Jenny Lehane, Michaela Walsh and Kelyn Cassidy all come through their first bouts in Poland
Tokyo Olympian Michaela Walsh was a unanimous winner over Olga Pavlina Papadatou from Greece. While the Greek boxer took the opening round, the experienced Walsh fought back to overcome and win convincingly 5-0 in the end, progressing to the last 16 of the competition at featherweight .
“I was up going into the final round, but it was still level on a few cards, and she had a chance of coming back, but he [coach Zaur Antia] just said, ‘listen, she’s going to put a big push on’. I was trying to meet her with a backhand as she came in. She was running in recklessly, I was trying to sidestep and go again. It was very hard to do that because she was such a tough and experience opponent. Thankfully, today was my day.
Kelyn Cassidy from Waterford made it three wins out of three for Team Ireland, the Saviours Crystal BC fighter winning his bout 5-0 over Norwegian Mindauga Gedminas in the middleweight division . “From the very start I just went with the game plan that the coaches gave me beforehand, just to be busy, be active, jab. Be relaxed; that is what I did in there, so can’t really give out at the minute. I knew from being in there I was comfortable. I wasn’t getting tagged too much and was catching him with a lot of shots, so was really, really happy in there. I just am happy I performed and couldn’t get better in an opening bout.
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