🇹🇭 2nd World Olympic Qualification Tournament in Thailand from May 24 to June 2, 2024
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▫️ Tough fights ahead for the six boxers from Africa today
Another gruelling challenge for the six African boxers taking to the ring today in Bangkok, Thailand.
Five boxers, Kenya’s African Games champion Edwin Okong’o and compatriot Elizabeth Andiego (pictured), Mozambican two-time African champion Rady Gramane, Ghana’s Ornella Sathoud and DR Congo’s Pita Kabeji will fight in the round of 32.
Ghana’s heavyweight Jonathan Tetteh, who failed to make weight in the Italy qualifiers, will take on Cuban-born Azerbaijan Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist and 2021 world champion Loren Berto in the round of 64.
After seeing off Mali’s Gory Mohamadu, Okong’o returns to the ring against a more formidable opponent in Mongolia’s Dalai Ganzo.
Gramane meets Korea’s 2022 Asian Championships bronze medallist Suyeon Song with Ghana’s US-based Ornella Sathoud battling Monika Langerova from Czech Republic who lost to Nigeria’s Patricia Mbata in the Italy qualifiers.
Andiego, who is fresh from her memorable triumph in the Mandela Cup tourney in Durban where she beat Gramane to win gold, will trade leather with Germany’s European Games bronze medallist Irina Nicoletta Schoenberger.
Double African champion and African Games gold medallist Kabeji fights 2021 world youth championships silver medallist Jakub Straszewski from Poland in the light-heavyweight berth.
A total of 53 bouts in women’s 60kg, women’s 75kg, men’s 80kg and men’s 92kg will be contested in today’s fourth day of the 2nd World Olympic Qualification tournament at Bangkok’s Huamark Indoor Stadium.
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