Spain’s Emmanuel Reyes achieved his nation’s first Olympic boxing medal since Rafael Lozano’s silver in the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Finland’s lone boxer in the Paris Olympics, Pihla Kaivo-Oja exceeded all of the expectations in the session when she demonstrated her technical skills against United States’ Jennifer Lozano. Both light flyweight (50kg) boxers were born in […]
Ireland’s Kellie Harrington advanced to the semi-finals of the women’s lightweight (60kg) in the Paris Olympics and she is on the best way to defend her title. Jose Quiles claimed a silver medal in the last European Games but he was not the favourite against Kazakhstan’s World Champion Makhmud Sabyrkhan in their featherweight (57kg) meeting. […]
Cape Verde’s David Pina caused one of the main sensations in the fourth competition day at the Paris Olympics but Billal Bennama and Croatia’s Gabrijel Veocic also won their tough meetings. France’s European Champion Billal Bennama had an early final against United States’ Roscoe Hill in the Round of 16 at the men’s flyweight (51kg) […]
Serbia’s Natalia Shadrina, Australia’s Teremoana Junior Teremoana, Canada’s Wyatt Sanford and Hungary’s Richard Kovacs all succeeded in the busy third competition day at the Paris Olympics. Natalia Shadrina switched from Russia to Serbia and since then she claimed a silver at the European Games and a gold at the European Women’s Championships. The veteran lightweight […]
A longer competition day was held in the Paris Olympics where the heavyweight (92kg) delivered the main surprises. United States’ Roscoe Hill claimed a silver medal at the World Boxing Championships in Belgrade and the experienced flyweight (51kg) boxer used his excellent technical skills to beat another veteran, the Boxing Refugee Team’s Omid Ahmadisafa. There […]
The Paris Olympic Games opened with eighteen contests in the French capital and the Day1 delivered exciting preliminary challenges Bulgaria’s Radoslav Rosenov won several European titles during his career and he looked highly confident against Tajikistan’s former Asian Champion Bakhodur Usmonov on their meeting. The Bulgarian light welterweight (63.5kg) boxer controlled this preliminary bout with […]
The Technical Meeting and the Official Draw concluded in the Paris Olympics where eighteen bouts will be held in the first competition day from 15:30 local time on July 27. Thirteen weight categories, 248 top boxers, 124 female and 124 male athletes from 69 nations will compete in the boxing event of the Paris Olympics. […]
Zanzibar is part of Tanzania where boxing’s popularity is very high in all of the generations and the local communities support each other as a perfect example for many countries. The picturesque island of Zanzibar is famous for its tourism, resorts, spices, old towns, and the wildlife but boxing is also part of their daily […]
Poland was successful in the qualification events for the Paris Olympics and five of their boxers bagged quotas for the Games. Poland hosted the European Games on June-July 2023 but surprisingly their boxers were unable to earn any spots for the Paris Olympics. Following their perfect preparations, and huge efforts, two male and three female […]
