In Friday’s match draw for the 2024 World Boxing U19 Championships, the 12 boxers who will compete for Staff USA realized the identities of their first-round opponents and their respective paths to gold.
The match, which started Friday and is scheduled to happen by means of subsequent Saturday on the Pueblo Conference Heart in Pueblo, Colorado, will characteristic 10 weight divisions every on the boys’s and girls’s sides.
To open competitors for Staff USA, Joscelyn Olayo-Munoz, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, fell to India’s Chanchal Chaudary in a 48kg bout, whereas Shamiracle Hardaway, of Lagrange, Georgia, outpointed Germany’s Penelope Grochau in a 60kg contest, 4-1, to advance to the medal spherical.
Emmanuel Probability, of East Orange, New Jersey, will open competitors for Staff USA’s males. Probability, competing at 55kg, obtained a bye and can face the winner of a bout between South Korea’s Juan Jin and Brazil’s Kelvy da Trindade. Probability gained silver on the 2023 Youth Worldwide Invitational in Germany.
Additionally competing shall be Staten Island, New York’s Laila Zakirova, who will struggle the Philippines’ Xian Baguhin at 51 kg.
Moreover, Lorenzo Patricio, of Waianae, Hawaii, will signify Staff USA at 50kg (first-round bye) and field the winner of Japan’s Seiya Nakayam and Australia’s Beau Piggott. Violet Lopez, of Milwaukee (first-round bye) will face England’s Caitlyn Smart at 54kg. At 70kg, Malachi Ross, of Grandview, Missouri, earned a bye and can meet the winner of Germany’s Festim Nimani and India’s Sumit Sumit. Joseph Awinongya, of Joliet, Illinois, will tackle Australia’s Connor Anerson at 75kg. Elijah Lugo, of Marietta, Georgia, will go head-to-head with Italy’s Cristian Sarsilli at 80kg. And at heavyweight (90kg), Rishon Sims, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, will face Germany’s Eris Andi Lushtaku. Sims gained gold on the 2023 Worldwide Invitational.
The lone Staff USA fighter with a Tuesday begin is Dallas’ Mesiah Nimo, who, with a first-round bye, will face the victor of Czech Republic’s Simon Stojka Republic and Kazakhstan’s Assylkhan Kosherbay at 65kg.
Cleveland’s Nevaeh Williams, who obtained a bye, will face the winner of the Netherlands’ Aaliyah Hoppema and New Zealand’s Renee Doole. As a result of bye, Williams is already within the medal spherical and can obtain at the very least a bronze medal.
