Ireland boxers Aoife O’Rourke, Patsy Joyce and Grainne Walsh 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
Walsh prevailed on a split decision that went back to countback, her victory over Olympic silver medallist and former world champion Tang Liu coming despite the docking of a point in her 65 kg last-eight contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland boxers Aoife O’Rourke, Patsy Joyce and Grainne Walsh have secured medals at the World Boxing Championships in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-129124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}