GB boxers win eight medals at the European championships

A serious medal haul for Nice Britain on the males’s European championships in Armenia

GB Boxers secured a exceptional haul of eight medals on the males’s European championships in Armenia with 4 of their boxers that includes within the finals on Monday (Might 30).

The success of Nice Britain’s boxers even noticed squad-mates Harris Akbar, coming into this occasion for England, and Wales’ Garan Croft contest the 71kgs closing. It was a top quality match. They jabbed rapidly, each transferring out and in. Croft despatched his proper to the physique however Akbar discovered the openings to ship his cross all the way down to the Welshman’s head. Akbar used his proper properly. Within the second spherical a one-two arrange his left hook. However Croft was all the time aggressive and labored his left hook into the physique. Akbar timed his straight photographs properly, ducking Croft’s whipping proper hook at occasions. He got here again properly when the Welshman caught him and to shut out the bout backed up cleverly to complete forward of his rival, successful a unanimous resolution.

Within the semi-finals Harris Akbar secured a significant victory over Ukraine’s Yurii Zakharieiev, the reigning World and European below 22 champion. It was all of the extra spectacular as Akbar got here again from dropping the primary spherical to wrest a cut up resolution his approach. It was particular to Akbar personally too as he’d misplaced to Zakharieiev within the World championships himself. “I can’t put it into phrases. It feels surreal. To go in there and beat the World champion who beat me fairly comfortably final 12 months – what a sense!” the Bradford boxer mentioned. “Having the ability to avenge how I misplaced final time… It means the world to me.”

Croft had outpointed Germany’s Magomed Schachidov, additionally on a cut up resolution, to ebook his showdown with Akbar within the closing.

English middleweight Lewis Richardson met Eire’s Gabriel Dossen within the gold medal match. The competition was within the steadiness. Dossen started the primary spherical properly, his handspeed obvious as he threw out jabs. Richardson got here again strongly within the second spherical. A southpaw like Dossen, Richardson tracked ahead aggressively, catching the Irishman with thumping backhands. Each fought wildly at occasions within the third however Dossen was decided, smacking his proper hook throughout as time ticked down. Dossen edged him out on a detailed however unanimous resolution.

In one other all-British battle Richardson beat Scotland’s Sam Hickey within the 75kgs semi-final. Richardson took a cut up resolution win on this conflict of two GB squad-mates. Hickey will little question be hoping for rematch within the Commonwealth Video games this summer time however comes away from this championship with a bronze, Scotland’s first senior European medal in 16 years.

Sunderland Kiaran MacDonald impressed as he reached the ultimate of the championship. Within the preliminary levels he beat Scotland’s Lennon Mulligan and Eire’s Sean Mari. Then he took a very good semi-final win over Italy’s Federico Serra, getting back from a primary spherical deficit himself to gather a cut up factors verdict. However within the 51kgs closing Martin Molina seized his alternative. A lot the smaller man, he nonetheless rushed ahead to snap hooks into MacDonald. Kiaran received after him within the final spherical however couldn’t cease a unanimous resolution going to Molina. MacDonald subsequently joins Richardson and Garan Croft as a European silver medallist.

Garan’s twin brother Ioan Croft secured a bronze medal, dropping a unanimous resolution within the 67kgs semi-final to Georgia’s Lasha Guruli.

In his second main championship rising super-heavyweight Scrumptious Orie received his first main medal after victories over Poland’s Oskar Safaryan and Turkey’s Berat Acar. He boxed sturdy German super-heavy Nelvie Tiafack and misplaced a unanimous however aggressive resolution.

At 92kgs England’s Lewis Williams additionally received a bronze medal, choosing up two victories in Europe earlier than Italy’s dynamic Aziz Mouhiidine unanimously outscored him within the closing 4.

Eire’s Dylan Eagleson had a very good match. He received the 54kgs silver medal, beating Bulgarian Daniel Asenov, a former European champion, within the semi-final. However France’s Bilal Bennama proved very difficult within the closing, utilizing his lengthy attain to land his proper on the southpaw earlier than transferring clear. He handed Eagleson a rely within the second spherical and received a unanimous resolution.

RESULTS

48: Ergyunal Sebahtin (Bulgaria) outpd Rickey Nesbitt (Eire) unan. 51: Sean Mari (Eire) outpd Omer Ametovic (Serbia) cut up, Kiaran MacDonald (England) outpd Lennon Mulligan (Scotland) cut up, Nodari Darbaudze (Georgia) outpd Jake Dodd (Wales) unan, MacDonald outpd Mari cut up, MacDonald outpd Federico Serra (Italy) cut up, Martin Molina (Spain) outpd MacDonald unan. 54: Matthew McHale (Scotland) outpd Gabor Virban (Hungary) unan, Dylan Eagleson (Eire) outpd Muhammet Sacli (Turkey) unan, Manuel Cappai (Italy) outpd McHale cut up, Eagleson outpd Gabriel Escobar Mascunano (Spain) cut up, Eagleson outpd Daniel Asenov (Bulgaria) unan, Bilal Bennama (France) outpd Eagleson unan. 57: Vasile Usturoi (Belgium) outpd Adam Hession (Eire) cut up, Nebil Ibrahim (Sweden) stpd Niall Farrell (England) 2^nd. 60: John Paul Hale (Eire) outpd Arslan Khataev (Finland) cut up, Artyush Gomtsyan (Georgia) outpd Hale cut up. 63.5: Joe Tyers (England) outpd Brandon McCarthy (Eire) unan, Hovhannes Bachkov (Armenia) outpd Tyers unan, Reese Lynch (Scotland) outpd Adem Avci (Turkey) unan, Lounes Hamraoui (France) outpd Lynch unan. 67: Ioan Croft (Wales) outpd Delano James (Netherlands) unan, Tyler Jolly (Scotland) outpd Marko Zeljko (Croatia) unan, Vakhid Abbasov (Serbia) outpd Eugene McKeecer (Eire) unan, Croft outpd Deniel Krotter (Germany) cut up, Vakhid Abbasov (Serbia) outpd Jolly cut up, Lasha Guruli (Georgia) outpd Croft unan. 71: Salvatore Cavallaro (Italy) outpd Stephen Newns (Scotland) cut up, Luke Maguire (Eire) outpd Daniel Piotrowski (Poland) unan, Garan Croft (Wales) outpd Adam Messibah (Switzerland) cut up, Harris Akbar (England) outpd Tony Jas (Netherlands) unan, Eskerkhan Madiev (Georgia) outpd Maguire cut up, Croft outpd Alban Beqiri (Albania) unan, Akbar outpd Cavallaro unan, Croft outpd Necat Ekinci (Turkey) cut up, Akbar outpd Yurii Zakharieiev (Ukraine) cut up, Croft outpd Magomed Schachidov (Germany) cut up, Akbar outpd Croft unan. 75: Gabriel Dossen (Eire) outpd Miguel Cuadrado (Spain) cut up, Dossen outpd Rami Kiwan (Bulgaria) unan, Sam Hickey (Scotland) outpd Robert Cservenka (Hungary) unan, Lewis Richardson (England) outpd Ivan Papakin (Ukraine) unan, Dossen outpd Mindaugas Gedminas (Norway) cut up, Hickey outpd Almir Memic (Serbia) cut up, Richardson outpd Kevin Schumann (Germany) unan, Dossen outpd Salvatore Cavallaro (Italy) cut up, Richardson outpd Hickey cut up, Dossen outpd Richardson unan. 80: Ivan Sapun (Ukraine) outpd George Crotty (England) unan, Taylor Bevan (Wales) outpd Liridon Nuha (Sweden) unan, Alfred Commey (Italy) outpd Bevan cut up. 92: Lewis Williams (England) outpd Mateusz Bereznicki (Poland) cut up, Vagkan Nanitzanian (Greece) stod Jack Marley (Eire) 2^nd, Williams outpd Sadam Magomedov (Serbia) unan, Aziz Mouhiidine (Italy) outpd Williams unan. 92&: Scrumptious Orie (England) outpd Oskar Safaryan (Poland) unan, Orie outpd Berat Acar (Turkey) unan, Nelvie Tiafack (Germany) outpd Orie unan.