Shannon Sweeney and Aoife O’Rourke have won through to the finals of the 2024 European Elite Championships.
Shannon Sweeney, who boxes at 50kg, took on Armenia’s Anush Grigoryan in a high-physicality contest. Shannon dominated the second and third rounds, and up-graded her bronze medal to at least silver by virtue of a 5-0 decision – judges scored the bout 30:27; 30:27; 29:28; 29:28; 29:28.
IABA is now publishing the calendar of Safeguarding One workshops for 2024. All adults – coaches, committee members and non-coaching volunteers – in every club who have contact with children are required to have undertaken Safeguarding 1.
Two courses will take place every month, March to November. Acknowledging that club members have a variety of schedules and that no one time will be best for all, a percentage of courses will take place in the evenings, a percentage during weekday lunchtimes and a percentage on Saturdays. Workshops on Safeguarding 2 and Safeguarding 3 will be made available later in 2024.
A challenging day at the office for Team Ireland at the 2024 European Elite Championships in Belgrade.
Two Ireland boxers were in action in the men’s Quarter Finals. 57kg Adam Hession boxed a podium place against Russia’s Eduard Savvin. This was a highly physical bout, and Adam acquitted himself well after two excellent preliminaries wins. The 5-0 decision went to the Russian athlete, and the judges scored the bout 27:30; 27:30; 28:29; 27:30; 27:30.
The National Secretary, Antoinette Faye McClean, has issued an advisory on the wearing of international kit by boxers contesting domestic championships:
“The growing practice of boxers wearing International vests during domestic championships has been the subject of widespread criticism. It is viewed as an attempt to intimidate opponents and to influence judges. Apart from the fact that the practice is contrary to the rule passed unanimously at the National convention it is also highly disrespectful..
Programmes are now available for boxing in the 2024 National Senior Cadet Championship – almost 280 boxers will contest 230 bouts over 7 days of boxing in the National Stadium.
Friday, April 26th: 6pm start, 26 bouts
Saturday, April 27th: 11am start, 50 bouts
Sunday, April 28th: 2.45pm start, 24 bouts