The four-time world champion from Bray, Co. Wicklow was roared on to victory by thousands of Irish fans in the ExCel Arena and with Jonas getting the backing of the home fans, it led to a superb atmosphere that was more akin to a football match. Both women came to fight and Liverpool’s Jonas also […]
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John Joe Nevin has won Ireland’s first medal at the London Olympics – a bronze – after his victory over Oscar Valdez Fierro in the bantamweight division quarter-final. Nevin won on a 19-13 scoreline and it sets up a semi-final bout against a the Cuban Lazaro Alvarez Estrada on Friday . Nevin found his range
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John Joe Nevin goes head to head with Oscar Valdez in a bantamweight quarter-final this evening at the Excel Centre. The Mexican qualified for the last Games at the age of 17 and became the first boxer from his country to take a medal at the world championships, taking a bronze in 2009. Nevin has looked comfortable
John Joe Nevin scored five points in every round to book his ticket into the quarter-finals of the Olympic Games with an accomplished performance over Kazakhstan’s Kanat Abutalipov in London this afternoon. The Cavan BC stand out, a two-time AIBA World bronze medalist, took the first frame 5-2, the second 5-3 and drew the third
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John Joe Nevins outclasses Denis Ceylan 21-6 in the Bantamweight round of 32
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Team Ireland boxing head coach Billy Walsh after the London 2012 Olympic Games boxing draw. Irish team captain Darren O’Neill and John Joe Nevin will be aiming to join Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan in the last-16 at the Olympics Games in London today. Both Nevin and O’Neill will be between the ropes on Saturday
The Olympic Council of Ireland has selected four-times women’s world boxing champion Katie Taylor to be Ireland’s flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games on Friday night next. Kate will carry the Irish tricolour in front of Team Ireland and a worldwide audience of over 300 million people. ends Further info: Jack
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Katie Taylor has won a fourth successive World Championship this morning in Qinhuangdao, China. The Irish fighter beat Russian Sofya Ochigava for the gold medal. The Bray boxer had already secured at least a silver medal, and a coveted place at the London Olympic Games. Taylor now goes straight into the quarter-finals at the Olympics
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Katie Taylor’s long road to London came to fuition in China today. She received a walkover after her quarter-final opponent at the AIBA World Women’s Championships pulled out of the bout with an injury.. When one of the other four European boxers in the last eight lost their bouts, the 25-year-old knew she had achieved her dream of
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Katie Taylor is through to the last 16 in the first of five bouts in China. At the seventh AIBA World Women’s Championships and Olympic qualifiers in Qinhuangdao, against Tunisia’s Tim Jouini she won an impressive 19-6. Jouine a bronze medal winner at the World Championships in Barbados 2010. Ceire Smith from Cavan BC flyweight
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Paddy Barnes qualified for his second Olympics following a comfortable 17-9 quarter-final victory over Stefan Caslarov of Romania at the AIBA European Olympic qualifiers in Trabzon, Turkey today. The Belfast man, a bronze medal winner at the 2008 Olympics and the 2010 European champion, never looked back from opening up a 5-3 lead in the
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Paddy Barnes joined David Oliver Joyce, Adam Nolan and Tommy McCarthy in the quarter-finals of the AIBA European Olympic qualifying event with an inside the distance win in Trabzon, Turkey today. Both Barnes, a bronze medal winner at the 2008 Olympics, and Joyce, are both just one win away from qualifying for the 2012 Olympics
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