{"id":127592,"date":"2025-09-07T23:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127592\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T23:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:53:12","slug":"lisa-orourke-secures-quarter-final-spot-at-world-boxing-championships-in-liverpool-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127592\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa O\u2019Rourke secures quarter-final spot at World Boxing Championships in Liverpool \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/lisa-o-rourke\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/lisa-o-rourke\/\">Lisa O\u2019Rourke<\/a> provided the headline Irish victory on day four of the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool, the 23-year-old coming through a one-sided 70kg bout to book her place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Roscommon boxer showed too much strength and power for Shirleidis Orozco Martinez, O\u2019Rourke\u2019s taking a 5-0 victory which included a point deduction for the Colombian and a third-round standing count.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Already a World Champion from 2022, O\u2019Rourke will next box for a medal in Tuesday\u2019s evening session against top-seed Lekeisha Pergoliti of Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dean Clancy opened his 65kg challenge against Turkmenistan\u2019s Ihlasbek Kochkarov. The Sligoman, who had a bye from the opening round, took full advantage to earn a unanimous victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Faster and smarter throughout the three rounds, Clancy was hardly troubled by the inexperienced Kochkarov, all five judges giving their decision to the Irish boxer. The 23-year-old will fight Georgia\u2019s Lasha Guruli in the last-16 round in Tuesday\u2019s evening session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Patsy Joyce also won his opening bout in the 55kg category against Jaeyong Shin of Korea with a unanimous decision. Both boxers faced points deduction but Joyce kept his cool to set up his next bout against Bulgaria\u2019s Javier Diaz Ibanez, the Olympic bronze medallist in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It wasn\u2019t to be for Michaela Walsh as the double Olympian lost her 57kg last-16 contest against Shih-Yin Wu of Chinese Taipei, 4-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Saturday, Aoife O\u2019Rourke ensured she will box for a medal in the 75kg category next week after a unanimous decision in her last-16 fight against the Czech Republic\u2019s Monika Langerova. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The elder O\u2019Rourke sister will meet Norway\u2019s Sunniva Hofstad in the quarter-finals in Wednesday\u2019s evening session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Saturday also saw defeats for Daina Moorehouse (51kg), Matthew McCole (70kg) and Zara Breslin (60kg).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisa O\u2019Rourke provided the headline Irish victory on day four of the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,70023,82],"class_list":["post-127592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lisa-o-rourke","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}