{"id":504234,"date":"2026-02-26T01:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504234\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:11:08","slug":"five-fight-for-strandja-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504234\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Fight for Strandja Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingireland.ie\/5-wins-77th-strandja\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courtesy of Boxing Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight Team Ireland boxers will be in action on Thursday, 5 boxing for medals and three contesting for quarter final berths.<\/p>\n<p>51kg\u00a0Caitlin Fryers\u00a0is first up in QF action, taking on Bulgaria\u2019s Venelina Poptoleva in Bout 3 of Ring B\u2019s Afternoon Session. Over in Ring A, 54kg\u00a0Jenny Lehane\u00a0meets England\u2019s Lauren Mackie in Bout 6.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, in Bout 10 of Ring B\u2019s Afternoon Session is 70kg Terry McEntee, boxing a Last 16 contest against Kaian Oliveira Reis of Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>In Bout 11 of Ring A\u2019s Afternoon Session, 65kg Dean Clancy is also boxing a Last 16 bout, taking on Uzbekistan\u2019s Abdulloh Madaminov. Three contests later, in Bout 13, 70kg\u00a0Jon McConnell\u00a0is in against Kazakhstan\u2019s Mukhammedsabyr Uulu Bazarbay<\/p>\n<p>57kg\u00a0Niamh Fay\u00a0opens proceedings in Ring B\u2019s Evening Session, boxing for a podium place against Khumorabonu Mamajonova of Uzbekistan. Four contests later, 65kg\u00a0Grainne Walsh\u00a0boxes for a medal against Haziel Krishna Franco Santos of Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>In Ring A\u2019s Evening Session, 57kg\u00a0Michaela Walsh, taking on Brazil\u2019s Jessia Dias Coutinho. That\u2019s Bout 2<\/p>\n<p>Day Four\u2019s schedule is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/boxingireland.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/Boxing2026-Strandja-Memorial-Tournament-Day4-Schedule.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available here<\/a>Watch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy of Boxing Ireland Eight Team Ireland boxers will be in action on Thursday, 5 boxing for medals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-504234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504234","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=504234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}