site.btaBulgarian Boxers Unlucky in Olympic Games Draw

The Bulgarian boxers who will compete in the Paris 2024 Olympics were unlucky in the tournament draw that took place on Thursday.

The Olympic tournament road for the No. 1 seed in the women's 54 kg event, Stanimira Petrova, starts from the round of 16 on July 30. One-time world champion and two-time European champion Petrova will face the winner of the match between Huang Hsiao-wen (Chinese Taipei) and Bojana Gojkovic (Montenegro). Huang Hsiao-wen is the acting world champion and an Olympic bronze medalist from Tokyo 2020.

In the women's 57 kg event, Svetlana Kamenova (No. 8 seed) will make her Olympic debut in a match against Ireland's Michaela Walsh, a European vice-champion from Krakow 2019. They will face each other on August 2. If victorious, in the quarterfinals Kamenova will most likely face No. 1 seed Lin Yu Ting (Chinese Taipei), two-time world champion.

In the men’s 63.5 kg competition, six-time European champion Radoslav Rosenov will face Bakhodur Usmonov (Tajikistan) in the round of 16. If Rosenov emerges victorious, in the quarterfinals he will take No. 1 seed Wyatt Sanford (Canada), the winner of the last Pan American Games.

European Games champion Javier Ibanez Diaz is No. 2 seed in the men’s 57 kg event and will automatically advance to the round of 16 where he will confront Aider Abduraimov of Ukraine, who is two-time European Junior champion.

European champion Rami Kiwan will start his 2024 Olympic road in the men’s 71 kg event on July 28 with a match against Damian Durkacz (Poland) in the round of 32. If victorious, Kiwan will face No. 1 seed Shannan Davey (Australia) and then, possibly, 2021 world vice-champion Omari Jones (USA).