[mike222]

The competition has now reached the quarter-final stage and one more win guarantees a medal.Those who will be striving for at least a bronze includes the following.

USA Queen Underwood
Cashmere Jackson
Andrecia Wasson
Denise Rico

CANADA
Mary Spencer

UK
Lynsey Holdaway
Nicola Adams
Chantelle Cameron
Savannah Marshall

IRELAND
Katie Taylor

Taylor and Spencer will be expected to win but the rest face tough matches.The matches are on Thursday.

[JMac]

How long has the UK had womens boxing? Well done with four women still in the tournament. The high performance programs for both Ireland and England have work really well and provided results. USAB has a long way to go to catch up in that area.
Katie Taylor is far and above the best women boxer in the world and makes her wins look easy.

[mike222]

There are three english and one welsh lady listed as from the UK.
I would argue that Taylor is not the best as she was well beaten by Sofia Ochigava earlier this year.The Russian girl is injured at the moment and may not return until 2011.A rematch to savour when it comes around.

[mike222]

The quarter-finals were in fact completed today with the semi-finals scheduled for Friday.
Winners thus guaranteed a medal include the following;
60 Queen Underwood
Katie Taylor
51 Nicola Adams
75 Mary Spencer
69 Savannah Marshall
64 Cashmere Jackson
69 Andrecia Wasson

These lost their quarter-final
48 Lynsey Holdaway
+81 Denise Rico
64 Chantelle Cameron

[JMac]

There are three english and one welsh lady listed as from the UK.
I would argue that Taylor is not the best as she was well beaten by Sofia Ochigava earlier this year.The Russian girl is injured at the moment and may not return until 2011.A rematch to savour when it comes around.

Wow, I hadn't heard that Taylor got beat. That Russian must be one tough and good boxer to beat Taylor. Was it in a tournament? That would be a rematch that I would want to see.

[mike222]

Ochigava has been around for some time,she is a double world champion and three time european champion at lower weights.
She made her lightweight debut at the top level in March at the Usti tournament where she defeated Taylor 8-1 in the semi-finals before winning the final.
Her last loss was in 2008 when Jian Qin beat her in the World championship at feather 6-4.
Taylor may have had a bad day at the Usti but these two girls will surely clash at London 2012,if not before.

[mike222]

This afternoons semi-final winners are:

Light-Fly Stella Duta ROM
Chung Marykom CHN

Fly Nicola Adams ENG
Ren Ren Can IND

Bantam Elena Saveleva RUS
Hye Song Kim PRK

Feather Kum Ju Tun PRK
Yamzi Yang CHN

Light Katie Taylor IRE
Cheng Dong CHN

The rest are tonight;
Queen Underwood pushed Taylor all the way just losing 16-18

[mike222]

The remaining semi-final winners are:
64 Gulsum Tatar TUR
Vera Slugina RUS

69 Savannah Marshall ENG
Andrecia Wasson USA

75 Mary Spencer CAN
Li Jinzi CHN

81 Marina Volnova KAZ
Roseli Feitosa BRA

+81 Nadezda Torlopova RUS
Kateryna Kuzhel UKR

An English/American final at welterweight

[mike222]

World Champions and Gold Medallists

48 Chungnenong Marykom INDIA
51 Ren Ren Can INDIA
54 Elena Saveleva RUSSIA
57 Yum Kum Ju N.KOREA
60 Katie Taylor IRELAND
64 Gulsum Tatar TURKEY
69 Andrecia Wasson USA
75 Mary Spencer CANADA
81 Roseli Freitosa BRAZIL
+81 Nadezda Torlopova RUSSIA

Wasson defeated Savannah Marshall 5-4 in a close but scrappy final and may qualify as Americas least known world champion.
Marykom,CanCan,Taylor,Tatar and Spencer were defending champions who retained their titles.
Adams.Saveleva and Dong were silver medallists at the last championships
51,60 and 75 are the Olympic weights in 2012

[Deno1986]

Katie Taylor won her third World Championship tonight by defeating the Chinese fighter 18-5.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/boxing/2010/091 ... world.html