Carlo Paalam (second from left) and Hergie Bacyadan (third from left) after qualifying for the Paris Video games. Picture from Marcus Jarwin Manalo’s Fb
Olympic medalists Carlo Paalam, Aidan Walsh and Loren Alfonso boarded the final practice to a second consecutive Olympic spot, incomes a spot within the Paris Video games on the final likelihood qualifier on Sunday on the Indoor Stadium Huamark in Bangkok, Thailand.
Paalam, the 25-year-old Filipino who received flyweight silver three years in the past in Tokyo, will be a part of Aider Abduraimov of Ukraine and Munarbek Seiitbek Uulu of Kyrgyzstan because the final to qualify within the featherweight (57 kilograms) division. Paalam received his quota bout by 5-0 determination over India’s Sachin Siwach, whereas Abduraimov defeated Uulu by the identical rating, and Uulu defeated Siwach by one other unanimous determination to earn the final spot.
They may be a part of reigning IBA world champion Abdumalik Khalokov of Uzbekistan and 2021 world champion Jahmal Harvey of the USA, plus 2023 bantamweight world champion Makhmud Sabyrkhan within the expertise wealthy division.
Paalam will likely be a part of the Philippines’ 5 boxer delegation – their largest on the Summer season Video games since 1996 – and will likely be joined by the opposite two Filipino boxers who medaled on the 2020 Video games, girls’s featherweight Nesthy Petecio and middleweight (80 kilograms) Eumir Marcial, who certified in earlier tournaments. They are going to be joined by newcomers Hergie Bacyadan, a girls’s middleweight (75 kilograms) from Quezon Metropolis who received her leg of the final likelihood qualifier, and girls’s flyweight (50 kilograms) Aira Villegas, who earned her spot on the first world qualifier in Italy.
The 27-year-old Walsh of Belfast highlighted Eire’s sturdy displaying on the final likelihood qualifier, gaining considered one of 4 spots that Eire earned, bringing Eire’s complete variety of boxers certified to 10.
The 2020 welterweight bronze medalist, who’s stepping as much as 71 kilograms, or 156 kilos, after his earlier division was eradicated for this event, defeated Boniface Maina of Kenya by 5-0 determination within the opening spherical, Youcef Islam Yaiche of Algeria 4-1, Yurii Zakharieiev of Ukraine by 3-2 determination and Zeyad Ishaish of Jordan by 4-1 determination to make it to the quota rounds, the place he defeated Cuba’s Jorge Cuellar by 5-0 determination and Angel Llanos of Puerto Rico by 5-0 determination to earn his spot.
He was joined by India’s Nishant Dev, Nice Britain’s Lewis Richardson, Jordan’s Zeyad Ishaish and Damian Durkacz of Poland amongst those that certified at 71-kilograms in Thailand.
Cuba-born Azerbaijani boxer Loren Alfonso earned an opportunity to enhance upon the sunshine heavyweight bronze he earned in Tokyo after qualifying within the males’s heavyweight (92 kilograms) division. The 29-year-old received 5-0 selections in every spherical to qualify. He’s joined by Victor Schelstraete of Belgium, Mateusz Bereznicki of Poland and Georgii Kushitashvili of Georgia amongst qualifiers. The Georgian boxer received a razor-thin 3-2 determination over American Jamar Talley to earn the spot, which implies the USA hasn’t certified a heavyweight for the Summer season Olympics since Devin Vargas in 2004.
Full record of qualifiers in Thailand
Males
51 kilograms: Rafael Lozano Serrano (Spain), Roscoe Hill (USA), Daniel Varela de Pina (Cape Verde), Amit Panghal (India)
57 kilograms: Carlo Paalam (Philippines), Aider Abduraimov (Ukraine), Munarbek Seiitbek Uulu (Kyrgyzstan)
63.5 kilograms: Radoslav Rosenov (Bulgaria), Oier Ibarreche (Spain), Erislandy Álvarez (Cuba), Malik Hasanov (Azerbaijan), Bazarbay Mukhammedsabyr (Kazakhstan)
71 kilograms: Nishant Dev (India), Lewis Richardson (Nice Britain), Zeyad Ishaish (Jordan), Damian Durkacz (Poland), Aidan Walsh (Eire)
80 kilograms: Cristian Pinales (Dominican Republic), Weerapon Jongjoho (Thailand), Hussein Ishaish (Jordan)
92 kilograms: Victor Schelstraete (Belgium), Mateusz Bereźnicki (Poland), Loren Alfonso (Azerbaijan), Georgii Kushitashvili (Georgia)
92-plus kilograms: Gerlon Congo (Ecuador), Davit Chaloyan (Armenia), Ayoub Ghadfa (Spain), Dmytro Lovchynskyi (Ukraine)
Girls
50 kilograms: Nazym Kyzaibay (Kazakhstan), Daina Moorehouse (Eire), Pihla Kaivo-oja (Finland), Fátima Herrera (Mexico)
54 kilograms: Möngöntsetsegiin Enkhjargal (Mongolia), Huang Hsiao-wen (Chinese language Taipei), Jennifer Lehane (Eire), Im Ae-ji (South Korea)
57 kilograms: Alyssa Mendoza (USA), Xu Zichun (China), Jaismine Lamboria (India), Esra Yıldız (Turkey)
60 kilograms: Agnes Alexiusson (Sweden), Oh Yeon-ji (South Korea), Hà Thị Linh (Vietnam)
66 kilograms: Navbakhor Khamidova (Uzbekistan), Jessica Triebeľová (Slovakia), Brigitte Mbabi (Congo), Grainne Walsh (Eire)
75 kilograms: Baison Manikon (Thailand), Hergie Bacyadan (Philippines), Valentina Khalzova (Kazakhstan), Citlalli Ortiz (Mexico)
Ryan Songalia has written for ESPN, the New York Every day Information, Rappler and The Guardian, and is a part of the Craig Newmark Graduate College of Journalism Class of 2020. He might be reached at [email protected].
