Reigning Olympic lightweight champion Kellie Harrington and Sligo's 2021 European U22 champion Dean Clancy each won their opening bouts.
IRELAND WENT TWO from three on the opening day of their European Games boxing campaign, which moonlights as the first qualifier for the Paris Olympics next summer.
Harrington got Zaur Antia’s team off to a winning start at the Nowy Targ Arena, out-boxing Slovakia’s European U22 champion at 63kg, Miroslava Jedanikova, on a 4-1 split decision to advance to the last 16. Gallagher was next up for Ireland but he fell marginally short against Cuban-born Bulgarian representative Javier Ibanez, last year’s European bronze medallist and a two-time World Championship quarter-finalist.
Sligo’s Dean Clancy is two wins from the Olympics after he cruised past Austria’s Arsen Chabyan, winning the bout on all five judges’ scorecards in his 63.5kg curtain-raiser.Four more Irish boxers will begin their campaigns on Saturday.
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