BOXING Six Into Quarter Finals/European Senior Championships

11 Nov 2008



Six Irish boxers will compete in the quarter finals of the 37th European Senior Championships following a hat trick of last sixteen wins at the Greenbank Academy in Liverpool today and this evening.

Belfast middleweight Eamon O'Kane and big Clonmel heavyweight Con Sheehan joined John Joe Joyce, David Oliver Joyce, Ross Hickey and Ryan Lindberg in the last eight.

All six boxers are now just one fight away from claiming at least bronze.

O'Kane staged a thrilling comeback in the final round to edge out Turkey's Adem Killiggi 7-6 tonight. The Immaculatta clubman will face Armenian 2008 Olympian Andranik Hakobyan in the quarter finals.

Con Sheehan meanwhile, followed that up with a convincing 10-2 win over Viktar Chvarkou of Belarus to set up a 91Kg showdown with Petrisor Gananau of Romania.

Earlier today, John Joe Joyce cruised to a 20-3 win over Scottish light welterweight John Tain.

The Irish 2008 Olympian meets Bulgarian southpaw and 2004 European senior lightweight champion Dimitar Stilianov
with a bronze medal up for grabs Wednesday.

Stilianov was beaten in the last sixteen of the 2004 Olympic Games by Amir Khan and was also beaten by Joyce's St Michael's Athy team-mate Roy Sheahan in the semi finals of the 2007 European Union Championships at the National Stadium in Dublin.

Ryan Lindberg and Ross Hickey will be in the ring tomorrow, while both Joyce's, O'Kane and Sheehan will be in action
24 hours later.

The preliminary rounds of the Championships are being held at the Greenbank Academy with the finals pencilled in for the Echo Arena in Liverpool on Saturday November 15th.

All eleven finals will be televised live by TG4 on November 15th.

Forty nations are taking part in the 37th European Senior Championships.

 


37th European Senior Championships Results and Draw


November 6th (Preliminary)

  • 54Kg: Ryan Lindberg (Ireland) beat Abdullah Dursion (Turkey) 9-4
  • 69Kg: Willie McLoughlin (Ireland) beat Mariano Hillario Jimenez (Spain) 14-5


November 8th (Last 16)

  • 51Kg: Conor Ahern (Ireland) lost to Salomo N'Tuve (Sweden) Disq4
  • 54Kg: Ryan Lindberg (Ireland) beat Samir Mammadov (Azerbaijan) 11-3
  • 60Kg: Ross Hickey (Ireland) beat Oleksandr Kluchko (Ukraine) 10-7
  • 69Kg: Willie McLoughlin (Ireland) lost to Jack Culcay-Keth (Germany) 2-7


November 9th (Last 16)

  • 57Kg: David Oliver Joyce (Ireland) beat Joe Murray (England) 16-3
  • 81Kg: Darren O'Neill (Ireland) lost to Nikolajs Grishunins (Latvia) 5-11


November 10th (Last 16)

  • 64Kg: John Joe Joyce (Ireland) beat John Tain (Scotland) 20-3
  • 75Kg: Eamon O'Kane (Ireland) beat Adem Kiliggi (Turkey) 7-6
  • 91Kg: Con Sheehan (Ireland) beat Viktar Chvarkou (Belarus) 10-2


November 11th (Quarter Finals)

  • 54Kg: Ryan Lindberg (Ireland) v Denis Makarov (Germany)
  • 60Kg: Ross Hickey (Ireland) v Famil Suleymanov (Azerbaijan)



November 12th (Quarter Finals)

  • 57Kg:David Oliver Joyce (Ireland) v Vasyl Lomachenko (Ukraine)
  • 64Kg: John Joe Joyce (Ireland) v Dimitar Stilianov (Bulgaria)
  • 75Kg: Eamon O'Kane (Ireland) v Andranik Hakoyban (Armenia)
  • 91Kg: Con Sheehan (Ireland) v Petrisor Gananau (Romania)