Eleven Irish boxers have been selected to compete in the World Boxing Cup (WBC) when the series moves to China next month.<\/p>\n
The second stage of the series \u2013 after starting in Brazil \u2013 takes place in Guiyang City from 15-20 June.<\/p>\n
The series is a benchmark competition run across three tournaments, designed for elite male and female boxers to accrue ranking points.<\/p>\n
Champions are awarded 150 points, silver medallists 100 and there are 75 ranking points for bronze medallists.<\/p>\n
The Irish team includes five Paris Olympians – Daina Moorehouse, Jenny Lehane, Michaela Walsh, Dean Clancy and Jack Marley – and multiple European medallists.<\/p>\n
Also returning from the WBC Brazil team are 70kg Evelyn Igharo and Jon McConnell.<\/p>\n
Josh Olaniyan (80kg) a late withdrawal from the Brazil team through injury returns, and is joined by Jobstown BC club-mate Tadhg O’Donnell, who is contesting at 75kg.<\/p>\n
Superheavy, and 2022 World Youth champion 80+kg Cliona D\u2019Arcy makes her debut at this level and is joined by fellow Galwegian, lightweight Adam Hession.<\/p>\n
The team leaves for China, and a two-week sparring and acclimatisation camp, on 3 June.<\/p>\n
Team Ireland<\/p>\n
Daina Moorehouse (51kg)<\/p>\n
Jenny Lehane (54kg)<\/p>\n
Michaela Walsh (57kg)<\/p>\n
Adam Hession (60kg)<\/p>\n
Dean Clancy (65kg)<\/p>\n
Jon McConnell (70kg)<\/p>\n
Evelyn Igharo (70kg)<\/p>\n
Tadhg O\u2019Donnell (75kg)<\/p>\n
Josh Olaniyan (80kg)<\/p>\n
Cliona D\u2019Arcy (80+kg)<\/p>\n
Jack Marley (90kg)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleven Irish boxers have been selected to compete in the World Boxing Cup (WBC) when the series moves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-697662","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\/697662","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=697662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}