Hosts Brazil enjoyed a triumphant sixth day at the ‘World Boxing Cup – Brazil 2026, Foz Do Iguaça’as its boxers enjoyed victories in all nine of their semi-finals at the Rafain Palace Hotel & Convention Centre.
It means that two Brazilian women and seven men will contest tomorrow’s finals after the semi-finals wins for Rebeca Santos (W54kg), Barbara Santos (W75kg), Luis Oliviera (M60kg), Yuri Falcao (M65kg), Kaian Reis (M70kg), Thauan Silva (M75kg), Wanderley Pereira (M80kg), Kaue Belini (M85kg) and Isaias Filho (M90kg).
China will have the second most boxers in tomorrow’s finals with four, closely followed by Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan with three each.
On another day of top-class action, the highlight for China came in the women’s flyweight (W51kg) competition where world number four, Xinyu Qi, defeated the reigning world champion, Alua Balkibekova of Kazakhstan.
Another upset was at featherweight (W57kg) where Kukhta Vladislava of Hungary, who defeated the world number one Julia Szeremeta earlier in the competition, secured a 3:2 split decision victory over world number six and 2024 Olympian, Shih Yi Wu of Chinese Taipei. The Hungarian will meet the world number four, Omailyn Alcala of Venezuela, in the final.
At middleweight (W75kg), Norway’s Sunniva Hofstad made her fourth consecutive World Boxing Cup Final with a unanimous victory over Emma Sue Greentree of Australia where she will face home favourite, Barbara Santos.
In the men’s competition, Armenian super-heavyweight (M90kg+) Davit Chaloyan beat 2025 World Boxing Championship silver medallist, Jakhingir Zokirov of Uzbekistan, on a 3:2 split decision to set-up a final with Azerbaijan’s Mahammad Abdullayev who secured a unanimous win over Norway’s Omar Shiha.
The only other men’s finals that does not feature a Brazilian boxer will be at flyweight (M50kg) where Morocco’s Issam Bensayar will meet Subhan Mamedov of Azerbaijan. At bantamweight (M55kg), Jiamao Zhang of China will receive the gold medal via walkover as Spain’s World Boxing Championship silver medallist, Rafale Lozano Serrano, has been forced to withdraw.
The full schedule of tomorrow’s finals along with all of the results from today’s semi-final and the rest of the competition are available HERE.
The finals will take part in a single ring set up with 19 bouts over two sessions of boxing (as the men’s bantamweight final will not go ahead).
The sessions start at 11:00 and 16:00 (local time).
All of the action will be livestreamed on the Confederação Brasileira de Boxe YouTube channel, available HERE.
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