Nesthy Petecio, seen on the 2023 World Championships. Picture from Petecio’s Fb
Nesthy Petecio, the featherweight silver medalist from the Tokyo Olympics, kicked off her bid to enhance off that end in robust style, dominating India’s Jaismine to a unanimous resolution within the 2024 ladies’s 57-kilogram spherical of 32 on Tuesday, July 30 at Area Paris Nord.
Petecio, 32, of Santa Cruz, Davao del Sur within the Philippines earned the victory by scores of 30-27 on three playing cards, whereas the opposite two scored it 29-28 in her favor over Jaismine, who’s ten years her junior.
Petecio, who at 5’4” was freely giving 5 inches in top, by no means appeared bothered by the disparity, utilizing her feints and overhand rights to land persistently on the taller southpaw. Petecio’s velocity was additionally a critical benefit, as she minimize the vary and flurried to the physique and landed excessive to finish the primary.
With the outcome all however secured, Petecio danced away on the finish of the ultimate spherical to the bell.
Petecio will return to motion on Friday, when she faces Amina Zidani of France within the spherical of 16. Zidani, a 30-year-old professional boxer with a 5-0 (2 KOs) file, earned a gold on the 2023 European Video games and a bronze at that yr’s World Championships.
The joy from Philippines’ was dampened considerably by the end in Eumir Marcial’s 176-pound spherical of 16 bout, the place he misplaced a unanimous resolution to Uzbekistan’s Turabek Khabibullaev. Marcial, a bronze medalist on the Tokyo Video games, moved up from middleweight after his weight class was abolished for this Olympiad, dropped the primary spherical unanimously because the taller Khabibullaev, additionally a southpaw, bought his punches off first early on.
The bout turned extra of a brawl within the second spherical as Marcial started to tear to the physique and strain relentlessly, whereas Khabibullaev appeared to time left fingers as Marcial got here ahead. Marcial continued to strain within the third, touchdown massive proper hooks and left fingers alongside the ropes, forcing Khabibullaev to carry to interrupt the motion.
The highway ahead doesn’t get a lot simpler 20-year-old Khabibullaev, who will face Cuba’s two-time gold medalist Arlen Lopez on Friday within the 80kg spherical of 16. Lopez, 31, superior to the following spherical with a win over Turkey’s Kaan Aykutsun.
Lopez is vying to grow to be simply the fourth boxer to win three Olympic gold medals.
Full Outcomes
Males’s 51kg – spherical of 16
Billal Bennama (FRA) 3-2 Roscoe Hill (USA)
Alejandro Claro Fiz (CUB) 5-0 Michael Douglas da Silva Trindade (BRA)
Rafael Lozano Serrano (ESP) 4-1 Yusuf Chothia (AUS)
Yunior Alcantara Reyes (DOM) 5-0 Nijat Huseynov (AZE)
Patrick Chinyemba (ZAM) 4-1 Amit Amit (IND)
David de Pina (CPV) 4-1 Thitisan Panmot (THA)
Saken Bibossinov (KAZ) 5-0 Samet Gumus (TUR)
Hasanboy Dusmatov (UZB) 5-0 Juanma Lopez de Jesus (PUR)
Males’s 80kg – spherical of 16
Cristian Javier Pinales (DOM) 5-0 Tuohetaerbieke Tanglatihan (CHN)
Gabrijel Veocic (CRO) 5-0 Hussein Iashaish (JOR)
Oleksandr Khyzhniak (UKR) 4-0 Pylyp Akilov (HUN)
Wanderley de Souza Pereira (BRA) 5-0 Cedrick Belony-Duliepre (HAI)
Turabek Khabibullaev (UZB) 5-0 Eumir Marcial (PHI)
Arlen Lopez (CUB) 5-0 Kaan Aykutsun (TUR)
Girls’s 54kg – spherical of 16
Sanimira Petrova (BUL) 4-1 Huang Hsiao Wen (TPE)
Chang Yuan (CHN) 5-0 Jennifer Lehane (IRL)
Widad Bertal (MAR) 3-2 Jutamas Jitpong (THA)
Pang Cholmi (PRK) 5-0 Nigina Iktamova (UZB)
Hatice Akbas (TUR) 5-0 Tiana Echegaray (AUS)
Enkhjargal Munguntsetseg (MGL) 4-1 Lenuta Lacramioara Perijoc (ROU)
Im Aeji (KOR) 4-1 Tatiana Regina de Jesus Chagas (BRA)
Yeni Marcela Arias Castaneda (COL) 3-2 Preeti (IND)
Girls’s 57kg – spherical of 32
Sitora Turdibekova (UZB) 3-2 Marcelat Sakobi (COD)
Esra Yildiz Kahraman (TUR) 5-0 Marine Fatoumatta Colette Camara (MLI)
Alyssa Mendoza (USA) 3-2 Mijgona Samadova (TJK)
Nesthy Petecio (PHI) 5-0 Jaismine (IND)
Xu Zichun (CHN) 3-2 Irma Testa (ITA)
Julia Szeremeta (POL) 4-1 Omailyn Carolina Alcala Cegovia (VEN)
Males’s 80kg – spherical of 16
Nurbek Oralbay (KAZ) 3-2 Callum Peters (AUS)
Murad Allahverdiyev (AZE) 5-0 Abdelrahman Abdelgawwad (EGY)
