{"id":499672,"date":"2026-02-26T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499672\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:44:08","slug":"five-strandja-quarter-final-slots-secured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499672\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Strandja Quarter Final Slots Secured"},"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>Five Team Ireland boxers have now won through to the quarter finals at the 77th Strandja Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria, and another 4 have secured Last 16 spots.<\/p>\n<p>34 seconds \u2013 that\u2019s all\u00a0Josh Olaniyan\u00a0needed to secure his place in Strandja\u2019s 80kg quarter finals. He was the RSC1 winner over Dimeji Shittu of England and boxes for a medal on Friday, against Ukraine\u2019s Dzhamal Kuliev<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin Fryers\u00a0has won through to the quarter finals. She boxed a tempestuous Last 16 bout against England\u2019s Kelsey Oakley and claimed a 4-1 win on a scoreline of 27:30; 29:28; 27:30; 28:29; 28:29. Caitlin will contest for a medal against home boxer, Bulgaria\u2019s Venelina Poptoleva in Thursday\u2019s Afternoon Session.<\/p>\n<p>Niamh Fay\u00a0is through to the Strandja QFs. She contested her Last 16 bout against Turkey\u2019s Ece Asude Ediz, and was the 4-1 winner, on a scoreline of 29:28; 30:27; 29:28; 27:30; 29;28. Niamh is back in action on Thursday, contest for a podium place against Khumorabonu Mamajonova of Uzbekistan. Her weigh-mate,\u00a0Michaela Walsh, is also now a quarter finalist. She boxed her Last 16 bout against Italy\u2019s Madalina Grabucea\u00a0, and was the 4-1 winner. Judges scored the bout 30: 27; 30:27: 30: 26; 30: 26; 28: 29. Michaela will box for a medal tomorrow, against Jessia Dias Coutinho.<\/p>\n<p>Grainne Walsh\u00a0has also won through to QFs. She contested her 65kg Last 16 bout against Armenia\u2019s Elida Kocharyan and was the 4-1 victor. The bout was scored 27:30; 29:28; 27:30; 27:30; 27:30. Grainne boxes for a podium place on Thursday, against Brazil\u2019s Haziel Krishna Franco Santos<\/p>\n<p>Not to be for\u00a0Daina Moorehouse\u00a0in her Stranda Last 16 contest. The 51kg Wicklow woman took on fellow Paris Olympian and 2023 Cologne World Boxing Cup champ, Maxi Klotzer of Germany. The 5-0 decision went to the German boxer. Judges scored the bout 29:28; 30:27; 29:28; 29:28; 30:27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtesy of Boxing Ireland Five Team Ireland boxers have now won through to the quarter finals at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82,199892],"class_list":["post-499672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-strandja-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499672","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=499672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}