Kalib Walshe and John Donoghue have guaranteed silver medals with wins in semi-final bouts at the World Boxing Under-19 Championships in Budva, Montenegro.<\/p>\n
The Irish team have collected six medals so far, with four bronzes coming on Sunday and a possible two golds to come on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Walshe of Wexford CBS qualified for the men\u2019s 60kg final with a win over Greece\u2019s Nearchas Konstantinoudis.<\/p>\n
Walshe fell behind after a close first round was scored to the Greek fighter, but adjusted well in the second, keeping the fight at longer range and scoring with some well-timed right hands.<\/p>\n
Walshe received what seemed a harsh standing count in the third round and picked up the pace in the final minute to try to make up the deficit. <\/p>\n
When the scores were read out, four of the judges felt that Walshe had done just that, and he won the bout on a 4-1 split decision, despite protests from Konstantinoudis\u2019s coaches. <\/p>\n
Mullingar\u2019s Donoghue produced a fine display to defeat Armenia\u2019s Artyom Stepanyan via split decision, guaranteeing at least a silver medal at 70kg.<\/p>\n
The reigning European champion forced a standing count in the first round, and then controlled the action with his lead left hand in the second, setting him up well for the final round.<\/p>\n
A point deduction for Donoghue and a better round from Stepanyan looked to have put the result in jeopardy, but the Irish fighter was on the right side of the 3-2 decision.<\/p>\n
His brother Jason was on the wrong end of a 3-2 split decision in the 65kg semi-finals against Spain\u2019s Pablo Souto Macias.<\/p>\n
Olympic BC Mullingar collected a third medal, as Louise Byrne lost by unanimous decision in her semi-final to Elissandra Santos of Brazil, taking home a bronze medal at 48kg.<\/p>\n
Kaysie Joyce from Clonmel BC won a bronze medal after being stopped in the second round of her 70kg semi-final against America\u2019s Marley McNealy.<\/p>\n
Dublin Docklands BC\u2019s Jason Whelan also took bronze after a loss to Uzbekistan\u2019s Suhrob Rakhmatullaev, where Whelan was deducted two points by the referee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kalib Walshe and John Donoghue have guaranteed silver medals with wins in semi-final bouts at the World Boxing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,344222,85],"class_list":["post-940787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-general-view","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940787","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=940787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}