Aidan Walsh faces a box-off to secure a place in this summer’s Olympics in Paris but Amy Broadhurst’s dreams of representing Team GB at the Games are over.
Walsh lost his quarter-final bout Zeyad Eashash of Jordan on Friday and will now enter into a four-man box-off this weekend as he seeks to join sister Michaela in Paris.
The Holy Family weleterweight was docked a point in the second and third rounds of his contest with Eashash for holding after winning the opening round.
That led to Walsh – a bronze medalist in Tokyo – losing the contest on a 4-1 split decision.
However, he still has a chance of making this summer’s Games when he takes part in a box-off with the three other defeated quarter-finalists for the last remaining 71kg spot in Paris.
Grainne Walsh, meanwhile, took a step closer to a first Olympic Games after she came though her last 16 bout against Seda Sanago of the Ivory Coast.
Walsh scored a unanimous 5-0 victory and now knows that a win in Sunday’s quarter-final will seal her spot in Paris.
Wicklow’s Daina Moorehouse is two wins away from a debut Olympics. She clinched a 4-1 split decision win over Armenia’s Anush Grigoryan in her last 16 bout and will take part in the quarter-finals of the 50kg category on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Dundalk lightweight Amy Broadhurst, who had switched allegiance to the Team GB in a bid to make this summer’s Games, was defeated by Oh Yeoh-ji of South Korea and now cannot qualify for Paris.