PARIS, FRANCE – JULY 31: Omari Jones of Crew United States punches Chia Wei Kan of Crew Chinese language Taipei throughout the Males’s 71kg preliminary spherical match between Omari Jones of Crew United States and Chia Wei Kan of Crew Chinese language Taipei on day 5 of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at North Paris Enviornment on July 31, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photograph by Richard Pelham/Getty Photos)
American boxers Jahmal Harvey and Omari Jones scored large wins on Wednesday, July 31, advancing to the quarterfinals of the 2024 Olympics at Enviornment Paris Nord.
Harvey, 21, of Oxon Hill, Md. scored a slim 3-2 break up resolution over Brazil’s Luiz Oliveira of their males’s 57 kilogram bout, whereas Omari Jones, 21, of Orlando, Fla. scored a conclusive 5-0 win over Kan Chia Wei of Chinese language Taipei within the 71kg division.
Harvey and Oliveira wasted little time getting reacquainted, having fought six instances prior, with the newest being Harvey’s unanimous resolution within the semifinals of the 2023 Pan American Video games. Each got here out going tit for tat, switching stances continuously and trying to sneak a punch or two in. Harvey, whose 2021 World Championships gold was the primary for an American male since Demetrius Andrade gained one in 2007, flirted with a doable knockdown name after shedding his footing early within the opening spherical after a counter left from Oliveira but it surely was dominated a slip.
Oliveira held a 3-2 lead after the primary, prompting Harvey to throw out any pretense of a boxing match and switch the bout right into a avenue struggle. Although he seemed off steadiness at instances, his aggression helped him climb again into the bout, leaving the struggle on the desk heading into the third. The spherical began off on a foul be aware for Harvey, as he sustained a lower beneath his proper eye from a head conflict, however his all-out aggression earned him the spherical, 4-1, awarding him the slim victory by scores of 29-28 on three playing cards, whereas the opposite two gave it to Oliveira by the identical margin.
“Each struggle is a closing and I’m going to go away it on the market each spherical,” stated Harvey, who now holds a 4-2 file towards Oliveira. “I knew I used to be down and knew I needed to dominate the final spherical and win on some 10-8’s.”
“Gold is the purpose. First struggle, worst struggle and I’m going to get higher because the match goes on.”
Harvey’s lower is positioned in a “good place,” USA Boxing Government Director Mike McAtee tells The Ring, that means it shouldn’t preserve him out of motion for Saturday’s bout towards Munarbek Seitbek uulu of Kyrgyzstan, who superior to the quarterfinals with a break up resolution over Saidel Horta on Wednesday.
Jones can even see motion on Saturday when he faces Rami Kiwan, 24, of Cherven Bryag, Bulgaria. Kiwan has gained two bouts up to now within the match, having gained unanimous choices over Damian Durkcz of Poland on Sunday and Shannan Davey of Australia on Wednesday, respectively.
“I began off proper and took management early,” Jones stated. “I don’t fear an excessive amount of about what the opposite boxer is doing, I simply take a look at what I can do within the ring, and it confirmed tonight.”
Jones and Harvey are the final two American male boxers remaining within the match after tremendous heavyweight Joshua Edwards misplaced a disputed resolution in his spherical of 16 bout on Monday. An American male boxer hasn’t gained an Olympic gold medal since 2004, when Andre Ward achieved that feat.
Crew USA may have two feminine boxers competing on Thursday, as 50kg boxer Jennifer Lozano will face off towards Finland’s Pihla Kaivo-Oja at 10:02 a.m. ET and 66kg boxer Morelle McCane will comply with at 10:50 a.m. ET towards Uzbekistan’s Navbakhor Khamidova.
Full Outcomes
Males’s 57kg Spherical – spherical of 16
Abdumalik Khalokov (UZB) 5-0 Nebil Ibrahim (SWE)
Jose Quiles Brotons (ESP) 4-1 Makhmud Sabyrkhan (KAZ)
Carlo Paalam (PHI) 5-0 Jude Gallagher (IRL)
Charlie Senior (AUS) 4-1 Vasile Usturoi (BEL)
Jahmal Harvey (USA) 3-2 Luiz Gabriel Oliveira (BRA)
Munarbek Seiitbek Uulu (KGZ) 3-2 Saidel Horta (CUB)
Shudai Harada (JPN) 5-0 Yilmar Gonzalez (COL)
Javier Ibanez Diaz (BUL) 5-0 Aider Abduraimov (UKR)
Males’s 71kg – spherical of 16
Rami Mofid Kiwan (BUL) 5-0 Shannan Davey (AUS)
Omari Jones (USA) 5-0 Kan Chia Wei (TPE)
Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev (UZB) 5-0 Omar Elawady (EGY)
Nikolai Terteryan (DEN) 4-1 Makan Traore (FRA)
Zeyad Eashash (JOR) 3-2 Okazawa Sewonrets Quincy Mensah (JPN)
Lewis Richardson (GBR) 3-2 Vakhid Abbasov (SRB)
Nishant Dev (IND) 3-2 Jose Gabriel Rodriguez Tenorio (ECU)
Marco Alonso Verde Alvarez (MEX) 3-2 Tiago Muxanga (MOZ)
Girls’s 75kg – spherical of 16
Li Qian (CHN) 5-0 Hergie Bacyadan (PHI)
Lovlina Borgohain (IND) 5-0 Sunniva Hofstad (NOR)
Caitlin Parker (AUS) 5-0 Citlalli Vanessa Ortiz (MEX)
Cindy Winner Djankeu Ngamba (EOR) 3-2 Tammara Amanda Thibeault (CAN)
Davina Michel (FRA) 5-0 Baison Manikon (THA)
Atheyna Bibeichi Bylon (PAN) 4-1 Valentina Khalzova (KAZ)
Girls’s 60kg – quarterfinal
Yang Wenlu (CHN) 3-2 Natalia Shadrina (SRB)
Wu Shih Yi (TPE) 4-1 Maria Jose Palacios Espinoza (ECU)
Kellie Harrington (IRL) 5-0 Angie Paola Valdes Pana (COL)
