Valladolid

KURT Walker secured at least a bronze medal at the European Union Championships with a one-sided victory over Poland’s Jaroslav Iwanow in Valladolid, Spain yesterday.

CLASSY Kurt Walker advanced to the last eight of the European Union Championships with a straightforward victory over Bulgaria’s Stefan Ivanov in Spain yesterday.

IRELAND’S bantamweight king Kurt Walker heads to this week’s European Union Championships in confident mood but insists he is happy to play the long game, with both eyes fixed firmly on reaching the 2020 Olympic Games.

IT’S like something you might see in an Egyptian tomb, a hieroglyph carved into a wall or onto a piece of papyrus – a figure with a human head, the body of a bird and the hooves of an animal.