{"id":129080,"date":"2025-09-09T01:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129080\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T01:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:49:09","slug":"grainne-walsh-secures-medal-fight-as-jack-marley-and-jennifer-lehane-bow-out-of-the-world-boxing-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129080\/","title":{"rendered":"Gr\u00e1inne Walsh secures medal fight as Jack Marley and Jennifer Lehane bow out of the World Boxing Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gr\u00e1inne<\/p>\n

Gr\u00e1inne Walsh put on a masterful display in her 65kg bout against Spain\u2019s Mariana Soto Torres. Photo: Sportsfile<\/p>\n

Gr\u00e1inne Walsh has joined the O\u2019Rourke sisters, Lisa and Aoife, in progressing to a medal fight at the World Boxing Championship in Liverpool after winning her last-16 tie in style.<\/p>\n

The Tullamore Olympian put on a masterful display in her 65kg bout against Spain\u2019s Mariana Soto Torres, winning 5-0, and outclassing her opponent in every facet.<\/p>\n

Walsh will box for a medal against China\u2019s Yang Liu \u2013 the Paris silver medallist at the weight division \u2013 in Wednesday\u2019s evening session.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Jack Marley, his tournament ended as he lost a majority decision.<\/p>\n

Seeded third, the heavyweight \u2013 who was also a Paris Olympian \u2013 lost his fight with Kazakhstan\u2019s Sagyndyk Togambay on a 4-1 result.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, a late point deduction was given against Jennifer Lehane as she suffered a unanimous-decision defeat to Yoseline Perez from the USA. The fight was tight but the point deduction and a well-placed body shot by Perez settled the decision.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Dean Clancy will contest his last-16 bout against Georgia\u2019s Lasha Guruli in Tuesday\u2019s evening session, on a big night for Irish boxing as Lisa O\u2019Rourke boxes for another World medal. <\/p>\n

The Roscommon woman takes on Australia\u2019s Lekeisha Pergoliti, the top seed in her 70kg division.<\/p>\n

Patsy Joyce (55kg) and Brian Kennedy (85kg) will also be between the ropes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gr\u00e1inne Walsh put on a masterful display in her 65kg bout against Spain\u2019s Mariana Soto Torres. Photo: Sportsfile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,19371,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-129080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}