Jajaira Gonzalez didn’t draw the best bracket however she made a severe assertion in her opening bout.
The 27-year-old from Glendora, Calif. scored a 4-0 determination on Saturday, July 27 over residence nation guess and 2016 gold medalist Estelle Mossely to advance to the ladies’s 60 kilogram spherical of 16 of the 2024 Summer time Olympics at Area Paris Nord in Paris, France.
Gonzalez utilized the strain early on, working the physique and forcing Mossely to retreat. Mossely, a 31-year-old from Bagnolet, France with an 11-0-1 (1 KO) professional file, misplaced a degree within the second spherical on account of her fixed holding techniques to gradual the strain of Gonzalez, is the sister of featherweight contender Joet Gonzalez.
With the struggle nearly actually hers, Gonzalez started boxing Mossely, selecting her off as Mossely desperately chased a struggle altering blow that by no means transpired.
The duty doesn’t get a lot simpler for Gonzalez as she is going to face Brazil’s no. 2 seed Beatriz Ferreira within the spherical of 16 on Monday. Ferreira defeated Gonzalez by unanimous determination within the Pan American Video games semifinals in October of 2023 en path to a gold medal end.
Erislandy Alvarez of Cuba made his Olympic debut in spectacular vogue, stopping John Ume of Papua New Guinea within the second spherical of their males’s 63.5 kg spherical of 32 bout. Alvarez, 24, was dominant from the outset, timing his aggressive however outclassed opponent from the primary spherical. Alvarez picked up the tempo within the second spherical, choosing pace over huge energy punches. That tactic paid off as a mix of blows led to the primary eight depend. Alvarez jumped again on him as soon as the referee continued the bout, with a proper hand scoring a knockdown shortly after. Alvarez completed him off with yet another depend, advancing to the following spherical, the place he’ll meet Algeria’s Jughurta Ait Bekka on Monday.
The boxing competitors opened on a tragic word, as Lionel Elika Fatupaito, the boxing coach for the Samoan Olympic crew, died Friday on the Olympic athletes village. The Related Press stories that Fatupaito died of pure causes.
Samoa has only one boxer competing in Paris as heavyweight Ato Plodzicki-Faoagali begins his marketing campaign tomorrow towards Victor Schelstraete of Belgium within the spherical of 16.
Outcomes:
Girls’s 54kg – Spherical of 32
Huang Hsiao Wen (TPE) 5-0 Bojana Gojkovic (MNE)
Jutamas Jitpong (THA) 4-1 Sara Cirkovic (SRB)
Nigina Uktamova (UZB) WO Yomna Ayyad (EGY)
Hatice Akbas (TUR) 3-2 Charley Davis (GBR)
Enkhjargal Munguntsetseg (MGL) 5-0 Sirine Charaabi (ITA)
Preeti (IND) 5-0 Thi Kim Anh Vo (VIE)
Girls’s 60kg – Spherical of 32
Thi Linh Ha (VIE) 5-0 Feofaaki Epenisa (TGA)
Maria Jose Palacios Espinoza (ECU) 4-1 Agnes Alexiusson (SWE)
Shih Yi Wu (TPE) 5-0 Yeonji Oh (KOR)
Alessia Mesiano (ITA) 4-1 Gizem Ozer (TUR)
Donjeta Sadiku (KOS) 3-2 Thananya Somnuek (THA)
Jajaira Gonzalez (USA) 4-1 Estelle Mossely (FRA)
Males’s 63.5kg – Spherical of 32
Radoslav Simeonov Rosenov (BUL) 5-0 Bakhodur Usmonov (TJK)
Obada Alkasbeh (JOR) 3-2 Dean Clancy (IRL)
Males’s 80kg – Spherical of 32
Cristian Javier Pinales (DOM) 5-0 Weerapon Jongjoho (THA)
Kaan Aykutsun (TUR) 4-1 Salvatore Cavallaro (ITA)
Males’s 63.5kg – Spherical of 32
Erislandy Alvarez (CUB) RSC-2 John Ume (PNG)
Bazarbay Uulu Mukhammedsabyr (KAZ) 5-0 Oier Ibarreche Conde (ESP)
