The AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships Sofia 2014 is underway in Sofia (Bulgaria), the preliminaries will begin tomorrow after today official draw.
The draw involved three Scottish boxers who are competing as part of the British team of nine boxers.
In chronological order:
In the 91kg weight category, Connal McDonald will box in the first round of the preliminaries against Paul Kovacs (AUS) on the afternoon of Thursday 2014.
In the 49kg weight category Lee McGregor was given a bye to the second round of the preliminaries and will box either Otokile Mahommed (BOT) or Anthony Giminez (FRA) on the afternoon of Saturday 19 April 2014.
John Docherty will box shortly after in the same session as Lee McGregor, after also receiving a bye. He will face either Hikal Mohamed (EGY) or John Joyce (IRE) in the 69kg weight category.
With this year’s competition serving as the sole Qualifying Event for the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games, 150 nations have entered 606 boxers (506 men and 100 women). Moreover, for the first time in history, women’s youth boxers will appear in the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing. 103 nations have entered 506 men youth boxers and 47 nations have enter 100 female youth boxers.
Good luck to our three boxers in Sofia and we will post up to date results as soon as we receive them.
