Two out of three for the Irish boxers on the opening day of action in Poland.
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.Harrington, who needs to reach the semi-finals in order to book her seat on the plane to Paris, will face another 63kg convert, Armenia’s decorated underage star Elida Kacharyan, in the next round.
The all-action Tyrone man took a pulsating opening round across the board but began to run out of steam thereafter, with the excellent Ibanez clawing his way into the ascendancy in the second half to take a 4-1 split. 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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