IRISH AMATEUR BOXING ASSOCIATION UPDATE (OLYMPIC TEST EVENT)

IRISH AMATEUR BOXING ASSOCIATION UPDATE (OLYMPIC TEST EVENT)

Ken Egan will acquire Ireland’s campaign at the Olympic Test Event happening with a quarter-final meeting next to China in London this evening.

The Dublin southpaw, who has drop back down to light-heavyweight from heavyweight, will meet Xuan Bao at the ExCel, the venue for boxing at the 2012 Olympic Games.

Ireland is using a six-man squad at the Test.

Declan Geraghty and David Oliver Joyce will be concerned in quarter-final duels on Friday, versus Thai flyweight Norapoj Tetchkoom and Italian insubstantial Donato Consenza.

Belfast’s Conrad Cummings and Tommy McCarthy and Con Sheehan have established byes into Saturday’s semi-finals.

Cummings will get together Brazilian middleweight Esquiva Florentino and McCarthy faces knowledgeable Kazakh heavyweight Vassily Levit.

Tipperary super-heavyweight Sheehan will deal leather with Morocco’s Muhammad Arjaoui for a place in the 91Kg+ final.

All the Irish squad will be boxing in the afternoon/evening session which begins at 5pm each day at the ExCel.

Ireland’s Michael Conlan, John Joe Nevin and Darren O’Neill have previously qualified for the 2012 Olympics.

There will be one final Olympic qualifier for European male boxers next April.

The May 2012 AIBA World Women’s Championships in China will act as the only Olympic qualifier for female boxers.

92 boxers, 69 Men and 23 Women, will take part in the Olympic Test Event in London.

The countries challenging are; Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, China, France, Great Britain, Greece, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Russia, USA, Uzbekistan, Sweden and Thailand.

Olympic Test Event ExCel London

Novermber 24th Quarter-finals
81Kg: Ken Egan (Ireland) v Xuan Bao (China)

November 25th Quarter-finals
51Kg: Declan Geraghty (Ireland) v Norapoj Tetchkoom (Thailand)
60Kg: David Oliver Joyce (Ireland) v Donato Consenza (Italy)

November 26th Semi-Finals
75Kg: Conred Cummings (Ireland) v Esquiva Florentino (Brazil)
91Kg: Tommy McCarthy (Ireland) v Vassily Levit (Kazakhstan)
91Kg+: Con Sheehan (Ireland) v Mohammad Arjaoui (Morrocco)

Irish squad

56Kg: Declan Geraghty (Crumlin)
60Kg: David Oliver Joyce (St Michael’s Athy)
75Kg: Conrad Cummings (Holy Trinity)
81Kg; Ken Egan (Neilstown)
91Kg: Tommy McCarthy (Oliver Plunkett)
91+Kg: Con Sheehan (Clonmel)

Team manager: Des Donnelly
Coaches: Billy Walsh & Zuar Antia
Physio: Conor McCarthy