Ireland boxers Aoife O’Rourke and Patsy Joyce have secured medals at the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool. <\/p>\n
O’Rourke defeated Norway’s Sunniva Hofstand 4-1 on the judges’ cards in her 75kg quarter-final.<\/p>\n
The Paris Olympian will face Chengyu Yang of China in her semi-final on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“It’s just about taking it one fight at a time,” O’Rourke told World Boxing. <\/p>\n
“I am just grateful to have gotten that medal and we’ll push on in the next one and see what we can do.”<\/p>\n
Joyce joined O’Rourke as he secured a men’s 55kg medal with a 3-2 split decision win over Mirazizbek Mirzakhalilov of Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n
Westmeath teenager Joyce will take on Spanish fighter Rafael Serrano Lozano in his semi-final on Saturday. <\/p>\n
“I was the underdog. I was the underdog yesterday as well (in his last-16 win over Bulgaria’s Javier Ibanez Diaz), but age is only a number,” he told World Boxing.<\/p>\n
“I came here, 19 years of age, the youngest one on the team, and I’m smashing them up.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland boxers Aoife O’Rourke and Patsy Joyce have secured medals at the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool. O’Rourke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-134018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134018","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=134018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}