European Boxing Championships 2015

[mike222]

These start on Friday.Results and info here.

[mike222]

Great Britain team
49 Harvey Horn
52 Muhammad Ali
56 Qais Ashfaq
60 Joe Cordina
64 Pat McCormack
75 Anthony Fowler
81 Joshua Buatsi
Irish team
52 Myles Casey
56 Michael Conlan
64 Dean Walsh
69 Adam Nolan
81 Joe Ward
91 Darren O Neill
+91 Dean Gardiner

[mike222]

Day 1 results include
56 Joe Cordina GBR 3-0 Roland Galos HUN 30-27 30-27 30-27
91 Darren O Neill IRE 2-1 Tadas Tamauskas LIT 27-30 30-27 29-28
+91 Dean Gardiner IRE 3-0 A Delalic BIH 30-26 30-27 30-27
This is a qualifier for the World Championships which is the Olympic qualifier

[mike222]

Day 2 results include
69 Adam Nolan IRE 2-0 Onder Sipal TUR 29-27,29-27,28-28
75 Troy Williamson ENG 2-1 V Jaskuls LAT 29-28,29-28,28-29

[mike222]

49 Harvey Horn GBR 3-0 Sergey Neumann GER 30-27,30-27,30-27
81 Joe Ward IRE 3-0 Idris Shakhmanov RUS 30-25,30-26,30-27
81 Joshua Buatsi GBR 3-0 A Xhoxhaj KOS 29-28,29-28,29-28
+91 Filip Hrgovic CRO 3-0 Dean Gardiner IRE 30-25,30-25,30-25

[mike222]

Day 4 results include
56 Michael Conlan IRE 3-0 A Bret FRA 30-27,30-27,30-27
56 Qais Ashfaq GBR 3-0 K Zeneli ALB 30-26.30-26,30-26
64 Pat McCormack GBR 3-0 F Keles TUR 30-27,30-27,29-28
64 Dean Walsh IRE 3-0 F Niculescu ROM 30-27,30-27,29-28
75 Troy Williamson GBR 3-0 D B Bolequa SPA 30-27,30-27,30-27
91 Evgeni Tishcenko RUS 3-0 Darren O Neill IRE 29-28,29-28,30-27

[mike222]

Day 5 results include
52 Muhammad Ali GBR 3-0 Alex Riscan MOL 30-25,30-26,30-26
69 Adam Nolan IRE 3-0 Radzhab Butayev RUS 29-28,29-28,29-28
Excellent win for Nolan
81 Joe Ward IRE 3-0 N Sekhianashvili GEO 30-25,30-24,30-25
81 Joshua Buatsi GBR 3-0 Ainar Carlson EST 30-26,30-27,30-27
Quarter Finals start tomorrow

[galaxy]

In semifinals

6-GBR
5-BUL
4-RUS
3-IRL
2-CRO,ESP,GEO,HOL,ITA,LIT,POL
1-ARM,AZE,BLR,GER,HUN,LAT,ROM,SWE

[mike222]

Quarter Finals
49 Harvey Horn GBR 3-0 D Jagodwinski POL
52 Muhammad Ali GBR 3-0 K Sogmonyan ARM
56 Michael Conlan IRE 3-0 Fred Jensen DEN
56 Qais Ashfaq GBR 3-0 M Butsenko UKR
60 Joe Cordina GBR TKO1 INJ D Valentino ITA
64 Pat McCormack GBR 3-0 J Orozco SPA
64 Dean Walsh IRE 3-0 G M Nyeki HUN
69 P Kostromin BLR 3-0 Adam Nolan IRE
75 S Cavallaro ITA 2-0 Troy Williamson GBR
81 Joe Ward IRE 3-0 M Dauhaliavets BLR
81 Joshua Buatsi GBR 3-0 M Tryc POL
Good day for the Brits and Irish

[mike222]

There is coverage of the semi finals Friday on the BBC red button,starting 12.30PM local time.

[mike222]

Finals Saturday
49 Harvey Horn GBR v Vasiliy Egorov RUS
52 Daniel Asenov BUL v Muhammad Ali GBR
56 Michael Conlan IRE v Qais Ashfaq GBR
60 Joe Cordina GBR v Otar Eranosyan GEO
64 Vitaliy Dunaytsev RUS v Pat McCormack GBR
69 Elmantas Stanionis LIT v Pavel Kostromin BLR
75 Petr Khamutov RUS v Tomas Jablonski POL
81 Joe Ward IRE v Peter Mullennberg HOL
91 Evgeni Tishcenko RUS v Igor Jacubowski POL
+91 Filip Hrgovic CRO v Florian Schulz GER

[mike222]

Champions
49 Vasiliy Egorov RUS
52 Daniel Asenov BUL
56 Michael Conlan IRE
60 Joe Cordina GBR
64 Vitaliy Dunaytsev RUS
69 Elmantas Stanionis LIT
75 Petr Khamutov RUS
81 Joe Ward IRE
91 Evgeni Tishcenko RUS
+91 Filip Hrgovic CRO

[donnellon]

Mike, what you think of the judging in the finals?
And how come Russia had a full team?

[tflanagan5]

Mike, what you think of the judging in the finals?
And how come Russia had a full team?

judging in a few fights was off eg 52kg and overall seemed to be slightly pro Russian

Russia didn't ratify there places from the euro games which meaned they were aloud send a near full squad apart from 56kg where they took that place. I didn't like that at all because it meant that some unlucky boxer could have drawn a Russian early on in both tournament and not got through while a lesser boxer could end up qualifying weakening the competition

Russia also shot themselves in the foot too because qualified fighters at 69kg,81kg and 91kg+ in the euro games but didn't rafity these places and then at the European games they had the miss fortune of there fighters losing early

eg Nolan beat Buteav, Ward hammered Shakimanov and omarov more than likely got robbed against the Bulgarian

I think the Russians will learn there lesson, send there best team first time and then pick up the pieces in the next tournament in the weights where there guys don't qualify. They were too cocky and now only are sending a team of 6 boxers to the world championships which is very poor for a country of there strength. They now have no representive at 52kg,69kg,81kg and 91kg+

[donnellon]

Thanks. What about the case of Barnes qualified and Irvine chasing a spot, has Paddy nailed it for himself or fot Ireland? Very confusing(To Me!)!!

[mike222]

This qualification business is very confusing-one day I will sit down and read through it.I didn't see much wrong with the judging but I wasn't giving it my full attention.
I didn't hear Woodhall really disagreeing with the decisions and he is one of the best judges around.
The McCormack brothers look real talents and will be up there if they stay amateur.

[tflanagan5]

Thanks. What about the case of Barnes qualified and Irvine chasing a spot, has Paddy nailed it for himself or fot Ireland? Very confusing(To Me!)!!

apparently you win the qualification place in a weight class for your country but if Irvine was to now qualify there would be a box off I guess

[donnellon]

Is it fair to say that in a full Euro competition, Barnes, Conlon, D O Joyce, O'Reilly and Ward would be fancied?

[mike222]

Barnes would almost certainly win and the others would probably win or go close.There are some boxers who were missing Aloyan,Ivanov,Sotomayor,Medshidov,Bagirov,Selimov,Nikitin,Kilici to name a few who would also be Gold Medal contenders.
We wont see them all together until RIO16.

[donnellon]

Right Mike, be great if the old style internationals still took place, Ireland v Britain would be something!